riley@ece.gatech.edu wrote: >>Scribbling feverishly on May 01, George Riley managed to emit: >> >>>I have KDE properly installed on my Dell Laptop, and everything is fine >>>if I use runlevel 3 (command line log-in) and then type "startx". >>>However, when I change to runlevel 5 (graphical log-in screen), I am >>>unable to get any window manager except twm. I do have the option >>>to select "kde" on the login screen, but it seems to have no affect. >>> >>>Does anyone know how the graphical login screen initiates the window >>>managers, and which config files I need to dork with to get this right? >>> >>Running Linux or some other *nix? Various Linux distributions handle it >>differently. What is the underlying OS and, if Linux, which distibution? >> >I have RedHat 7.2. Sorry, I should have stated this in the first place. > >George > Log in as root user and start X. The graphical login is started as root. If you don't have what you want as root change it.