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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2017 16:44:05
Message-Id: D21B8D1D-5410-40F3-BB54-382D1AEA6740@antarean.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop by Robin Atwood
1 On January 7, 2017 4:36:58 PM GMT+01:00, Robin Atwood <robin@×××××.org> wrote:
2 >On Saturday 07 January 2017, Dale wrote:
3 >> When I did my upgrade a long time ago, I had a similar issue. There
4 >is
5 >> a menu to select which part of KDE you want to login to. I can't
6 >recall
7 >> the names or even which one is the correct one for sure but think it
8 >is
9 >> the one with plasma in it. I think the default is some other one
10 >which
11 >> didn't work for me at least, wayland comes to mind for some reason.
12 >> Anyway, on the login screen, check that drop down and try a different
13 >> one. It may not be the problem but at least it would eliminate it.
14 >On
15 >> mine, it is in the upper left but yours could be different. It's the
16 >> same place you would select Gnome or some other desktop if you have
17 >them
18 >> installed.
19 >>
20 >> May not help but worth a try I guess. ;-)
21 >>
22 >> Dale
23 >>
24 >> :-) :-)
25 >
26 >Thanks, Dale, but I have tried all the session settings. Plasma is the
27 >one for
28 >standard KDE5 and that's the one that gets the black desktop.
29 >
30 >Robin
31
32 Did you install plasma-meta?
33 Or did you specify some yourself?
34
35 Also. Did you select the plasma desktop profile?
36
37 If either or both of these are answered with 'no', the bit you are missing might just be in there somewhere.
38
39 --
40 Joost
41 --
42 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop Robin Atwood <robin@×××××.org>