Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (176 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

After a monster pile of updates, including many for KDE 4.5, I was left 
without the plasma desktop. A bit up experimenting and Web-hunting led 
me to KDE bug 251719 [1], which is deemed the fault of the nVidia 
driver.

I devised a work-around based on the following statement by Aaron Seigo 
at the end of that bug page:

"it's crashing when the clock applet tries to get the time DataEngine. 
this is crashing somewhere in the library loading code in glibc. try 
downgrading your video driver. i don't think this is something we can 
do anything about in plasma, however."


The work-around is to remove the clock applet from the tray. I did this 
by finding references to it in these two files:

 ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
 ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-overlay-appletsrc

I simply commented out the sections of config there that 
mention "clock":

 ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
#[Containments][3][Applets][11]
#geometry=1684,4,180,60
#immutability=1
#plugin=digital-clock
#zvalue=14
#
#[Containments][3][Applets][11][Configuration]
#Share=false
#announceInterval=0
#calendarType=locale
#defaultTimezone=Local
#displayHolidays=true
#holidaysRegion=us_en-us
#plainClockColor=20,19,18
#plainClockFont=Sans Serif,38,-1,0,50,0,0,0,0,0
#showDate=true
#showDay=true
#showSeconds=true
#showTimezone=true
#showYear=false
#timeZones=UTC
#timezone=Local
#useCustomColor=false
#
#[Containments][3][Applets][11][Configuration][ExtenderItems][3]
#extenderIconName=view-pim-calendar
#extenderItemName=calendar
#extenderItemPosition=0
#extenderTitle=Calendar
#isCollapsed=false
#sourceAppletId=11
#sourceAppletPluginName=digital-clock
-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-


 ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-overlay-appletsrc
-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
#[Containments][1][Applets][2]
#geometry=6,6,256,256
#immutability=2
#plugin=clock
#zvalue=0
#
#[Containments][1][Applets][2][Configuration][ExtenderItems][1]
#extenderIconName=view-pim-calendar
#extenderItemName=calendar
#extenderItemPosition=0
#extenderTitle=Calendar
#isCollapsed=false
#sourceAppletId=2
#sourceAppletPluginName=clock
-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-


NOTE: If you want to go back to your old clock config without 
reestablishing it via the panel GUI, you'll have to save the original 
files (-desktop-, anyway), cause after the first launch, the 
commented-out config blocks were gone.


[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251719


Randall Schulz
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