Specifically, don't use 9.1 KDE Help Center, as opposed to the Gnome help that appears in the menu system, from Gnome 2.4. While trying to figure out the changes to Samba, I needed to access the online manuals. I created a launcher in Gnome using the command "khelpcenter". This appeared to work as normal and I was able to create an index, search the manuals, and read the chapter on Samba. As some point, I had occassion to move the khelpcenter window. I noticed that portions of the icons that had been covered by the window didn't refresh. I move the khelpcenter window around some more and was able to erase all my desktop icons. Further... I closed the khelpcenter window but the icons did not refresh. I opened Mozilla. It's window appeared and disappeared when I closed it but the icons didn't refresh. I logged out of the Gnome session and logged in again but the icons didn't refresh. I logged out again and did the ctrl-alt-backspace trick but when I logged in again, the icons didn't refresh. I logged out again and rebooted the system. This time, when I logged in again, the icons were there. However... You should never have to reboot a Linux system, especially to correct a problem in a window/display manager. I'm asking that at least a couple of you try the above and see if you discover the same problem. If this is a common problem, as opposed to something stupid that I did, I'll submit a bug. If you could also give me a suggestion on which bugzilla to use, I'd appreciate that as well. Thanks for any assistance. Don Henson
On Monday 10 May 2004 19.23, Donald Henson wrote:
You should never have to reboot a Linux system, especially to correct a problem in a window/display manager.
Quite so. Since nautilus is responsible for drawing the desktop icons in gnome, it sounds like it crashed or hung. Killing/restarting it would more than likely have solved it
I'm asking that at least a couple of you try the above and see if you discover the same problem. If this is a common problem, as opposed to something stupid that I did, I'll submit a bug. If you could also give me a suggestion on which bugzilla to use, I'd appreciate that as well. Thanks for any assistance.
The gnome bugzilla, module nautilus sounds a likely candidate
On Monday 10 May 2004 18:32, Anders Johansson wrote:
Quite so. Since nautilus is responsible for drawing the desktop icons in gnome, it sounds like it crashed or hung. Killing/restarting it would more than likely have solved it
Pls excuse me interjecting here, Anders, which app is responsible for drawing the desktop icons in kde? (I had a similar problem to the one mentioned by Donald Henson). Is it suseplugger? And if not, then what does sueseplugger do? Is appletproxy anything to do with desktop icons? I ask because during the session where I experienced the problem, appletproxy was eating cpu. Jake
On Monday 10 May 2004 22.18, Jake wrote:
which app is responsible for drawing the desktop icons in kde?
In general, kdesktop
(I had a similar problem to the one mentioned by Donald Henson). Is it suseplugger? And if not, then what does sueseplugger do?
suseplugger detects devices plugged into your system, such as disk partitions, inserted CD/DVD discs, usb ram drives (the ones that are supported, at least) and creates an icon for it, and deletes it when it detects that you remove the hotplugged device
Is appletproxy anything to do with desktop icons?
No. I'm not entirely sure what appletproxy is, but a quick google seems to suggest that it's the program responsible for running the kicker (panel) applets.
I ask because during the session where I experienced the problem, appletproxy was eating cpu.
Could be that it was doing something that caused the core kde processes to slow down, if not hang completely
On Monday 10 May 2004 21:34, Anders Johansson wrote:
Could be that it was doing something that caused the core kde processes to slow down, if not hang completely
Doubtless it was the fact that I put some homemade icons in the kicker panel. I've been making my own icons using the gimp and then seeing how the system responds to them. Sometimes kde draws them as a ? mark :). Others seem to work fine. I take it that the kicker panel is 'special' in that it seems the one place I _cannot_ put home-made icons. Interestingly, some of my links to apps using my own icons seem to result in a quicker launch (desktop).
On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 11:32, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 10 May 2004 19.23, Donald Henson wrote:
You should never have to reboot a Linux system, especially to correct a problem in a window/display manager.
Quite so. Since nautilus is responsible for drawing the desktop icons in gnome, it sounds like it crashed or hung. Killing/restarting it would more than likely have solved it
I'm asking that at least a couple of you try the above and see if you discover the same problem. If this is a common problem, as opposed to something stupid that I did, I'll submit a bug. If you could also give me a suggestion on which bugzilla to use, I'd appreciate that as well. Thanks for any assistance.
The gnome bugzilla, module nautilus sounds a likely candidate
It appears that I cannot replicate the problem, which means one of two things. Either it was my stupidity or there is a race condition that's going to be a mother to find. I'm not going to submit a bug until I can figure out how to make it happen. Don Henson
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