I finally grasped the nettle and did the Plasma 5 upgrade. The first machine went OK eventually (apart from the week spent resolving blockers), so I thought the second would be much smoother. And so it was, until I logged on. I got the splash screen, a bouncing ball as something started and then a black screen relieved only by a cursor and a couple of apps in the autostart list. kwin-x11, plasmashell, ksmserver are all running, it seems like something got omitted in the install. Does anyone know which binary starts the window manager and taskbar, etc? I did the usual things like create a new user, rename .kde4, to no avail.
I have already posted on the Gentoo forums but didn't get much help. You can see the post with the sddm log here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1057060.html. Hopefully the vast intellects of the Gentoo list will have an idea! My current workaround is to install lxqt as the desktop; it works pretty well, if a bit rough around the edges. Cheers Robin -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
