Display problem after enabling Desktop effects

satyakb · 01-07-2009, 01:46 PM

I own a Dell XPS (4GB RAM, Core 2 Duo 2GHz processor) and installed Mandriva 2009 in it. Everything seemed to be working fine until I started enabling some advanced desktop effects under System Configuration menu.

The OS now boots, but the display is plain blank. I can only see the shadows of the menu when I right click on the desktop. I'm fairly new to Linux so don't know how I can revert back those advanced desktop effects settings without the graphical display.

Please help.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 01-07-2009, 02:33 PM

Try this -- Warning you will lose any customisations doing this. --

At the login screen do: Alt & Ctrl & F1, now log in as yourself.

Type:

Code:

cp .kde4 .kde4old

then press enter. (this makes a copy of your current .kde4 folder and renames it)

Now type:

Code:

rm -r -f .kde4

and press enter. (This will delete your current .kde4 folder)

Type: exit and press enter

Now do: Alt & F7

Login as normal. If all is ok you can delete the .kde4old folder.

satyakb · 01-09-2009, 04:07 PM

The display is back after I did as you told.

The only difference was that I logged into the KDE 3.5 session at startup and modified it through the UI itself.

Thanks!

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 01-09-2009, 04:09 PM

Glad to have helped. You will need to show hidden files in Dolphin to see and remove .kde4old.