Help, KDE doesn't work! (No, I am serious)

[Dylan]

That little nifty joke was from the main homepage if you didn't get what that was about. :p

BUT

I do have a huge problem.

I am using winlinux200 and I tried to install enlightenment. I downloaded enlight.tgz, and unarchived it, and ran elightenment.install.

I did all this as root.

It said I should then log out and restart the X server which I did. So I try to log back into KDE as root - and my computer freezes up, goes black, then goes back to the login screen.

SO

i can only login to linux as a user i created with almost no permissions

I need to figure out how to:

1. Get back those files that enlightenment.install replaced (it said it backed them up somewhere, but i can't find them)

2. re-install kde in my root user profile.

And in the user that I can login in to, I can't install the module for my network card because i don't have the permission, so i can't use the net in linux anymore!

i can edit linux files from windows sine i have winlinux, which does not create a partition.

pplleeaassee help! :confused:

[mis]

Make root a .xinitrc file (off /root) and put

exec startkde

see if that fixes the problem. Enlightenment probably setup to be the default WM but somthing went wrong thus explaining the blank screen. If not maybe copy the working users .kde directory over roots.

HTH

Mis

[Dylan]

Originally posted by mis:
Make root a .xinitrc file (off /root) and put

exec startkde

see if that fixes the problem. Enlightenment probably setup to be the default WM but somthing went wrong thus explaining the blank screen. If not maybe copy the working users .kde directory over roots.

HTH

Mis


I opened that file, and it said:


/root/.xsession

so i opened one of the xsession files (there were three) and it said:

#!/bin/sh
# Execute enlightenment. ALWAYS make sure this is at the end of this
# startup file - and ALWAYS run things before it with an & at the end.
# For example:
# xterm &
# kpanel &
# It is suggested to use Enlightenment's Remember dialog for having apps
# spawned automatically on login.
exec /bin/enlightenment
The other one said that also, so I changed them to say:

startkde

the other xsession file just said that it could not find the enlightenment files.

thanks!