On Sunday 17 November 2002 05:24 am, Michael Shuey wrote: Thanks for the advice on using dselect, I'm still learning about APT. After many hours of unloading and reloading KDE3.x I whimpped out and reloaded everything. It was a very fresh machine and it was easy to do. It never occured to me to turn off Xinerama I was a bit focused on getting it to run dual head. I'll give it a try.
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:36:45PM -0800, Carl Nelson wrote: > > 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. > > That's the exact behavior I got when I tried KDE 3.1rc2 on my dual-head > machine (Radeon VE). Everything's just kinda frozen... > > When I comment out the "Option Xinerama" line in my XF86Config-4 KDE > starts just fine. Of course, then my screens are separate and I can't > drag windows between them, but at least KDE works right. > > If I had to guess I'd say KDE wasn't built with all the Xinerama stuff > turned on correctly. Either that or there's a big upstream bug with > Xinerama. > > > 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? > > If you're using Debian packages for KDE3.x you probably added a line to > your /etc/apt/sources.list to bring them in. If so, just remove that > line, fire up dselect (yes, dselect - sometimes a package picker is > nice, no matter how awful it is to use), update, then remove all the > KDE3 packages (which should now be listed as "Obsolete/local packages". > Then install KDE2 or gnome. That's worked for me in the past. > > If you can remove all the KDE3 packages you won't need to reformat and > reinstall.
