[NTLUG:Discuss] KDE does not start normally in Suse 9.1

[Terry Henderson]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:38:29 -0600, Brian Kontrath <bkontr at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have a Suse 9.1 box that was improperly shutdown and now KDE does not
> start properly.  At the kdm login screen I select KDE as my preferred WM
> for the session but when I  login I get a very plain xterm window (twm?)
> and thats it.  At this point, I usually have to start kde from the xterm
> window by typing "kde" and then everything seems to work ok. Of course,
> during the session I can't close the xterm window without killing KDE.
> How do I fix this so that KDE starts normally?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Brian


try using gdm  ?
or
do you have xwmconfig ?