Dear Will, Thanks for responding. I tried what you said but the user already had a .dmrc file with the exact contents you described! I'll keep thinking about it! Cheers, Kevin On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Will Esselink wrote: > I would also like to say thank you for the kde3 version of Kubuntu. Last > year we migrated 1000 workstations to Linux in our elementary schools and > all of our recently created screenshots and documentation are all using > kde3 and we did not want to rework at this time. In addition we have many > users who are resistant to change ;-) > > > I have experienced the same problem Kevin has at our site as well. When the > user first logs on both kde3 and kde4 > > We are using DRBL fat clients at our site rather that LTSP but I am not > sure the problem is related to LTSP. I have a standalone test machine that > has the same behaviour. > > A temporary solution is to logout (using the kde3 menu because the kde4 > kmenu doesn't seen to respond) Then at the kdm screen select kde session > from the drop down list. The next login should be kde3 only. Another thing > you can do is create a file called .dmrc and put this the users home > directory with the following two lines: > > [Desktop] > Session=kde3 > > > > --Will Esselink > School District 33 > Chilliwack, BC > Canada > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Kevin Colyer <kevin@...> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > Thanks for making KDE3 available for Kubuntu users. I have been running > > an LTSP network with KDE3 for several happy users. Anyway as I was > > restricted to > > running Hardy I have taken the plunge and now have Jaunty with KDE3 and > > KDE installed. (I have decided 4.3 is OK for me) > > > > So I have the LTSP terminals working OK. But when I boot them into KDE3 > > Plasma > > starts too, as well as a number of duplicated KDE 4 services (or because > > of probably). > > > > I added: > > export KDEDIRS=/opt/kde3/:/usr/ > > export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/kde3/share/:/usr/share/ > > > > to /opt/kde3/bin/startkde but that makes no difference. > > > > KDE4 performance is poor on LTSP so I can't migrate the users. I call > > kill off > > the KDE4 processes and will train users to do this. > > > > Any ideas how I can stop KDE4 processes starting? Where are they being > > started > > from? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Kevin > > > > -- > > Kevin Colyer > > YWAM National Director (interim) > > YWAM Brussels Team leader/Responsable de JEM Bruxelles > > > > Avenue Des Celtes, 19 > > 1040 Bruxelles > > Belgium > > > > Tel: +32 (0) 2 736 33 63 > > Fax: +32 (0) 2 738 02 40 > > GSM: +32 (0) 484 683 003 > > GSM: +44 (0) 7967 105 273 (only outside Belgium) > > http://www.ywambrussels.be > > skype: kevincolyerwork -- Kevin Colyer YWAM National Director (interim) YWAM Brussels Team leader/Responsable de JEM Bruxelles Avenue Des Celtes, 19 1040 Bruxelles Belgium Tel: +32 (0) 2 736 33 63 Fax: +32 (0) 2 738 02 40 GSM: +32 (0) 484 683 003 GSM: +44 (0) 7967 105 273 (only outside Belgium) http://www.ywambrussels.be skype: kevincolyerwork