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. -- Felmon Davis History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on. -- Napoleon Bonaparte, "Maxims"