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# 8  
Old 09-29-2004
When you've got the kdm login screen, and type "root", press tab or whatever to move to the password field, what does it say in the drop-down list? KDE, GNOME, (or some other WM) or YaST ??

It could also be the way that you've got kdm configured.

Also, what's in /root/.kde/Autostart ?

This is all assuming that you're using KDE.

Cheers
ZB
# 9  
Old 09-29-2004
Heres the line for root in etc/passwd "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash"
As far as the Autostart there don't seem to be nothing listed in the directory here's the listing from Konsole
"linux:~/.kde/Autostart # dir
total 4
drwx------ 2 root root 80 2004-09-26 07:52 .
drwx------ 4 root root 200 2004-09-26 07:52 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1525 2004-09-26 07:52 .directory"
There are no options to change on the login screen as far as I know KDE 3.2 is the only thing that it can load.
# 10  
Old 11-10-2004
Sorry to drag up a really old post, but answering one of your recent posts got me thinking about this again.

Inside /root there is a .dmrc file.

Does this contain
[Desktop]
Session=Admin
??

If so, change back to
[Desktop]
Session=default

I think I found this on some forum or another...

Cheers
ZB
# 11  
Old 11-11-2004
Yeah, that worked. I just wonder why it was changed...seems like it might have something to do with maybe clicking the "Administration" button on the login screen.
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