On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 04:55:19PM -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > I used aptitude to select any packages that looked like they might be > part of kde, and remove any packages that looked like they might be > part of the guts of gnome. The result is a mess. I appear to be > running kdm (according to ps), but the result has the look and feel of > nothing much. If it's kde, it's sure changed - a lot. > > I'm not sure whether the problem is that I'm missing a few pieces of > kde, still have gnome bits running that shouldn't be, or simply that > the various package installation scripts emphatically failed to do the > right thing. At this point, the system is only usable if I bypass X > entirely - there's no way to get a shell window inside X. There's also > no control center, or any of the other things that ought to be on the > icon/menu bar that normally loves at the bottom of the screen. > > Any suggestions for how to fix this mess? At the moment, the best > thing I can think of would be to reinstall, with tasksel/kde-desktop. > I'd prefer something a little less drastic.
Since I don't use either kde or gnome I can't help you there. However, less drastic than a total reinstall would be to use aptitude: find the gnome task and look at all the dependancies (and dependancies of dependancies) and remove anything that is not required by xorg (to get just the basic X system. Then find the KDE task and select this. Aptitude should sort it out. Good luck. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
