Re: kde 3.2 upgrade problem

[Klaus Holler <kho4l@gmx.at>]

Hi Paul, 

On Saturday 06 March 2004 20:56, Paul Winkler wrote:
> This morning I performed a dist-upgrade going from 3.1.4 to 3.2,
> (in sid).  I then noticed kde did not start from kdm but rather
> dumped me into twm.  This I now know is simply due to kdm not
> defaulting to kde startup.  Later while exploring 3.2 I attempted
> to delete a set of icons in kcontrol and immediately lost all icons
> on the desktop, applications, and panel.  I tried a number of
> things including removing kde and reinstalling but to no avail. I
> did not purge the kde installation as I did not want to lose
> bookmarks, filter rules etc.
>
> Any thoughts on how to get my icons back would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I faced the same problem today. Installing gdm as window manager did 
the job for me - during the dpkg-configuration dialog I was able to 
choose between gdm and kdm as default window manager ...

Hope that helps,
Klaus

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