Hi there, I have upgraded to SuSE 3.2.3 with the SuSE supplementary packages on SuSE 9.0 Pro and while a few bugs disappeared, I seem to be collecting more and was wondering if these were known KDE bugs or are specific to the SuSE packages and if anyone knows of fixes. I haven't seen anyone post anything on this mailing list for the following problems (sorry if I missed any postings): 1) The submenu arrows on my k menu seem to be clipped. See screenshot: http://www.cpinkney.org.uk/images/kmenu.png I noticed I had kdebase 3.2.1 installed for a while when the rest of the kdebase packages were 3.2.3 and the k menu was actually drawn correctly then, strangely. But as soon as I upgraded kdebase to 3.2.3 the menu started getting clipped again. It's as if the 'Most/Last Used Applications' title is pushing the menu width out of the drawn area and I don't know why it was fine when kdebase 3.2.1 was installed. 2) Klipper doesn't seem to save the clipboard contents when I exit KDE. If I explicitely quit klipper, then it saves the clipboard contents, but it seems as though klipper is getting killed off rather than closed when I exit KDE. 3) New windows appear under the current window with the focus, including a karamba window, and the taskbar button for the new window flashes but it does not get the focus. It used to be that new windows always appeared on top and got the focus. This is really annoying, especially for dialog windows and I'm sure it was working properly after upgrading to KDE 3.2.3 and has only just started happening. I haven't upgraded X windows at all and in the KDE control panel I have set focus to follow mouse with autoraise after 700ms, plus I have smart window placement on, which is how it was set when it worked properly. 4) Fairly frequently but not always, when filling in web forms with konqueror, before I get a chance to start typing in a text box and only give the box the keyboard focus, konqueror will freeze up for about 10 seconds, but the CPU is not busy. konqueror doesn't freeze up in any other situation and didn't do before KDE 3.2.2. 5) Although I have the sound notification setup in kget to make a sound when a download starts and finishes, I don't get anything on the finish and only get a sound on the start. This hasn't worked for a long while actually, maybe never. 6) karamba always crashes when I exit KDE. I have a simple karamba theme setup to act just like the X Windows root-tail utility which works fine, but crashes on exiting KDE. This is more of a curious annoyance than anything but didn't happen with KDE 3.2.2. Thanks for getting this far. I would appreciate even knowing if other people are having the same issues and better still, if anyone has any fixes. Regards, -- Colin Pinkney http://www.cpinkney.org.uk
On Monday 28 June 2004 10:59, Colin Pinkney wrote:
Hi there,
I have upgraded to SuSE 3.2.3 with the SuSE supplementary packages on SuSE 9.0 Pro and while a few bugs disappeared, I seem to be collecting more and was wondering if these were known KDE bugs or are specific to the SuSE packages and if anyone knows of fixes. I haven't seen anyone post anything on this mailing list for the following problems (sorry if I missed any postings):
1) The submenu arrows on my k menu seem to be clipped. See screenshot: http://www.cpinkney.org.uk/images/kmenu.png
That is because you're using the sidebar to show KDE 3.x.x If you get rid of that sidebar it will look different. -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 00:39, Bill Wisse wrote:
On Monday 28 June 2004 10:59, Colin Pinkney wrote:
1) The submenu arrows on my k menu seem to be clipped. See screenshot: http://www.cpinkney.org.uk/images/kmenu.png
That is because you're using the sidebar to show KDE 3.x.x If you get rid of that sidebar it will look different.
Sadly I then just get a blank space to the left of the k menu and the submenu arrows are still missing. If I set the k menu to show the name and description as suggested in another post, I get the submenu arrows, so I may have to live with that. Thanks for the idea though. -- Colin Pinkney http://www.cpinkney.org.uk
On Monday 28 June 2004 05:59 pm, Colin Pinkney wrote:
Hi there,
I have upgraded to SuSE 3.2.3 with the SuSE supplementary packages on SuSE 9.0 Pro and while a few bugs disappeared, I seem to be collecting more and was wondering if these were known KDE bugs or are specific to the SuSE packages and if anyone knows of fixes. I haven't seen anyone post anything on this mailing list for the following problems (sorry if I missed any postings): [...] Regards,
-- Colin Pinkney http://www.cpinkney.org.uk ==========
Colin, Most, if not all, of these should just be some settings in your Control Centre. You may have to look around a bit, read your SuSE manual, but I think you'll find them easy to change. You also may want to only ask one or two similar questions in an email, so anyone wanting to reply are not overwhelmed with trying to cover everything in one mail. ;o) Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
Hi Colin,
1) The submenu arrows on my k menu seem to be clipped. See screenshot: http://www.cpinkney.org.uk/images/kmenu.png I noticed I had kdebase 3.2.1 installed for a while when the rest of the kdebase packages were 3.2.3 and the k menu was actually drawn correctly then, strangely. But as soon as I upgraded kdebase to 3.2.3 the menu started getting clipped again. It's as if the 'Most/Last Used Applications' title is pushing the menu width out of the drawn area and I don't know why it was fine when kdebase 3.2.1 was installed.
Here is how you probably get them back: Go to Control Center - Desktop - >Panels, then Menus Tab - K Menu Under 'Menu item format' chose the option in the middle: Name (Description). That should give you the arrows back. 'Name only' will not display them. The 3rd option will also display them. Don't know why 'Name only' clips part of the menu. Maybe there is a setting in one of the *rc files, I didn't check. Cheers, -- Sabine
On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 03:10, Sabine Konhaeuser wrote:
1) The submenu arrows on my k menu seem to be clipped. See screenshot: http://www.cpinkney.org.uk/images/kmenu.png
Here is how you probably get them back: Go to Control Center - Desktop - >Panels, then Menus Tab - K Menu Under 'Menu item format' chose the option in the middle: Name (Description). That should give you the arrows back. 'Name only' will not display them. The 3rd option will also display them.
Thanks for that suggestion. That works for me too. I guess the extra width of the app entries in the menu being wider than those section titles means it knows to draw the whole menu. -- Colin Pinkney http://www.cpinkney.org.uk
1. With regard to your first entry I had this problem when I first upgraded to 3.2 (before 3.2.1...). I scanned google and found an entry about qt configuration. Can't quite remember what I did but I remember starting the qt configuration application and resetting the font settings. 2. right click on the klipper, go to configure and ensure that the save clipboard contenets on exit is checked. If it is then uncheck apply and recheck and apply. Hopefully that should reset it. 3. I have this problem with the dialog that pops up for konq when it wants access to the wallet. I thought the last patch was meant to fix it and yes it did for about a week. Sorry can't be any more use. I suggest that you reset many of the settings. I remember that I had many of these sort of issues when I went kde 3.1->3.2 - in the end I renamed my .kde directory and got a whole new one. I then copied settings across for the minimum number of applications (kmail, addressbook, bookmarks, kopete). 4. I don't get any locking up maybe it is trying to access the kde wallet but doesn't have access and eventually times out. 5. Don't know as I dont want the sounds 6. ver rarely use karamba so no answer from me. Hope my ramblings are of some assistance. Andrew On Monday 28 June 2004 22:59, Colin Pinkney wrote:
Hi there,
I have upgraded to SuSE 3.2.3 with the SuSE supplementary packages on SuSE 9.0 Pro and while a few bugs disappeared, I seem to be collecting more and was wondering if these were known KDE bugs or are specific to the SuSE packages and if anyone knows of fixes. I haven't seen anyone post anything on this mailing list for the following problems (sorry if I missed any postings):
1) The submenu arrows on my k menu seem to be clipped. See screenshot: http://www.cpinkney.org.uk/images/kmenu.png I noticed I had kdebase 3.2.1 installed for a while when the rest of the kdebase packages were 3.2.3 and the k menu was actually drawn correctly then, strangely. But as soon as I upgraded kdebase to 3.2.3 the menu started getting clipped again. It's as if the 'Most/Last Used Applications' title is pushing the menu width out of the drawn area and I don't know why it was fine when kdebase 3.2.1 was installed.
2) Klipper doesn't seem to save the clipboard contents when I exit KDE. If I explicitely quit klipper, then it saves the clipboard contents, but it seems as though klipper is getting killed off rather than closed when I exit KDE.
3) New windows appear under the current window with the focus, including a karamba window, and the taskbar button for the new window flashes but it does not get the focus. It used to be that new windows always appeared on top and got the focus. This is really annoying, especially for dialog windows and I'm sure it was working properly after upgrading to KDE 3.2.3 and has only just started happening. I haven't upgraded X windows at all and in the KDE control panel I have set focus to follow mouse with autoraise after 700ms, plus I have smart window placement on, which is how it was set when it worked properly.
4) Fairly frequently but not always, when filling in web forms with konqueror, before I get a chance to start typing in a text box and only give the box the keyboard focus, konqueror will freeze up for about 10 seconds, but the CPU is not busy. konqueror doesn't freeze up in any other situation and didn't do before KDE 3.2.2.
5) Although I have the sound notification setup in kget to make a sound when a download starts and finishes, I don't get anything on the finish and only get a sound on the start. This hasn't worked for a long while actually, maybe never.
6) karamba always crashes when I exit KDE. I have a simple karamba theme setup to act just like the X Windows root-tail utility which works fine, but crashes on exiting KDE. This is more of a curious annoyance than anything but didn't happen with KDE 3.2.2.
Thanks for getting this far. I would appreciate even knowing if other people are having the same issues and better still, if anyone has any fixes.
Regards,
-- Colin Pinkney http://www.cpinkney.org.uk
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That right, the 3.2.3 build is not stable. I saw any others bugs. Like this : after start the KDE desktop all icons stay in the left upper corner of the screen.
On Monday 28 June 2004 22:59, Colin Pinkney wrote:
Hi there,
I have upgraded to SuSE 3.2.3 with the SuSE supplementary packages on SuSE 9.0 Pro and while a few bugs disappeared, I seem to be collecting more and was wondering if these were known KDE bugs or are specific to the SuSE packages and if anyone knows of fixes. I haven't seen anyone post anything on this mailing list for the following problems (sorry if I missed any postings):
1) The submenu arrows on my k menu seem to be clipped. See screenshot: http://www.cpinkney.org.uk/images/kmenu.png I noticed I had kdebase 3.2.1 installed for a while when the rest of the kdebase packages were 3.2.3 and the k menu was actually drawn correctly then, strangely. But as soon as I upgraded kdebase to 3.2.3 the menu started getting clipped again. It's as if the 'Most/Last Used Applications' title is pushing the menu width out of the drawn area and I don't know why it was fine when kdebase 3.2.1 was installed.
2) Klipper doesn't seem to save the clipboard contents when I exit KDE. If I explicitely quit klipper, then it saves the clipboard contents, but it seems as though klipper is getting killed off rather than closed when I exit KDE.
3) New windows appear under the current window with the focus, including a karamba window, and the taskbar button for the new window flashes but it does not get the focus. It used to be that new windows always appeared on top and got the focus. This is really annoying, especially for dialog windows and I'm sure it was working properly after upgrading to KDE 3.2.3 and has only just started happening. I haven't upgraded X windows at all and in the KDE control panel I have set focus to follow mouse with autoraise after 700ms, plus I have smart window placement on, which is how it was set when it worked properly.
4) Fairly frequently but not always, when filling in web forms with konqueror, before I get a chance to start typing in a text box and only give the box the keyboard focus, konqueror will freeze up for about 10 seconds, but the CPU is not busy. konqueror doesn't freeze up in any other situation and didn't do before KDE 3.2.2.
5) Although I have the sound notification setup in kget to make a sound when a download starts and finishes, I don't get anything on the finish and only get a sound on the start. This hasn't worked for a long while actually, maybe never.
6) karamba always crashes when I exit KDE. I have a simple karamba theme setup to act just like the X Windows root-tail utility which works fine, but crashes on exiting KDE. This is more of a curious annoyance than anything but didn't happen with KDE 3.2.2.
Thanks for getting this far. I would appreciate even knowing if other people are having the same issues and better still, if anyone has any fixes.
Regards,
-- Colin Pinkney http://www.cpinkney.org.uk
-- Andrew Colvin apc@abcj.demon.co.uk ICQ: 44775817 Yahoo Messenger: apcolvin Jabber: acolvin@jabber.com
I don't see this problem - my icons are laid out exactly as I leave them - and thats is too many and with no structure and all over the desktop. I did have a lot of these sort of problems until I removed my .kde folder from my user. There seems to be some inconsistancy between 3.1 and 3.2 version. Andrew On Tuesday 29 June 2004 09:27, Yuriy Chumak wrote:
That right, the 3.2.3 build is not stable. I saw any others bugs. Like this : after start the KDE desktop all icons stay in the left upper corner of the screen.
-- Andrew Colvin apc@abcj.demon.co.uk ICQ: 44775817 Yahoo Messenger: apcolvin Jabber: acolvin@jabber.com
Hi, am Dienstag, 29. Juni 2004 11:01 schrieb Andrew Colvin:
I don't see this problem - my icons are laid out exactly as I leave them - and thats is too many and with no structure and all over the desktop. I did have a lot of these sort of problems until I removed my .kde folder from my user. There seems to be some inconsistancy between 3.1 and 3.2 version.
That's true, and very annoying if you want to keep your settings :(
Andrew
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 09:27, Yuriy Chumak wrote:
That right, the 3.2.3 build is not stable. I saw any others bugs. Like this : after start the KDE desktop all icons stay in the left upper corner of the screen.
I had the same problem with the desktop icons on one machine, even with deleted and new created .kde directory. I could track it down to be related to the windowdecoration Redmond. Using another decoration solved the problem on this machine. Btw. in 3.2.3 the icon positon stored in ~/Desktop/.directory isn't used anymore. It's now in ~/.kde/share/apps/kdesktop/IconPositions. But even setting this to readonly didn't change anything. Bye Andreas Willenbrink
On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 08:12, Andrew Colvin wrote:
2. right click on the klipper, go to configure and ensure that the save clipboard contenets on exit is checked. If it is then uncheck apply and recheck and apply. Hopefully that should reset it.
Yep, done that, but still does the same. Like I said, if I explicitely quit by right clicking klipper and selecting Quit, it remembers the current contents.
3. I have this problem with the dialog that pops up for konq when it wants access to the wallet. I thought the last patch was meant to fix it and yes it did for about a week. Sorry can't be any more use. I suggest that you reset many of the settings. I remember that I had many of these sort of issues when I went kde 3.1->3.2 - in the end I renamed my .kde directory and got a whole new one. I then copied settings across for the minimum number of applications (kmail, addressbook, bookmarks, kopete).
Yeah, I may have to do something like that. I think I'll create a new user and see what that gets since there's also lots of cached settings in other directories too it seems. Thanks -- Colin Pinkney http://www.cpinkney.org.uk
On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 19:54, Colin Pinkney wrote:
On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 08:12, Andrew Colvin wrote:
3. I have this problem with the dialog that pops up for konq when it wants access to the wallet. I thought the last patch was meant to fix it and yes it did for about a week. Sorry can't be any more use. I suggest that you reset many of the settings. I remember that I had many of these sort of issues when I went kde 3.1->3.2 - in the end I renamed my .kde directory and got a whole new one. I then copied settings across for the minimum number of applications (kmail, addressbook, bookmarks, kopete).
Yeah, I may have to do something like that. I think I'll create a new user and see what that gets since there's also lots of cached settings in other directories too it seems.
Aha! Finally found the setting that had got messed up. It's the 'Focus Stealing Prevention Level' setting under Desktop->Window Behaviour->Advanced . I never touched it, but somehow it got set to High, when I like Normal. And I was worrying that KDE was developing a Windows like cruft. Phew. -- Colin Pinkney http://www.cpinkney.org.uk
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