I made the mistake of installing a KDE2 from Mandrake, followed by one from KDE
followed by one from Mandrake. From then on, and I installed the last ones last
night, every time I try to launch konqueror it simply crashes ! As a result I
cannot see what everyone else is raving about ! The only hint I get is dropping
out of X I see a message saying :
KDE detected X error: BadDrawable (Invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
Major opcode 14
I have also seen messages relating to a bad KInstance also causing a crash.
I would love to see konqueror browsing. Especially since it is fast becoming
obvious that Mozilla is going to amount to nothing on the Linux platform.
Considering how long it took Red Hat to pursuade Real to do a Linux plugin for
bog standard Netscape, what hope is there of trying to get the plugin vendors
to rewrite their plugins for a single instance of a brand new minority browser
on what is currently a minority platform !
Please help me to get konqueror working again.
Owen
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Installed KDE 2 over the weekend, and, I must say, look out Windoze. IE was
> my favourite browser until I saw Konqueror. Nice innit?
>
> Well, thats it for the bootlicking, now for my issues...
>
> 1. I cannot run simple things like XKill. Just says it can't run it. If I
> type it in at the command prompt, it works fine. Likewise with Drakconf.
> ???
>
> 2. kdesu doesn't kick in. If something requiring root is run, it just
> complains that it can't run it.
>
> 3. After a couple of logins, not only do I have the KDE 2 menu items on the
> K Menu (Start menu type thing, u know), but all my KDE 1 menu items appear
> too. And yes, u guessed it, I can't run any of them.
>
> 4. When I install KDE1and2scripts, it makes the relevant changes to the
> windowmanagers file, but the changes do not appear on the menu at the login
> screen UNTIL I add them in using the login manager.
>
> And last, but not least
>
> 5. After a program error, or hang, and I restart X, all the desktop icons
> disappear. Only after I delete the .kde2 folder from my home dir can I get
> them back. Oh, yeah, one last thing. Some sites look weird under
> Konqueror. Look at the left and right panes on www.mandrakeuser.org for an
> example. Pay particular attention to the subscription text box on the right
> hand side.
>
> Any one got any solutions for the above? I'd be sooo happy to hear from
> you.
>
> It still looks lovely tho.
>
> Thanks
>
> Alex
