startx -> gnome, want kde again

Adam

While working on the "read core temp" problem, I used mcc to install a
batch of packages. Now when I boot up, log in, and then run 'startx',
it starts up gnome instead of kde. How can I get it back to kde? I
looked through mcc, startx docs, etc. and didn't see any obvious switch.

Also, while it's running gnome, none of the web browsers I've tried can
access any web page ("[whatever.com] could not be found"). However, if
(under gnome) I use VMware to run W2K (as I'm doing now), there seems to
be no problems accessing web pages or newsgroups.

There's probably something simple to do that would solve both of these,
but I can't seem to find it. Can anyone point me in the right direction
for solving these? Thanks!

Adam

Bit Twister

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:07:15 GMT, Adam wrote:
> I used mcc to install a batch of packages.
> startx starts up gnome instead of kde.

Hmm, I have a fully updated system and it has never changed to Gnome
from my KDE setting.

> There's probably something simple to do that would solve both of these,
> but I can't seem to find it.

And I cannot remember anything in MCC to set it.

> Can anyone point me in the right direction
> for solving these? Thanks!

Hmm, first thing to do is
cat $HOME/.desktop

Next I would see if it a system wide problem by creating a new
account user account (say normal), log into normal, startx
and see what happens.

$ type startx
startx is /usr/bin/startx

$ edt /usr/bin/startx
where we see
sysclientrc=/usr/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc

$ edt /usr/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
where we see
exec /etc/X11/Xsession $*

$edt /etc/X11/Xsession

Where I find
if [ -f $HOME/.desktop ]; then
. $HOME/.desktop >/dev/null 2>&1
elif [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then

So, I would try doing a

echo DESKTOP=KDE > $HOME/.desktop

And try the startx again.

That is if you do not want to do something like
startx kde (I guess)

David W. Hodgins

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:07:15 -0500, Adam <.message> wrote:

> While working on the "read core temp" problem, I used mcc to install a
> batch of packages. Now when I boot up, log in, and then run 'startx',
> it starts up gnome instead of kde. How can I get it back to kde? I

Try "startx KDE". To get back to gnome, "startx GNOME". Note the KDE or
GNOME must be in uppercase.

> Also, while it's running gnome, none of the web browsers I've tried can
> access any web page ("[whatever.com] could not be found"). However, if

This is strange. Which window manager you're running should not have any
impact on the dns/network access. Check ~/.xsession-errors, to see if
there are any messages regarding authority problems, etc.

You may also want to install Xtart, and use it to select which window manager
to run.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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