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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:28:23 +1100
From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org>
To: "Mazen S. Alzogbi" <freebsd@mazenalzogbi.com>
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:34:02PM +0400, Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With the help of the great people here I was able to install and run
> KDE3 on my FreeBSD 4.9. After that, I was trying to change the theme to
> the skin-less default one which made KDE freeze for a very long time. I
> forced a restart (and maybe it was me who killed KDE).
> 
> Now KDE is showing nothing but the gray background and no components on
> the desktop. To be precise, it's showing the panel toolbar at the buttom
> on the screen and when I try to click on it, it disappear!!!


You could delete the .kde directory in your home.
Then try startx again.

Gautam