On Monday 17 February 2003 08:01, Salman Khilji wrote:
I have SuSE 8.0 and am running KDE 3.1 (from the RPMs that I downloaded from suse).
I wanted to create myself a new account on my machine so I logged in as root in KDE (I know it has been recommended to never login as root in X, but I just wanted to see what it would break).
I suppose we know now ... yes kids, the old bores who keep saying 'don't log in as root' say it for a reason ...
I created myself the new account that I wanted and checked the hidden option so that it would not appear in kdm listed users.
When I rebooted, KDM now has all sorts of different icons for every possible user on the system. Further, when I login using KDM, I don't get a window manager running. All I get is a blue screen on top of which a unix shell is running. There are no Window borders for me to click on. None of the KDE stuff is running. I can start kicker manually by typing kicker on the prompt---which brings up kicker. Then I can run an application but all applications appear in some place without any window borders for me to click on. I cannot even move windows around with a mouse.
I have a temporary solution to this. I logged in as su. Then I typed init 3. After this, I use one of my user accounts to log into the machine. When I type startx, everything is working fine.
So bottom line---Keeping the run level 3 and startx'ing manually works fine. KDM is broken. I tried re-installing the kdebase package but that didn't help. I also ran SuSEconfig after re-installing, but no help :-(
Salman
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