iforone wrote:

>
> Madhusudan Singh wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Did a bunch of updates on my Debian Etch system. Among others, KDE was
>> upgraded to 3.5. Now, when X starts up (tried both kdm and gdm), there is
>> a strange kind of translucency present - the mouse cursor is invisible,
>> and the text is visible, without the colors that distinguish a window
>> from the background. Nothing is readable. I am posting this from a
>> Knoppix live CD session.
>>
>> Logging into Gnome leads to one advantage - can at least see the
>> terminal, though any ncurses dependent stuff leads to the same problems.
>>
>> Any idea about what is wrong, and how do I fix it from a text only
>> runlevel ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> Perhaps this is way overkill, but maybe;
> dpkg-reconfigure kdm
> or
> dpkg-reconfigure gdm
> use whichever one you like least, in case something goes really funky,
> like lost files /settings
>
> Wait for other advice

Tried it. All it does is to change the manager. No joy.

I think this is an X problem.