You are not logged in.

kde4/Squeeze Desktop Issue

Dear visitor, welcome to KDE-Forum.org. If this is your first visit here, please read the Help. It explains in detail how this page works. To use all features of this page, you should consider registering. Please use the registration form, to register here or read more information about the registration process. If you are already registered, please login here.

rooster

Beginner

  • "rooster" started this thread

Posts: 1

  • Send private message

1

Friday, May 4th 2012, 12:59am

kde4/Squeeze Desktop Issue

Hi y'all. First post on this forum.

I recently upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze via:
'Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4 _Squeeze_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1 20120128-12:53'.
AFAICT after hours/days of futzing, I think the installation failed to install some components that are important to me.

The KDE Desktop in what is now called the "Plasma Workspace" is empty;... 'tabla rasa', as it were. Directories & Icons such as Home, Trash, Computer, & etc. are missing.

Also, the menu list that was available via Right Click on kde3 is also different. It used to present options such as "Create New" "Copy here" "Move" 'Remove" & etc., among others. These are important to me.
Now Right Clicking on Desktop gives me:
Run Command
Add Widgets, Add Panel
Remove this Desktop Activity
Lock Widgets
Lock Screen
Leave
Desktop Activity Settings

I am just a home desktopper with scant savvy about what is going on behind the scenes and few skills for analyzing this kind of problem. E.g., I don't know if my installation CD only contained 'kde-standard' whereas I was expecting/needing kde-full. If so, how do I get kde-full? 'aptitude update => upgrade' on the CD listed many applications (took 6 minutes to list them) but would not complete the task. It kept requesting

Source code

 
1

Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4 _Squeeze_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1 20120128-12:53' in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press [Enter].

when the disk was already in, and appeared to have been polled successfully for additional apps.

I don't really know what it means, but I seem to be missing a couple of files.

Source code

 
1
2
3

xdg-user-dirs/
/etc/xdg/user-dirs.con
/etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults


There is also the issue of frequent screen freezes that require hard shutdowns/restarts.

If the solution is to download a fresh 'kde4-full', I'm good with that, provided someone can walk-talk me through the drill. AFAICT it's not available via my 'sources list' repo; but again I'm over my head and unsure about my search results. I've come across material that refers to "meta packages" but that is just gibberish to me.

I would very much appreciate some guidance here.

r.

icecola321

Beginner

Posts: 33

  • Send private message

2

Monday, September 2nd 2013, 4:17am

L'information électronique et de l'information, myefox peut fournir les informations que vous souhaitez

Similar threads