Frozen screen (Solved)

[leadwt]

Hi,

I had downloaded a few extra packages (eg 'K' games and Koffice) plus a few new window styles and the like. I changed the window style to an Oxygen variant which looks great being transparent. However having clicked an application icon such as Firefox the cursor starts the normal flashing but then everything freezes. I tried to access system settings to change the window display but of course it froze-up again!

Edit: the mouse still runs around!

Any help in un-freezing would be much appreciated

Thanks

[ubuntuku]

Re: Frozen screen

Please post the output of the following commands:

cat ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals | grep widgetStyle
cat ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc | grep windowManager

[leadwt]

Re: Frozen screen

ubuntuku thanks for the post.

widgetStyle = gtk +

. . grep windowManager returns me to the prompt with no output.

I'm having to do the enquiries via terminal via CTRL + ALT + F1 I don't know if that makes a difference?

[leadwt]

Re: Frozen screen

Bumpity Bump!

Any offers please? Still frozen out!

[ubuntuku]

Re: Frozen screen

Please run the following commands in terminal:

sed -i '/\widgetStyle=/s/\=.*/=oxygen/g' ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
sed -i '/\windowManager=/s/\=.*/=kwin/g' ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc
sudo shutdown -r now

It will set widget style and window manager to the default setting, then reboot the system to apply the changes. Let me know how it goes.

[leadwt]

Re: Frozen screen

ubuntuku

Thanks a million - it took two or three attempts and I finally had success by booting up in 'recovery' mode and entering the commands there.

It appears that it was the icon style that froze the screen - does that make sense?

And - a bit of totally unrelated news it's snowing here again!

Thanks once more.