Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

[Robin Atwood]

On Sunday 08 January 2017, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 January 2017 22:03:53 GMT Robin Atwood wrote:
> > I finally grasped the nettle and did the Plasma 5 upgrade. The first
> > machine went OK eventually (apart from the week spent resolving
> > blockers), so I thought the second would be much smoother. And so it was,
> > until I logged on. I got the splash screen, a bouncing ball as something
> > started and then a black screen relieved only by a cursor and a couple of
> > apps in the autostart list. kwin-x11, plasmashell, ksmserver are all
> > running, it seems like something got omitted in the install. Does anyone
> > know which binary starts the window manager and taskbar, etc? I did the
> > usual things like create a new user, rename .kde4, to no avail.
>
> While you were sorting out the blockers, did you make USE changes? The
> problem may lie there somewhere. What does 'emerge -pe world' give you? Any
> errors?
>
> Although I'm still wrestling with KMail, I had no trouble with KDE itself.
> Well, apart from being unable to right-click on the desktop to change the
> behaviour of the mouse wheel, which infuriates me when the pointer strays
> outside the window I'm concentrating on. But I gave up trying to sort out
> the blockers you mention and built a new system; it may still be worth you
> considering that.

I only removed the qt4 flag. Emerge -pw world just wants to replace a lot of 
packages - no errors.

Thanks
Robin
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