[Sussex] More debian questions

[Steve Dobson]

Hi John

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:12:03PM +0100, John D. wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> One of the downsides of mandrake is that I can do virtually anything I want 
> with a gui. It doesn't encourage those of us (well, me really) to learn how 
> to use command line input.

The power of Linux does line in the command line.

> Now I have got kde 2.2 up and running as "USER", but when I try and start it 
> as root, I get this.
> 
> 
> debian:/home/john# startkde
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 key (failed key comparison)
<snip>
> 
> Would someone be kind enough to decypher it and suggest what I might do so I 
> can log in as root with a gui please ?

The easiest way of running KDE is to install the KDE Display Manager.
When I was their xdm (The X11 Display Manager was running).  The following
command will fix that.

   # apt-get install kdm

When it asks select "kdm" as the default display manager.  Then on the
next reboot you'll get the KDE login screen (Debian Style).

Steve
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