Edd Posted July 3, 2005 Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 (edited) I rebooted my laptop earlier, and when it booted, KDE was not loaded. I assume it's IceWM that boots (very plain, grey thing). I tried a few things to get KDE to load, nothing. I told it to boot with the desktop as failsafe and now I just get a blue screen with a command prompt in the bottom right corner. What do I do?! Edited July 4, 2005 by Edd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edd Posted July 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 Ok, I got back into IceWM - how do I change the default window manager (?) back to KDE? Thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 3, 2005 Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 Open the Mandrake Control Center, startup, auto login and change to your liking. PS: from a terminal you can start a window manager or DE with: startx startkde (for kde) or startx icewm (for icewm) etcetc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edd Posted July 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 I did as you said, all I can select is "Default", "IceWM" and "Failsafe" - no KDE. Also, when I run "startx startkde" IceWM still starts. What is going on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 3, 2005 Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 You've uninstalled kde :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edd Posted July 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 Ok, I reinstalled KDE, god knows how I managed it, but anyway. I got it back on but it still asks me to log in when I boot - what is still wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 4, 2005 Report Share Posted July 4, 2005 Open the MCC, startup and select autologin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edd Posted July 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2005 I tried all that myself, I had to run a rescue using the install disc. Sorted now, odd though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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