KDE Plasma 5 loading

[Martin Skjöldebrand]

On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 08:38 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 14:06 +0200, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
> > not.
> > 
> > After having installed kde-desktop on Fedora 22, and chosing Plasma
> > as environment from gdm I am greeted by a grey screen with only a
> > pointer to move. Looks like it doesn't even load a window manager.
> > 
> Very odd. I had the same problem on my home laptop last night. I run
> KDE by default, and after performing a 'dnf update', which brought in
> a
> lot of updates (I hadn't updated for a while), when I restarted the
> laptop all I got was the mouse cursor on a black screen.
> 
> The ~/.xsession-errors file indicated that kwin_x11 was crashing. I
> tried downgrading kwin but that caused other problems. I could not
> get
> focus on apps (such as a browser accessing google), but could with a
> konsole. The maximise/minimise icons (at top right) were missing from
> the browser and konsole too.
> 
> I tried updating to updates-testing repo versions, and then
> rebooting,
> but that didn't help and in fact I lost the network connection as
> well.
> 
> This morning I have just booted up the laptop, and all seems to be
> working well. I can log in, the desktop looks fine, the apps and
> network are working fine.
> 
> As said, very odd.

Indeed, as I posted earlier, I had the opposite experience. It started
working after update. Maybe I should give a couple of reboots to "let
it settle" =)

/Martin S

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