Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (78 mails)

[Thomas Wedehase <tw_mailbox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Wednesday 26 January 2005 21:33 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
> Thomas,
>
> On Wednesday 26 January 2005 12:21, Thomas Wedehase wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > > The first things to check are:
> > >
> > > - XPlanet is installed
> >
> > Yes, the default works
> >
> > > - After you copied the script you made it executable ("chmod +x
> > > ...")
> >
> > Done
> >
> > > - Make sure that the correct entry is left selected in the
> > >   "Background Program" section of the "Advanced Background
> > >   Settings" dialog of KDE Background Control Center section.
> >
> > Yes, checked a couple times
> >
> > > - Make sure xplanet-local script is being executed by examining
> > >   the log file it creates ($HOME/.xplanet-local-invocations).
> >
> > File does not exist
>
> Then xplanet-local is not getting executed. Based on this, I'm guessing
> the preview does not show XPlanet output, either.
>
> Another entry for the check list:
>
> - $HOME/bin (or whatever directory holds the xplanet-local script)
>   is in your PATH variable. In particular, it must be in the PATH
>   that's in effect for KDE.
>
> Did you select "No picture" in the main panel of the Background Control
> Center module? If not, my experience was that the selected picture
> obscures the dynamically generated desktop image.
>
> You might want to look for clues in $HOME/.xsession-errors.
>
> > i am at the end of my knowledge, I checked this in the first place
> > and after you wrote, I checked again and --just a black screen!
>
> Randall Schulz

Okay, I found the problem. You won't believe it, but the font made the 
problems. Xplanet could not find the font.
I took it out and it works just fine.
Could you give me the name of the file, cause I really like your font.

Thanks again for all your help
I appreciate it
Thomas

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