[Fixed/repaired/worked around] - No desktop

[Marlin]

Upgraded to Maverick and all went smooth, then I upgraded to KDE 4.5.2 and I have no desktop (F2 still works )

Any suggestions?

[Snowhog]

Re: No desktop

Alt+F2 and type konsole and in the console type:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

[Marlin]

Re: No desktop

APT-GET told me that I was already at the latest version. Renaming my .KDE directory gave me a desktop, just not my desktop. I cannot at the moment remember the name of the desktop applet config file but I think when I find that it may fix the problem, If the past is any indication.

[Poborskiii]

Re: No desktop

Renaming or deleting .kde is a big fault. KDE is working, probably is not working only plasma-desktop (after upgrade usually due to broken compatibility of third party plasmoids/plasma-widgets). Best solution is renaming only config files ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc and sometimes also ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktoprc . If not working, try rename whole directory with config files ~/.kde/share/config

[sithlord48]

Re: No desktop

do you by chance have any non stock widgets on your desktop or panel (im thinking yawp , since it was causing my crash). if you do you can simply uninstall them and then plasma-desktop should start up . if thats not the case try running "plasma-desktop" from konsole. you might get some clues from the cli .

[Marlin]

Re: No desktop

Recovered "old" .kde from backup. Tried to overwrite new .kde but Dolphin crashed. Deleted .kde but KDE created a new one real time. Finally had to "write into" .kde after removing YAWP from my appletrc file and that mostly fixed the problem.