Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:46:57AM -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote:
> I use a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386 port.
>
> At about 6 PM (EDT) on April 15, 2006, I used synaptic to upgrade my
> system. When I enter "startx" I now get some simple window manager
> instead of KDE. An article in debian-user suggested that X was using
> /usr/lib/x11/xinit/xinitrc. This seems to be correct since I am getting
> the three xterms and a clock mentioned in that file. Therefore I am
> probably in twm.
Indeed you are.
> I want "startx" to start KDE. Which config file changes do I need to make?
Do you have an .xinitrc ? It should say something like 'startkde' (I
can't remember the exact command to put in it). If not you'll have to
create it with something like that in it.
> How do I exit twm?
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should almost always exit X if there's not a menu
option to do so (I can't remember if there if one in twm) -- but it
won't exit cleanly, so be aware of that.
--
Christopher Nelson -- chris@cavein.org
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
When some people discover the truth, they just can't understand why
everybody isn't eager to hear it.
Reply to: