Re: Desktop disappears, everything else works

[Thibaut Cousin <cousin@in2p3.fr>]

Le Vendredi 23 Février 2001 16:30, Robert Guthrie a écrit :
> On Friday 23 February 2001 09:05, Thibaut Cousin wrote:
> > Did you choose "kde2" in the kdm menu ? If "default" is selected,
> > what you describe is normal, I think (something about launching a
> > session manager vs launching a window manager).
>
> I just tried that, no dice.  Good thought though, but I don't think
> my kde taskbar would start in that case.  This is more like the
> desktop is not working, but the rest of the kde environment is.
>
> Very strange here.
>
> I've also done "apt-get remove kdelibs", redirected all the package
> names that got removed to a file, and then "apt-get install `cat
> removed.packages`.  No difference.

  Personaly, I would do a purge instead of a simple removal. Moreover, I had 
similar problems which were solved by destroying all kde-related folders in 
/tmp and the .kde folder in the user's home. Try any of these...
 
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