On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:18:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Attempted to install a full kde setup today but landed in the soup once > it was done.
I suppose you installed the right pattern for you current running Debian system, right? That is, kde-full for "squeeze" if you are running squeeze, kde-full for wheezy, if you are running wheezy, etc... > I just get a black screen with a terminal emulator running, no menus are > available with mouse clicks or anywhere on the screen in terms of an > icon. Just the terminal. Any apps I open are slapped up into the top > left corner where the title bar becomes inaccessible. If I open > anything else it covers the previous app, then I have two with the one > under inaccessible. Can't even be raised back to top. You mean you were not able to login with your user account (no desktop at all, just the command line)? > So it clear enough something or things are boogered up. It is still unclear to me at what stage you find right now, so: 1/ If you are left into a tty and no GUI login is possible, try to launch "startx" and see what happens. 2/ If you can login with your usual account but things are completely messed up, try to create a fresh new user and login with it. > I want to report what has happened and maybe get a leg up on fixing > things back up. (...) I would also post into Debian KDE mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/ But provide detailed steps for your actions so that people can give you accurate indications. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.10.09.14.24...@gmail.com
