I have only been a Linux user for about two months. When I installed
11.1 I chose the KDE 4 desktop. Last evening I was ‘playing’ with
logging out and changing sessions and selected metacity as the desktop.
All I could see after logging in was the mouse pointer. Pressing loads
of keys produced nothing - except prtscr opened a save dialogue. I
switched off and restarted the machine by using reset but it loaded
right back into an empty metacity. I eventually found I could get a
terminal interface but startx and startkde failed. I looked through
loads of startup configurations after getting yast2 running in the
terminal interface but no settings I found could get me back to KDE. I
even used the original DVD to try to ‘repair’ my system.
It took me about 3 hours to find that ctrl+alt+backspace logged me out
to where I could change the session type.
My question is - why was metacity (and all sorts of other desktops)
listed if it wasn’t going to work? And why did the system allow me to be
trapped in a wilderness? I clearly needed protecting from myself!
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Croques
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