Re: [opensuse] The Bar
On Sunday 2 December 2007 20:54:17 Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 02 December 2007 12:38, Keller, Damon A SPC MIL USA wrote: Does anyone know why the entire menu, tool bar and system tray goes away after running updates? It certainly doesn't, not in general and not when things are working correctly. I've never seen that symptom. Sorry, Randall, it does - this has happened on at least two 10.2 machines of mine, but I haven't tracked down which update was responsible yet. I have noticed, though, that moving the .kde folder out of the way so that a new one is created seems to get kicker working normally again. To the OP, the easiest way to deal with this (without moving your .kde folder, which means re-entering all your user data) is to go to ~/.kde/Autostart, and run: ln -s /opt/kde3/bin/kicker kicker That will mean that kicker gets started independently each time the desktop launches. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly blog.thinkopen.co.uk - blog www.klebran.org.uk - Gwirydd gramadeg rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.rhedadur.org.uk - Rhedeg berfau Cymraeg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] The Bar
On Monday 03 December 2007, Kevin Donnelly wrote: Sorry, Randall, it does - this has happened on at least two 10.2 machines of mine, but I haven't tracked down which update was responsible yet. I have noticed, though, that moving the .kde folder out of the way so that a new one is created seems to get kicker working normally again. To the OP, the easiest way to deal with this (without moving your .kde folder, which means re-entering all your user data) is to go to ~/.kde/Autostart, and run: ln -s /opt/kde3/bin/kicker kicker That will mean that kicker gets started independently each time the desktop launches. -- This once happened on my opensuse 10.2 machine. It was caused by a .desktop file in the .kde directory; if I remember correctly it was kcmkicker.desktop and contained only 2 lines without an Exec line, which caused kicker not to launch when logging in. I hope this helps. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] The Bar
On Sunday 02 December 2007 12:38, Keller, Damon A SPC MIL USA wrote: Hello, Does anyone know why the entire menu, tool bar and system tray goes away after running updates? It certainly doesn't, not in general and not when things are working correctly. I've never seen that symptom. Look in you ~/.xsession-errors for some indication of what went wrong. Also, it's always good to give details about your system (software version, KDE vs. Gnome vs. something else), what you did (did you use the tray-based updater to install the updates, or do it via the YaST module?), etc. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] The Bar
Okay, I'll check the logs and see. Thanks. -Damon On Sunday 02 December 2007 02:54:17 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: On Sunday 02 December 2007 12:38, Keller, Damon A SPC MIL USA wrote: Hello, Does anyone know why the entire menu, tool bar and system tray goes away after running updates? It certainly doesn't, not in general and not when things are working correctly. I've never seen that symptom. Look in you ~/.xsession-errors for some indication of what went wrong. Also, it's always good to give details about your system (software version, KDE vs. Gnome vs. something else), what you did (did you use the tray-based updater to install the updates, or do it via the YaST module?), etc. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
