black screen

[Basil Chupin]

On 10/10/12 10:57, Errol Sapir wrote:
> 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.
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  When logging in, before typing in your password, click on the 
'spanner' tool and select plasma desktop and then finish logging in. 
There is a quirk which fails to start the plasma desktop when you have 
upgraded KDE but after you do what I just suggested the problem disappears.

BC

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