On Sunday 04 October 2009 05:28:08 pm Jim Sabatke wrote:
phanisvara das wrote:
On Sunday 04 October 2009 08:01:29 pm Jim Sabatke wrote:
have no clue where the screen is that allows selection of the window manager. I have KDE3, KDE4 and gnome loaded on my home computer and see no way to select one; it certainly isn't on the login screen
when i was running 11.1, i could select from the login screen which windows manager to use--only if they were properly installed, of course. don't have 11.1 running right now so can't provide a screenshot, but there's a popup menu on the left side of the screen, a little below the middle, which defaults to the last used windows manager, but allows you to choose from all the others available on the system. if that isn't the case in your installation, are you sure the additional WMs are installed, not just a couple libraries to support some program?
I did install KDE3. Does anything else have to be installed?
Jim
Jim, I think you are being bitten by the "which kdm is the right kdm?" problem. What is the output of: which kdm If the answer is "/opt/kde3/bin/kdm" then you should be fine. If it is something else, then you need to visit the sysconfig editor in yast. I haven't had this problem with suse, but I did have this problem with arch. Basically if you default to the kde4 kdm to start, then it will not show you anything about your kde3 install, but if you default to your kde3 kdm it will show both kde3 and kde4. (I may not be using the right terminology, but you get the drift) Start yast sysconfig editor and look at Desktop -> Display manager -> DISPLAYMANAGER and make sure it is set to 'kdm3' without quotes. Then look at Desktop -> Window manager -> DEFAULT_WM and make sure it is set to 'startkde3' without quotes. Then when you restart the desktop (rckdm, or drop to runlevel3 then back to rl5 or reboot) you should be OK. I guess since you apparently had kde4 first, it is still using the kde4 DM and WM defaults which apparently will not show kde3. Like I said, I haven't had these problems with suse, but with Archlinux, when I upgraded to kde4 there, I did have this happen. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org