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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 |
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> was, until I logged on. I got the splash screen, a bouncing ball as |
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> something started and then a black screen relieved only by a cursor |
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> and a couple of apps in the autostart list. kwin-x11, plasmashell, |
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> ksmserver are all running, it seems like something got omitted in the |
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> install. Does anyone know which binary starts the window manager and |
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> taskbar, etc? I did the usual things like create a new user, rename |
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> .kde4, to no avail. |
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> I have already posted on the Gentoo forums but didn't get much help. |
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> You can see the post with the sddm log here: |
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> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1057060.html. Hopefully the vast |
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> intellects of the Gentoo list will have an idea! My current workaround |
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> is to install lxqt as the desktop; it works pretty well, if a bit |
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> Cheers |
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> Robin |
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> Robin Atwood. |
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When I did my upgrade a long time ago, I had a similar issue. There is |
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a menu to select which part of KDE you want to login to. I can't recall |
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the names or even which one is the correct one for sure but think it is |
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the one with plasma in it. I think the default is some other one which |
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didn't work for me at least, wayland comes to mind for some reason. |
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Anyway, on the login screen, check that drop down and try a different |
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one. It may not be the problem but at least it would eliminate it. On |
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mine, it is in the upper left but yours could be different. It's the |
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same place you would select Gnome or some other desktop if you have them |
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installed. |
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May not help but worth a try I guess. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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