Re: KDM hang after login
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 02:49, Doug Holland wrote:
> On Monday 08 March 2004 06:06 pm, Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> > Over the weekend I upgraded my desktop system to KDE 3.2.1 (from 3.1.5)
> > and did the same on my Thinkpad this morning. Everything seems to be
> > working fine except for one puzzling problem. After logging in via kdm, it
> > gets as far as the default KDE background and then just stops, with nothing
> > on-screen except the background. It does it on both machines, so I guess
> > it can be called duplicatable.
> >
> > My temporary workaround is to use gdm and select a KDE session, which works
> > without a hitch.
> >
>
> Oh, and I've seen kdm hanging after logging in a few times. It's not actually
> hanging, it's loading twm, X's extremely lame default window manager. Try
> clicking and holding mouse buttons when this happens. If it's twm, you
> should see menus pop up, so you can start xterms, logout, etc. Logout, then
> go to kdm's menu and select a KDE session type before logging in again.
>
> Doug
Is there a way to make KDM default to selecting KDE as the session type?
Andy
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