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