Re: [blfs-support] Black Desktop. Some improvements

2016-08-24 Thread Michael Shell
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 17:03:29 +0200 Edgar Alwers wrote: > By the way, if I start an xterm from fluxbox, I can enter > "/opt/kf5/bin/plasmashell" and plasma starts for about a second, braking > down inmediately. Edgar, Then this would be something to investigate. There is/was a known problem

Re: [blfs-support] Black Desktop. Some improvements

2016-08-24 Thread Paul Rogers
Edgar, so you've got a real puzzle on your hands. Clearly there's something different between your left-hand system and right-hand system. ;-) One line of attack would be to very carefully and in exquisite detail find out what IS different between them, from H/W & BIOS on up. I think a profitabl

Re: [blfs-support] Black Desktop. Some improvements

2016-08-24 Thread Edgar Alwers
Am 23.08.2016 um 22:37 schrieb Paul Rogers: Hi, Edgar. Let's look at what I've got in those files. [13:27 ~]$ ls -p .config Thunar/ epdfview/ gtk-2.0/ libreoffice/ mimeapps.list xfce4/ Hi Paul, I have a lot of things here: autostart-scripts/, baloofilerc, gtk-3.0/.pulse/, Trolltec

Re: [blfs-support] Black Desktop. Some improvements

2016-08-24 Thread Edgar Alwers
Am 24.08.2016 um 04:42 schrieb Michael Shell: This thread: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=91932 mentions how to disable compositing within kde to see if that affects the problem. Hallo Michael, the places given in the thread have changed a little: it is now "/home/edgar/.config

Re: [blfs-support] Black Desktop. Some improvements

2016-08-23 Thread Michael Shell
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 22:18:21 +0200 Edgar Alwers wrote: > Both machines are equiped with an vga compatible intel controller. My guess is that there is a subtle hardware difference here that is causing a rendering problem. One known cause of blank screens with an active cursor under kde has to wi

Re: [blfs-support] Black Desktop. Some improvements

2016-08-23 Thread Paul Rogers
> Hi all, > > I made am image of my system ( left side ) and I restore this image to > another PC ( right side ). Both machines are equiped with an vga > compatible intel controller. Following recomendations I found > googling, I erased at /home/edgar the files .config and .cache on the ___8<... >

Re: [blfs-support] Black Desktop. Some improvements

2016-08-22 Thread Edgar Alwers
Hi all, I made am image of my system ( left side ) and I restore this image to another PC ( right side ). Both machines are equiped with an vga compatible intel controller. Following recomendations I found googling, I erased at /home/edgar the files .config and .cache on the right PC. I got t

[blfs-support] Black Desktop

2016-08-21 Thread Edgar Alwers
Hallo Bruce, hallo Ken, I do not know, if it may help searching for the solution of my KF5/Plasma problem, but anyhow, the link below shows the results of starting KF5 with the command "startx &> x-session-errors" as recommended by the book. Regards, Edgar https://www.dropbox.com/s/hs04y1t

Re: [blfs-support] black desktop

2016-08-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 10:26:12PM +0200, Edgar Alwers wrote: > > > Am 20.08.2016 um 18:37 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: > > I'll note that I have never tried building kf5/plasma5 in /usr. > I build plasma and kf5 on /opt ! > Cheers, > Edgar And for the little it is worth , so did I : I had tried buildi

Re: [blfs-support] black desktop

2016-08-20 Thread Edgar Alwers
Am 20.08.2016 um 18:37 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: I'll note that I have never tried building kf5/plasma5 in /usr. I build plasma and kf5 on /opt ! Cheers, Edgar -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above i

Re: [blfs-support] black desktop

2016-08-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 05:11:06PM +0200, Edgar Alwers wrote: > Hi Bruce, hi Kenn, > > I built my kde framework and plasma without further problems ( BLFS Version > 2016-07-01 ). > > When I boot the new system ( startx ), however, the screen shows the kde > loading graphic, followed by a blank de

Re: [blfs-support] black desktop

2016-08-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Edgar Alwers wrote: Hi Bruce, hi Kenn, I built my kde framework and plasma without further problems ( BLFS Version 2016-07-01 ). When I boot the new system ( startx ), however, the screen shows the kde loading graphic, followed by a blank desktop with a cursor, absolutely no more. I have been

[blfs-support] black desktop

2016-08-20 Thread Edgar Alwers
Hi Bruce, hi Kenn, I built my kde framework and plasma without further problems ( BLFS Version 2016-07-01 ). When I boot the new system ( startx ), however, the screen shows the kde loading graphic, followed by a blank desktop with a cursor, absolutely no more. I have been googling, the is