[Gllug] KDE login trouble

Matthew King matthew.king at monnsta.net
Mon Jun 15 20:55:19 UTC 2009


Ian Northeast <ian at house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Sorry, make that "startx -- :2". Startkde doesn't start an X server, I'd 
> misremembered. The "-- :2" is to specify the second X server, as you've 
> already got kdm running on the first. If that starts some other window 
> manager or a "raw" X server (an empty greyish screen - if you get this 
> kill it with ctrl-alt-backspace) create a .xinitrc and put "startkde" in it.

Pedantic point of interest - the first X server runs on display :0. You
can start the second server with '-- :1'.

Matthew

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