This works, of course. I feel really dumb. I tried it earlier and obviously screwed it up somehow. I had it working through the graphical login method, but wanted to avoid that. Thank you all for your help! On Tue, 08 Dec 1998 22:53:10 +0100 (CET), you wrote:

On 08-Dec-98 shermanandkerns@earthlink.net wrote:

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I have done the suggested change to startx, exported WINDOWMANAGER

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generally tried everything I could think of but I still have to start fvwm2 to get KDE up. (S.u.S.E. 5.3) Literally everything else works great, but this is making me nuts! What stupid thing have I managed to overlook this time?

just do : echo exec /usr/X11R6/bin/kde > .xinitrc

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