Re: Can't get KDE working!

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "James" == JAMES MERRITT <jamesem@email.com> writes:

    James> Hi everyone, I am having a problem with my KDE not running,
    James> or rather it is running but all I get when I type: startx
    James> is twm.

I'm not sure what you mean by "it is running but all I get....is twm"?
Are you getting a kdm graphical login or not?

Look in /etc/alternatives/ for the x-* links. If you do not have an
x-session-manager link to kde2 you should 'man update-alternatives' to
see what you can do. For example, on my system:

shyamal@rattler:~$ cd /etc/alternatives/
shyamal@rattler:/etc/alternatives$ ls -l x-session-manager 
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Apr 22  2002 x-session-manager -> /usr/bin/kde2
shyamal@rattler:/etc/alternatives$ /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display x-session-manager 
x-session-manager - status is auto.
 link currently points to /usr/bin/kde2
/usr/bin/gnome-session - priority 20
 slave x-session-manager.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-session.1.gz
/usr/bin/kde2 - priority 40
Current `best' version is /usr/bin/kde2.

Don't trust me on all this, I don't use kde, I have an ~/.xsession
file that starts xfce via a gdm screen.

Cheers!
Shyamal