On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 18:55, Andrew Konosky wrote: > David Smith wrote: > > >On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 18:23, Andrew Konosky wrote: > > > > > >>I was installing some new graphical login screens, but on of them must > >>have been a bad download because now when I boot up, the login screen > >>gives me an error saying that the PNG image is bad. I press OK, but the > >>error doesn't go away and I can't logon graphically. I can log onto my > >>system via the command line, but I don't know what the commands are to > >>do anything. How do I reset the login screen to default via the command > >>line, or how to I launch Gnome or KDE from command line so I change go > >>back and change to my old login screen? > >> > >>Thanks, > >>Andrew > >> > >> > >Once you log in you could type startx and then change the login screen. > >David > > > > > > > > > > > > > I start my computer up, then the graphical log-in gves me the error, so > I press ctrl-alt-f5 to go to the shell prompt. When I type startx I get > an error that X is already running. So if X is already running, how do I > start gnome or KDE? Type init 3 (or /sbin/init 3) and then type startx. Once you change the login type exit the x environment and type init 5. It should be fixed then. David >
