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Re: KDE and other window managers



On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 09:42:04PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote:
> I followed the KDE instructions of getting it to use another window manager
> rather than kwm, but this doesn't seem to work.
> 
> What I did was change the "exec kwm" in the kde/startkde script to "exec
> afterstep" or "exec sawmill" but logging on simply kicks me back to the xdm
> banner.
> 
> Any ideas?

Stop the xdm server.

Go to a command prompt (preferably console) and type:

   startx -- 1> startx.log 2>&1 

If you have problems starting X, try first as root.  Else direct
questions back to the group, along with contents of the log file you've
just created.

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