I installed Intrepid back in January, could not stand the KDE4.2 beta, installed the KDE3.5.10 from pearsoncomputing and used it happily for a while. I upgraded to Jaunty last week and it continued running KDE3. I seem to be missing out on some of the newest packages, so I decided to give KDE4 a try again.

I tried installing kde (apt-get install kubuntu-desktop) and rebooted.

It does not go into kdm automatically. I have to log in as root and run kdm manually.

I log in and I get to the desktop and all I see is my mouse pointer and gkrellm (which is normal), otherwise a black screen. Does not respond to mouse buttons (no right-click menu). I have to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete to log out. I can run Gnome and can use it to install, but I want KDE.

Does anyone know what I have to do to get the regular KDE4 back again? Thanks for your help.

Since this info is distro specific I would suggest that you are better off at http://kubuntuforums.net/ - they are a nice and competent bunch

As for your specific questions - I ran Debian and Kubuntu for some time and believe the solution to be

sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm

But you'd better double check that 'cos that is some time ago...

toad wrote:Since this info is distro specific I would suggest that you are better off at http://kubuntuforums.net/ - they are a nice and competent bunch

As for your specific questions - I ran Debian and Kubuntu for some time and believe the solution to be

sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm

But you'd better double check that 'cos that is some time ago...

Thanks, toad, I'll try over there.

That command finished quick and silent but had no effect.

what if you just install the "kubuntu-desktop" meta package? but yes, better to check on kubuntuforums...

edit: nevermind i see you already tried that...

None of the suggestions on the other forum worked. I ultimately just downloaded the Jaunty install disk and reinstalled the whole thing from scratch.