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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