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
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
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
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
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
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
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