On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:48:42 -0500 Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought I had this licked because I was getting along well for a while but > then, inexplicably, the problem pops up again. > > I am running Mandrake 8.2 with the Mandrake KDE 3.0.1 rpms installed (I am > VERY slowly downloading the KDE 3.0.2 rpms now...will take a week to finish). > It is a known monstrous problem in KDE 3 that if you try to run the konsole > from the panel/kicker, it will freeze kicker and when you exit konsole, you > will get an error message about not being able to run "konsole-noxft". GAH! > > I tried several things to destroy this nonsense, from changing the real > konsole-noxft to another name and then symlinking konsole-noxft to plain ole > konsole, editing the properties for the konsole icon on the panel so that it > runs "konsole" instead of "konsole-noxft" (but this only lasts until your > next login), and finally, when nothing worked, I flat-out deleted > konsole-noxft (because I NEVER want to run without xft damnit!) and that > worked...for a while. I quite getting the error message and konsole started > just fine from kicker (you do not get any problem if you run konsole from the > kmenu (??). Then, and suddenly, I lately found that I couldn't run konsole > from the kicker icon at all because it started complaining about not being > able to find "konsole-noxft". Duh, I deleted it and it was all perfectly > fine for about a month. > > Has anyone come up with a permanent fix for this that does NOT involve the > very sad and repulsive suggestion from the KDE people of deleting the kicker > konsole icon and just putting a konsole icon on the desktop? I will not do > this. My desktop is clean and pristine and there will be no nonsensical > icons on it. At the moment, I have replaced the konsole icon with one for > eterm but there is no antialiasing possible with this. > > Anyone find a better fix than the KDE-suggested one? > > praedor > > here is a solution given on "débutant". the newbie french list. edit this file: /opt/kde3/share/applnk-mdk/Terminals/konsole.desktop so that it looks like the following. just adapt your locales :) [Desktop Entry] Name=Konsole Comment=Konsole Exec=konsole %i %m Terminal=false Icon=konsole.png Encoding=UTF-8 DocPath=konsole/index.html Terminal=0 X-KDE-StartupNotify=true GenericName=Terminal Program X-DCOP-ServiceType=Multi X-KDE-AuthorizeAction=shell access Type=Application Name[fr_FR]=Konsole Name[fr]=Konsole bye jipe
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