Re: window manager crash

[Rainer Dorsch <ml@bokomoko.de>]

Am Dienstag, 4. August 2020, 15:25:16 CEST schrieb Thom Castermans:
> Hi Rainer,
> 
> It sounds to me like it might be kwin that crashed, rather than
> Plasma. You can restart that with `DISPLAY=:0 kwin --replace` from any
> VTT.
> 
> > I can start new apps using the (former) K-menu,
> 
> If you mean the Application Launcher, then that means you can run
> commands from there too. Either Luca's suggestions or `kwin --replace`
> (does not need the DISPLAY) hopefully work for you.

Many thanks. The situation re-occured and I 

DISPLAY=:1 kwin --replace

worked (it was the second session not the first one).

But then the next issue I hit was:

"Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation."

Any idea how to recover from this would be welcome.

Thanks
Rainer


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