Ok, I've got the 'rkrusty' line in my sources.list... earlier last week I do an 'update' in dselect 'cause I'm looking for something else and I suddenly get a bunch of packages selected.... looks like there was a change from KDE 1.1.1 to 2.1.1 sometime since the last time I updated (yeah, I don't do it _that_ often)
when I first tried running startx after that I suddenly had no window manager... ick... I installed fvwm just to have _something_ and while that's running I can select 'kde' from the window manager menu option, but the next time I use xwindows I get fvwm again... so various things I tried.... tried using dpkg to reinstall the old kdebase... run startx, get a blank screen (well, blank fuzzy screen, that grey 'I'm gonna put something on the screen as soon as I figure out what... oh... I don't know what' that x window sometimes does) put the 'new' kdebase back... tried pointing etc/alternatives/x-window-manager to /usr/bin/kwin ok now I get kdesktop, a lovely blue.... but nothing else.... no menus, I click I get no menus... hrm installed kdm... I hate my computer automatically going into xwindows but hey, for now it would be a start.... ok... brings up the login... I login... and.... I get the kdesktop but again no 'desktop' just pretty blue shading hrm.... ok, kill the manager and it pops the login up again.... this time I go in as failsafe, run startkde from the bash console... get some "I'm not happy this isn't how you do it" messages (more details if interested :) from the console but kwin starts up... hmmm, ok, something's definitely.... missing... or still sprocked..... any suggestions on where to continue looking? Relevant FAQ's? Manuals? email addresses? or should I just comment out the rkrusty line, move the old kde .debs to a directory somewhere, put that in my sources.list and see if I can talk dselect into putting things back the way they were? anyways.... any suggestions or pointers to FM's to R would be appreciated :)Alice M. Pinard Casco Indemnity Company [EMAIL PROTECTED]
