Robin Atwood wrote: > > I finally grasped the nettle and did the Plasma 5 upgrade. The first > machine went OK eventually (apart from the week spent resolving > blockers), so I thought the second would be much smoother. And so it > was, until I logged on. I got the splash screen, a bouncing ball as > something started and then a black screen relieved only by a cursor > and a couple of apps in the autostart list. kwin-x11, plasmashell, > ksmserver are all running, it seems like something got omitted in the > install. Does anyone know which binary starts the window manager and > taskbar, etc? I did the usual things like create a new user, rename > .kde4, to no avail. > > > > I have already posted on the Gentoo forums but didn't get much help. > You can see the post with the sddm log here: > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1057060.html. Hopefully the vast > intellects of the Gentoo list will have an idea! My current workaround > is to install lxqt as the desktop; it works pretty well, if a bit > rough around the edges. > > > > Cheers > > Robin > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Robin Atwood. > > > > "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, > > Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" > > from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is > believed to be clean.
When I did my upgrade a long time ago, I had a similar issue. There is a menu to select which part of KDE you want to login to. I can't recall the names or even which one is the correct one for sure but think it is the one with plasma in it. I think the default is some other one which didn't work for me at least, wayland comes to mind for some reason. Anyway, on the login screen, check that drop down and try a different one. It may not be the problem but at least it would eliminate it. On mine, it is in the upper left but yours could be different. It's the same place you would select Gnome or some other desktop if you have them installed. May not help but worth a try I guess. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
