On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 06:04:56PM +0200, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: > <html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: > 12.0px;"><div><b> Sent:</b> Tuesday, June > 28, 2016 at 4:07 PM >
Cliff, please can you fix your mailer again when you send to this list - html is HARD to read in mutt ;-) > > > I still get the same black screen and movable cursor and a warning > about "All<br/> > > shell packages missing". The short error file is attached, but it > seems to<br/> > > contain the same 'errors' as before.<br/> > > ><br/> > > > What I have got is a fully functional Xorg where I can run konsole > in xterm.<br/> > > ><br/> > > > If I then start plasmashell from xterm I get:<br/> > > ><br/> > > > org.kde.kwindowsystem: Could not find any platform plugin<br/> > > > org.kde.kwindowsystem: Could not find any platform plugin<br/> > > > Service started, version: 7.0.0<br/> > > > Failed to load the OSD QML file file from ""<br/> > > > detected kglobalaccel restarting, re-registering all shortcut > keys<br/> > > > We have no shell handlers installed.<br/> > > ><br/> > <div name="quoted-content">Is it possible that omitting Networkmanager, and > subsequently plasma-nm(it won't install), would effect the starting of > the plasma desktop? I have been doing this from the start as I > don't use NM.</div> Yes, very much so. NetworkManager is a build dependency, even for those of us who have a wired interface and don't need it. Omitting NM and therefore omitting plasma-nm sounds like the sort of thing that will have unexpected results. But also, I would like to mention what fixed my failure to get a working plasma. Possibly not relevant to you, but debugging plasma is painful so I'll mention it again. On 23rd August Michael Shell suggested in http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2016-August/078258.html to look at https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=91932 and in the [Compositing] section of my .kde/share/config/kwinrc I had Enabled=true Changing that to Enabled=false fixed things for me (on an Intel Haswell i7 with embedded graphics). ĸem -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
