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Emmanuel Briot

4 Nov 2008 4 Nov '08

21:46

Hi all, For some reason, plasma takes about 30% of my CPU even when I am doing nothing on the machine. This is with the latest packages from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE%3a/KDE4%3a/UNSTABLE%3a/Desktop... and the latest NVIDIA driver (177.80) So I generally just kill plasma altogether, which gives me back the full use of my CPU (if needed I start gnome-panel, which although it doesn't look as nice in a KDE environment works better for me). But the background of the screen is now white, or at least very bright grey, and I'd like to set it to black or a custom jpg image. Anyone know how to do this when plasma is not running ? Thanks in advance Emmanuel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Sven Burmeister

5 Nov 5 Nov

11:37

Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 22:46:57 schrieb Emmanuel Briot:

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For some reason, plasma takes about 30% of my CPU even when I am doing nothing on the machine. This is with the latest packages from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE%3a/KDE4%3a/UNSTABLE%3a/Deskto p/openSUSE_11.0 and the latest NVIDIA driver (177.80)

Maybe you shoudl not use unstable, because it is - unstable. Have you tried with a new user or at least moving plasma's config files? .kde4/share/config/plasma*

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So I generally just kill plasma altogether, which gives me back the full use of my CPU (if needed I start gnome-panel, which although it doesn't look as nice in a KDE environment works better for me). But the background of the screen is now white, or at least very bright grey, and I'd like to set it to black or a custom jpg image.

Anyone know how to do this when plasma is not running ?

Since the desktop = plasma and the background being part of the desktop, this is not possible. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Emmanuel Briot

16:30

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:37:14 +0100, Sven Burmeister wrote:

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Maybe you shoudl not use unstable, because it is - unstable. Have you tried with a new user or at least moving plasma's config files? .kde4/share/config/plasma*

Thanks for the feedback Sven. I know unstable is dangerous, and thus was not complaining about Plasma itself. It has been improving steadily on the whole!

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Since the desktop = plasma and the background being part of the desktop, this is not possible.

But isn't there something responsible for the background color, still ? It becomes black every now and then (entirely, so this is not some random filling apparently), although when I move windows the area that becomes visible is grey. Actually, it seems that xsetroot -solid black might just do the trick, if anyone else is interested. regards Emmanuel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Manfred Hollstein

6 Nov 6 Nov

18:46

Hi there, On Wed, 05 Nov 2008, 17:30:04 +0100, Emmanuel Briot wrote:

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On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:37:14 +0100, Sven Burmeister wrote:

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[...] Since the desktop = plasma and the background being part of the desktop, this is not possible.

But isn't there something responsible for the background color, still ? It becomes black every now and then (entirely, so this is not some random filling apparently), although when I move windows the area that becomes visible is grey.

Actually, it seems that xsetroot -solid black might just do the trick, if anyone else is interested.

I haven't tried this in KDE4 yet (as I'm still on 10.3 with KDE 3), but when you (auto-)start the gnome-session-daemon (it's located at /usr/lib/control-center-2.0/gnome-settings-daemon on openSUSE 10.3 -- even though it's a 64-bit executable on my x86_64 system, so your mileage may vary), it will then load everything from your gconf registry, including the background etc.

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regards Emmanuel

HTH, cheers. l8er manfred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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