try $ aptitude install plasma-desktop
and see if the panel comes back. additionally, backup you ~/.kde folder and remove it to make sure whether this problem was caused by broken config files. Tao On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Martin Ågren <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > After a recent upgrade of squeeze -- but I have also been removing > some packages since my last working reboot -- I no longer have a > usable installation of kde. I get a very basic plasma desktop with the > calculator and dictionary (as configured by me) apart from the > "Desktop Folder". No window decorations on the "Desktop Folder", no > taskbar, no anything. Just a white background and these three windows. > > Some applications, notably Amarok and the network manager, seem to > start but they do not show anywhere (as the taskbar is indeed gone). > Going Alt+F2 -> "System Activity" and right-clicking e.g., amarok and > selecting "Show Application Window" doesn't do anything. (I admit I > don't know if it's supposed to. :) ) > > By pressing Meta+O, I can trigger Amarok's On-Screen Display, but > similarly, Meta+K does not start an instance of Konsole, as I have it > configured to. > > I have moved my ~/.kde/ aside and logged in, but it basically just > leads to the same non-usable situation (of course, with default > appearances, e.g., no calculator+dictionary configuration). I have > tried installing kde-full, thinking that there might be some missing > dependency, but that didn't improve anything as far as I could see. > plasma-desktop is running and killing it makes everything pure > black... > > I would really appreciate any pointers as to what could be the > problem. I don't really know which information to provide in order to > bring more light on this, and would be glad to provide anything deemed > interesting. > > Take care, > Martin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
