Re: flashing desktop under kde303

Edgar Alwers wrote:
> On a basis SuSE 7.3 installation I upgraded KDE to the 303 version compiling 
> kdelibs and kdebase. Almost everything went going OK, with the exception of 
> the surface of the desktop itself: it starts flashing with a frequency of 
> nearly 2 flashes per second, and no icons at all shows up.The flashing stops 
> after nearly one minute automatically and the gray background of the X server 
> stays in place.   There is no posibility to make changes on the desktop 
> background  through the control center menu. The panel is OK, all programs 
> are accessible through the "K" icon in the panel. Working with the shell is 
> also OK.
> Can somebody tell me, where I could start making changes ? 
> Hints are highly appreciated, thanks,

I sure hate it when that happens, don't you. :-)

I can tell you what happened.  The 'desktop' is a separate application 
and it CRASHED (and burned).

The panel is a separate application as well, so, it didn't crash and 
therefore works fine -- it doesn't really care about the desktop.

Now if I only know why it crashed.

And, I have to tell you that I don't know.  But, it is almost a 
certainty that there is some misconfiguration of something somewhere, or 
something is missing.

Can you start a "FailSafe" X session and then execute:

        startkde

from the command line in the Xterm?

Perhaps you will get a useful error message.

--
JRT

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