[Kde-kiosk] newbie question

[Ryan Punt]

Sure enough, that was the problem.  Having logged in before using 
KIOSKTOOL, I know that root's default was KDE/KDM.  I wonder why this 
changed...?

Oh well, thanks for the help.

BTrout at mbsbooks.com wrote:
> I don't believe KIOSKTOOL has anything to do with your problem.
> 
> Its an X (susue 9.2) issue.
> 
> Kiosktool is kde only.
> 
> I believe SUSE uses a env var "WINDOWMANAGER" to determine window manager 
> at login.
> 
> Check your .profile - /etc/profile .... places where is getting set
> 
> Or maybe the that version of suse forces that window manager for root?
> 
> 
> 
> Ryan Punt <ryan at mirum.org> wrote on 03/17/2005 10:24:38 AM:
> 
> 
>>I've been looking into setting up up a few KDE kiosks scattered 
>>throughout my house for various members of my family; to that end, I 
>>installed SuSE 9.2 on a spare machine and began experimenting with Kiosk 
> 
> 
>>  Mode.  It worked pretty well, and I plan to go forward with a couple 
>>machines.
>>
>>The only problem I'm having at this point is that logging in as root at 
>>the console gives me a FVWM session, not KDE.  The FVWM session loads 
>>YAST2, so administration is possible, but I'm annoyed by this change. 
>>I've looked through the kiosk tool and no profiles are active, but I've 
>>no idea how to restore my typical root session.  Google has turned up 
>>nothing but the apparently-self-replicating Linux Magazine "Kiosk Howto" 
> 
> 
>>article.  Can anyone help?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ryan
>>
>>machine:/etc # cat kde3rc
>>[Directories]
>>prefixes=/etc/opt/kde3/
>>userProfileMapFile=/etc/kde-user-profile
>>profileDirsPrefix=/var/lib/kde-profiles/
>>
>>[Directories-default]
>>ProfileDescription=Default Profile
>>ProfileInstallUser=root
>>prefixes=/var/lib/kde-profiles/default/
>>
>>machine:/etc # cat kde-user-profile
>>[General]
>>groups=
>>
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