On 11 Nov 2003 08:30:51 -0800, JP wrote:
> John Fettig <jfettig@NOuiuc.SPAMedu.invalid> wrote in message news:<bopt85$rei$2@news.ks.uiuc.edu>...
>> On 10 Nov 2003 18:14:42 -0800, JP wrote:
>> > kwin: it looks like there's already a window manager running. kwin not
>> > started.
>>
>> This last message leads one to believe that you already have X running.
>> Do a "ps -A". Do you see twm?
>
> Yes, I do. That's the problem: I had chosen KDE during login, and for
> some reason, KDE doesn't show up. All I get is twm.

I'm not a real big KDE person, so I'm not sure if the fonts are keeping
KDE from starting. But I'm pretty sure you won't get what you want
trying to startkde inside of twm. I've forgotten which distro you said
you are running, but here are general instructions:

kill twm some way or another. You may also have to kill xdm/kdm/gdm.
The best way to do this is through the init scripts. Probably
"/etc/init.d/kdm stop" or "/etc/init.d/twm stop". The other way is to
just kill kdm and/or twm: "killall kdm" or "killall twm". Once you are
back at a virtual console, try startkde. If that works, you can go from
there.

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