My X86 problem is a little different, when I want to use KDE and
select it using RH's desktop switcher, my system totally goes nuts.

  Here it is: RH 9, installed both Gnome and KDE. When I switch to KDE
the X server refuses to start, the error message that I get says that
the X server may still be running.

  I su to root, start up the X server --- no problem, Gnome comes up
nicely. I then go into my ~/home/user directory, delete 2 Xclients files
and, voila, when I log back in as the regular user, Gnome starts up ok.

  I installed all but 2 KDE packages on install, the ones I did not
install had to do with network switching.

  Any ideas what may be wrong? KDE? Probably something that I
overlooked.

  Thanks

  FrankM

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:29, Phil Mattison wrote:
> Here's a handy thing: just replace your .xinitrc with the following, and
> then you can type "startx KDE" or "startx gnome" whichever you feel like
> using.
>snip