Someone helped me find and fix the problem. Evidentially I needed to be
running the KDE Manager. I was not. I did a gdm stop and a kdm start, and
that solved my problem.
Thanks,
Jesse
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Largret" <largret@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jesse" <jlc@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-newbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: How to make KDE default windows manager?
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 19:17 -0400, Jesse wrote:
I found the file in the same place, and it has pretty much the same thing
you've got there. However, think this may be the configuration file
once
you get KDE up and running. I can't seem to get KDE running.
Hmmm, on my system that file puts 'KDE' in the list of desktop
environments available in [xgk]dm.
I'd recommend checking the file permissions
for /usr/share/xsessions/kde.desktop. It would also be nice to know
which desktop manager is being used for your run-level (xdm/gdm/kdm).
'ps -ef' will give you a list of programs currently running. One of them
should be your desktop manager.
I'm also CC'ing this to the list in hopes that someone will know
better. :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Largret" <largret@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jesse" <jlc@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: How to make KDE default windows manager?
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 14:10 -0400, Jesse wrote:
>> I installed kde using the apt-get utility, however, I want to run it
>> as
>> my
>> default windows manager. How do I do that? I'm using Debian Linux,
>> and
>> right now, it comes up to a log in screen where I can choose IceWM,
>> Gnome,
>> and some others as my windows manager, but KDE is not one of those.
>> Any
>> ideas?
>
> I'm not fully certain for Debian, but this should be close. On my
> Slackware box you would look for /usr/share/xsessions/kde.desktop (If
> it
> isn't /usr/share/xsessions/, maybe try running "slocate xsession" to
> find the right directory).
>
> Inside of the kde.desktop file, here is what I have:
>
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=KDE
> Comment=This session logs you into KDE
> Exec=startkde
> # no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
> Icon=
> Type=Application
>
>
> hth
--
Chris Largret <http://www.largret.com>
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