On 15 Aug 2001 04:15:50 -0500, will trillich wrote: > when using konquer in file-browser mode (nosnig around my home > directory, for example) if i run across a *.tar.gz for example > and if i make the mistake of double-clicking on it (thinking > that if less can read it, everything ought to be able to) > knoqueror tries to display the file, figures out it should pass > it to a helper application -- which is konqueror -- and then > hands the task off to that application. snip > which is konqueror. which doesn't know how to handle *.gz files. > so it spawns a helper application to do the work... snip > until i ctl-alt-f1 to get console, log in an kill one of the > main kdm processes; then all my current windows are okay (even > switching virtual desktops is no problem) but no new processes > can be spawned. when i log out (or wind up killing X via > atl-alt-backspace) kdm restarts and then all is rosy again. Have you tried killall konqueror? That works for me when nmbd goes bezerk and rabbits on me. Much easier than putting in a ton of pids. --mike
> i let it go one time to see if it'd quit after so many > iterations, and there appeared to be no end in sight. > > how do i tell konqueror to NOT spawn itself as a helper app? Not sure how to do that since I run mozilla/galeon. Perhaps in the helper apps section there is some way to add .gz and tar.gz as being read by the kde filemanager or something? --mike
