Help with session types

[NHRL]

Hi
Im brand new to linux. But the linux Im using is 9.3 professional.

I know its a little outdated by like 4 years but its all I have at the moment.

Here the problem

instead of the normal KDE login screen (the green one) I get this grey one. Its a different session type and I cant figure out how to chage it back to the KDE login.

According to the system I am in TWM mode and I would love to be back to KDE

Please help me cause the tencical support wont listen to me they just tell me I need to buy the new one and I cant afford it right now.

Thank you in advanced

[Freston]

Welcome to the forums!

First off, before someone else does , you may not need to buy a new (professional) version. You can just as easily download one, provided you have access to broadband. If you don't, then there are companies who sell and ship Linux for very reasonable prices (almost cost price).

I'm not saying you need to get a new version. I'd just like to point out that you have more options.



Now for your question:
Any background info you can provide will be useful. When did this behavior change? Where there errors? Did you change something?

And for troubleshooting: Log in to textual mode.
Either by booting to textual mode (perhaps your boot menu (if any) gives this as option)
or somehow from TWM open up a console and enter (as root)

init 3          # alternatively: telinit 3

Once logged in to textual mode, type this:

startkde

Please post here what happens.

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This doesn't fix your problem, so don't cheer to early if it works. This is just to see whether KDE itself has a problem, or the sequence that launches KDE.

[NHRL]

So i typed in the command you said to but this is what the terminal said (and i quote)

xset: unable to open display """"
xsetroot: unable to open display""""
startkde: starting up...
kdeinit:aborting. $display is not set
Warning: connect() failed: no such file or directory
xsmserver: cannot connect to x server
startkde: shutting down...
Warning: connect () failed: no such file or directory
error: can't contact kdeinit!
Startkde: Done

So....Im confused...i dont think it was supposed to do all that. but thats what it said

so can you help?

[chill92]

From a command line type in:
env | grep DISP
if not set type
export DISPLAY = :0

That should clear the first 2 errors from your last post.

the "startkde" probably still won't run.

Sounds like your X server is not running.

type: su root if not already root

type: startx to start the X server (/usr/X11R6/bin/startx)

The startx is the process that launches the WINDOWMANAGER

In your case you should probably still have the (default) TWM

You may have to run sax2 to set it back to KDE. Read the man page on sax2 because with no options, it wipes out stuff you may already want to keep such as XF86Config files. I'm on a SuSe 9.1 and know that sax and yast makes changes for you that you don't want. make backups of these files in /etc/X11 first. They may already have been renamed to FILENAME.sax.save or yast.save.