Setting up KDE
Hi,
After 3 days of struggling (and somehow screwing up my M$ XP boot record last night) I finally seem to have XP and linux installed properly.
Now, what I want to do is, when linux boots, I want it to boot straight into the graphical KDE login screen, and then bring up the KDE desktop.
I''ve really been struggling and I can''t seem to get this to work properly. Could someone please tell me which files exactly I need to edit to set this up?
At the moment it seems to be loading xdm or something, and not the KDE window manager/desktop manager... and it brings up a window with the session option "default", but no others.
I can get into KDE, using startx, with a .xinitsrc file, but It doesn''t bring up a login screen if I do it this way, and I want to do this from startup, but I don''t know how to set it up...
Thanks in advance
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The file /etc/inittab changes the graphic login. If it understood it right do you have the graphic login so the rest should be done in KDE. You can enter your username and password and click go to start KDE but you can also makes thing easier.
I am using GNOME right now but it should be something like settings->system->loginmanager in the menus.The program is pretty easy to use and lets you skip password or enable automatic login for a user.
I am using GNOME right now but it should be something like settings->system->loginmanager in the menus.The program is pretty easy to use and lets you skip password or enable automatic login for a user.
Ok, assuming your setup is like mine this is what you do:
You'll need to be super user to do some of this.
Open a terminal and go to /etc/X11/xinit
Type "rm xinitrc"
Type "ln -s /opt/kde/bin/kdm xinitrc"
Now (this is what Obelix was talking about) open /etc/inittab
See the line that says "id:something:initdefault:"
Change that something to either 4 or 5 (depends on the distro, probably 5 for you)
DON'T CHANGE IT TO 0 OR 6, or your system will reboot or shutdown as its default boot behavior
Good luck .
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Edited by - Null and Void on November 2, 2001 9:09:24 PM
Good luck .
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Edited by - Null and Void on November 2, 2001 9:09:24 PM
Hi, I''ve tried that, but it seems I was a little misunderstood.
Linux now boots into a graphical login, which is what I want, but when I login, it runs TWM, and not the Kde window manager. What I want to know is how to load kwm after login, because I''m not getting the KDE start bar, etc. loaded.
Thanks
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Linux now boots into a graphical login, which is what I want, but when I login, it runs TWM, and not the Kde window manager. What I want to know is how to load kwm after login, because I''m not getting the KDE start bar, etc. loaded.
Thanks
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We scratch our eternal itch
A twentieth century bitch
We are grateful for
Our Iron Lung
On my system it goes like this, at some point the file
/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
gets called, this file reads
/etc/sysconfig/desktop
to get the default desktop to load.
/etc/sysconfig/desktop only contain one line:
KDE
so if your system works like this change the value in /etc/sysconfig/destop to KDE and see if it works, if it doesn''t have a look at the /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients file to work out what possible values can be put into the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file because it may be something like KDE2 instead.
Hope thats what you want
X2K
/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
gets called, this file reads
/etc/sysconfig/desktop
to get the default desktop to load.
/etc/sysconfig/desktop only contain one line:
KDE
so if your system works like this change the value in /etc/sysconfig/destop to KDE and see if it works, if it doesn''t have a look at the /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients file to work out what possible values can be put into the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file because it may be something like KDE2 instead.
Hope thats what you want
X2K
Since I don''t know what kind of init you are using, here comes a suggestion that works on BSD systems (most Linux systems use sysV init though (this solution is actually a bit dated, but it still works))
simply add something like:
to /etc/rc.local
(once again, this is a dated BSD solution and will probably not work )
/Mikael Jacobson
simply add something like:
/usr/X11R6/bin/kdm
to /etc/rc.local
(once again, this is a dated BSD solution and will probably not work )
/Mikael Jacobson
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