tlug: icq, silly me

[Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>]

I got the bright idea to try some icq clients last night. 
I started getting some kde/gnome conflict problems 
when using gtkicq on kde; the gnome panel appeared and 
I got core dumps, etc. In hopes that I might be able to 
disengage gnome and lose the gnome panel in kde, I deleted 
.gnome/ files and icq related files at the console. not sure 
what I did wrong, but X won't run now. I found that it will 
run from another user (laszlo2) so it is something limited 
to "laszlo", my usual user directory. looking at the error 
messages, I see that both laszlo and laszlo2 generate 
the "couldn't open /var/tmp/server-0-xkm" xkbcomp error 
which seems to affect some redhat and TL users (maybe 
I've always had this happening, though; not sure). 

the laszlo user then fails with the following. (this doesn't 
happen with laszlo2).  

any ideas of how I can remedy this and get on with my life?
Thanks!

 
/etc/X11/xdm/xdmbg.gif is a 360x108 GIF image with 16 colors
  Building XImage...done
xmodmap:  up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x6d)
mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x71)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3      
mod4      
mod5      

 


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