On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:46:57AM -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote: > I use a PC with an AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. > > At about 6 PM (EDT) on April 15, 2006, I used synaptic to upgrade my > system. When I enter "startx" I now get some simple window manager > instead of KDE. An article in debian-user suggested that X was using > /usr/lib/x11/xinit/xinitrc. This seems to be correct since I am getting > the three xterms and a clock mentioned in that file. Therefore I am > probably in twm.
Indeed you are. > I want "startx" to start KDE. Which config file changes do I need to make? Do you have an .xinitrc ? It should say something like 'startkde' (I can't remember the exact command to put in it). If not you'll have to create it with something like that in it. > How do I exit twm? Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should almost always exit X if there's not a menu option to do so (I can't remember if there if one in twm) -- but it won't exit cleanly, so be aware of that. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- When some people discover the truth, they just can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
