[NTLUG:Discuss] KDE went straing

[Steve Baker]

Ian Alexander wrote:
> 
> <stab position=in location=dark>
> Did you change your screen resolution?  It could be hiding below if you
> have a virtual desktop.  Also, what does the output say?  Maybe kpanel
> segfaults.  Other than that, you could rename your .kde dir to .kde.bak
> and see what happens when you startx.
> </stab>

You can see any error messages while X/KDE is running by doing a
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get back to the console (or Ctrl-Alt-F2 - or whatever)
- and an Alt-F7 to get back to the graphical desktop.  This lets you
try stuff on the desktop and then flip back to the text-mode console
to see what messages that may have provoked.

(That's a *REALLY* neat feature in Linux - I sure wish certain
other UNIXen worked that way)

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