[arch-general] KDE Issue
Hi all. I tried to install KDE for testing accessibility with Orca. However, a friend of mine told me that the only icon that shows up is a hard drive, and it sits at this icon forever and won't load. What could be going wrong? Nothing on the forums shows information on this issue.
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 08:01:01AM -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
Hi all. I tried to install KDE for testing accessibility with Orca. However, a friend of mine told me that the only icon that shows up is a hard drive, and it sits at this icon forever and won't load. What could be going wrong? Nothing on the forums shows information on this issue.
I can never remember the name of that thing, but I'm guessing that is simply a session choosing screen(?). Have you tried asking him to [double]click on the icon? If that doesn't solve the "problem" then I don't know what will.
On 07-05-14 22:23, Tomasz Kramkowski wrote:
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 08:01:01AM -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
Hi all. I tried to install KDE for testing accessibility with Orca. However, a friend of mine told me that the only icon that shows up is a hard drive, and it sits at this icon forever and won't load. What could be going wrong? Nothing on the forums shows information on this issue.
I can never remember the name of that thing, but I'm guessing that is simply a session choosing screen(?).
Have you tried asking him to [double]click on the icon? If that doesn't solve the "problem" then I don't know what will.
If i remember correctly during startup of KDE it shows 4 or 5 icons representing the stage of the it's startup. The first one is a hard drive icon, second has to do with adding devices i think. Hunter, if the icon you got is indeed that harddrive icon, something is worng with the setup of KDE. try creating a new testuser and start kde logged in as the testuser. If KDE also doesn't start for the new testuser, then something is wrong with the kde installation.
Hi guys, I've had this problem before. Last time I was able to solve it by installing all the kdebase, phonon-vlc, kdebase-workspace groups. The specific error messages definitely also go somewhere, but I'm not sure where exactly right now. ~/.xsession-errors? cheers! mar77i
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Hunter Jozwiak
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LoneVVolf
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Martti Kühne
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Tomasz Kramkowski