KDE plasma desktop folder, always missing icon

**Blah99** · 06-May-2009, 09:56

Got a wierd problem with the desktop folder - one of my icons in it is missing. If I create a new icon with the same details KDE prompts me to rename or overwrite. If I overwrite, the icon never appears.

Also, on occasion, the entire desktop folder will be empty. When I move the mouse over the positions where the icons should be, they suddenly appear.

Can someone tell me which config file my desktop folder settings are stored in, so I can go in and manually delete this ghost icon?

Thanks.

Plasma is giving this output when restarted:

Code:

X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 14 (X_GetGeometry)
  Resource id:  0x0
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 14 (X_GetGeometry)
  Resource id:  0x0
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 14 (X_GetGeometry)
  Resource id:  0x0
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 14 (X_GetGeometry)
  Resource id:  0x0
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to Plasma::Dialog "", which already has alayout
Unrecognized character: /
Unrecognized character: /
ERROR: syntax error
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode: 18 (X_ChangeProperty)
  Resource id:  0x20000a0
plasma(3928)/libplasma Plasma::PanelSvgPrivate::generateBackground: Invalid panel size QSizeF(-1, -1)

[1]+  Done                    plasma

**caf4926** · 06-May-2009, 10:22

lets see what you have in repo's, do this in a terminal:

Code:

zypper lr

**chazsheen** · 06-May-2009, 14:05

I don't know what version of KDE you're running, but I used to run into the same issue every now and then with KDE4.1.x

Ever since I switched to 4.2.2 I haven't had any problems with the desktop plasmoid.

**Blah99** · 06-May-2009, 15:13

Okay, I've managed to solve that by switching the desktop to Folder view, deleting the suspect icons, then switching back to Desktop view.

I've got my folder back, with all the right icons, but they're in the wrong order. KDE won't let me rearrange them, it's like they're locked in position (except I checked all the settings, and none of the lock/align options are turned on).

lets see what you have in repo's, do this in a terminal:

I'm using KDE 4.1.3, if that's what you're looking for, but here are my repos.

I'm nervous about upgrading KDE, I had so many KDE/X/radeon/whatever problems when installing SuSE, I don't want to go through all that hell again.

Code:

#  | Alias                | Name                                   | Enabled | Refresh
---+----------------------+----------------------------------------+---------+--------
1  | Libdvdcss repository | Libdvdcss repository                   | Yes     | Yes
2  | openSUSE 11.1-0      | openSUSE 11.1-0                        | Yes     | No
3  | repo                 | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Backports  | Yes     | Yes
4  | repo-debug           | openSUSE-11.1-Debug                    | No      | Yes
5  | repo-non-oss         | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss                  | Yes     | Yes
6  | repo-oss             | openSUSE-11.1-Oss                      | Yes     | Yes
7  | repo-source          | openSUSE-11.1-Source                   | No      | Yes
8  | repo-update          | openSUSE-11.1-Update                   | Yes     | Yes
9  | repo_1               | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Community  | Yes     | Yes
10 | repo_2               | openSUSE BuildService - OpenOffice.org | Yes     | Yes
11 | repo_3               | openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla        | Yes     | Yes
12 | repo_4               | openSUSE BuildService - Database       | Yes     | Yes
13 | repo_5               | openSUSE BuildService - PHP            | Yes     | Yes
14 | repo_6               | Packman Repository                     | Yes     | Yes
15 | repo_7               | ATI Repository                         | No      | Yes

**caf4926** · 06-May-2009, 20:53

OK. I understand your concern.
I'm not sure of the wisdom in using the backports repo. I always find too may issues there.

FYI: I use 4.2.2 but stopped using the desktop folder in favour of this:

You can set the location to whatever suits. I use this autohide top panel in pref' to working thru kicker

**Blah99** · 07-May-2009, 12:00

Good point, I'll get rid of the backports. Not sure why that's in there actually, think I had a specific reason for it.

Is there a significant performance improvement in kde 4.2 compared to 4.1? I'm using a 2ghz with 1gig ram and a radeon 9700 (desktop), and the box just grinds to a halt after I start working with a few apps...

Even firefox is noticeably sluggish...

**caf4926** · 07-May-2009, 13:55

4.2 is a significant improvement over 4.1.3
use these repos':
Index of /repositories/KDE:/42/openSUSE_11.1

Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1_KDE_42

Then update all unconditionally in both those repo's

the box just grinds to a halt after I start working with a few apps...

Run

Code:

top

in a terminal to see what is taking cpu and memory
Delete beagle, if you haven't already.

What video driver are you using?? I have never used ATI but I do see a lot of ugly stories with ATI

**Blah99** · 08-May-2009, 12:25

[QUOTE=caf4926;1982925]4.2 is a significant improvement over 4.1.3...
Then update all unconditionally in both those repo's[/code]

Is it easy enough to roll back if it kills my machine?

Run top in a terminal to see what is taking cpu and memory
Delete beagle, if you haven't already.

Yeah, I know

Beagle is long gone. XOrg is always at the top, 10% -> 30% cpu usually...

Code:

2432 root      20   0  501m 107m 5300 S 33.6 10.8  10:32.10 Xorg
 4248 blah99       20   0  219m  93m  24m S 10.3  9.3   7:10.78 firefox
 3640 blah99       20   0  155m 5292 4084 S  5.7  0.5   1:37.82 pulseaudio
 4532 blah99       20   0  130m  17m 7080 S  5.7  1.8   1:36.03 yauap
 3585 blah99       20   0 60188  17m  14m S  3.3  1.8   2:04.67 kwin
 4527 blah99       20   0 75280  33m  24m S  2.7  3.4   1:24.80 amarokapp
 3601 blah99       20   0  156m  29m  15m S  1.7  2.9   1:34.72 knotify4
 3522 blah99       20   0  3636 1140  660 S  1.3  0.1   0:21.86 dbus-daemon
 3605 blah99       20   0  108m  29m  19m S  1.3  2.9   0:19.71 plasma
 3629 blah99       20   0 75268  19m  14m S  1.3  1.9   0:03.46 yakuake
 4554 blah99       20   0  2984 1132  852 R  0.7  0.1   0:04.96 top
 2873 mysql     20   0  108m  14m 3492 S  0.3  1.5   0:11.10 mysqld
    1 root      20   0  1008  360  308 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.28 init
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd

What video driver are you using?? I have never used ATI but I do see a lot of ugly stories with ATI

I couldn't use the fglrx driver from the ATI repo, it killed my box completely (search the Install forum for one of my posts, took me ages to fix). So I rolled back to the radeon driver shipped with the distro.

Code:

Section "Device"
  BoardName    "R300 NE"
  Driver       "radeon"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Option       "monitor-VGA-0" "Monitor[0]"
  Screen       0
  VendorName   "ATI"
  Option       "GARTSize" "64"
EndSection

**caf4926** · 08-May-2009, 12:59

That top looks ok, only it was missing the upper section.

Rolling back is easy enough just disable the kde42 repos. I would then add in the stable repo's for 4.1.3 and do an unconditional update in these.

**Blah99** · 08-May-2009, 15:38

Ahh! That's awesome... I just did the kde 4.2 upgrade and now this box is flying!

It's actually responsive again, comparative to XP on the same machine. What the hell did they screw up in 4.1 and get right in 4.2 to make that much of a difference!

I can even use the desktop effects now. Luxury, and it even fixed my plasmoid problem.

Easy upgrade too, amarok wasn't happy and I lost that digikam rubbish, but everything else was fine (after I fiddled with the repo order a bit)...

Thanks man!