KDE weirdness

[rocketman768]

Ok, so when I boot up and login, KDE begins to start, but I don't see the status window when it says "setting up blah blah" and all that other junk before KDE starts...it just shows the text, and the text doesn't disappear. So for example "setting up blah blah" and "doing another thing" will get superimposed on one another until KDE starts. And then, this sort of superimposing continues. I also cannot see the buttons in the bar at the bottom. However, when I click in the appropriate places, menus appear (but do not disappear again). I think this may have something to do with the fact that I installed SuperKaramba (via source) and then accidentally removed the directory from which I installed it.

What is the best way to solve this? Is there a way I can completely remove KDE and re-install it?

[claydoh]

Re: KDE weirdness

I would suggest creating a new user account to see if this happens there as well. If that account is fine, you can rename your ~/.kde directory and then login to a fresh desktop.

First, you need to kill kdm and your desktop:
Hit ctrl-alt-F1 keys to get to a console, then use these commands (ignoring anything after the "###":

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop ###this stops KDM and your desktop
mv ~/.kde ~/.kde-orig ###renames your ./kde dir (note the "dot" between "/" and "kde"
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart ###restarts kdm and you will get back to your login

Hpoefully all is well again, and if you have any configs/setups you liked for KDE applications, the originals wiill be in /home/<your-username>/.kde-orig/share. The setting will be in /config, and various files, etc will be in /apps

If you want to uninstall superkaramba, simply extract the files and compile the sources again as you did before, but instead of make install, run 'sudo make uninstall'

[rocketman768]

Re: KDE weirdness

Thanks man. Moving the .kde folder worked! I uninstalled superkaramba before that, but that didn't seem to work, so I'm not sure exactly why KDE started acting so weird. But a million thanks!