KDE 4.2 Factory - Effects Broken Today

**caf4926** · 07-Feb-2009, 01:09

Latest update (7/Feb/09) Seems to have broken desktop effects. I'll look into it and see what I come up with.

But for now. If you update - can you report what happens for You please.

**caf4926** · 07-Feb-2009, 01:27

OK. The solution was simple.

Install kde4-compiz (previously when upgrading from 4.1.3 this could not be installed and I was running without it).

**Sagemta** · 07-Feb-2009, 02:45

Glad to here it was simple aren't such fixes nice?
A problem I have here is when I go to Appearance Settings.
It goes like this click the drop menu on Picture for a wallpaper,pick an image in that menu & then all the text in all of the menus vanishes! Similar problem back in the 4.0 to 4.1 days after 2 versions it was fixed. This time though it's simpler just don't use the drop menu, doesn't happen with the browse icon.

**JopSway** · 07-Feb-2009, 03:28

Nothing of that happened here and have just updated.
What happened was losing some plasmoids configuration and konqueror and dolphin icons on the panel.
After setting back the plasmoids they survived a reboot.

What is strange is I can't find the dolphin element for the panel.

**caf4926** · 07-Feb-2009, 03:42

Originally Posted by JopSway

Nothing of that happened here and have just updated.
What happened was losing some plasmoids configuration and konqueror and dolphin icons on the panel.
After setting back the plasmoids they survived a reboot.

What is strange is I can't find the dolphin element for the panel.

Had you already done the bigger update earlier in the week? That caused some problems.

I had to do a new .kde4

I made a note of a fix geoffro posted

The easiest solution is prolly to reset plasma and reconfigure from scratch.
There's this magic command that solves almost any problem with plasma:
'kquitapp plasma && rm ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma* && plasma &'

Graham P Davis · 07-Feb-2009, 03:44

JopSway wrote:

>
> Nothing of that happened here and have just updated.
> What happened was losing some plasmoids configuration and konqueror and
> dolphin icons on the panel.
> After setting back the plasmoids they survived a reboot.
>
> What is strange is I can't find the dolphin element for the panel.
>
>

I updated about an hour ago but can't see any difference.

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**caf4926** · 07-Feb-2009, 03:50

It may depend what users did with dependency issues when they updated. I started 4.2 way back and kde4-compiz was an issue. I chose to delete rather than ignore dependencies. Compiz has worked fine, up to this recent update.

Now it let me install kde4-compiz with no issue.

**JopSway** · 07-Feb-2009, 04:22

Originally Posted by caf4926

Had you already done the bigger update earlier in the week? That caused some problems.

Yes, I did all updates one after the other _but_ didn't reboot/log out until the one from today.

**caf4926** · 07-Feb-2009, 04:41

Originally Posted by JopSway

Yes, I did all updates one after the other _but_ didn't reboot/log out until the one from today.

You obviously know that there is a need to log out and back for changes to take effect.
So you will likely have to do the fix all of have, it's up to you to decide if to go the whole Hog by starting a new .kde4 or just try the plasma fix