Hello, built the FreeBSD system with KDE ran it and everything was fine. Then I installed a variety of ports, mostly successful (e.g. Thunderbird, Firefox (Konqueror would crash a lot)). The next time I started KDE I got a bubble screen, then a rectangle with a disk drive, tools, a globe, desktop(?) icon, KDE icon in a small rectangle, and then just a blank screen, nothing else.
The only thing I can do is Alt-F2 which allows me to run applications like Thunderbird, Firefox, terminal, etc., and Ctrl-Alt-Del which allows me to logout. Can not find error messages anywhere. Was even able to install GIMP in this situation. I do have a plasma-desktop.core file... (I can see how to install plasma widgets, but not re/install plasma) Among the particularities afflicting me are: 1) If I try to launch a terminal window after alt-F2 it works roughly half the time (when it fails, terminal window appears and then disappears) 2) If I copy something (a link) and then try to use alt-tab to go to Firefox, both Firefox and Thunderbird go beserk, as if I were holding down the tab key. I'd be perfectly happy to do a complete re-install of KDE except don-t know how. sysintall doesn't do that kind of thing, ports do nothing, and recompiling from code requires 22 downloads the way I see it, so I;m discouraged... TIA Bernard Higonnet _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
