Bug#240259: KSysGuard is blank

[Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese@student.kuleuven.ac.be>]

Martin Tsachev writes:

> On Friday 26 March 2004 5:33 pm, Dominique Devriese wrote:
>> package kicker tags 240259 +moreinfo, unreproducible severity
>> 240259 normal thanks
>>
>> Martin Tsachev writes:
>> > Package: kicker Version: 4:3.2.1-1 Severity: minor
>> >
>> > KSysGuard stopped working in 3.2.
>>
>> It still works for me, can you please provide a better description
>> of exactly what doesn't work, what you tried, etc. ?

> Well I checked all other applets like Klipper, clock, keyboard
> layout, the runaway process catcher, the new kmail tray. Everything
> shows correctly but the KSysGuard is just empty.

> I tried running some of the applets with appletproxy but that didn't
> work and I couldn't find a way to start an applet with some kind of
> debug info.

> If that matters after upgrading from 3.1 I couldn't start KDE in the
> normal way, X just dumped me into multi gnome terminal and I had to
> type

> kdesktop & kicker & kwin &

Oh, then this is of course your problem, you haven't started kded or
some other necessary service ( I'm not sure ).  Anyway, what you
should do is ( if you're running kdm ), just select menu->session
type->kde3, before you login.  Let me know if this fixes your
problem.

thanks
domi