On Monday 21 March 2005 11:51 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
J.F.,
On Monday 21 March 2005 08:12, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
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Randall,
( If you are the OP, I got a bit confused as to who started this thread. )
C'est moi.
Still, do you have the Suse Watcher enabled, so that it loads it'self eachtime you login ? It has been a bad actor in the icon stories since it appeared. I have managed to kill it off and rarely have wandering icons once that is actually accomplished.
Do you mean the Suse Watcher that monitors the YOU repositories for updates? It seems really odd that it would interact with the desktop icons in that way. Or do you mean SuSE Plugger / SuSE Hardware Tool?
But yes, I do keep it (both of them) running and have since I began running SuSE Linux. This problem just started showing up when I did the KDE 3.4 upgrade.
I tried shutting it down and disabled its auto-start option.
It didn't help. In fact, the first login without it auto-starting, the icons all lined up (some on top of each other) at the top left. (Grumble!)
The whole things is so unpredictable.
Of course, if you have already disabled that, just ignore me.. I don't have any other sensible ideas about this. <VBG>
Thanks for the information.
If you don't keep SuSE Watcher running, what method do you use to be notified of updates?
I just do an update automagically each week. I belong to the Suse Security list as well as Security announce, and that is where most of the info for "DO IT RIGHT NOW!" updates usually come from. Most of the other stuff can wait til weeks end ( or beginning or middle whatever day you decide to do it ) it's like backups.. habit is the best protector for both situations. Or that's my completely non humble idea anyway... <G> -- j That's why I wander & follow la vie dansante on the nightwind that takes me to where I want that's all I want .. la vie dansante.