Hi all
I have a Toshiba Satellite notebook running SuSE 7.0 (personal edition)
with kde as the window manager. For reasons unknown (to me at least) I
can
no longer click on an icon, for example, the shell icon, on the Kpanel
and get a response. Also, the icons on the desktop, netscape and
soffice,
for example, have disappeared. Finally, if I click on the K menu button
I can navigate out to the various programs, but again nothing responds.
I can however, hit Alt/F2, get a command window, type in netscape, xterm
or soffice, and the respective application comes up!
I have searched the web and found no hints as to what might be going on.
I happen to have the Que "Practical KDE" by Dennis Powell where, on page
46, under "Troubleshooting" there is a section "KDE starts but
Applications won't". He suggests a
chmod 1777 /tmp
which I tried (and got
drwxrwxrwt
which says I didn't hit a typo) but the problem remained.
I also tried
chmod -RV 1777 /tmp
to recursively chmod (I found several subdirectories in /tmp)
but again without success. :-(
The KDE version is 1.1.2 according to the SuSE box. The kernel
is 2.2.12 (but, that, I suspect, is irrelevant).
So, my specific question is "has anyone out there seen this
and/or knows the solution/fix?". If not, a broader question
is "what would you try next?" (without blowing away everything
and reinstalling linux :-) --- this same SuSE/KDE works
fine on a Dell desktop box). As you might gather, I have
reached the point where I am open to suggestions of any
kind :-)
doug
