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Old 09-16-2002
Mandrake question
Hi, I recently started running Mandrake Linux with the KDE desktop. Today instead of starting up the desktop, it stayed at the command prompt. What is the linux command for starting the KDE environment? Thanks alot!
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Old 09-16-2002
check out /etc/inittab and make sure it has runlevel 5 to start on. If it just happened this once, i dont know what would have happned unless X crashed or failed to start for some reason,
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Old 09-16-2002
I'll try and check there, but it does it every time I start up now.
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Old 09-16-2002
just type startx
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Old 09-17-2002
Thanks, thats exactly what I needed!
 
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