black screen

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:58 PM, uteck <theuteck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like plasma-desktop did not start.  I think that is the proper
> spelling, not at my KDE desk right now, but you can manually start it.
> If you updated stuff recently try opening konsole and updating stuff
> again, perhaps an update did not go in or was missing.
>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Errol Sapir <errol at tzora.co.il> wrote:
>> I restarted my computer and now have a black screen. No icons or any gui
>> signs. I am in Kubuntu as everything works i.e. I am not in a command line
>> mode. If I press alt/F2 I can open any program by typing its name. Once I am
>> in a program it works perfectly. I can browse, read my email and open links
>> and attachments. Everything is working. How do I get my graphic desktop
>> back? I tried the repair mode which didn't help.

As suggested by utek, the plasma desktop did not start for some
reason. Try to launch it with krunner with the command
'plasma-desktop'.


Regards, Myriam

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