Jack Reilly
In ~/.kde2/share/applnk/Settings I have these directories:
FileBrowsing Information Network Personalization Sound WebBrowsing Help LookNFeel Peripherals PowerControl System YaST
Does that list corespond to the list that should be appearing in the left panel of my Control Center?
I don't know. I suggest you ask kcontrol developers. You can check if kcontrol or its children open them by $ strace -f kcontrol 2>&1 |grep open|grep -v ENOENT|sort -u (Note the "-f" option). If the problem is related to your personal settings in ~/.kde2, then I suggest that you rename this directory (to e.g. ~/.kde2.old) and restart your KDE2 session. KDE2 will create a new one. The problem may also be related to your upgrade. One of my KDE2 upgrades failed, KDE2 didn't start at all. I didn't investigate it thoroughly, it just seemed to me I had downloaded a mixture of old and new KDE2 releases from a SuSE mirror. My experience is that, for instance, ftp.mirror.ac.uk is synchronized with ftp.suse.com well, but ftp.sunet.se sometimes also keeps old stuff in its directories. It seems to me there is no mechanism preventing users from downloading a content of an ftp mirror directory which is in the middle of its update. I compare the content of the INDEX file on ftp.suse.com and its mirror before I download packages from the mirror, but I'm not sure it's sufficient. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se
On Monday 28 May 2001 05:37, you wrote:
Jack Reilly
writes: In ~/.kde2/share/applnk/Settings I have these directories:
FileBrowsing Information Network Personalization Sound WebBrowsing Help LookNFeel Peripherals PowerControl System YaST
Does that list corespond to the list that should be appearing in the left panel of my Control Center?
I don't know. I suggest you ask kcontrol developers. You can check if kcontrol or its children open them by
I since found the list in the Control Center manual. They are the same as the ones in my file.
$ strace -f kcontrol 2>&1 |grep open|grep -v ENOENT|sort -u
(Note the "-f" option).
When I tried this the Control Center came up (with the empty left panel) but I got nothing else.
If the problem is related to your personal settings in ~/.kde2, then I suggest that you rename this directory (to e.g. ~/.kde2.old) and restart your KDE2 session. KDE2 will create a new one.
I guess linux is still too new to me. I cannot find a way to rename a directory.
The problem may also be related to your upgrade. One of my KDE2 upgrades failed, KDE2 didn't start at all. I didn't investigate it thoroughly, it just seemed to me I had downloaded a mixture of old and new KDE2 releases from a SuSE mirror.
My experience is that, for instance, ftp.mirror.ac.uk is synchronized with ftp.suse.com well, but ftp.sunet.se sometimes also keeps old stuff in its directories.
It seems to me there is no mechanism preventing users from downloading a content of an ftp mirror directory which is in the middle of its update. I compare the content of the INDEX file on ftp.suse.com and its mirror before I download packages from the mirror, but I'm not sure it's sufficient.
-- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se
I got the KDE upgrade by downloading the rpms fom Suse's site for "KDE2 base packages for Suse Linux 7.1 (i386) ". I think it would be worth reinstalling the kdebase rpm. Thanks for all you help. Jack
* Jack Reilly (aa6vn@pacbell.net) [010528 21:15]: -> ->> If the problem is related to your personal settings in ->> ~/.kde2, then I suggest that you rename this directory ->> (to e.g. ~/.kde2.old) and restart your KDE2 session. ->> KDE2 will create a new one. -> ->I guess linux is still too new to me. I cannot find a way ->to rename a directory. -> Jack, Do this: mv .kde2 kde2 This will move the directory name which is just like renaming it. mv works with single files as well..not just directories. Regards, -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
On Monday 28 May 2001 21:28, you wrote:
* Jack Reilly (aa6vn@pacbell.net) [010528 21:15]: -> ->> If the problem is related to your personal settings in ->> ~/.kde2, then I suggest that you rename this directory ->> (to e.g. ~/.kde2.old) and restart your KDE2 session. ->> KDE2 will create a new one. -> ->I guess linux is still too new to me. I cannot find a way ->to rename a directory. ->
Jack,
Do this:
mv .kde2 kde2
This will move the directory name which is just like renaming it. mv works with single files as well..not just directories.
Thanks Ben. I guess that was just too simple for me. Jack
On Monday 28 May 2001 05:37, you wrote:
Jack Reilly
writes: In ~/.kde2/share/applnk/Settings I have these directories:
FileBrowsing Information Network Personalization Sound WebBrowsing Help LookNFeel Peripherals PowerControl System YaST
Does that list corespond to the list that should be appearing in the left panel of my Control Center?
I don't know. I suggest you ask kcontrol developers. You can check if kcontrol or its children open them by
$ strace -f kcontrol 2>&1 |grep open|grep -v ENOENT|sort -u
(Note the "-f" option).
If the problem is related to your personal settings in ~/.kde2, then I suggest that you rename this directory (to e.g. ~/.kde2.old) and restart your KDE2 session. KDE2 will create a new one.
Redoing the ~/.kde2 directory fixed the problem. I messed up a few things on the way, but the Control Center is now OK. Many thanks for your help. Jack
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