Where has my KDE desktop gone??

[rloc]

Hi all...

I had LL running very nicely with the KDE desktop as expected until I shut the machine down.

The machine now starts up the Gnome desktop after I log in.

That's it. No warning, no message, no hint as to why this could be.

Any ideas out there?

Cheers

Rob

[dibl]

Re: Where has my KDE desktop gone??

Any ideas out there?

The Tooth Fairy snuck into your house last night and installed Gnome?



Seriously, I have no clue -- obviously the Gnome Display Manager, aka gdm, was selected for the login, but if you don't know how that happened, no one else will.

When the "greeter" appears where you enter your password, there's a little menu icon. Click that, and there should be an option to choose KDE. Click that, and enter your password, and you should be back to KDE.

[Xander]

Re: Where has my KDE desktop gone??

Happened to me too,
On the login screen, click on the drop-down menu for sesions and choose KDE.

[rloc]

Re: Where has my KDE desktop gone??

Thanks guys - I have since awarded myself a PhD for missing the bloody obvious...

[GreyGeek]

Re: Where has my KDE desktop gone??

Post hole Digger?

[ken78724]

Re: Where has my KDE desktop gone??

don't see enough details here but to come by them, check for critical incidence info found under System > Administration > log review file.

You may decide it's critical if your running an upgraded OS and find an xorg fatal error crash report. These do not go flashing at you. My exp is that they crop up if you walk away from your PC and then you come back to a gray or black monitor and you may or may not get to limp in and shut down. Am able to run now but still doing work arounds ... Happened after installing linux-preempt and linux-headers-preempt via upgrade manager but having some kind of incompatibility issue.

It appears there are few who run kubuntu teamed with Ubuntu Studio. That is why I joined this forum. I see only 3 or 4 mentions of doing the same.

[Snowhog]

Re: Where has my KDE desktop gone??

On the login screen, click on the drop-down menu for sesions and choose KDE.

This was the "reason" and the "answer" to rloc's OP, and why he said he "awarded myself a PhD for missing the bloody obvious..." So yes, there are "enough details here."