How to get a KDE to run

[Karl F. Larsen]

Roy Smith wrote:
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> Karl Larsen wrote:
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>> Nigel Henry wrote:
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>>> On Sunday 10 May 2009 20:40, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>> That's odd. Normally you enter your login name, then the session button 
>>> appears, and you can select which you want to login to, KDE, Gnome, whatever.
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>>     What I did was get the synaptic running and had it reload kde and 
>> now I have a new login window with flowers and such, but when I get to 
>> the desktop it looks like a Gnome with under Applications I have a whole 
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> - From the sound of things you have the KDE desktop manager running at
> login, but you're still using Gnome as the default session.  Try looking
> in the session menu and see if KDE is listed now.
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> Roy Smith
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    No telling what I had. It was bad. After removing the offending 
files and loading the right files everything changed. At the first 
window you can decide which to use, and which to make default. It is 
just fine. Not sure I like KDE because right now I think the screen 
looks like a broken Windows XP :-)


Karl