Ubuntu 11.04 - KDE not working

tomk11 · 22 May 2011 at 18:02

I've recently switched to ubuntu 11.04 on my laptop. A few days ago I installed kde and it ran perfectly for a while. earlier I was playing around with the panels on my desktop and the screen went black.

The only things that I can use are applications stored in docky which includes the terminal and we browser and synaptic package manage - however I can't connect to the internet so they are rendered useless. However gnome functions perfectly, any ideas on how to fix KDE?

tomk11 · 22 May 2011 at 19:21

I get

mv: cannot stat `/home/tom/.kde4': No such file or directory

does that mean I have to uninstall and reinstall the kde packages?

tomk11 · 22 May 2011 at 20:34

I don't mind the reset, tbh I expected that it would happen.

There's no error message or any change at all, it seems that I somehow lost some of the necessary files?

tomk11 · 23 May 2011 at 17:17

Code:

rm -rf ~/.kderc

doesn't appear to have done anything. When I typed kwin --replace the desktop sorta flashed white then black again, then docky reappeared.

Code:

dpkg-reconfigure kubuntu-desktop

gives the error message

/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: kubuntu-desktop is not installed

any other idea's or shall I just remove and reinstall the packages?

tomk11 · 23 May 2011 at 21:40

Thanks a lot anyway, your help has been much appreciated. I might read some of those posts.