[opensuse] OPensuse 11.1 KDE4 desktop
Alright i know this is getting a bit much now but here goes My laptop has opensuse 11.1 on it KDE4.1.X as per dvd install now (got rid of 4.3 stuff it kept crashing now i am left with a desktop background that is just grey and white squares with the pager bar at the bottom with a few icond in it there is no peanut device on the desktop and no amount of klicking on it anywhere will do anything so question is what is not running This is from ps uax via an ssh session ete 4667 0.0 0.0 3812 460 ? S 00:39 0:00 kwrapper4 ksmserver pete 4668 0.0 1.4 218960 19836 ? Sl 00:39 0:00 ksmserver pete 4670 0.1 1.4 225184 20592 ? S 00:39 0:01 kwin -session 10ddd4eb61000123413806800000048000000_1234139258_16580 pete 4681 0.0 0.5 126052 8348 ? S 00:39 0:00 /usr/bin/kwrited pete 4683 0.6 1.3 263792 19288 ? SLl 00:39 0:08 /usr/bin/knotify4 pete 4684 0.0 0.9 218492 12928 ? Sl 00:39 0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukserver pete 4690 48.6 2.6 503160 37300 ? Rl 00:39 10:08 /usr/bin/plasma pete 4693 0.0 1.4 199996 20300 ? S 00:39 0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukstorage pete 4694 0.0 1.1 169188 16000 ? S 00:39 0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukqueryservice pete 4696 0.0 1.0 160640 15308 ? S 00:39 0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukfilewatch pete 4697 0.0 1.1 162932 16084 ? S 00:39 0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukontologyloader pete 4701 0.0 0.4 152268 5904 ? S 00:39 0:00 kdeinit4: kio_file [kdeinit] file local:/tmp/ksocket-pete/klauncherMT4091.slave-socket local:/tmp/ksocket-pete/kio_desktopMT4699.slave-sock pete 4703 0.0 0.7 151304 10384 ? S 00:39 0:00 /usr/bin/kaccess pete 4735 0.2 2.2 542916 32288 ? Sl 00:39 0:03 /usr/bin/krunner pete 4768 0.0 1.1 183036 16508 ? S 00:39 0:00 kmix -session 10ddd4eb61000123413808300000048000014_1234139257_915551 pete 4775 0.0 1.2 193372 17952 ? S 00:39 0:00 /usr/bin/kupdateapplet pete 4778 0.0 0.8 149284 11856 ? S 00:39 0:00 /usr/bin/klipper pete 4781 0.0 1.4 139204 19992 ? S 00:39 0:00 /opt/kde3/bin/suseplugger --sessioninit -caption SUSE Hardware Tool/KDE3 -icon hardware pete 4783 0.0 1.0 143544 14124 ? S 00:39 0:00 /opt/kde3/bin/kpowersave pete 4784 0.0 0.4 111280 5916 ? Ss 00:39 0:00 kdeinit Running... pete 4787 0.0 0.3 115104 5064 ? S 00:39 0:00 dcopserver [kdeinit] --nosid --suicide pete 4789 0.0 0.4 115824 6992 ? S 00:39 0:00 klauncher [kdeinit] --new-startup pete 4791 0.0 0.8 140772 11580 ? S 00:39 0:00 kded [kdeinit] --new-startup I am now a bit miffed Pete . -- SuSE Linux 10.3-Alpha3. (Linux is like a wigwam - no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Peter, It sounds like you are in zoomed out desktop utility view. Search Google for "KDE 4 desktop activity" for more details. If so your mouse cursor should look like a hand. Click on the checkerboard background and drag it around so that your view reaches the top left corner of the checkerboard surface. In that region you should be able to find a miniature of your desktop with an active "peanut" button in top right corner. Click on the peanut and select "Zoom In". ~/jc peter nikolic wrote:
My laptop has opensuse 11.1 on it KDE4.1.X as per dvd install now (got rid of 4.3 stuff it kept crashing now i am left with a desktop background that is just grey and white squares with the pager bar at the bottom with a few icond in it there is no peanut device on the desktop and no amount of klicking on it anywhere will do anything so question is what is not running -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
My laptop has opensuse 11.1 on it KDE4.1.X as per dvd install now (got rid of 4.3 stuff it kept crashing now i am left with a desktop background that is just grey and white squares with the pager bar at the bottom with a few icond in it there is no peanut device on the desktop and no amount of klicking on it anywhere will do anything so question is what is not running
When you did this, did you also delete the two config files? KDE 4.1.x and 4.2.x have very different config requirements. The config file from one version will totally mess up the desktop of the other (in my experience). The config files are in ~/.kde4/share/config and the two files in question are plasmarc and plasma-appletrc. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 09 February 2009, Clayton wrote:
My laptop has opensuse 11.1 on it KDE4.1.X as per dvd install now (got rid of 4.3 stuff it kept crashing now i am left with a desktop background that is just grey and white squares with the pager bar at the bottom with a few icond in it there is no peanut device on the desktop and no amount of klicking on it anywhere will do anything so question is what is not running
When you did this, did you also delete the two config files? KDE 4.1.x and 4.2.x have very different config requirements. The config file from one version will totally mess up the desktop of the other (in my experience).
The config files are in ~/.kde4/share/config and the two files in question are plasmarc and plasma-appletrc.
C.
Now that sounds possible i will have to have a look at them shortly if i changed there names to something else will that force them to be rebuilt when i restart KDE Pete . -- Opensuse 10.3 x86_64 (Linux is like a wigwam no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 09 Feb 2009 09:34:45 peter nikolic wrote:
On Monday 09 February 2009, Clayton wrote:
My laptop has opensuse 11.1 on it KDE4.1.X as per dvd install now (got rid of 4.3 stuff it kept crashing now i am left with a desktop background that is just grey and white squares with the pager bar at the bottom with a few icond in it there is no peanut device on the desktop and no amount of klicking on it anywhere will do anything so question is what is not running
When you did this, did you also delete the two config files? KDE 4.1.x and 4.2.x have very different config requirements. The config file from one version will totally mess up the desktop of the other (in my experience).
The config files are in ~/.kde4/share/config and the two files in question are plasmarc and plasma-appletrc.
C.
Now that sounds possible i will have to have a look at them shortly if i changed there names to something else will that force them to be rebuilt when i restart KDE
Pete .
Hi Pete Maybe you could try the kde3 to 4 appliication from here: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KDE3TO4?content=85769 See if that can handle things. Cheers Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
When you did this, did you also delete the two config files? KDE 4.1.x and 4.2.x have very different config requirements. The config file from one version will totally mess up the desktop of the other (in my experience).
The config files are in ~/.kde4/share/config and the two files in question are plasmarc and plasma-appletrc.
C.
Now that sounds possible i will have to have a look at them shortly if i changed there names to something else will that force them to be rebuilt when i restart KDE
Delete or rename.. both will work. You don't really loose much by deleting. This controls teh desktop config, and plasma applet config. If you delete those config files, you force KDE4 back to factory defaults, and the files are rewritten with the defaults. The config between 4.2 and 4.1 is radically different, and it will definitely break when going from 4.1 to 4.2.. so logical that it will break going back as well. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 09 February 2009, JC Francois wrote:
Peter,
It sounds like you are in zoomed out desktop utility view. Search Google for "KDE 4 desktop activity" for more details.
If so your mouse cursor should look like a hand. Click on the checkerboard background and drag it around so that your view reaches the top left corner of the checkerboard surface. In that region you should be able to find a miniature of your desktop with an active "peanut" button in top right corner. Click on the peanut and select "Zoom In".
~/jc
peter nikolic wrote: Hi . Mouse is an arrow head and i can click till i am blue in the face on the desktop nothing happens no peanut device either seems plasma may be dead much as it grieves me think this may well wind up as a re-install of course if they had stuck with the "/opt/kde* idea it would have been easy to just completely can KDE4.x and force a complete reinstall of just that but now they hide the binaries and libs in such diverse places it is getting darn stupid
Cheers Pete . -- Opensuse 10.3 x86_64 (Linux is like a wigwam no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
participants (4)
-
Clayton -
JC Francois -
Pete Connolly -
peter nikolic