> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2019 at 8:06 PM > From: "Pierre Labastie via blfs-support" > <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: "Pierre Labastie" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] KDE Plasma blank screen with cursor > > On 05/06/2019 08:19, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The title about sums up what happens when I attempt to get KDE to work. > > There are a number of people with this issue, but to date I have not found > > ANY that solve the issue. I have deleted the .cache .local etc files and > > once sddm has finished starting up, I get dumped to the black screen, > > > > It is not anything to do with sddm, as I can successfully boot into gnome > > without any issues. > > > > I have even gone so far as to reinstall all of kde, apart from the > > applications. > > > > Does anyone know of a way of getting this to work, or should I just have > > not bothered, and do rm -rf /opt/sources/kf5 and be done with it? > > > > I know it's not very helpful to write "works for me", but using startx with > .xinitrc as in the book, I get a working KDE (well just tested the menus and > Konsole). ISTR that we dropped sddm from the book because it was not playing > well with DEs in /opt. You have Gnome in /usr, haven't you? > > Note that I am unable to open a plasma session, either from lxdm or from > lightdm, with the configuration in the SVN book. But I do not get a blank > screen, it just returns to the greeter. We might have to look at that... > > Pierre > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
Hello Pierre, Yes its the old problem that the display manager developers never get around to solving. KDE is certainly installed in opt, and gnome is in /usr. I managed to get sddm to completely install and run from within the /opt/sources/kf5 directory, and it can indeed correctly start gnome. I did a final test, and by adding the details to startx .initrc, was able to successfully boot into a plasma desktop. I think that even gdm will not open KDE successfully either. It was the same when I went through the process of trying to install gnome into /opt and gdm would not start it no matter what either I or Armin tried. Not even using gnomes own build tool did it ever work. It seems that it may well be a case of no solution ever being found to have a display manager and boot from /opt the desktop of choice. Its a minor inconvenience, but at least I can now try the latest KDE. This is my first install of it, since they changed to frameworks. I wanted the bugs to be worked out of it for a few years first. Had enough of alpha software in the short period a number of years ago that I used windows. Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
