On 17/08/18 16:28, dep wrote: > greetings. > > i'm making an attempt to switch from trinity desktop environment to > whatever version of plasma is installed when one installs kubuntu-desktop > in ubuntu 16.04. window manager is kwin. > > when i select plasma at the login screen, all seems to go well but for the > appearance not of plasma but of a black screen with a mouse cursor. no > clicking of either button produces anything, and the only escape is > ant-f1, login, and rebooting from there. > > i'd guess it's a tiny configuration issue, but i have no idea what it is. > searching the web i've found other instances similar to but not exactly > like this one. > > anybody know what's happening and how to fix it? > > thanks. Hi I can't really help you, but I thought I should add that for at least a couple of months now there has been a roughly 50% chance that when I boot my PC I will get exactly what you describe - a black screen with only a mouse cursor - instead of the login screen. I just press ctrl-alt-backspace twice to fix this...I think it restarts the X server or something? Anyway, it results in a working login screen within a second. Kind regards, Huw
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