Re: Trouble starting kde

[Jonathan Albrecht <albrecht at algorithmics dot com>]

You might try setting your window manager to X in multiple windows mode 
in the Xconfig -> Screen Definition -> Screen 0 tab. This should stop 
Exceed from starting a window manager automatically.

Hope it helps,

Jon

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:35:17PM -0700, LeCompte, Steven J wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>I am a Unix System Administrator and I recently installed Cygwin on my Win 2K box.  It's a Pentium III 650 laptop with 128 MB of RAM.  My problem is that I am unable to start kde.  When I try to run "startkde", the ipc-daemon starts and then after about a 20 second wait in which my CPU is pounded, I get the following:
>>
>>kpanel: waiting for windowmanager
>>kwm: it looks like there's already a window manager running.  kwm not started
>>
>>I log into my Unix boxes via Exceed so I use that as my X transport method.  For example, with my display properly set, I can bring up other X-based apps from a cygwin bash shell.
>>
>>Anyway, do you have any ideas as to how I can fix the kde problem?
>>
> 
> The first step would be to use the correct mailing list -- cygwin-xfree
> is set up for this type of question.  I've cc'ed this mailing list and
> redirected future replies there.
> 
> The second step might be to contact the KDE author directly about this.
> 
> cgf
> 
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