black screen

[Errol Sapir]

Thanks for the info utek and Miriam. I tried that but that doesn't seem 
to be the problem. The plasma-desktop goes black when logging in. Black 
(with nothing else visible on the screen) seem to have become the 
default colour, "covering" everything on the old desktop. I have gone 
into display and changed themes to no avail.
As I said I can operate anything from "run", including settings, and 
basically any program I type in. They all come up as they did before 
this problem arose.

On 10/10/2012 01:43 AM, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:58 PM, uteck <theuteck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sounds like plasma-desktop did not start.  I think that is the proper
>> spelling, not at my KDE desk right now, but you can manually start it.
>> If you updated stuff recently try opening konsole and updating stuff
>> again, perhaps an update did not go in or was missing.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Errol Sapir <errol at tzora.co.il> wrote:
>>> I restarted my computer and now have a black screen. No icons or any gui
>>> signs. I am in Kubuntu as everything works i.e. I am not in a command line
>>> mode. If I press alt/F2 I can open any program by typing its name. Once I am
>>> in a program it works perfectly. I can browse, read my email and open links
>>> and attachments. Everything is working. How do I get my graphic desktop
>>> back? I tried the repair mode which didn't help.
>
> As suggested by utek, the plasma desktop did not start for some
> reason. Try to launch it with krunner with the command
> 'plasma-desktop'.
>
>
> Regards, Myriam
>