Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> 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.

If you are using gdm as "login" (quite nice after you patch the key order on
the requesters), you will get problems with KDE from time to time, it's better
to use kdm, it just works better. But I doubt that is cause of your problem as
you have troubles with Gnome2 too.


//Aho