Re: major problem after enabling desktop effects (F9)...

On Wednesday 16 July 2008 06:43:50 Mike Chalmers wrote:
After I enabled desktop effects from the system settings, a major
problem happened. First, the log in screen came up so I logged in.
After I logged in it started to boot with the splash screen and after
the splash screen was gone all I could see is a my mouse pointer and a
black background. I can't do anything! Once again all I have is a
mouse pointer and a black screen after I log in. Many thanks.

I think there are two separate issues. Desktop effects in KDE4 (especially
4.0) cause problems with some video cards. I wasn't intending to use heavy
effects, but I had to turn them off on this laptop, as I had silly problems
like clicking on the clock brought up a shadow where the calendar should have
been.

The reason for your problem, though, has not been discovered. You are the
third person I've come across other than myself. I believe it happened to me
after a batch of updates (see Bug #454055). The only cure I've seen is to
rename ~/.kde and restart. You can then copy back your important files from
~/.kde.bak/share/apps and ~/.kde.bak/share/config.

Less than satisfactory answer, but at least you get to work again.

Anne

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