Boot problem.

Scott Smith scott at roadtoad.net
Tue Jul 15 21:24:43 CDT 2003


is it running xdm / gdm?

you probably want to create a .xsession or .xsessionrc file (cant 
remember which it is now), put the path to your window manager in there 
and make the file executable.

Scott

Chris Wagner wrote:

> At 4:14 PM -0500 7/15/03, Scott Smith wrote:
>
>> did yuou try hitting ^c ?
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> Chris Wagner wrote:
>>
>>> Just got Yellow Dog 3.0 installed and it goes through all the stuff 
>>> and then hangs as the cups daemon prepares to start.
>>>
>>> I can't seem to get it go into the step-by-step interactive startup 
>>> so that I can bypass it.
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>
>
> Actually, that hang seemed to be a one-time incident.
>
> Not sure about that.
>
> I can't seem to figure out how to change window managers.
>
> Apparently this is twm.
>
> Not sure how to change it.
>
> I want to run KDE, but have no idea how to tell this to start it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris




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