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astor84
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 Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:06 pm Post subject: kde-4.4.5: no widgets/background [RESOLVED] |
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I updated my laptop from KDE-3.5.10 to KDE-4.4.5 today (finally).
Launching KDM (via /etc/init.d/xdm) works fine. I am able to input my credentials and log in, at which point I see the splash screen. Once the splash screen disappears, however, all I can see is my mouse cursor and a black background.
I assume this has something to do with plasma not launching correctly?
I am able to press alt+f2 and run programs that way, but obviously it's quite a degraded desktop experience.
I saw some errors in .xsession-errors about DBus, so I added the policykit use flag for HAL, which suppressed those errors but didn't have any other visible effect.
Of course, I have tried fully removing all .kde* directories with X stopped (no effect).
Any ideas?
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gerdesj
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:13 am Post subject: Re: kde-4.4.5: Plasma fails to launch? (no widgets/backgroun |
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revdep-rebuild?
Did you follow the guide in Docs?
Cheers
Jon |
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astor84
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:30 pm Post subject: Re: kde-4.4.5:(no widgets/background) [RESOLVED] |
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| gerdesj wrote: | revdep-rebuild?
Did you follow the guide in Docs?
Cheers
Jon |
Yeah, I did revdep-rebuild ... no dice.
I just upgraded to gentoo-sources-2.6.37 and now it works, so perhaps it was a GPU bug in 2.6.35-r1.
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toralf
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Sometimes Alt+Shift+F12 helps too. |
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astor84
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| toralf wrote: | | Sometimes Alt+Shift+F12 helps too. |
What does that do? |
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toralf
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| Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| astor84 wrote: | | toralf wrote: | | Sometimes Alt+Shift+F12 helps too. |
What does that do? |
It deactivates (restart ) composition manager. |
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