Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : the undead has been killed
On Monday 13 April 2009 20:49:44 Philip Webb wrote: 090413 Philip Webb wrote: I've found out how to fix it: something is starting Plasma, so Htop to the rescue ! -- kill Plasma the hideous mask is removed -- it appears at the very end of the KDE start-up process -- the handsome KDE 3 desktop backgrounds reappear together with the desktop menus called up by mouse clicks. I didn't find out what was starting Plasma, but I fixed it : 'cd /usr/bin; mv plasma plasma-aside'. back to normal ! (clutches garlic, crucifix, incense ... ) Why invoke the supernatural when common logic is so superior? emerge -C plasma emerge --depclean Is it a good idea to tell people to run emerge -C? emerge --depc atom is dependency-aware. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free. --Linus Torvalds
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : the undead has been killed
On Friday 17 April 2009 23:21:19 Jorge Morais wrote: On Monday 13 April 2009 20:49:44 Philip Webb wrote: 090413 Philip Webb wrote: I've found out how to fix it: something is starting Plasma, so Htop to the rescue ! -- kill Plasma the hideous mask is removed -- it appears at the very end of the KDE start-up process -- the handsome KDE 3 desktop backgrounds reappear together with the desktop menus called up by mouse clicks. I didn't find out what was starting Plasma, but I fixed it : 'cd /usr/bin; mv plasma plasma-aside'. back to normal ! (clutches garlic, crucifix, incense ... ) Why invoke the supernatural when common logic is so superior? emerge -C plasma emerge --depclean Is it a good idea to tell people to run emerge -C? emerge --depc atom is dependency-aware. The OP downgraded from kde-4 back to kde-3 He should not have had plasma at all anymore, but it got left behind in error and something was starting it. So he needed to get rid of it, and emerge -C followed by --depclean really is the ideal method, -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : the undead has been killed
090413 Philip Webb wrote: I've found out how to fix it: something is starting Plasma, so Htop to the rescue ! -- kill Plasma the hideous mask is removed -- it appears at the very end of the KDE start-up process -- the handsome KDE 3 desktop backgrounds reappear together with the desktop menus called up by mouse clicks. I didn't find out what was starting Plasma, but I fixed it : 'cd /usr/bin; mv plasma plasma-aside'. back to normal ! (clutches garlic, crucifix, incense ... ) -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : the undead has been killed
On Monday 13 April 2009 20:49:44 Philip Webb wrote: 090413 Philip Webb wrote: I've found out how to fix it: something is starting Plasma, so Htop to the rescue ! -- kill Plasma the hideous mask is removed -- it appears at the very end of the KDE start-up process -- the handsome KDE 3 desktop backgrounds reappear together with the desktop menus called up by mouse clicks. I didn't find out what was starting Plasma, but I fixed it : 'cd /usr/bin; mv plasma plasma-aside'. back to normal ! (clutches garlic, crucifix, incense ... ) Why invoke the supernatural when common logic is so superior? emerge -C plasma emerge --depclean -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
