orts Posted May 31, 2009 Report Share Posted May 31, 2009 (edited) I installed some extra features for KDE4. suddenly I had some trouble with desktop, and I got a plasma failure. I thought that I just had to logout and in again, then it would run smoothly again, but no, the desktop are transparent like when you start a new layer in The Gimp. And I have a lot of red icons with a white cross inside. I have tried to uninstall everything I could find regarding KDE4 including renaming the .kde4 directory. I dont have a clue what to do, to get it running again. Thanks in advance. Edited May 31, 2009 by orts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 31, 2009 Report Share Posted May 31, 2009 Your "extra features" probably included some buggy plasmoids. Don't worry, everyone has made this mistake (myself- innumerable times -DUH!). Instead of logging out, try alt+F2 (it should work, even with plasma crashed) and type in killall plasma && plasma (the first argument is for removing any zombie plasma instances). The second step is of course removing the problematic plasmoid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orts Posted May 31, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2009 Thanks But that wouldn't do it, because I have allready removed/uninstalled all software regarding KDE4. I'm convinsed (not entirely sure) that it's somewhere in /root, like /usr or anywhere els KDE has a directory, because I have made another user an I have the same problem with this user. My desktop is simply "transparent" no plasma, wallpaper og taskbars :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 To get KDE back,: urpmi task-kde Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orts Posted June 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 Hi @ianw1974 I have already tried that, nothing helped. @all This morning I had trouble logging in to my system, I belive that I had messed with to many files, so I choosed to reinstall Mandriva from scratch. I searched a little more last night to find a solution for my problem, and I saw in another forum that someone suggested that it could be a difference bettween the version of KDE, when some packages was from 4.2.1 and some from 4.2.2 or maybe 4.2.3. But what do I know? ;-) Still saticfied with KDE4 REgards and thanks for your support. Orts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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