Re: [newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 22:23, Paul Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: Every time I start a new session, the icons on my desktop do not keep the same sorting; they appear quite unsorted, indeed, although correctly horizontally aligned. I have looked, in the menus, for an option to control that, but I have found nothing. I am using KDE 3.2 and Mandrake 10. Any ideas? What happens when you right-click your desktop , click Icons -- Sort Icons ? Answering your question: the icons are correctly sorted with right-click my desktop, click Icons -- Sort Icons. Well, as I understand it next time you boot the icons are scrambled again, right ? If that's the case, maybe you have restore previous session set. I would try to set it start with an empty session, and then logout/in. The option is under : System -- Configuration --Configure your desktop -- Components -- Session Manager. Kaj, I had already noticed those options and I had already set on the option start with an empty session. Strangely, if I set on the option restore previous session, the icons are scrambled again next time I boot. Strange indeed, Paul. This is beyond me. But occasionally I screw up my KDE and rather then fiddling around editing .rc files I just delete my entire .kde directory, and restart the X server. That way everything KDE is back to defaults. I must add, though, that I am too lazy to do much customizing, so it's no big deal. Otherwise, someone wiser than me (that means most people), step in here. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.0) - kernel 2.6.7* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop
Kaj Haulrich wrote: But occasionally I screw up my KDE and rather then fiddling around editing .rc files I just delete my entire .kde directory, and restart the X server. That way everything KDE is back to defaults. Kaj, I adopted the same approach and everything is now fine. Thanks. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Every time I start a new session, the icons on my desktop do not keep the same sorting; they appear quite unsorted, indeed, although correctly horizontally aligned. I have looked, in the menus, for an option to control that, but I have found nothing. I am using KDE 3.2 and Mandrake 10. Any ideas? What happens when you right-click your desktop , click Icons -- Sort Icons ? Kaj, Answering your question: the icons are correctly sorted with right-click my desktop, click Icons -- Sort Icons. Regards, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 10:18, Paul Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: Every time I start a new session, the icons on my desktop do not keep the same sorting; they appear quite unsorted, indeed, although correctly horizontally aligned. I have looked, in the menus, for an option to control that, but I have found nothing. I am using KDE 3.2 and Mandrake 10. Any ideas? What happens when you right-click your desktop , click Icons -- Sort Icons ? Kaj, Answering your question: the icons are correctly sorted with right-click my desktop, click Icons -- Sort Icons. Regards, Paul Well, as I understand it next time you boot the icons are scrambled again, right ? If that's the case, maybe you have restore previous session set. I would try to set it start with an empty session, and then logout/in. The option is under : System -- Configuration --Configure your desktop -- Components -- Session Manager. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.0) - kernel 2.6.7* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Every time I start a new session, the icons on my desktop do not keep the same sorting; they appear quite unsorted, indeed, although correctly horizontally aligned. I have looked, in the menus, for an option to control that, but I have found nothing. I am using KDE 3.2 and Mandrake 10. Any ideas? What happens when you right-click your desktop , click Icons -- Sort Icons ? Answering your question: the icons are correctly sorted with right-click my desktop, click Icons -- Sort Icons. Well, as I understand it next time you boot the icons are scrambled again, right ? If that's the case, maybe you have restore previous session set. I would try to set it start with an empty session, and then logout/in. The option is under : System -- Configuration --Configure your desktop -- Components -- Session Manager. Kaj, I had already noticed those options and I had already set on the option start with an empty session. Strangely, if I set on the option restore previous session, the icons are scrambled again next time I boot. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop
Dear All Every time I start a new session, the icons on my desktop do not keep the same sorting; they appear quite unsorted, indeed, although correctly horizontally aligned. I have looked, in the menus, for an option to control that, but I have found nothing. I am using KDE 3.2 and Mandrake 10. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KDE Problem
I have an unusual problem with the KDE desktop. When I enter my system under root, the KDE desktop loads with 10 copies of the GMC file manager. I end up deleting all the copies, then everything is fine. Is there a configure file for the KDE desktop? How can I fix this? Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE Problem
AL wrote: Hi, I'm running LM7.2. Whenever I login into KDE I randomly get kicked back to console mode. All my hardware is recognised. Any ideas from the gurus? Thanks a lot! This is worth a try... While in console mode, log in as root and type in: pico .Xclients Press the enter key Add the line: exec /usr/your_name/kde In my case your_name is i.e /usr/roman/kde Press CNTRL + X and save the file reboot. I hope this helps. Roman
[newbie] KDE Problem
Hi, I'm running LM7.2. Whenever I login into KDE I randomly get kicked back to console mode. All my hardware is recognised. Any ideas from the gurus? Thanks a lot!
Re: [newbie] KDE problem
I have had similar problems in the past. Make sure that the .kderc file in your $HOME directory is owned by you and not root. For some reason mine was owned by root when I logged in the first time. -- Original Message -- From: Hellmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:46:00 +0200 Hi! I have experienced the same problem and I found out where it came from (On my machine): Every time I ran kdesu on my users desktop, I wasn't able to change the color scheme anymore. It had to with kdesu here, but I don't know which file got locked... :( -- Here is an interesting one. Whenever I try to change the colour scheme of my windows in KDE, I run into an unusual problem. The Window titlebar changes colour, but the font always remains black. The panel changes, but the taskbar doesn't. The file manager background changes, but in every application, the window itself (with the exception of the titlebar, borders) remain that drab gray colour. Every other user can customize, except for me. What do I do to change this? This is only a minor annoyance, but I wish to resolve it. Jay "Every man dies, not every man really lives." http://www.mrsnooky.com -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de | | | +-0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo
[newbie] KDE problem
-- Here is an interesting one. Whenever I try to change the colour scheme of my windows in KDE, I run into an unusual problem. The Window titlebar changes colour, but the font always remains black. The panel changes, but the taskbar doesn't. The file manager background changes, but in every application, the window itself (with the exception of the titlebar, borders) remain that drab gray colour. Every other user can customize, except for me. What do I do to change this? This is only a minor annoyance, but I wish to resolve it. Jay "Every man dies, not every man really lives." http://www.mrsnooky.com
Re: [newbie] KDE problem
Hi! I have experienced the same problem and I found out where it came from (On my machine): Every time I ran kdesu on my users desktop, I wasn't able to change the color scheme anymore. It had to with kdesu here, but I don't know which file got locked... :( -- Here is an interesting one. Whenever I try to change the colour scheme of my windows in KDE, I run into an unusual problem. The Window titlebar changes colour, but the font always remains black. The panel changes, but the taskbar doesn't. The file manager background changes, but in every application, the window itself (with the exception of the titlebar, borders) remain that drab gray colour. Every other user can customize, except for me. What do I do to change this? This is only a minor annoyance, but I wish to resolve it. Jay "Every man dies, not every man really lives." http://www.mrsnooky.com -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de | | | +-0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo
[newbie] KDE Problem
Hi list anywhere remember my question about xserver crash? no problem I can use X server with gnome, and I localize the problem, and the name of the problem is KDE, I can't start KDE or any program of KDE, I read the xsession-errors and its say: imwheel process could not be verified: : No existe el fichero o el directorio imwheel started (pid=6534) QFont::load: Internal error /usr/bin/startkde: line 13: 6535 Abortado(core dumped) kcontrol -init QFont::load: Internal error QFont::load: Internal error QFont::load: Internal error QFont::load: Internal error /usr/bin/startkde: line 33: 6539 Abortado(core dumped) ( sleep 1 exec kwmsound ) /usr/bin/startkde: line 33: 6540 Abortado(core dumped) ( sleep 1 exec kpanel ) /usr/bin/startkde: line 33: 6541 Abortado(core dumped) ( sleep 1 exec kfm ) /usr/bin/startkde: line 33: 6542 Abortado(core dumped) ( sleep 1 exec krootwm ) QFont::load: Internal error X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Anyone has any idea of this?, thanx Martín Ibarra (PeNDeX) http://sanjose.iwarp.com/http://sanjose.iwarp.com ICQ: 544314 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] San José Uruguay
[newbie] KDE Problem
Hello to all, I've setup differnt users on my mandrake 7.0. In one user when I right click the mouse I can only create a new folder. With the other users I've the full menu, I can create a new desktop link etc. How can I fix this situation ??? Thanks in advance Fabio
Re: [newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have Mandrake 6.0 on a AMD K6-2/350 (well, a couple actually), but on one machine I tried to upgrade KDE 1.1.1 to 1.1.2. I went to KDE's web site, then to their download site and ftp'd all the files in the directory, about a dozen or so. These were in rpm format. I'm *guessing* you got the wrong version of the KDE RPMs. Next time you might try using RPMfind.net to find the MANDRAKE 6.x KDE 1.1.2 updates, or go to www.linux-mandrake.com to find the list of mirrors and find the RPM files there. I'm guessing what happened is you have the RH 5.x KDE updates instead of the RH 6.x KDE updates. RH 6.x was the first RedHat version to incorporate the KDE desktop, etc and there is a HUGE difference as to where the KDE files are put when they are installed via RPM. Here's an FTP site for Mandrake updates: ftp.linux-mandrake.com/pub/updates/6.0/RPMS/ Try doing and rpm -e kde* and then an RPM -UVH kde* once you download all the MANDRAKE KDE updates. John
Re: [newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2
I downloaded the files with ...1.1.2-... so I believe those should be the correct files. When I tried rpm -e kde* I got an error - error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm And when I tried rpm -uvh kde* I got the message: rpm: only one major mode may be specified I cannot run kpackage, it won't work at all. I tried gnorpm but that also would not work. I also tried rpm -Vp kde*, and rpm -i --replacepkgs kde*, and others and nothing will work. Worse of all, I can't run netconf or netcfg, so I can't fix my ipaddress on that machine, so it won't see the net, unless there is a way to change that from the command line. Chip John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have Mandrake 6.0 on a AMD K6-2/350 (well, a couple actually), but on one machine I tried to upgrade KDE 1.1.1 to 1.1.2. I went to KDE's web site, then to their download site and ftp'd all the files in the directory, about a dozen or so. These were in rpm format. I'm *guessing* you got the wrong version of the KDE RPMs. Next time you might try using RPMfind.net to find the MANDRAKE 6.x KDE 1.1.2 updates, or go to www.linux-mandrake.com to find the list of mirrors and find the RPM files there. I'm guessing what happened is you have the RH 5.x KDE updates instead of the RH 6.x KDE updates. RH 6.x was the first RedHat version to incorporate the KDE desktop, etc and there is a HUGE difference as to where the KDE files are put when they are installed via RPM. Here's an FTP site for Mandrake updates: ftp.linux-mandrake.com/pub/updates/6.0/RPMS/ Try doing and rpm -e kde* and then an RPM -UVH kde* once you download all the MANDRAKE KDE updates. John
[newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2
I have Mandrake 6.0 on a AMD K6-2/350 (well, a couple actually), but on one machine I tried to upgrade KDE 1.1.1 to 1.1.2. I went to KDE's web site, then to their download site and ftp'd all the files in the directory, about a dozen or so. These were in rpm format. Before actually doing anything with them I went into the Linux chat room on yahoo and got some opinions on just what is the best way to do this. I was told to use Kpackage and force the install ontop of the previous version, which I did. Then I rebooted the machine and it will not come up to the normal gui logon screen. All I get is a gray screen and 'x' shaped mouse cursor, no icons, no task bar, no mouse right-click, nothing at all. I try alt-Feverythingkey and none of them work. I then am left with one option - ctrl-alt-bkspc. I get the screen with lots of text flying by and the last lines read as follows - /home/chip/.Xclients: /home/chip/.Xclients-default: no such file or dir. /home/chip/.Xclients: exec: /home/chip/.Xclients-default: no such file or dir. And sure-enough, there is no .Xclients file to be found. So, what the heck do I do now? I am stuck using winblows on this machine, though I could use my firewall for this but prefer not to. I have quite a few apps and saved files in Linux on this one, so hopefully I can just fix this problem without reinstalling the whole OS. Please help, and thank you ahead of time for trying, Chip Wiegand
Re: [newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, Chip wrote:
/home/chip/.Xclients: exec: /home/chip/.Xclients-default: no such file
or dir.
And sure-enough, there is no .Xclients file to be found.
So, what the heck do I do now? I
How about creating ("touch) the Xclients-default file with just one
line:
exec startkde
and making it executable.
--
Ronald
Re: [newbie] KDE Problem
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi All: I just ,make a clear install of LM 6.1 all the installation process went OK but once installed i have trubble with Kde. It hangs very often suddenly I cant open any application on the desktop and I have to restart the X windows again to make the things start working again, i think this is a Kde bug? rpm -e kcmclock and then rpm -Uvh kdelibs. That's supposed to take care of it, from what I"ve been reading in this group. John
[newbie] KDE Problem
Hi All: I just ,make a clear install of LM 6.1 all the installation process went OK but once installed i have trubble with Kde. It hangs very often suddenly I cant open any application on the desktop and I have to restart the X windows again to make the things start working again, i think this is a Kde bug? Its there any parch to these bug? Finally I have to say that I was using LM 5.3 for about a year and I haven't got any problem it appeared to be rock solid,I want the same on LM 6.1. Best regards: Alain.
[newbie] kde problem
Can anyone tell me how to use kmodem with Mandrake 6.0? It's set up to use kde in the /opt/kde and doesn't install in Mandrake. Surely there must be a simple workaround? Thanks, Gene
Re: [newbie] KDE Problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody. I tried to submit this problem twice but it doesn't seem to be getting up to the list. I am really stuck on this one. I installed the Linux-Mandrake 5.3 package on one of my computers yesterday and all seemed to be going well until I started KDE. First, I got an Error message that said: | KFM Error | | Could not create | |~/.kde/share/apps/kfm/magic | I clicked past this message and got the KDE desktop, but I can't launch any applications and none of the buttons work. The only thing that I could do within KDE was shut down and get out. If anyone has a clue as to why this happened and how it can be fixed, please let me know. First, check to see if you've got any disk space left... :) Second, try: rm ~/.kde Then restart KDE. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] KDE Problem
Hi everybody. I tried to submit this problem twice but it doesn't seem to be getting up to the list. I am really stuck on this one. I installed the Linux-Mandrake 5.3 package on one of my computers yesterday and all seemed to be going well until I started KDE. First, I got an Error message that said: _ | KFM Error | | | | Could not create | |~/.kde/share/apps/kfm/magic | |_| I clicked past this message and got the KDE desktop, but I can't launch any applications and none of the buttons work. The only thing that I could do within KDE was shut down and get out. If anyone has a clue as to why this happened and how it can be fixed, please let me know. Thanks in advance, Jim
