scoonma Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 (edited) Hi folks, not sure wether it is related to a similar cause like that one: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?act=ST&...f=9&t=40887 I've stumbled over some strange behaviour when starting KDE. I first created a fresh user account. After logging in on terminal, then "startx", OpenOffice Writer started automagically. I could (forcefully) terminate the application, but then another instance started up again. I could not get rid of that other than logging out, starting X with xinit and opening a GNOME session. (System is Mandriva 2007.1) Any ideas please? Edited May 1, 2007 by scoonma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 "startx" may not be the appropriate command to start a KDE session. What about "startkde"? What do you have in your ~.bash_profile , ~.bashrc and ~.xinitrc files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted May 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 "startx" may not be the appropriate command to start a KDE session. What about "startkde"?What do you have in your ~.bash_profile , ~.bashrc and ~.xinitrc files? The X server must be started first, so a simple "startkde" won't work. I didn't touch ~.xinitrc or ~.bash_profile, and in ~.bashrc I've only added some minor shell aliases. This is perhaps as I do not like starting the X server by default; with GNOME startx is sufficient for my default user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted May 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 Just found a convenient workaround by myself. You can do the following to the ~/.desktop file, which seems to consist of a single line: DESKTOP=GNOME. The "startx" command does now what I'm used to. :-) Seems a quite convenient way to switch between different layouts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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