Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 at 10:37 PM From: "Bruce Dubbs" <bruce.du...@gmail.com> To: "BLFS Support List" <blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Plasma starts with black screen Cliff McDiarmid wrote: > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 at 3:26 PM > From: "Edgar Alwers" <edgaralw...@gmx.de> > To: blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Plasma starts with black screen > > Am 16.09.2016 um 11:00 schrieb Cliff McDiarmid: >> Thanks for that Ken, will try it, but me thinks it goes a bit deeper. >> I have built now two times Framework and Plasma, with the results that >> after the initial starting procedure a black plasma screen shows up, >> with a functioning cursor, and nothing more happens. There are several >> similar cases mentioned in Google, with some hints like to cancel >> ~/.config and ~.cache, evtl also .kde and .local. None of this recepts >> helped. Also not the one mentioned by Ken, to change in kwinrc >> Enabled=true to false. > > Tried this but not the answer. For Intel cards only?
>Works OK with Nvidia. Yes I'm using Nvidia, but still get the black screen >Try creating a new user where the only file in the home directory is >.xinitrc. That should rule out issues with earlier versions of kde or >plasma attempts. I've been using a new user from the very beginning of testing booting only with .xinitrc EACH time. So it's not a .config .cache .kde .local. problem. >> I gave it up, to try to start plasma ( the building process went without >> problems ). But I think, I can leave without it: I built the Xfce >> Desktop and Xfce is working smooth and without problems, is fast and >> uses not much resurces. I can recommend this solution. >My preferred DE is xfce. However I do like some kf5 based apps. They >work fine. I may go this route. Going to build again with NM and plasma-nm for the moment. >> At least according to my experiences, Plasma ist not yet ready for non >> distributors. KDE-Framework works with Xfce, Many utilities have not yet >> been ported ( e.g. KMyMoney, Digikam are on the way but not ready, kuser >> has not been ported etc.) >This is true. I just re-added k3b to the -dev book, but I had to go to >the git version to get it to work. Thanks to all Cliff -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
