I now have 7.3 installed and updated completely - 2.4.16, 2.2.2. But my user account wasn't saving my settings (window size, location) at all. (same problem in 2.2.1 and 2.1) So I set aside /home/hydra/.kde and symlinked it to .kde2 and then it remembered sizes/locations. But now it saves the sessions cumulatively. In other words when I log off with one konsole & konqueror and save settings, when I log in I get 6 konquerors and 5 konsoles, different sizes from old sessions. AND MY SUSE MENU *POP* MAGICALLY TURNED TO A FOLDER ICON, WITH NOTHING IN IT! WTF?!?! HAAAALLLP! My *whole*Suse*menu* is gone, as well as Work and Admin menus! How does this system work? Also I would like my user account and my root account K settings to be the same. (color, theme, etc) In Suse7.2 I tried symlinking most root .kde2 files and dirs to my user files (not tmp or socket), but THEY STILL REMAINED DIFFERENT SETTINGS. How can this be? Spirits and ghosts? I tried moving config files from root to /opt/kde/share, but KDE ERASED THEM THERE for me. While we're talking, I wonder why my parallel port's not being recognised. IBM Stinkpad a22p. It was set to ECP in BIOS and the ECP module was loading, but I changed BIOS to EPP, and the log is silent of hardware or driver notice. Is a change needed in modules.conf? With Suse's different structure, I'm a bit afraid of mucking. No apparent way to config parallel port. Why make an intermediate meta-layer (char-major)? My scanner's not being recognized, after I went through the Suse Config Guide, but that's another story. Getting concerned as I need to be working rather than configuring.
Its either a flaw in the way permissions are set up or in KDE itself. I have similar problems. For instance, now I can't setup the colors of KDE. I only get the default gray with blue/gray header. This always happens after I upgrade stuff like KDE (but I'm not convinced that it isn't just certain upgrades in general). I often wonder if it's not how SuSEconfig works either. I wish they'd address this issue. But given the move, christmas, and the fact that they're most likely understaffed (which would also explain why I haven't heard back from my support submission in over a week - so much for 90 days install support - I know, I know - it's only for installation to get a default sys working). Don't get me wrong, I am very fond of SuSE, I just wish the DB was a little more complete. I can't believe that were the only two that have had this problem. Gets frustrating! Cheers, Curtis On Sunday 23 December 2001 22:02, Hydra wrote:
I now have 7.3 installed and updated completely - 2.4.16, 2.2.2.
But my user account wasn't saving my settings (window size, location) at all. (same problem in 2.2.1 and 2.1) So I set aside /home/hydra/.kde and symlinked it to .kde2 and then it remembered sizes/locations.
But now it saves the sessions cumulatively. In other words when I log off with one konsole & konqueror and save settings, when I log in I get 6 konquerors and 5 konsoles, different sizes from old sessions.
AND MY SUSE MENU *POP* MAGICALLY TURNED TO A FOLDER ICON, WITH NOTHING IN IT! WTF?!?! HAAAALLLP! My *whole*Suse*menu* is gone, as well as Work and Admin menus! How does this system work?
Also I would like my user account and my root account K settings to be the same. (color, theme, etc) In Suse7.2 I tried symlinking most root .kde2 files and dirs to my user files (not tmp or socket), but THEY STILL REMAINED DIFFERENT SETTINGS. How can this be? Spirits and ghosts?
I tried moving config files from root to /opt/kde/share, but KDE ERASED THEM THERE for me.
While we're talking, I wonder why my parallel port's not being recognised. IBM Stinkpad a22p. It was set to ECP in BIOS and the ECP module was loading, but I changed BIOS to EPP, and the log is silent of hardware or driver notice.
Is a change needed in modules.conf? With Suse's different structure, I'm a bit afraid of mucking. No apparent way to config parallel port. Why make an intermediate meta-layer (char-major)?
My scanner's not being recognized, after I went through the Suse Config Guide, but that's another story.
Getting concerned as I need to be working rather than configuring.
On Monday 24 December 2001 12:57, Curtis Rey wrote: snip
I can't believe that were the only two that have had this problem. Gets frustrating!
You're not the only ones! The configuration of KDE through upgrades is driving me crazy. I've just upgraded 7.2>7.3. I think that this is the first and last upgrade I do. So slow. Do you remember how in Windows (especially 9x) that after a number of months the system becomes slower and slower to start and shutdown due mainly to system crashes? Well I feel KDE has similar problems. For example when I start KDE2 I get half a dozen blurring Konqueror start up windows that take about 90 seconds to disappear. I tried clicking and unclicking the 'Restore Previous Sessions etc etc' all to no avail. I tried looking to find where the information for restoring a session is stored (haven't found it yet, anyone know?). In the end I had a look at the process tree and found half a dozen sleeping Konqueror processes that I killed on re-start there were no more Konqueror windows. However the system is still pig-slow under my main account but not if I make a new account. There must be a lot more cruft stuck in there somewheres... Jethro
On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 03:36, Jethro Cramp wrote:
You're not the only ones! The configuration of KDE through upgrades is driving me crazy. I've just upgraded 7.2>7.3. I think that this is the first and last upgrade I do. So slow. (...)
Hi Jethro, There must be something seriously wrong with your system, I'm afraid. I upgraded from 7.2 to 7.3 a while ago and I had no problem with KDE. Especially with the 2.4.16 kernel now, the boot or shutdown process seem to have become even faster, if anything (haven't checked it with the stopwatch, though). And it always had about double speed compared to my Windoze NT box in office, meanwhile tripple, because the office box is getting worse every day (both 500 MHz processor, ok., at home it's an Athlon and in Office it's a Celeron, and I got far more RAM at home, but that can't make the difference alone). Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 03:36, Jethro Cramp wrote: (....)
However the system is still pig-slow under my main account but not if I make a new account. There must be a lot more cruft stuck in there somewheres...
Jethro
If it's that way, than maybe do this: First, delete your .kde2 directory (ok, you will lose your settings, but to avoid this, you can just rename it (.kde2-old or so) instead and afterwards move your stuff back from there). If this does not help, do it the hard way: - Backup what you need from your home directory - Delete your main account - Get a new one and copy back from backup media Cheers .... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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