Hi all,

I tried to install Screenlets, which prompted a reboot. After rebooting, my desktop looked like Ubuntu 11.10, i.e., it was running Unity! I've managed to uninstall Unity (uninstalled Screenlets too of course), and have got Plasma desktop back again in a very basic form, but I've lost all my settings, and the general style looks like an old version of Gnome.

Here's a screenshot, resized down: http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/5752/snapshot1rj.png

What else do I need to do?

Many thanks,

Tom

Maybe this is a better example:

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/8252/snapshot2vg.png

So you can see in the snapshot above that I am trying to apply the Oxygen theme. There are no error messages, but the system resolutely sticks to the theme it already has.

you might need to reset your windows and plasma to defaults, could there be any gnome/gtk apps running ? maybe nautilus?

to set kwin to defaults rename/delete ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc

to reset plasma to defaults

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kquitapp plasma-desktop
 sleep 20s
 mkdir -p $HOME/plasma-config/
 mv $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/plasma-desktop* $HOME/plasma-config/
plasma-desktop &

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I did as you suggested, which did restart my plasma-desktop, placing the taskbar back at the bottom of the screen (I have it at the top), and reverting to what looks like an older default wallpaper than Kubuntu 11.10 came with. As far as everything else goes, I still have problems; still got the old icons/theme, cannot re-size windows (once they are at max size they are stuck there), ALT+F2 doesn't respond, cannot shutdown from menu (have to use CTRL+ALT+DEL). This is a capture of what happened when I followed you instructions above:

nlcutxd@nlcutxd-desktop:~$ plasma-desktop &
[1] 1775
nlcutxd@nlcutxd-desktop:~$ QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusObjectPath: invalid path ""
QGraphicsLinearLayout::insertItem: cannot insert null item
QGraphicsLinearLayout::insertItem: cannot insert null item
plasma-desktop(1776)/libplasma Plasma::isPluginVersionCompatible: unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability
nlcutxd@nlcutxd-desktop:~$ Object::connect: No such signal QDBusAbstractInterface::Changed()
Object::connect: No such signal QDBusAbstractInterface::Changed()
plasma-desktop(1776) MessageIndicator::adjustViewSize: No parentWidget for applet widget()!
plasma-desktop(1776) MessageIndicator::adjustViewSize: No parentWidget for applet widget()!
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_36_ hasn't been detected!
plasma-desktop(1776)/libplasma Plasma::isPluginVersionCompatible: unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability
Object::connect: No such signal QDBusAbstractInterface::Changed()
nlcutxd@nlcutxd-desktop:~$ file:///usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/plasmoids/notifier/contents/ui/devicenotifier.qml:166:5: QML QDeclarativeListView_QML_20: Possible anchor loop detected on vertical anchor.
QGraphicsScene::addItem: item has already been added to this scene
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1a00064
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1a0005b
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1a00052
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1a00049
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1a00040
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1a00037
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1a0002e
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x1a00025
link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_36_ hasn't been detected!
QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (0, 1) already taken
QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (1, 1) already taken
QX Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 18 (X_ChangeProperty)
Resource id: 0x0
ControllerWindow::resizeEvent QSize(-1, -1)
ControllerWindow::resizeEvent QSize(1680, 92)
ControllerWindow::resizeEvent QSize(1680, 92)
ControllerWindow::resizeEvent QSize(1680, 93)
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
Resource id: 0x1a002af
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
Resource id: 0x1a002af
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
Resource id: 0x1a002af

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EDIT: Incidentally, I tried setting up a new profile to see if a new login would set everything right, but the new login just gets a blank medium-blue screen, but can be logged back out with CTRL-ALT-DEL

lets try the following:

1) remove your KDE cache - logout of KDE and in virtual terminal Alt+Ctrl+F1 or in failsafe mode remove the folder /var/tmp/kdecache-your_account_name

2) remove ~/.config/Trolltech.conf

3) restart KDE and rebuild system config cache kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

the not being able to login as a new user I'm not sure about, maybe start a new thread specific to that

Not the way I would have liked to have resolved this, but as I had all my data backed up on another partition, I did a clean install from the CD-ROM. I think the afternoon's work installing programmes and returning all my settings etc. to how I like them was looking like it was going to be the path of least resistance!

Thanks very much for replying though.

fyi - assuming you installation got corrupted by the installation and then removal of Unity, which it appears it did, you should have been able to force an update of all your packages instead of doing a clean install.

google01103 wrote:fyi - assuming you installation got corrupted by the installation and then removal of Unity, which it appears it did, you should have been able to force an update of all your packages instead of doing a clean install.

I had done the clean install before I read your last post, but thanks for the replies and advice.

Tom