Re: black screen and cursor, and nothing more

2018-08-18 Thread dep
Thanks, everybody. Of course, I asked the question and then a ton of other work arrived, so it will be the first of the week before I can dive into trying the various things suggested. I should note that when I log in to Plasma (from the Gnome-based Ubuntu login manager, which lists Gnome, Ubu

Re: black screen and cursor, and nothing more

2018-08-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/08/18 18:28, dep wrote: when i select plasma at the login screen, all seems to go well but for the appearance not of plasma but of a black screen with a mouse cursor. no clicking of either button produces anything, and the only escape is ant-f1, login, and rebooting from there. Just to chec

Re: black screen and cursor, and nothing more

2018-08-18 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Saturday August 18 2018 09:15:08 huw wrote: >I just press ctrl-alt-backspace twice to fix this...I think it restarts >the X server or something? Yes, that's the standard shortcut for killing the X11 server, effectively logging you off and falling back to the login screen. A thought: did you

Re: black screen and cursor, and nothing more

2018-08-18 Thread huw
On 17/08/18 16:28, dep wrote: > greetings. > > i'm making an attempt to switch from trinity desktop environment to > whatever version of plasma is installed when one installs kubuntu-desktop > in ubuntu 16.04. window manager is kwin. > > when i select plasma at the login screen, all seems to go

Re: black screen and cursor, and nothing more

2018-08-17 Thread Duncan
dep posted on Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:28:22 + as excerpted: > i'm making an attempt to switch from trinity desktop environment to > whatever version of plasma is installed when one installs > kubuntu-desktop in ubuntu 16.04. window manager is kwin. > > when i select plasma at the login screen, al

Re: black screen and cursor, and nothing more

2018-08-17 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday August 17 2018 15:28:22 dep wrote: > when i select plasma at the login screen, all seems to go well but for the > appearance not of plasma but of a black screen with a mouse cursor. no ... > anybody know what's happening and how to fix it? Sadly no, but I'm afraid this is more or less

black screen and cursor, and nothing more

2018-08-17 Thread dep
greetings. i'm making an attempt to switch from trinity desktop environment to whatever version of plasma is installed when one installs kubuntu-desktop in ubuntu 16.04. window manager is kwin. when i select plasma at the login screen, all seems to go well but for the appearance not of plasma