Hello all, I am having a little trouble. I was poking around and finally found out how to boot into different desktop i.e., gnome, Ice… Well, I started trying all the options available in the login screen, selected one (don’t remember which) and now all I get when I boot up is a blank screen with a movable mouse pointer. How do I get back to KDE? Is there a key combo that I need? Dumb mistake but hey, I had fun up to now!rotfl!
Thanks for the input
I’m not clear on precisely what you did, but it sounds as if you chose a very basic window manager and that is being remembered by kdm (the desktop login program) when you restart the system.
Try booting to runlevel 3 (just the numeral 3 in Boot Options on the boot menu) which will take you to a command line login. Login as your user, and then switch to root (the “su” command). Then do:
more /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager
and look for the “default window manager” entry; make sure it is “kde”. If it is not, use a command line editor to change that.
Additionally, do:
more /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager
and look for the “autologin” entry. Make sure it is blank; if not, edit it to be so. Then do:
exit
startx
and you should get the kdm login screen. Click on menu for the list of desktop managers and select kde.
If you don’t know a command line editor to use (the default editors are a bit difficult for anyone unfamiliar), then try “nano”. If it is not installed, install it with:
zypper in nano
Using it is fairly intuitive.
Hi
I’ve got the same problem. How do I access the boot menu?
The problem above has nothing to do with the boot menu; OP’s problem was with the desktop environment (KDE, Gnome, etc.) login. The grub boot loader menu is at /boot/grub/menu.lst. It can be modified using YaST Boot Loader or manually with a text editor as root.
Hello,
Had the same problem for 2 weeks since updating in yast and bootup became a console login. So I edited as root /etc/inittab and add the last line:
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/gdm
Everything good!