KDE 4.2 Update Feb 5th - Caution

only thing I’ve noticed is a couple dead icons on the panel (which I
believe were Dolphin and… yeah,I don’t even remember the other one).

then again, my plasma settings aren’t too different than /branch
defaults.


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im haveing the dead icons 1 its thunderbird 2 is mozilla 3 is yakuake
and it happens on every reboot or login/out
also had that defualt wallpaper but that wasn’t a problem really


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Ive give on on widgets not staying where I put them… but then I found
something much worse…

Now when I remove widgets, they come back after logout… and in the
WRONG POSITION! >:( >:(


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i’ve just started getting double widgets lol now when i log in i get 2
weather widgets


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that is soooo funny!

i just posted about how i get 4 or 5 tiny little pagers when i
login…even after i shutdown with my pager completely removed from the
desktop!!

…i’m not complaining though. these little ants are a lot less
annoying than windoughs’ 8-foot tarantulas!


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Just got a solution from the opensuse kde list
> Sounds like you’re talking about plasma applets and shortcuts. They’re
> stored
> in .kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
>
> I had major weirdness with plasma after updating from kde4:/factory
> today too.
> With plasmoids behaving strange and my wallpaper switching and whatnot.
>
> These kinds of things are to be expected when using factory repo.
>
> 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 &’
>


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Well, that command totally hosed Plasma. Thanks for making the forum a
guinea pig.


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geoffro;1939819 Wrote:
> Just got a solution from the opensuse kde list
I had tried that; but it didn’t work.

What has worked, however, is the latest KDE 4.2 update (6 Feb where I
am in the South Pacific). On the first logout/login aftger applying it
I thought it hadn’t fixed things because I had four Kickoff icons and 32
dead ones in the Panel, plus other unwanted artefacts. But after
deleting ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc everything returned to
normal. It’s even survived a reboot.


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Hi,

I had to delete plasma-appletsrc and plasmarc. Otherwise, It would not
work.

Greetings

Michael


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After update and deleting .kde4 is everything ok but panel translucency
is gone!!! :frowning:


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tleskac;1939994 Wrote:
> After update and deleting .kde4 is everything ok but panel translucency
> is gone!!! :frowning:
I didn’t get this.

You may need to go to Config Desktop - Desktop - All effects and enable
it there


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Yea, yesterday update did that to me too.
But since I use smart and updating almost every day, today’s updates
didn’t messed with anything.


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michaelhust;1939988 Wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had to delete plasma-appletsrc and plasmarc. Otherwise, It would not
> work.
>
>
> Greetings
>
> Michael
Also had to delete
> ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
> ~/.kde4/share/config/plasmarc
and also delete the bottom control bar from kde4 comepletly and restart
kde, now it works again :wink:


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caf4926 wrote:

>
> That’s good to know. Maybe mine is an isolated case.
>
>
Don’t know how isolated it is. I had same issues yesterday when I updated to
88.2. I corrected them and then late last night I shutdown down my system.
This morning after a reboot, the icons in the kickoff panel are messed up
again.
Not the small panel but the big one. Only two not messed up were the one for
the last plug in device and the one show the plasma dashboard, there OK.
I was searching here before going to bugzilla to report it.
I just recreated the icons and they appear to work, but what happens after
shutdown?


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Russ

caf4926 wrote:

>
> Interesting. This seems to be leaving Geoff a little alone. I want to
> know what is different with your setup Geoff. I was thinking it might be
> repo’s - I’m using QT44.
> I seem to recall Geoff you might be on QT45?
>
> What about everyone else? 44/45??
> I wonder if that could make the difference?
>
>
I used the QT44 repo. I also forgot to mention I had the Home folder issue
yesterday and the changed wall paper. They were OK this morning.

I guess I can try renaming .kde4 and reboot, but I need to be able to
recover my mail etc.


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Russ

RobinJK wrote:

>
> Me too. Duplicate and triplicate panel icons, multiplicity of dead
> panel icons, inconsistent behaviours when I try to correct it all by
> hand. Removing plasma settings and other remedies suggested here
make
> no difference.
>
> I can eventually rebuild the panel by hand, but it all turns to worms
> again on next reboot or logout/in. So, for the moment, I do neither.
>
>
Same thing here.


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Russ

getting rid of my .kde4 folder sovled the issues for me too.


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the thing that helped me out was: removing
~/.kde4/share/config/ksmserverrc
It appeared to keep some settings to restore, apps or widgets that it
wanted to be restored on kdestart.


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FYI.

Several of you have been mentioning removal of .kde4 and in the same
breath saying about recovering mail.

The secret is NOT to remove the .kde4 folder but to re-name it to
.kde4old
all your mail is in there, unless you use Thunderbird, then you will be
OK as that mail will be in .mozilla


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I had to delete .kde4 folder to get everything ok.

Still two annoying corrupted icons on the panel are there >:(, any idea
how to get rid of them?


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