On Friday 20 July 2001 19:23, you wrote:
Hi all
I've just upgraded KDE on SuSE 6.4 to KDE2, downloaded everything in sight, had a few challenges installing it with depndances, libs not downloading correctly and wotnot, but how do I get it to use KDE2 by default? Sorry - don't mean to be thick, but it's been a long week.
Regards
Matthew Halliday Computer Systems Support Johnston Publishing Limited Hi Matthew ! I`ve posted this to suse mailing list several times before and I`m pretty sure guys and girls are getting sick of it. This is what worked on my suse 6.4 box(running Mandrake 8 for now). Depending whether you still have "old" kde, I called it kde1. Kde 2 installs itself by default in /opt/kde2/ directory. -create new folder in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/called kde2 -put a link to it ,to the file at /opt/kde2/bin/startkde -fire up your favorite editor, midnight commander will do just fine -edit (depending whether you are running kde1 kdm) file /opt/kde/share/config/kdmrc -find the line Session types= and ad to it kde2 , you have to do this as a root of course! -done,restart the X server and kde2 should appear from drop down menu if not reboot the machine,having said that this works only if login manager is kdm (1). You can also start it from command line runlevel 2 with the command $ WINDOWMANAGER=kde2;startkde Another option is if you want to run kde2 kdm manager (it`s nice) -edit file !`m guessing here can`t remember it`s a shell script sitting in /sbin/init/ or something like that called xdm look for the lines "DISPLAYMANAGERS" in it , and ad a line where kde is like "/opt/kde/bin/kdm" just change it to "/opt/kde2/bin/kdm. -edit a /opt/kde2/share/config/kdmrc and ad to Session types =kde2 -save , exit ,reboot. -done -this can also be done through your kdm control centre under both kde1 and kde2. -if you are running "xdm" I have no idea how to achieve the result.Hope this will help you. See ya Alan
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