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Re: KDE or Picasso?



On Wed, 11 May 2005 18:28:00 -0600
"s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca> wrote:

> Incoming from kenny B:
> > 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)."
> > >
> > > 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
> > 
> > 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
> 
> CTRL-ALT-F1 gets you to a console prompt.  login as root, then
> "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86".  Then, CTRL-ALT-F7 takes you back

Actually Alt-F7. In console you don't use Ctrl.

> to X.  CTRL-ALT-Backspace kills X, and [xkgw]dm should restart it with
> the new settings.
> 
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