[kde-linux] login in and out

Stephanos stephanos at writeme.com
Fri Oct 13 14:18:56 UTC 2006


Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Monday 09 October 2006 01:48, STEPHEN CONSTANTINOU wrote:
> 
>> I wanted to change the "End Sessions" options to include an icon login for
>> root and the user (whereby I would have clicked an Icon for either and then
>> entered a password) and buttons to reboot and shutdown.  I fiddled and made
>> things worse.  Now the only "End Sessions" option I am presented with is to
>> "End Current Session" or "Cancel".
>>
>> But worse, now when I restart I do not get automatically logged as a a user
>> and I have to enter the user and password.
> 
> Can you check if this also happening for a new user account?
> If it does then it is likely some global setting that has been changed, if not 
> it might be a change to the user's configuration.
> 
> In the first case the simplest solution might be to reinstall the kdebase 
> package, in the second case renaming the user's .kde/share/config directory 
> might help (while not being logged in as that user). Other settings 
> from .kde/share/config can then be restored file by file
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin
> 
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Advice taken

I reset the global option to log in the required user automatically 
using Mandriva Control Panel and then went back to KDE login Manager and 
corrected mistakes

Thanks for the help
Stephen



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