On Saturday 16 May 2015 12:19:10 am Rolf Schmidt wrote:

> >> I'm using this:
> >> 1) Ctrl+Alt+F1 for switch to the text console
> >> 2) killall -9 kdesktop
> >> 3) switch back to Xorg
> >> 4) and then try to start kdesktop again from console
>
> Insted start kdesktop try: /etc/init.d/tde-trinity restart.
> It works here
>
> Fine regards
> Rolf

One more option..I switched to using 'service', it has command line 
completion. man service

#'service tdm-trinity <stop/start/restart>"
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Greg M