On Saturday 20 December 2008 01:13:45 Jerry Houston wrote:
I was getting along fine with KDE4 on openSuSE 11.0, but when I updated to 11.1 on my laptop today, everything went to hell. At logon, it started 4 or 5 applications that had been running in a previous session, but without any caption bars. So no way to move them or close them.
Sounds like kwin crashed. If this happens, try switching to a text console, login as the same user and do "DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/icewm"; then switch back to your desktop and do "kwin --replace" in a konsole. It's not advisable to restart kwin outside your desktop session because the newly started instance is not connected to session DBus, so it then doesn't get global shortcuts like alt-tab. The intermediate icewm gives you enough control over the desktop to focus a konsole. If you could then include any kwin references from ~/.xsession-errors or backtraces and report this as a bug against "KDE 4 Workspace" I'm sure our KWin developer will be very grateful.
Instead of the 8 desktops I had configured, it put everything on one, and a full-screen instance of Konqueror covered up all but the bottom few pixels of the panel at the bottom. While poking around there, trying to fix things, I somehow managed to close that panel (with the menu, etc.), and don't know how to get it back.
Right click on the desktop and Add Panel.
This appears to be a per-user issue, because I can log on as root, with a KDE4 session, and everything is fine. It all looks as it should.
What I'd really like to do is somehow delete my whole KDE4 configuration, and start over again with defaults. Does anyone here know how to do that?
mv ~/.kde4 ~/.kde4-not. HTH Will -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org