Am 18.07.2012 17:22, schrieb dE .: > On 07/13/12 23:14, Hans Muecke wrote: >> Howdy folks, >> >> Ran into a strange problem ... >> >> Kubuntu 12.04LTS/KDE4.8.4 ... >> >> For whatever reason my plasma desktop crashed yesterday. Couldn't get it >> to come up again, so I deleted all the plasma files in the home >> directory to start from scratch. >> I must have done that in the "protected mode" unknowingly ... since >> today - when trying to change one of the desktop effects - I was told >> that I was running protected mode and should switch to the "normal" >> plasma desktop. >> Did as requested and ended up with an "upside down" desktop. Visually >> everything is upside down, but buttons still seem to be where they are >> supposed to be on the desktop (screenshots: http://goo.gl/N4tVF and >> http://goo.gl/YjPtc ). Everything looks fine in protected mode ... minus >> effects that is. >> >> Anyone have an idea what went wrong here and how to possibly correct it? > > As many people pointed out, this might be an X problem, so I'd suggest > you post output of -- > > DISPLAY=":0" xrandr Here we go ... Sa Jul 21, 09:46:38 hans@armstrong (~) > DISPLAY=":0" xrandr xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1050 default connected 1680x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1680x1050 50.0* 90.0 1440x900 51.0 52.0 1400x1050 53.0 54.0 1360x768 55.0 56.0 1280x1024 57.0 58.0 1280x960 59.0 1280x720 60.0 1152x864 61.0 62.0 63.0 64.0 1024x768 65.0 66.0 67.0 960x600 68.0 960x540 69.0 840x525 70.0 71.0 72.0 73.0 832x624 74.0 800x600 75.0 76.0 77.0 78.0 720x450 79.0 700x525 80.0 81.0 680x384 82.0 83.0 640x480 84.0 85.0 86.0 87.0 512x384 88.0 89.0 400x300 91.0 320x240 92.0 93.0 Sa Jul 21, 09:46:43 hans@armstrong (~) > -- Talk to you later ... Hans (48 to go) 2012/07/21 14:20 EDDS 211420Z 15003KT 9999 SCT020 BKN045CB 15/11 Q1021 RETS NOSIG ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.