[ale] KDE start-up

[Alan Bowman]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Sage wrote:

>>
>>Question;
>>
>>Installed Slackware 7.1. Thought I had instruced it during
>>installation to default to KDE upon using startx. It, of course, has
>>decided to default to Gnome.
>>
>>I am thinking that I need to change something in the xinitrc file
>>(the one in /var), as the last uncommented line reads "exec
>>gnome-session".
>>
>>Before I make toast out of this, can anyone tell me if I can just
>>change that to read "exec KDE-session" to default to KDE?
>>
>>Thanks for the help.
>>
>>Sage

Sage,
 In /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit you'll find the files that control which
window manager starts up.  Do an ls -ls, and you should see this:

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          152 Aug 24  1999 README.Xmodmap
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           13 Oct 13 21:12 xinitrc ->
xinitrc.fvwm2*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          546 Oct  1  1999 xinitrc.e*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          589 May 28  2000 xinitrc.fvwm2*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          539 Aug  4  1999 xinitrc.fvwm95*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          546 Oct  1  1999 xinitrc.gnome*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          541 Oct  9  1999 xinitrc.kde*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          538 Oct  3  1999 xinitrc.openwin*
-r--r--r--   1 root     root          666 Nov 14  1998 xinitrc.twm
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          554 Sep 26  1999 xinitrc.wmaker*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          755 Oct 13 21:07 xinitrc.xfce*

Note that xinitrc is linked to xinitrc.fvwm2 (the window manager I use).  
Change that link to point to the one for KDE, and restart X.  ln -is
xinitrc.kde xinitrc should do the trick.  It will ask you to replace
xinitrc, answer yes.  This works on my Slackware 7.0 box at home, and my
Slackware 7.1 box at work.

...alan

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