[NTLUG:Discuss] KDE went straing

[MadHat]

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> 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)

ALT-F7 won't always take you "back" to the graphical desktop (X
session).  It is going to depend on how many virtual consoles are set
up.  I seem to recall at least one destro used 8 virtual terminals,
therefore to get back to X it would be ALT-F9.  You can also use (in
most destros) ALT-{left_arrow_key} and ALT-{right_arrow_key}  to scroll
through each virtual terminal (once out of X).

-- 
MadHat