Starting KDE3 with KDM

[tux the turtle]

René Kälin am Donnerstag, 9. Mai 2002 13:23:
> Hello list!
>
> I've got the following problem with KDE3 on SuSE 7.3: I have deleted KDE2
> and installed the new version 3. When I start X manually, everything works.
> But when I want to log in with KDM, KDE3 doesn't start up. Just a shell
> console window in the upper left edge is appearing.
> Something is strange too: I log in as root, start up KDE3 and configure it
> using the control center. But the changes don't take any effect! I read
> that there has to be a file /opt/kde3/share/config/kdmrc but it doesn't
> exist. I just found a file /etc/kde3rc. In that file, the directory
> /etc/opt/kde3 is named and there I found the kdmrc file. However, changes
> in that file don't take any effect in the appearance of KDM.
>
> Now I tell you which changes I've done in the configure files:
> I've changed the directory of KDM in the /etc/init.d/xdm file.
> And I've added "export WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11RC/bin/kde3" to the ~/.bashrc
> file.
>
> Can anyone help me logging in correctly with KDM?
>

Do you have kde in your /usr/X11/bin?
If not do a 
  ln -s <wherever-your-KDE-is>/bin/startkde /usr/X11/bin/kde
and try again!
	TuThTu

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