Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 06:57:16PM +0700, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2017, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > Try to login as a new user (or move your home directory out of the > > way). If it works start selectively deleting dot files/directories > > from your home directory. Start

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

On Sunday 08 January 2017, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > Try to login as a new user (or move your home directory out of the > way). If it works start selectively deleting dot files/directories > from your home directory. Start with .cache, .kde4 and everything that > starts with a k in .config and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

On 01/08/2017 07:00 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2017, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Saturday, 7 January 2017 22:03:53 GMT Robin Atwood wrote: > >>> I finally grasped the nettle and did the Plasma 5 upgrade. The >>> first > >>> machine went OK eventually (apart from the week

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

On Sunday 08 January 2017, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 7 January 2017 22:03:53 GMT 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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

On Saturday 07 January 2017, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Did you install plasma-meta? > Or did you specify some yourself? > > Also. Did you select the plasma desktop profile? > > If either or both of these are answered with 'no', the bit you are missing > might just be in there somewhere. I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

On Saturday, 7 January 2017 22:03:53 GMT 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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

170107 Robin Atwood wrote: > I have tried all the session settings. Plasma is the one > for standard KDE5 and that's the one that gets the black desktop. I had no problem when I did the similar upgrade a few months ago. I've always booted into a raw terminal, logged in & then 'startx'. My

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

On January 7, 2017 4:36:58 PM GMT+01:00, Robin Atwood wrote: >On Saturday 07 January 2017, Dale wrote: >> 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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

On 01/07/2017 07:03 AM, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

On Saturday 07 January 2017, Dale wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

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

[gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

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