New to Kubuntu! Casual Gnome User. Help me with the Upgrade, please!

[Guest]

Hi kubuntuforums.net,

I love the look of the new KDE, so I decided to try Kubuntu rather than Ubuntu.

I just spent several days battling with my wireless card and finally got it to work! Woo!

Then I added the backports PPA because I wanted the new Amarok, and this is what my system looks like now...



I seem to have lost all transparency. Oxygen now looks ugly. My borders no longer have a glow or a shadow. Obviously the KDE 4.4 upgrade broke something. Has anyone else had this problem?

I know other people had problems with plasma crashing after the update. I had this problem but was able to fix it by installing the plasma-desktop package. But it looks terrible!

I have tried the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-update
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install plasma-desktop

[MoonRise]

Re: New to Kubuntu! Casual Gnome User. Help me with the Upgrade, please!

First, have you tried Alt-Shift-F12 to see if it by chance Compositing was suspended?

[Fintan]

Re: New to Kubuntu! Casual Gnome User. Help me with the Upgrade, please!

Moonrise has a point. Can you publish your machine specs, esp. graphic card?

Either way try this:

Quote from rog:

Reset only the plasma desktop

1) Stop the plasma
Code:

kquitapp plasma-desktop

The applications that are not using the plasma-desktop are still working: Krunner (Alt+F2), Dolphin, Konqueror, Konsole, ...

2) Rename the plasma config files:

~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc

~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc

~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktoprc

~/.kde/share/config/plasmarc

3) Restart the plasma:
Code:

plasma-desktop

This should reset the plasma-desktop to the default.

Hope that helps