"slab" makes me crazy

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Hello everybody,

I’m using the new open suse 11.1 release on my workstation and i’m very happy with this distribution.

Because one thing makes me unhappy when my system starts. This window comes everytime when i start open suse. When i click ok, 1 or 2 minutes later it comes again.

What are the “slab”? i search in the internet and in my linux books but i can’t find anything about this.

Can someone help me?

Best regards

bill turn

This is the text from the warning:

Beim Laden oder Speichern der Konfiguration von slab ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Einige Ihrer Konfigurationseinstellungen könnten nicht richtig funktionieren.

Der Schlüssel- oder Verzeichnisname ist fehlerhaft: »/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/«: Schlüssel und Verzeichnisse dürfen nicht auf einen Schrägstrich (/) enden

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SLAB is the suse/novell main menu thing that appears when you click on the menu :).

…ich glaube ;).

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danke für die schnelle Antwort growbag :wink:

könntest du dir vorstellen wo hier der Fehler liegen könnte?

ich merke zwar keine Beeinträchtigung durch dieses Fenster bzw. diesen Fehler, aber ist auf Dauer nervig.

Gruß

bill

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It seems like there is a “/” on the end of a path key somewhere, maybe run gnomeconfig (Gnome Configuration Editor) and look for that keyname and remove the trailing /.

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Drücke <alt> <F2> und tippe:

gnomeconfig

Dann suche /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/

Ich bin mir leide nicht so sicher, weil ich Gnome nicht benutze :.

Viel Glück!

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Hello & welcome to the forums!

Glad to hear you are enjoying openSUSE!

The error you are getting is probably related to the VMWare Server 2.0 plugin… have you installed this by any chance?

you can clear the error by reseting your recently used data by opening a terminal console:


echo . > ~/.recently-used.xbel

This will only empty your history listing of last opened applications and documents - (no data will be cleared). Not to bad, but just so you know what it does.

Also have a look at this thread : Slab popups all the time - openSUSE Forums

Hope that helps!
Wj

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There have been several workarounds for this posted on:
Slab popups all the time - Page 3 - openSUSE Forums

I hope some of those work

On the other side this has an open bug report in Novell’s Bugzilla, the problem could be with VMware, but we’ll have to wait until something final is told and the report is closed.

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It works!

thank you very much! The right answer in so short time, :open_mouth:

This is the best support for a linux distribution i ever see. :wink:

RESPECT!

Best regards

bill

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hi guys,

the slab problem comes back and pop up everytime i click on a application. I tried the other workarounds which was discussed in the openSUSE forum, but nothing works.

This also doesn’t work:

Originally Posted by malcolmlewis View Post
Hi
You can disable the slab features in gconf-editor;
Code:

/desktop/gnome/applications/main-menu/lock-down/showable_file_types

Just remove ‘1’ from the list.

And this…the same :frowning:

Delete the file and make a directory with the same name:

Code:

rm ~/.recently-used.xbel
mkdir ~/.recently-used.xbel

I don’t know what I can do, it’s the same thing: I installed vmware server 2 with the firefox plugin;

Has someone an idea?

Best regards

Bill

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Maybe create a new user on your system and login under that instead of your regular login name.

That will give you a clean desktop, and if it works properly, then the problem must be in the user configuration somewhere.

Sorry, I’m all out of ideas apart from that :(.

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Ok, i will try this morning :wink:

i hope this works…

But i will never GIVE UP! lol!

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I tried this at first alone but it came back after a couple of minutes.

Delete the file and make a directory with the same name:


rm ~/.recently-used.xbel
mkdir ~/.recently-used.xbel

Then I tried this alone and the history in slab panel is no longer kept. I didn’t like it.
I faced another problem and I had to restart the panel using


killall gnome-panel

then i deleted the folder


rm -r ~/.recently-used.xbel

and now it works real great.

The problem came to me after I did a fresh installation for the root partition only. it did not come for me from VMware server because I don’t use it.
hope it works for some one else.