On 02/21/2011 01:57 PM, Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > I really have an odd feeling about the changing display id, but I do not know > what causes it. > > gdm: uninstall gdm and reinstall kdm-trinity, that should do the trick. well, as soon as I did apt-get gdm remove X went away.. I removed & reinstalled kdm-trinity. tried startx and got my XFCE desktop screen, no login window. so I reinstalled gdm, ran startx & got my GDM login screen... back to a trinity session for my wife & gnome for me, running under GDM. I guess I don't know how to start kdm-trinity.. -- Paul Cartwright