From: Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 05:12:30 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902030512.30292.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0902021316rd997418qbd58847b08e88834@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday 03 Feb 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net>
wrote:
> > My first attempt at installing KDE 4.2 so trashed my desktop I had to
> > perform a general restore to remove all traces of it. I have a completely
> > current 3.5.10 system running, so I thought I would get a situation where
> > I could choose which system to login to. In fact, on my second attempt, I
> > get my original KDM 3.5 login screen and no new options and when I login
> > I do get my original desktop environment, albeit with corrupt konqueror
> > tool bars. Any ideas how to enable KDM 4.2 and get the new desktop?
>
> In my case I uninstalled KDE 3 completely before trying to install KDE
> 4.2. Also make sure your xdm has kde-4.2 so it uses the new KDM.
No the problem was that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is not the same as restarting xdm.
Doing that, I got the new login screen.
-Robin
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-02 20:15 [gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt Robin Atwood
2009-02-02 21:16 ` Paul Hartman
2009-02-02 22:12 ` Robin Atwood [this message]
2009-02-03 1:56 ` Robin Atwood
2009-02-03 1:18 ` Philip Webb
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