I just had a slight major problem: I had just closed Firefox and the window turned white but did
not close. The close button was unresponsive so I pressed 'Alt + Ctrl + Esc' and got the 'skull
and crossbones' which I then moved into the [white] Firefox window and clicked - apparently
Firefox wasn't actually there - but the Plasma desktop was! I killed the Plasma Desktop and no
matter what I tried - logout; reboot; cold reboot - the desktop wouldn't load - just a black
screen :-(
So I did a 'Alt + Ctrl + Delete' and got the 'Leave' options; logged out and then a 'Alt + Ctrl +
F1' to get to TTY1; logged in and then 'mv .kde kdeOLD' - logged out, 'Alt + Ctrl + F7' and
logged into a brand new Plasma desktop :-)
I then spent half an hour getting my dektop the way I like it, then I copied my new .kde to
another folder, renamed it .kdeGOOD and copied it back into my home folder. Now if I managed to
mess things up again I can just rename my .kdeGOOD to .kde and everything should be good again....


Hope this helps someone else.

Nigel

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Sorry if this was posted before, but I just joined the list.
Did you try bringing up a terminal, or using the F2 run command, to restart the desktop with 'plasma-desktop' ?
Although backing up the entire .kde directory is good, I do that regularly before upgrades to make recovery easier.


On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nigel Ridley <nigel@prayingforisrael.net> wrote:

I just had a slight major problem: I had just closed Firefox and the window turned white but did not close. The close button was unresponsive so I pressed 'Alt + Ctrl + Esc' and got the 'skull and crossbones' which I then moved into the [white] Firefox window and clicked - apparently Firefox wasn't actually there - but the Plasma desktop was! I killed the Plasma Desktop and no matter what I tried - logout; reboot; cold reboot - the desktop wouldn't load - just a black screen :-(


So I did a 'Alt + Ctrl + Delete' and got the 'Leave' options; logged out and then a 'Alt + Ctrl + F1' to get to TTY1; logged in and then 'mv .kde kdeOLD' - logged out, 'Alt + Ctrl + F7' and logged into a brand new Plasma desktop :-)


I then spent half an hour getting my dektop the way I like it, then I copied my new .kde to another folder, renamed it .kdeGOOD and copied it back into my home folder. Now if I managed to mess things up again I can just rename my .kdeGOOD to .kde and everything should be good again....




Hope this helps someone else.



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I had something similar happen several kde versions ago. *I traced it as far as the desktop effects configs, but never bothered to figure out which one. *I've never seen the problem with the default kde config, only after some customization of the effects.Paul

From: "Nigel Ridley" <nigel@prayingforisrael.net>
To: "Kubuntu user technical support" <kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 2:03:47 PM
Subject: Rescuing a messed up Plasma desktop

I just had a slight major problem: I had just closed Firefox and the window turned white but did
not close. The close button was unresponsive so I pressed 'Alt + Ctrl + Esc' and got the 'skull
and crossbones' which I then moved into the [white] Firefox window and clicked - apparently
Firefox wasn't actually there - but the Plasma desktop was! I killed the Plasma Desktop and no
matter what I tried - logout; reboot; cold reboot - the desktop wouldn't load - just a black
screen :-(
So I did a 'Alt + Ctrl + Delete' and got the 'Leave' options; logged out and then a 'Alt + Ctrl +
F1' to get to TTY1; logged in and then 'mv .kde kdeOLD' - logged out, 'Alt + Ctrl + F7' and
logged into a brand new Plasma desktop :-)
I then spent half an hour getting my dektop the way I like it, then I copied my new .kde to
another folder, renamed it .kdeGOOD and copied it back into my home folder. Now if I managed to
mess things up again I can just rename my .kdeGOOD to .kde and everything should be good again....

Hope this helps someone else.

Nigel

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2011/10/31 Nigel Ridley <nigel@prayingforisrael.net>:
> I just had a slight major problem: I had just closed Firefox and the window
> turned white but did not close. The close button was unresponsive so I
> pressed 'Alt + Ctrl + Esc' and got the 'skull and crossbones' which I then
> moved into the [white] Firefox window and clicked - apparently Firefox
> wasn't actually there - but the Plasma desktop was! I killed the Plasma
> Desktop and no matter what I tried - logout; reboot; cold reboot - the
> desktop wouldn't load - just a black screen :-(
> So I did a 'Alt + Ctrl + Delete' and got the 'Leave' options; logged out and
> then a 'Alt + Ctrl + F1' to get to TTY1; logged in and then 'mv .kde kdeOLD'
> - logged out, 'Alt + Ctrl + F7' and logged into a brand new Plasma desktop
> :-)
> I then spent half an hour getting my dektop the way I like it, then I copied
> my new .kde to another folder, renamed it .kdeGOOD and copied it back into
> my home folder. Now if I managed to mess things up again I can just rename
> my .kdeGOOD to .kde and everything should be good again....
>
> Hope this helps someone else.
>
> Nigel

Almost every upgrade of KDE made some bad thing to my plasma desktop
(crashes, widgets and activities messed up) so now I always delete the
config files "rm .kde/share/config/plasma*"

It's to bad it have to bee like that but I don't know any other way.

/ Jonas

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On 10/31/2011 08:13 PM, Jonas Norlander wrote:

2011/10/31 Nigel Ridley<nigel@prayingforisrael.net>:

I just had a slight major problem: I had just closed Firefox and the window
turned white but did not close. The close button was unresponsive so I
pressed 'Alt + Ctrl + Esc' and got the 'skull and crossbones' which I then
moved into the [white] Firefox window and clicked - apparently Firefox
wasn't actually there - but the Plasma desktop was! I killed the Plasma
Desktop and no matter what I tried - logout; reboot; cold reboot - the
desktop wouldn't load - just a black screen :-(
So I did a 'Alt + Ctrl + Delete' and got the 'Leave' options; logged out and
then a 'Alt + Ctrl + F1' to get to TTY1; logged in and then 'mv .kde kdeOLD'
- logged out, 'Alt + Ctrl + F7' and logged into a brand new Plasma desktop
:-)
I then spent half an hour getting my dektop the way I like it, then I copied
my new .kde to another folder, renamed it .kdeGOOD and copied it back into
my home folder. Now if I managed to mess things up again I can just rename
my .kdeGOOD to .kde and everything should be good again....

Hope this helps someone else.

Nigel


Almost every upgrade of KDE made some bad thing to my plasma desktop
(crashes, widgets and activities messed up) so now I always delete the
config files "rm .kde/share/config/plasma*"

It's to bad it have to bee like that but I don't know any other way.

/ Jonas



This was a fresh/clean install of Oneiric.
I don't know why, after I had 'killed' the plasma desktop, it did not restart ofter a logout.
Next time I will do as Uteck suggested "F2 run command, to restart the desktop with 'plasma-desktop'"

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On 10/31/2011 08:11 PM, uteck wrote:

Sorry if this was posted before, but I just joined the list.
Did you try bringing up a terminal, or using the F2 run command, to restart
the desktop with 'plasma-desktop' ?
Although backing up the entire .kde directory is good, I do that regularly
before upgrades to make recovery easier.


I new there was an easier way -- I just didn't have access to anything to be able to search the
archives and so I did what I knew would work - even if it was the long way around :-)


Nigel



On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nigel Ridley<nigel@prayingforisrael.net>wrote:


I just had a slight major problem: I had just closed Firefox and the
window turned white but did not close. The close button was unresponsive so
I pressed 'Alt + Ctrl + Esc' and got the 'skull and crossbones' which I
then moved into the [white] Firefox window and clicked - apparently Firefox
wasn't actually there - but the Plasma desktop was! I killed the Plasma
Desktop and no matter what I tried - logout; reboot; cold reboot - the
desktop wouldn't load - just a black screen :-(
So I did a 'Alt + Ctrl + Delete' and got the 'Leave' options; logged out
and then a 'Alt + Ctrl + F1' to get to TTY1; logged in and then 'mv .kde
kdeOLD' - logged out, 'Alt + Ctrl + F7' and logged into a brand new Plasma
desktop :-)
I then spent half an hour getting my dektop the way I like it, then I
copied my new .kde to another folder, renamed it .kdeGOOD and copied it
back into my home folder. Now if I managed to mess things up again I can
just rename my .kdeGOOD to .kde and everything should be good again....

Hope this helps someone else.

Nigel

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