On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:24 am, you wrote:

Graham,

xinit .... won't take. Says server cannot connect to 0:0

Keep in mind, that upon booting, I run straight into a window manager. I don't not need to enter "startx" first. Am I not doing something right?

Tom

Could you try the following command to start kde from a terminal window.

xinit /opt/kde3/bin/startkde -- :0

That should start kde, then have a look at the Control Centre -- System --login manager

At least the above should get kde working.

Also have a look to see if your WINDOWMANAGER env variable is set. graham@merlin:~> set | grep WINDOW WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde

if not try exporting it; e.g. export WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde and then try running startx

Tom, First you have to stop using init 5 for login as it will try and start the Xserver first off and you will end up chasing your tail. Do <ctrl> <Alt> F1 to swith to a terminal window and login as root. Issue the command init 1 and once you get back to the prompt as root issue init 3 Now from another terminal <ctrl> <Alt> F2 login as yourself. You should be able to run the above commands and check your environment variables BTW: I suggest you post directly to the SuSE list as you will get a better response than from me. (I'm not always at home looking at my email) Also someone else may have a better idea of what is corrupted or missing. Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------