[kde] Re: Autostart locations in KDE4

2011-06-02 Thread Duncan
Tim Edwards posted on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:39:10 +0200 as excerpted: > First off, thanks for the detailed explanation of the autostart > locations, I've saved it to a text file as a reference. > > However the problem is that although all those autostart locations you > detailed are managed by the

[kde] Re: Programmatically adding plasmoid widgets to the plasma panel?

2011-06-02 Thread Duncan
Kevin Krammer posted on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:33:11 +0200 as excerpted: > On Thursday, 2011-06-02, Stephen Dowdy wrote: >> I have hunted around a bit, but not come up with anything i can run >> with yet, but want to populate the plasma panel with "standard" >> widgets. Below is a shell script i use

[kde] Re: Autostart locations in KDE4

2011-06-02 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Tim Edwards wrote, On 06/02/2011 02:10 PM: > Thanks for the script. I'm not sure what you mean exactly. The config path is: > config = > /home/tim/.kde4/share/config/:/usr/share/kde4/config/:/etc/kde4/share/config/ > [/usr/share/kde4/config/] > > Does that mean KDE scans all those directories f

[kde] Re: Autostart locations in KDE4

2011-06-02 Thread Tim Edwards
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:54 +, "Duncan" <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Tim Edwards posted on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:53:52 +0200 as excerpted: > > > Recently I found that knetworkmanager wasn't starting up when I logged > > into KDE. I tried looking for any mention of it in the 'startup and > > s

[kde] Re: Programmatically adding plasmoid widgets to the plasma panel?

2011-06-02 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday, 2011-06-02, Stephen Dowdy wrote: > I have hunted around a bit, but not come up with anything i can > run with yet, but want to populate the plasma panel with "standard" > widgets. Below is a shell script i use on KDE3 to allow user to > quickly select some standard widgets to add to '

[kde] Programmatically adding plasmoid widgets to the plasma panel?

2011-06-02 Thread Stephen Dowdy
I have hunted around a bit, but not come up with anything i can run with yet, but want to populate the plasma panel with "standard" widgets. Below is a shell script i use on KDE3 to allow user to quickly select some standard widgets to add to 'kicker' panel, but i'd like the equivalent for KDE4.

[kde] Re: Autostart locations in KDE4

2011-06-02 Thread Duncan
Stephen Dowdy posted on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:10:15 -0600 as excerpted: > I was surprised when using the kcmshell4 autostart center that it was > using the XDG autostart path to write a new autostart desktop function. > I thought it would prefer the KDE4 autostart path. I'm not sure if that > indi

[kde] Re: Autostart locations in KDE4

2011-06-02 Thread Stephen Dowdy
Tim Edwards wrote, On 06/02/2011 03:53 AM: > Recently I found that knetworkmanager wasn't starting up when I logged > into KDE. I tried looking for any mention of it in the 'startup and > shutdown' control centre module, but no luck. Eventually I found a tip > on a forum that I had to set 'Autostar

[kde] Re: Autostart locations in KDE4

2011-06-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday, June 02, 2011 10:53:52 AM Tim Edwards wrote: > Recently I found that knetworkmanager wasn't starting up when I logged > into KDE. I tried looking for any mention of it in the 'startup and > shutdown' control centre module, but no luck. Eventually I found a tip > on a forum that I had t

[kde] Re: Autostart locations in KDE4

2011-06-02 Thread Duncan
Tim Edwards posted on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:53:52 +0200 as excerpted: > Recently I found that knetworkmanager wasn't starting up when I logged > into KDE. I tried looking for any mention of it in the 'startup and > shutdown' control centre module, but no luck. Eventually I found a tip > on a forum t

[kde] Re: Running dolphin from a shell script and opening it in a specific directory.

2011-06-02 Thread John Woodhouse
> > Meanwhile, are you going to try omitting the various sections as > suggested, or are you taking an "if it works, don't break it" attitude? > The don't break what's working stance is certainly a valid choice, but if > you do try it without those sections, I'd appreciate it if you posted

[kde] Re: Running dolphin from a shell script and opening it in a specific directory.

2011-06-02 Thread Duncan
John Woodhouse posted on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:38:01 -0700 as excerpted: > One aspect - the script will be run via a desktop icon which I assume > means a .desktop file to activate it running in the console. That means > the shell will flash up briefly which is rather untidy. Maybe there is > no nee

[kde] Autostart locations in KDE4

2011-06-02 Thread Tim Edwards
Recently I found that knetworkmanager wasn't starting up when I logged into KDE. I tried looking for any mention of it in the 'startup and shutdown' control centre module, but no luck. Eventually I found a tip on a forum that I had to set 'Autostart=true' in ~/.kde4/share/config/networkmanagementrc

[kde] Re: Running dolphin from a shell script and opening it in a specific directory.

2011-06-02 Thread John Woodhouse
Thanks folks. As usual I haven't been here before but it looks like I have found a solution to my nas problems but there are complications. One aspect - the script will be run via a desktop icon which I assume means a .desktop file to activate it running in the console. That means the shell wi