[Wlug] Window manager problem

[Andy Stewart]

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Hi Bruce,

If you can fire up any window manager, it should allow you to manipulate
your windows, bail out cleanly, or whatever you'd like to do (go back to
Yast and turn off 3D, etc).

For KDE, the window manager is /opt/kde3/bin/kwin, if I'm not mistaken.
 If there is one terminal window available in which you can type a
command, try that and see if it starts the window manager.

Failing that, can you get to a text console via Ctrl-Alt-F1 ?  If so,
try this:

(setenv DISPLAY :0; /opt/kde3/bin/kwin)&
	or
(export DISPLAY=:0; /opt/kde3/bin/kwin)&

The first command works in (t)csh, while the other works in BASH,
depending on which is your login shell.  If you haven't explicitly
modified it, it will be bash, in which case the 2nd command should work.

You could also get to a text console, log in as root, and drop to
runlevel 3 (which would  kill off your X windows session) thus:
	telinit 3

To restart X windows, try this:
	telinit 5

You could also run YaST from the text console.  The interface isn't as
pretty, and it doesn't use the mouse (think tabs and arrow keys), but it
is perfectly functional.

There should be no need to reboot.

I hope this helps,

Andy

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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org

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