28 Sep
2020
28 Sep
'20
7:47 a.m.
On Sunday 27 September 2020 09:20:31 Uwe Brauer via
tde-users wrote:
Did you try "sudo dpkg --purge --force-all
desktop-base"? In the past, at
least on my own system, I have found this to solve a problem that sounds
similar to yours.
Thanks, I will try this out later.
The default package desktop-base seems to conflict
with desktop-base-trinity,
although it usually doesn't come up as an error. Other contenders
(desktop-base-* for other DEs) might also conflict.
Before purging desktop-base (the default), then make
sure that
desktop-base-trinity is installed. Then run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure
tdm-trinity" and "sudo dpkg-reconfigure desktop-base-trinity".
This is very helpful to know, because similar things happened to me in
the past.
If I am forced to use another DE as a workaround
sometimes, or for purposes of
troubleshooting, then I myself would prefer MATE or xfce, as they are the
least intrusive, and don't conflict much with TDE.
I think the worst thing I did once (some years ago) was to install Kubuntu and trying to
install TDE on top of it, quite a nightmare.
Uwe