Too minimal GUI problem

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 09:26, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Yesterday I did a "halt" command as root in a Konsole under KDE. As it
> proceeded I wondered if that was a good idea. I heard the hard drive
> power down, indicating the halt operation was done but the screen still
> had the blank desktop and mouse pointer on it. To late to do anything
> about it, I shut off the box.
>
> Now this morning I ran "startx" as usual from the shell. My GUI is now a
> completely blank desktop (no icons, no menu, nothing) and a mouse cursor
> that I can move around. That's it. I can do a Ctl-Alt-F2 and get to
> another shell login and then Ctl-Alt-F7 back to the blank desktop. But, a
> blank desktop is too mininmal of a GUI to be useful.
>
> How do I restore the GUI settings to get my environment back? Any ideas?
>
> It is a basic Red Hat 7.3 and KDE install.
>
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I'm not an xfree wizard by any stretch...

why not just... control-alt-shift-backspace to kill x

log in as different user and see if you get KDE

in your home directory, you should have something like this...

# cat .Xclients-default
# Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher
exec startkde

Craig