[CLUE-Tech] Preventing KDE from taking over X sessions

[Matt Gushee]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 08:58:43PM -0700, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:31:48 -0700
> Matt Gushee <mgushee at havenrock.com> wrote:
> 
> > I will not bash KDE ... I will not bash KDE ... I will not bash KDE ...
> 
> I will not zsh Gnome ... I will not zsh Gnome :)

He-heh.

I'm not really a partisan of either. I haven't had *this* kinda problem
with GNOME, but 

> Are you booting to runlevel 5?
> 
> I have all the KDE crap installed, and this doesn't happen to me at all.
> But then I boot to runlevel 3, and start X manually. Thus, whatever I have
> in .xinitrc is what I get.
> 
> If you boot to runlevel 3, login, and then enter 'startx' at the prompt,
> what happens?

That's what I always do.

> If you still get hijacked by KDE, at least you can trace
> throught the startx shell script and see what's being invoked where.

Good point. I'll try that when the need arises again.

> You
> might find a settings file that you can tweak.

Maybe. It occurs to me now that it's been a very long time since I
started out with a clean home directory. I've just been keeping all my
stuff intact through several distro changes and upgrades--maybe it's
time for a good cleaning.


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