Re: [SLE] Logout from a corrupted Gnome and switch back to KDE?
On Friday, 17 Dec 2004 19:53:17, Sunny wrote:
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 01:39:37 +0100, Terje J. Hanssen
wrote: Hi everyone,
I had a working auto-login to KDE on Suse 9.1 (without entering password). Then I should try a login to Gnome, but got a corrupted Gnome desktop without panel menues and which contains non-working icons on the desktop.
The problem is that after reboot, I get the automatic to Gnome again. I can access the terminal consol but am not able to start KDE with the kde command (X display access problem).
I also tried an update installation from the DVD using update to installed packages only, but didn't get a choice to select/change graphical login.
My problem is: how can I logout from this corrupted Gnome desktop (no logout menu is available) and/or switch back to KDE? May I possibly change the init startup file?
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" Rgds, Terje
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
On Friday 17 December 2004 10:08 pm, Doug B wrote:
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!)
Oopppss. Poor choice of words. It doesn't really do the same thing. ctrl-alt-backspace is not the best way to end an xseesion, but since yours was messed up and you had no other way to end it, it was a good choice. That didn't change the .dmrc file though. Selecting kde from the kdm login screen and logging in caused the file to be changed. Doug
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