[Newbie]Re: Newbie digest, Vol 1 #912 - 26 msgs

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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.



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