On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:36:45PM -0800, Carl Nelson wrote: > I appreciate your advice ... > I had not tired: rm -rf ~/.kde* > But when I did and restarted the 'Kpersonalizer' window came up blank and > hung. > After I CTL-ALT-BackSpace'd and logged-in again, the interface is in worse > shape than before. > A minimal desktop top, desktop menus work, but this time with a completely > blank 'kicker' and apps hang in about 20-seconds of mousing around.
That's the exact behavior I got when I tried KDE 3.1rc2 on my dual-head machine (Radeon VE). Everything's just kinda frozen... When I comment out the "Option Xinerama" line in my XF86Config-4 KDE starts just fine. Of course, then my screens are separate and I can't drag windows between them, but at least KDE works right. If I had to guess I'd say KDE wasn't built with all the Xinerama stuff turned on correctly. Either that or there's a big upstream bug with Xinerama. > When I tar -xzvf kdesettings.tgz the settings, the interface does not go > back to where things were before, it remains broken > At this point is KDE to messed up to recover? > Can apt-get or dpkg help out here to get back to KDE2? If you're using Debian packages for KDE3.x you probably added a line to your /etc/apt/sources.list to bring them in. If so, just remove that line, fire up dselect (yes, dselect - sometimes a package picker is nice, no matter how awful it is to use), update, then remove all the KDE3 packages (which should now be listed as "Obsolete/local packages". Then install KDE2 or gnome. That's worked for me in the past. If you can remove all the KDE3 packages you won't need to reformat and reinstall. -- Mike Shuey
