On Tue, 8 Nov 2016, Sl�vek Banko wrote:

> On Monday 07 of November 2016 18:15:11 Felmon Davis wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> tried to upgrade and ended up with a nest of problems.
>>
>> I'm up and running Jessie but:
>>
>> a) the Desktop shows no icons and
>> b) I cannot right-click - no response
>> c) I like setting the Console schema to taste; the setting does not
>> stick
>>
>> I assume some config file is amiss or some kind of permissions
>> problem.
>>
>> advice?
>>
>> f.
>
> You're doing an update during an active TDE session or from the console?
> According to a) and b) it appears that the process kdesktop is not
> running.

I found the problem.

the hint was, though I didn't understand it at the time, that after a 
while the desktop would populate with my whole home directory -- all 
of its files and folders!

google pointed me to the 'paths' variable in 'kcontrol' -- it was 
pointed to my home directory, not to 'Desktop'.

I corrected that and for now things seem back in shape.

f.

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Felmon Davis

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