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Re: [SLE] Changing Window Managers
  • From: Allen <gorebofh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:45:01 -0400
  • Message-id: <20050817214501.GA14978@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 08:58:03AM -0700, James D. Parra wrote:
> >Was xdm, changed to kdm and restarted. I now get the familiar SuSE login
> >screen and the Session Type in lower left BUT kde is not one of the
> >choices, it defaults to fvwm. The default (which I set to kde in
> >/etc/sysconfig/windowmanager) still comes up fvwm.
>
> >It may be simpler to reinstall!
>
> Reinstalling may be a little draconian. How about uninstalling KDE and then
> reinstall, via yast, and reboot.


Why would you reboot? And for the other things:

The kid obviously doesn't have KDE installed or it would show up. Or he
broke something, either way, install, restart X, use.



> ~James
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