[Solved] No joy with Karmic and kde 4.4

[Fintan]

On my desktop I had to reinstall Karmic ( I need a stable system ) after kde4.4 final upgrade two days ago which gave me an unusable desktop (no plasma, just the panel).

I tried everything on these threads as well as completely deleting (after a backup) .kde, and subsequently the contents of my user folder, to no avail.

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...;topicseen#new

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...;topicseen#new

So I decided to use my suse partition as a karmic test install with a virgin user and upgraded this morning with the same results.

My notebook upgraded fine as did my lucid install.

Is it my radeon 9250 pro card? I find that hard to believe.

So I guess I'll just wait and hope.

Edit: I tried neon:
https://launchpad.net/~project-neon/+archive/ppa

and get this from synaptic:

Konnte http://ppa.launchpad.net/project-neo...86/Packages.gz nicht holen 404 Not Found
Einige Indexdateien konnten nicht heruntergeladen werden, sie wurden ignoriert oder alte an ihrer Stelle benutzt.

[Fintan]

Re: No joy with Karmic and kde 4.4

This brought the solution:

Quote from Oblivion here:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...seen#msg218910

This is a common problem, yet it is very easy to solve. You need to go into System Settings/Desktop Settings/Workspace and there, just switch the "Form Factor" settings to "desktop". İf you find it disabled, AFAIK, there are two simple things you can do :

1. İnstall "plasma-netbook" via apt-get. This usually enables the "Form Factor" switch. Go back to Workspace Settings, set it to desktop. This will add startup entry to /username/.config/autostart folder. and you can manage it through System settings/ autostart.

2. You can create the autostart file manually: Open Dolphin and select "Show Hidden Files". Then Go to .config/autostart/ folder. Create a file named "plasma-desktop.desktop" there (use Kate). Then paste the below code into the file:

[Desktop Entry]
Exec=plasma-desktop
Hidden=true
Name[en]=Plasma Desktop Workspave
Name=Plasma Desktop Workspace
OnlyShowIn=KDE;
Type=Service
X-DBUS-StartupType=wait
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
X-KDE-autostart-phase=BaseDesktop
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=desktop_kdebase-workspace

Then go into System Settings/autostart and enable the autostart file.

Thank you for that Oblivion