Well. This is awkward. My 3 year likes to use the laptop to watch youtube videos and Gcompris. But she also likes to fiddle about on… well everything else. Somehow she’s managed to change the taskbar on several occasions and other stuff. And I’ve never really figured out how she does it or how to change it back, so generally what I’ve done is I make a copy of the ‘.kde4’ folder then delete it and restart the laptop and set everything up the way I want it.
Bow though, the taskbar tends to indicate for example Firefox<2> and Dolphin<5>, even though I know I have not opened Firefox or Dolphin yet. Any suggestions?
On 2013-11-26 21:46, JudasDisciple wrote:
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> Well. This is awkward. My 3 year likes to use the laptop to watch
> youtube videos and Gcompris. But she also likes to fiddle about on…
> well everything else. Somehow she’s managed to change the taskbar on
> several occasions and other stuff. And I’ve never really figured out how
> she does it or how to change it back, so generally what I’ve done is I
> make a copy of the ‘.kde4’ folder then delete it and restart the laptop
> and set everything up the way I want it.
Clever
Maybe just disable save settings on exit. Use a simpler desktop than
kde, fewer things to touch.
You could investigate kiosk settings. I do not know how to do it, though.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On 2013-11-26 22:26, JudasDisciple wrote:
>
>>
>> Maybe just disable save settings on exit. Use a simpler desktop than
>> kde, fewer things to touch.
>>
>
> I’d do that but I love KDE!
But does her? You both do not need to have the same user nor the same
desktop.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
> Bow though, the taskbar tends to indicate for example Firefox<2> and
> Dolphin<5>, even though I know I have not opened Firefox or Dolphin yet.
> Any suggestions?
Copy and restore that directory while the user is not logged in kde. Use
another desktop or another user. Textmode would be perfect. No need to
reboot, just login as that user - because you are not logged in during
the procedure.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On 11/26/2013 04:26 PM, JudasDisciple pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
>> Maybe just disable save settings on exit. Use a simpler desktop than
>> kde, fewer things to touch.
>>
> I’d do that but I love KDE!
>
>
I would suggest you give your daughter her own login, set her desktop up
and set it to not save settingd on logout.
No I was trying to explain how it occurred. The problem I’m having is that for example Dolphin on the taskbar says <5> indicating that Dolphin has 4 open windows, which it doesn’t. And Firefox has <2> meaning to me that there are two FireFox windows open, but I know there is only the one. How do I fix this problem.
> No I was trying to explain how it occurred. The problem I’m having is
> that for example Dolphin on the taskbar says <5> indicating that Dolphin
> has 4 open windows, which it doesn’t. And Firefox has <2> meaning to me
> that there are two FireFox windows open, but I know there is only the
> one. How do I fix this problem.
I told you. You can not copy that directory while the user is logged in.
You copied the status files of a running user.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On 11/27/2013 01:56 PM, JudasDisciple pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> hendersj;2602468 Wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:26:02 +0000, JudasDisciple wrote:
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>>> Cheers guys. But all of this doesn’t help with my initial request for
>>> help.
>> It seemed that you were asking about how to prevent it - was that not
>> your request?
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> –
>> Jim Henderson
>> openSUSE Forums Administrator
>> Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
>
> No I was trying to explain how it occurred. The problem I’m having is
> that for example Dolphin on the taskbar says <5> indicating that Dolphin
> has 4 open windows, which it doesn’t. And Firefox has <2> meaning to me
> that there are two FireFox windows open, but I know there is only the
> one. How do I fix this problem.
>
>
Use :
Code:
ps -ef | grep firefox
to see how many of the following lines you see:
Code:
/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox
If you only see one you only have one instance running and have other
problems and may need to logout/login.
