On Friday 17 December 2004 08:22 pm, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
On Friday, 17 Dec 2004 19:53:17, Sunny wrote:
At boot screen, type "3" in the options line. It will boot you in runlevel 3.
Login as root ans start yast2. Go to System/sysconfig/System/Desktop/DISPLAYMANAGER. In the setting there should be "gdm" which is gnome's login. Change it to "kdm".
Save and exit yast.
Now type reboot at the prompt :)
Sunny, thank you for the useful tip, which is another solution.
As I am alredy back in the KDE desktop, I for now just checked the text file /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, and verified that the line now contained DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
Just for the archives. I doubt the DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" in etc/sysconfig/displaymanager was ever change to "gdm" This is the display manager variable and not the session type. Among other things, it gives you the login screen. If you had changed it to gdm while you were having problems, it might have worked by starting gdm instead of kdm. gdm probably hasn't been set for autologin, so you would have been given a login screen and been able to select a session type. With kdm, the session type will default to whatever the user used the previous login. The place to look for something that affects only that user would be in their home directory, not in a global file. kdm appears to use ~/.dmrc. If you have never tried another session type, it will have Session=default. Log into kde and you will find Session=kde in that file. Log into Gnome and it become Session=gnome. You could have edited that file to kde and solved your original problem. ctrl-alt-backspace does the same thing and is easier (since it worked!) Doug