Before you do anything drastic, I just ran into something very similar. However, I found that the middle mouse button still brought up a menu. I went from their to the control center (or maybe to configure desktop) and I fiddled around until I found the place that controlled the bar at the bottom (I think that's the kicker).
Eventually, the bar appeared on my desktop. I built KDE3 from sources, installed it in a non-standard location, and generally could have made lots of mistakes. But since we both saw this, maybe there's something wrong with the initial setup logic. I did get a nice little wizard when I first logged in asking me to set some options.... On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:36:45PM -0800, Carl Nelson wrote: > Thomas, > I appreciate your advice ... > I had not tired: rm -rf ~/.kde* > But when I did and restarted the 'Kpersonalizer' window came up blank and > hung. > After I CTL-ALT-BackSpace'd and logged-in again, the interface is in worse > shape than before. > A minimal desktop top, desktop menus work, but this time with a completely > blank 'kicker' and apps hang in about 20-seconds of mousing around. > > When I tar -xzvf kdesettings.tgz the settings, the interface does not go > back to where things were before, it remains broken > At this point is KDE to messed up to recover? > Can apt-get or dpkg help out here to get back to KDE2? > Sure feeling like it's - reformat, reinstall and hang tight with KDE2 or > gnome. > > ...Carl > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 2:30 PM > To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Problems with upgrading a fresh woody installtion to kde3 > > Am Samstag, 16. November 2002 22:30 schrieb Carl Nelson: > > In upgrading a fresh woody binary installation (the default 2.4 kernel > > installation) from the Debian 3.0 CD, the kicker panel is trashed. I no > > longer have access to the Applications/Start menu, desktop-pager, or > > windows. The only non-standard thing I am running is a matrox 450 dual > > head. > > Have you tried a clean ~/.kde dir? When it comes to importing config files > from another major KDE version, _some_ things work. I had to completely > reconfigure nearly everything from KDE1->KDE2 and from KDE2->KDE3. > > do a > tar cvfz ~/kdesettings.tgz ~/.kde* > to make all changes undoable and "rm -rf ~/.kde*" completely. Re-login and > see > if it works. You have a complete backup of everything you need to > reconfigure > your KDE. > If it really works, you may want to restore the .kde-directories and delete > things file for file, first the kicker settings, then maybe kwm settings... > > If it doesn't work, just restore your old .kde-directories and search for a > software solution. Look at the ML archive, there are plenty of KDE3-Versions > for debian, 3.0.5 is on the way at the moment, maybe something is broken > because of this. >
