James Richards wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently installed Mandrake-Linux 6.0. It installed fine and I was
> [foolishly] playing with the
> themes for KDE running as root [wasn't thinking on that one]. I was
> switching through themes when suddenly my desktop blanked out and
> locked. I was able to shutdown and bring the machine back up, however
> whenever I logged back on to KDE, the desktop would appear, but as soon
> as I tried to open up any window [say open a terminal window], the
> screen would freeze again. I thought that maybe my desktop was to
> blame, so I removed the Desktop directory from root's home
> directory...since then I am unable to run KDE at all. Whenever I try to
> log back in to the KDE GUI as root, the screen blanks out and just sits
> there. I tried the same thing as a local user and after switching
> through a few themes, reproduced the same problem. However, when I try
> to log in to a KDE desktop as a local user, the login process starts
> then I am kicked back to a the main login screen.
>
> Has anyone seen a similar occurrence with Mandrake 6.0?
>
> I tried to verify all of the KDE RPMs using GnoRPM utility from
> GNOME [which doesn't seem to have this
> problem], but I couldn't see any obvious problems [I just went through
> and verified all of the rpms].
>
> James Richards
Hello,
You too!! I was in my user account and was playing with themes. I assigned
one particular theme, I can't be sure but I think it was the desert them.
Immediately after this change or as near as I can remember. I have the same
problem that you have had. Just kicks me out to X login prompt. In gnome
I have tried checking the mouse settings under Kpanel still no go. Please
cc me if you receive a fix.
Thanks,
Terence Golightly
Just another newbie
