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Re: (kde) kdm gone mad - please help !



Hey,
  I never tried KDE (besides some quite old tarballs),
but since startx doesn't even run xdm, I suppose your
xdm is fine. Look in $HOME/.xsession, $HOME/.Xclients or
$HOME/.xinit(rc?). It's probable that you'll find something
like kwm, kaudio, whatever in there. Usually the scripts for
startx (called /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc) check for one
of these files, and if they find it they just run it instead
of starting up what you might call the system default (probably
/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients). Just delete the file, .Xclients or
.xsession or whatever.

BTW, if you run 'xdm' and do not get the banner, console etc.,
you might want to take a look in /etc/X11/xdm. Unlikely, though.

Hope this helps.

Gal Aviel wrote:
> 
> Hellow everybody, please help ...
> 
> I have been using kde version  1.1-0.1alpha1rh5x.i386 for the last 3
> weeks or so, with
> no special problem (exept some minor bugs I saw).
> 
> yesterday I played with it (I changed the deafualt language to Hebrew
> which - tried it
> just out of curiosity), and kde got angry.
> 
> the desktop got  'stuck' - when ever I press a buttom in the panel - the
> display (exept the mouse)
> is frozen.
> 
> I cannot do anything but to do a hard reset.
> 
> (yes, it was a very bad idea to use an alpha version)
> 
> so, I tried to use the kdm_off script to go back to say AfterStep,
> uninstall KDE, and reinstall
> the KDE 1.1pre2 (btw, what does the name meen ? is it also an alpna
> version ?).
> 
> but this didn't work - when I ran "startx" again, I still got kde. it's
> as if kdm 'ate' xdm.
> 
> btw, when I did "top", I saw that kdm is still alive and it taking 98%
> of my cpu.
> seems to me kdm got into someking of infinite loop.
> 
> MY QUESTION :
> how can I safely restore xdm and AfterStep ?
> 
> please help if you know,
> gal.

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