So, I upgraded yesterday on one of my computers, and today when I turned this computer and tried to log into KDE it simply loaded the new default wallpaper, informed me that something had crashed (clicking on the notification didn't pop up any further details or dialogs) and . . . that's it. The desktop isn't even right-clickable, so it would seem like it's Plasma that's borked to some degree. Luckily everything OTHER than KDE itself (yes, I'm using KDE to refer to the desktop environment, I know that's not the "official" nomenclature these days) seems to work fine; I'm writing this in Rekonq, from an Openbox session where Xcompmgr is providing the graphical snazziness, using Yakuake and KRunner, etc etc.
Any ideas what might be failing? In all honesty, I could probably get by with just Openbox from now until forever, but I tend to run the full KDE shebang on my other primary computer, and if I don't know what went wrong here and how to fix it then I'm pretty nervous about upgrading the other one.
KDE 4 has always had ridiculously bad errors in regards to dual-monitor setups, at least in my experience, and but that's the only commonality; hardware-wise, this computer is a late-2006 17" iMac, which means an Intel 2GHz Core2Duo T7200 for the CPU (on which I'm running 64-bit), I upgraded it cheaply to 4GB of RAM in total, and the GPU is an ATI X1600m...which is an astonishingly bad graphics card, in many respects, but can actually play Starcraft 2 perfectly fine on the lowest possible graphics level, and with tweaking has been able to handle KDE's desktop effects fine, so I luckily don't need any more than that. And yeah, I have a nice big 1920x1080 secondary monitor hooked up via DVI (the built-in 17" screen is 1440x900).
So. Yeah. That's all the pertinent details I can think of. Any thoughts? Is there an error log that KDE keeps that I should be checking? (I never remember heading about one, but perhaps it's slipped me by all these years.)
Any ideas what might be failing? In all honesty, I could probably get by with just Openbox from now until forever, but I tend to run the full KDE shebang on my other primary computer, and if I don't know what went wrong here and how to fix it then I'm pretty nervous about upgrading the other one.
KDE 4 has always had ridiculously bad errors in regards to dual-monitor setups, at least in my experience, and but that's the only commonality; hardware-wise, this computer is a late-2006 17" iMac, which means an Intel 2GHz Core2Duo T7200 for the CPU (on which I'm running 64-bit), I upgraded it cheaply to 4GB of RAM in total, and the GPU is an ATI X1600m...which is an astonishingly bad graphics card, in many respects, but can actually play Starcraft 2 perfectly fine on the lowest possible graphics level, and with tweaking has been able to handle KDE's desktop effects fine, so I luckily don't need any more than that. And yeah, I have a nice big 1920x1080 secondary monitor hooked up via DVI (the built-in 17" screen is 1440x900).
So. Yeah. That's all the pertinent details I can think of. Any thoughts? Is there an error log that KDE keeps that I should be checking? (I never remember heading about one, but perhaps it's slipped me by all these years.)
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