On Friday 17 April 2009 23:21:19 Jorge Morais wrote: > > On Monday 13 April 2009 20:49:44 Philip Webb wrote: > > > 090413 Philip Webb wrote: > > > > I've found out how to fix it: something is starting Plasma, > > > > so Htop to the rescue ! -- kill Plasma & the hideous mask is removed > > > > -- it appears at the very end of the KDE start-up process -- > > > > & the handsome KDE 3 desktop backgrounds reappear > > > > together with the desktop menus called up by mouse clicks. > > > > > > I didn't find out what was starting Plasma, but I fixed it : > > > 'cd /usr/bin; mv plasma plasma-aside'. back to normal ! > > > (clutches garlic, crucifix, incense ... ) > > > > Why invoke the supernatural when common logic is so superior? > > > > emerge -C plasma > > emerge --depclean > > Is it a good idea to tell people to run emerge -C? > emerge --depc atom is dependency-aware.
The OP downgraded from kde-4 back to kde-3 He should not have had plasma at all anymore, but it got left behind in error and something was starting it. So he needed to get rid of it, and emerge -C followed by --depclean really is the ideal method, -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
