KDE or Picasso?

[kenny B <kboals@gmail.com>]

WOW!! ok...i was able to get KDE, but now the graphics are completely
screwed up! i may have set the screen resoloution wrong, but im not
sure if i will be able to fix it, my mouse is appearing in 2 or 3
places, everything is scattered all over the screen, my desktop looks
like a Picasso painting! is there anything i can do?

-Kenny

On 5/11/05, Pollywog <linux@shadypond.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 May 2005 11:07 pm, kenny B wrote:
> > I installed KDE... i also tried 'startx' and it just said a bunch of
> > stuff including:
> > "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
> >
> > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)."
> >
> > are there any other commands to start KDE?
>
> If you want a graphical login every time you reboot the machine, you need to
> install kdm, so this is what I would do on Debian Sarge:
>
> apt-get update
>
> apt-get install kde-core kdm kdebase kdelibs kdemultimedia kdenetwork
> kdegraphics
>
> You can then do "apt-cache search kde | more"  to see what packages you want
> and install those as well.
>
> You could also do (instead of what I put above):
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get install kde
>
> That will install almost all the KDE packages, but it will leave you with lots
> of packages you might not want (in my case it was games) and it is easier to
> remove that stuff by not installing it in the first place, that is why I
> recommend installing kde-core and a few base packages and then installing
> just the KDE packages you want to install.
>
> When they are all installed, you can start kdm with '/etc/init.d/kdm start' if
> this does not happen on its own and then login to a kde session by entering
> your usual login and password and KDE in the drop down menu where you select
> the type of session desired.  If you don't select KDE, I believe you will get
> Gnome desktop if that is installed.  If you see a Gnome session, just logout
> and login again but this time, select KDM for the session type.
>
> Make sure you have installed an X server also.  On my system I have
>
> xserver-xfree86
>
> You might also need to install drivers for your video card, you did not say
> which card is installed on your system.  If you cannot get a KDE session
> after you have installed an X server and KDE, it might be that you don't have
> the drivers, so post errors to the list and someone might know what else is
> needed.
>
> --
> Andrew
>