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    How to fix/revert to 4.2.4 from 4.3 beta 2

    This morning KPackageKit reported that I have 83 blocked updates. So I executed "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". Logged out, and restarted x-server.
    Apparently I have one of the experimental/backports repos that had KDE 4.3 beta 2, because that is what I have now. The problem is that at least Plasma is very broken. No wallpaper, kickof shows up at the top of the screen, system try doesn't show any icons...

    How do I go back to 4.2.4 or fix 4.3 (or is it supposed to be like that?).
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    Re: How to fix/revert to 4.2.4 from 4.3 beta 2

    http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.2.90

    Wait a few hours, in the meantime. Kill plasma and install some other light window manager.

    BTW: Can someone direct me to a very light window manager to use in situations like this? It should be possible to run kde applications from it and I don't want a set of new apps.
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      #3
      Re: How to fix/revert to 4.2.4 from 4.3 beta 2

      icewm works very well for me. Its
      easy to customize the menus and
      you have a DM to use until kde is
      fixed.
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        Re: How to fix/revert to 4.2.4 from 4.3 beta 2

        I'd suggest LXDE. It uses OpenBox as the basis (which is easily one of the lightest, fastest WMs out there) but it adds those modern conveniences like a panel, normal menu, etc. Actually it's a fair bit like a very trimmed down KDE 3.5, in a way. Also, unlike many of the slim WMs/DEs, it's still in active development so it supports much more modern behaviours and applications.

        It runs KDE 4 apps just fine; actually it's what I've been using for the past while on my laptop, since KDE4.2 seems to still choke it (mainly from bugs in plasma) but I like to use Kontact, Konqueror, Kopete, KWallet, etc.
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          Re: How to fix/revert to 4.2.4 from 4.3 beta 2

          Originally posted by Rizado
          http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.2.90

          Wait a few hours, in the meantime. Kill plasma and install some other light window manager.

          BTW: Can someone direct me to a very light window manager to use in situations like this? It should be possible to run kde applications from it and I don't want a set of new apps.
          I have Gnome installed as well as KDE
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            Re: How to fix/revert to 4.2.4 from 4.3 beta 2

            Originally posted by TheBlaze
            This morning KPackageKit reported that I have 83 blocked updates. So I executed "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". Logged out, and restarted x-server.
            Apparently I have one of the experimental/backports repos that had KDE 4.3 beta 2, because that is what I have now. The problem is that at least Plasma is very broken. No wallpaper, kickof shows up at the top of the screen, system try doesn't show any icons...

            How do I go back to 4.2.4 or fix 4.3 (or is it supposed to be like that?).
            You can also try doing a "sudo apt-get install kde-core". That way you will install any packages needed to start KDE that might have been lost during the update
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              Re: How to fix/revert to 4.2.4 from 4.3 beta 2

              Originally posted by TheBlaze
              This morning KPackageKit reported that I have 83 blocked updates. So I executed "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". Logged out, and restarted x-server.
              Apparently I have one of the experimental/backports repos that had KDE 4.3 beta 2, because that is what I have now. The problem is that at least Plasma is very broken. No wallpaper, kickof shows up at the top of the screen, system try doesn't show any icons...

              How do I go back to 4.2.4 or fix 4.3 (or is it supposed to be like that?).
              Same thing happened to me, so I went ahead and added kde 4.3 beta 2 repo from here:

              https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+...e/experimental

              Basically, just add the following lines to your /etc/apt/source.list file:

              deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa...imental/ubuntu jaunty main
              deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa...imental/ubuntu jaunty main

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                Re: How to fix/revert to 4.2.4 from 4.3 beta 2

                Kill plasma and do:

                Code:
                rm .kde/share/config/plasmarc
rm .kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
                then restart plasma.

                If that does not work wait a few hours as mentioned by Rizado
                HP Pavilion dv6 core i7 (Main)
                4 GB Ram
                Kubuntu 18.10
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                  Re: How to fix/revert to 4.2.4 from 4.3 beta 2

                  Originally posted by Fintan
                  Kill plasma and do:

                  Code:
                  rm .kde/share/config/plasmarc
rm .kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
                  then restart plasma.

                  If that does not work wait a few hours as mentioned by Rizado
                  See my post http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3104434.0
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