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On Saturday, 7 January 2017 22:03:53 GMT Robin Atwood wrote: |
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> I finally grasped the nettle and did the Plasma 5 upgrade. The first |
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> machine went OK eventually (apart from the week spent resolving |
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> blockers), so I thought the second would be much smoother. And so it was, |
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> until I logged on. I got the splash screen, a bouncing ball as something |
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> started and then a black screen relieved only by a cursor and a couple of |
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> apps in the autostart list. kwin-x11, plasmashell, ksmserver are all |
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> running, it seems like something got omitted in the install. Does anyone |
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> know which binary starts the window manager and taskbar, etc? I did the |
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> usual things like create a new user, rename .kde4, to no avail. |
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While you were sorting out the blockers, did you make USE changes? The |
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problem may lie there somewhere. What does 'emerge -pe world' give you? Any |
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errors? |
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Although I'm still wrestling with KMail, I had no trouble with KDE itself. |
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Well, apart from being unable to right-click on the desktop to change the |
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behaviour of the mouse wheel, which infuriates me when the pointer strays |
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outside the window I'm concentrating on. But I gave up trying to sort out |
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the blockers you mention and built a new system; it may still be worth you |
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considering that. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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