Description of problem: Instead of my plasma desktop only a black screen appears with a free movable mouse pointer. When I change my login shell from tcsh to bash everthing works and my normal desktop appears. I suppose that some scripts need bash to work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I updated on Mon Sep 21 23:51:27 2015 the last time the kf5 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.Login shell tcsh 2. startkde 3. Actual results: a black screen appears with a free movable mouse pointer. The startup works normal. Expected results: my normal desktop appears after startup Additional info: In my .xsession-error I read that $DISPLAY is not set, I thought that probably plasma starts in my tcsh but need bash. from my .xsession-error sudo: Sie müssen ein TTY haben, um sudo zu verwenden startkde: Starting up... >>> kdeinit5: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set. <<<<< kdeinit5_wrapper: Warning: connect(/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0) failed: : No such file or directory Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.6' "\"fsrestore1\" - conversion of \"0,0,0,0\" to QRect failed" "\"fsrestore2\" - conversion of \"0,0,0,0\" to QRect failed"
This has nothing to do with the login shell. You cannot run "startkde" on its own, you have to run "startx startkde" to start KDE Plasma from the command line.