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Hello everyone, I was playing with the window-specific options for couple of programs and now when I log in to my desktop all I see is a black screen and ...
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  1. 10-10-2005 #1
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    Window-Specific Settings

    Hello everyone,

    I was playing with the window-specific options for couple of programs and now when I log in to my desktop all I see is a black screen and a mouse pointer. I can move it. I can hear the default "Welcome" music from KDE.

    How can I revert this? Don't want to delete everything because of this silly problem.

    I use Fox Desktop which is based on FC3, btw.

    Thanks!
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    What happens if you use ctrl-alt-f1?? If this brings you back to a sensible looking command line then the problem is with your x-server configuration and you need to have a look at your xorg.conf file. If you still don't see anything...... Then we have some thinking to do
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    Quote Originally Posted by smolloy
    What happens if you use ctrl-alt-f1?? If this brings you back to a sensible looking command line then the problem is with your x-server configuration and you need to have a look at your xorg.conf file. If you still don't see anything...... Then we have some thinking to do
    Edit xorg... I'll try that. (Not sure WHAT I'll edit there but I'll look )

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    Didn't look very... Special

    Everything seems normal... At least, to me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Krogen
    Everything seems normal...
    So when you pressed ctrl-alt-f1 it brought you to a command line based login screen?? If so, I think this implies that your xorg.conf configuration file has been messed up somehow. I think this is quite a large file, but could you post its contents here??
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    If I press alt+ctrl+f1 it will bring up the 'normal' linux text mode...

    The /etc/X11/xorg.conf file seems to be fine. How can I copy+paste the whole thing to this forum?

    I'm pretty sure this is a KDE configuration problem... Don't know how to revert the changes though. (Where can I find kde configuration files?)

    I'm still getting the splashscreen when loading kde, the nice welcome tune, but, after that, a black screen comes up with nothing on it except a mouse pointer (default one...). If I press alt and tab, I will get a ***No Windows*** message. Ctrl + escape (and alt+ctrl+escape) won't do any good.

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    FIXED!!!

    I just kept pressing everything until the Run Command menu came up (Now I know is F2+Alt) then I ran kcontrol from there and I deleted my window settings. Restarted KDE, runs fine!

    Thanks for offering help though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Krogen
    I just kept pressing everything until the Run Command menu came up (Now I know is F2+Alt) then I ran kcontrol from there and I deleted my window settings. Restarted KDE, runs fine!
    That's actually really worth remembering for the next time I screw up my own settings!

    Good job!
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