On 02 October 2008 22:32:45 Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 22:23 +0200, Sandro Steger wrote:
> On 02 October 2008 20:54:00 Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 20:42 +0200, Sandro Steger wrote:
> > > On 02 October 2008 19:57:23 Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > > Sandro Steger wrote:
> > > > > Hello fellow fedora users,
> > > > >
> > > > > for some reason I can't set the Desktop background using
the
> > > > > "Configure Desktop ..." tool from the Desktop Context
Menu. It
> > > > > doesn't work with the Control Panel as well (Well, basically
it's
> > > > > the same dialog).
> > > >
> > > > Odd, unfortunately I can't reproduce that, seems to work as
> > > > advertised for me (I don't usually set/use background images, or
> > > > change colors often).
> > > >
> > > > -- Rex
> > >
> > > Same, that's why it took me a while to notice.
> > >
> > > I suspect a corrupted config file to be the cause.
> > > Is there a command to get kde to reload all user settings without
> > > relogging in? That would make it a lot easier and faster to find the
> > > cause.
> >
> > ----
> > No - log out
> > press <Control><Alt><F1>
> > log in as your normal user in the virtual console
> > type 'mv .kde .kde-bak'
> > type 'exit'
> > press <Control><Alt><F7>
> > login as usual, your settings will be back to the beginning and all of
> > your old data/settings are in your $HOME/.kde-bak
> >
> > Craig
>
> Thank you for your help, but I planned to evade that (the reason for my
> previous question).
>
> Anyway, I found the cause and it indeed seems like a bug.
>
> Explanation:
> Konqueror breaks the configuration (located at
> ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc) when using the "Set as background"
> function in some conditions.
>
> The solution:
> Konqueror adds a part starting like [Desktop0Screen0] in
> ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc
> Removing that part does the trick.
>
> Can someone confirm this? If yes, I'm gonna file a bugreport on the kde
> bugzilla or the mailinglist.
----
you have to know that the days for KDE 3.5.x are numbered less than 100
Craig
Well, I give you that, but that's no reason not to file a bugreport. If they fix
that only in KDE 4.1.x that's fine with me too. And I hope they'll at least
provide security fixes for KDE 3.5.x for some years or I have to get myself a
new notebook I guess...
(Un-)fortunately (I don't know which one yet), after the release of Fedora 10 I
gotta leave my reliable Fedora 8 behind. Are there still driver problems with
X-Server 1.5 and KDE 4.1?
Greetings,
Sandro