On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 04:01, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
Ok, thanks. But that contradicts what (IIRC) somebody told me a week-or-three ago when I was trying to sort out my recent crashing-X problem. I said that I wanted to eliminate KDE as a possible culprit, so I'd tried running GNOME instead -- and still had the crash occur. The other person said that if I had merely started GNOME in place of KDE from kdm, then I was still using some K-guts and had not given myself a clean GNOME for the test. He said that I should use gdm to launch GNOME, to be sure I was not invoking any part of KDE.
Well, that's not completely the same thing. kdm uses the kdelibs and qt to display its screens. If there's a bug in, say, qt that causes X to crash, I would say it's good advice to try starting without it completely. If there's a bug in there, the damage could already be done when qt draws the login screen. If, on the other hand, kdm/kde/qt work as they should, they should be out of your way when gnome is running.
But, you presented your version more convincingly, so I'll believe you. <grin> It must be that white hat...
white hat?
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Anders Johansson