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Nyanzaburou

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Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 2

Option of KDE/Openbox in kdm unavailable

I realize there is a desktop environments section, but I figure that I'd fit in here better, seeing that I installed Arch yesterday. 

Just in case anyone wants to link me the wiki, that's what I followed to get to this point. 

So basically, when I boot up in kdm, the options for KDE and Openbox are both there, and I can login (the term eludes me) to each of them, and they work and whatever.  However, KDE/Openbox is just not there.  I have also tried changing the ~/.xinitrc file to exec openbox-kde-session and "xinit /usr/bin/openbox-kde-session", but (as far as I know) it merely boots into KDE. 

I may be wrong about openbox-kde-session and am just not noticing anything different between openbox-kde-session and kde, but there really seems to be no difference.

How do I resolve this?

fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: Option of KDE/Openbox in kdm unavailable

in systemsettings>default applications, you can select which window manager you would like to use.

Nyanzaburou

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Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 2

Re: Option of KDE/Openbox in kdm unavailable

Ah, ok.  That would make sense, since I don't plan on using KDE's default window manager anyway.  Thanks.