On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:33:06 Wolfgang Bauer wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2016, 11:45:39 schrieb Raymond Wooninck:
On Thursday, 18 February 2016 21:06:55 CET Rodney Baker wrote:
Thanks Raymond, that's kind of what I was leaning towards. Not looking forward to it - the seemingly recursive dependencies seem difficult to resolve, but I'll give it a go. At worst, I can always reinstall, but I'd rather not lose all of my personal settings if I can help it.
A normal installation would put the home filesysetm on a separate partition on your disk. This would mean that even a new installation or a reinstallation would not have any effect on your home directory. (Unless you choose to format it, etc).
And you can also "upgrade" to the same openSUSE version by booting from the installation DVD and choosing "Upgrade" in the boot menu.
This will in practice only re-install all packages according to the installation patterns, and leave your system and user config alone.
Kind Regards, Wolfgang
Well, it seems I solved my original problem without going through the rigmarole of reinstalling. I checked the Desktop Effects settings and discovered that desktop effects were disabled and could not be enabled. In the Advanced tab under Desktop Effects, the Compositing type was set to OpenGL 3.1. I downgraded it to OpenGL 2.0 and everything started working again as before. So, I haven't managed to eradicate all traces of KF5, but at least my desktop functionality has been restored. Not sure how or when OpenGL 3.1 was enabled, or whether there are broken/conflicting libraries causing it to fail, or if this is somehow connected to the Nvidia binary driver (v361.18), but it is all working with OpenGL 2.0 so I'm happy for now. :) Thanks again for the input. Much appreciated. Rodney. -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org