I’ve looked everywhere including boot config to stop multiple duplicate
instances of widgets loading at boot. I’ve opened and then close them
and now 5 instances of RSS or the weather widget will load at boot.
Also, most of my standard panel icons (Konquerer, Dolphin, etc) are
blank icons, evidently, KDE 4.2 trashed the links or something, but
they’ll continue to load at every boot - I’d just as soon not have them,
any idea how to fix that?
I don’t know that I have an exact answer for you, but here is what I had
to do to keep from having multiples of desktops:
I went through and removed each of the duplicates, then I removed the
configuration files for plasma:
rm ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma*
Then I logged out of the session and back in. This reduced the
craziness. I haven’t been running long enough since my fix to know if it
really has solved the problem.
Hmmm, no such file in that location - any idea what the full name of the
plasma config file is? I’ll have to hunt it down.
Thanks though, still in learning mode.
GenericHuman;1940854 Wrote:
> I don’t know that I have an exact answer for you, but here is what I had
> to do to keep from having multiples of desktops:
>
> I went through and removed each of the duplicates, then I removed the
> configuration files for plasma:
>
> rm ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma*
>
> Then I logged out of the session and back in. This reduced the
> craziness. I haven’t been running long enough since my fix to know if it
> really has solved the problem.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Generically Human
Well, seems “Save Session” would be the proper way to clean this up,
unfortunately the save session button is missing in KDE 4.2 - so, if I
go into Session Manager, what’s the best way to save my current
desktop/session? Start with an empty session" scares me, connotes a
blank desktop, or does it?
How would I go about masnually saving my current session, so that it
boots up as I currently have it configured?
I have a partial answer and an answer from another problem in another
thread. I didn’t have duplicate items but I did have the blank icons
and a change in wallpaper.
I gave up on getting the basic icon set on the desktop. I manually
deleted each one and the blank one in the panel. Then, I set the
wallpaper and theme and added icons where I wanted them. Next I went
to
/home/prexy/.kde4/share/config
and renamed the plasma-appletsrc file to plasma-applets.old but did
nothing to plasmarc in the same directory. I rebooted and in the
session menu I selected KDE 4.2, not the default which was previous
session. Try it both ways since there may be slightly different reasons
for different people’s problems.
That fixed my problem but created another. The box will not completely
reboot or shutdown. It hangs at “sending all the term signal”. Another
thread that shutdown problems were occurring because a folder plasmoid
was keeping /home mounted. Sure enough, my folder plasmoid used to be
set to Documents but had been reset to /home. So, look out for that
too.
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If your gecko is broken, you have a reptile dysfunction.:eek:
i think i could “fix” it. at the end is looks more as a workaround.
here is what i did:
removed ~/.kde/share/config/plasma*
accessed /usr/share/kde4/config.kcfg and edited
plasma-shell-desktop.kcfg, changing the default for
“perVirtualDesktopViews” to “true”. (has to be done as root).
adjusted session manager to empty session (not even this was working
before).
After logout and back into KDE, all is fine. Dummy icons are gone as
well as widgets I had removed, which insisted getting back.
Then I set back to restore from “last session”, made some changes,
another logout/login and still all fine. I had before problems after
reboot. Also fixed with the above steps.
Open your .kde4/share/config/plasma-appletrc file.
Search through the different containment and applet numbers.
Find the ones that apply only to your troublesome widget/applet. (There
may be a few sections associated with it, but they should be near each
other, like just below it.)
Delete them, then save your file, log out and back in.
It seems KDE 4.2 does not update this file the way we would expect it
to. It only remembers widgets/applets we add… not the ones we remove.
I had to do this for blank icons in my panel. For that, I just found
the applets that did not correspond to anything (just “icon”) and also
had an associated URL that was blank.
I did try renaming/deleting the file first, but for some reason, that
did not work in my instance.
This is from memory, but I hope it is decent enough guide to step you
in the right direction.
