Hi, On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Dutch Ingraham <stoa@xxxxxx> wrote: > The backstory: I bought a new el-cheapo multi-function printer-scanner > today and as a consequence installed sane, xsane, and > kdegraphics-ksaneplugin. I did all that while logged into my usual > window manager, dwm. All was fine. > > Then I wanted to try the kde plugin, so logged into kde desktop and was > presented with what appeared to be the blue screen of death (sometimes > black). Plasma seems to start fine, i.e., splash screen goes through > its usual motions, then the blue/black screen appears when the desktop > usually does. Can you kill plasmashell and start it again from the terminal, and provide output? i.e from krunner (alt+f2) open konsole, killall plasmashell && plasmashell -- Bhushan Shah http://bhush9.github.io IRC Nick : bshah on Freenode