I thought I had this licked because I was getting along well for a while but then, inexplicably, the problem pops up again.
I am running Mandrake 8.2 with the Mandrake KDE 3.0.1 rpms installed (I am VERY slowly downloading the KDE 3.0.2 rpms now...will take a week to finish). It is a known monstrous problem in KDE 3 that if you try to run the konsole from the panel/kicker, it will freeze kicker and when you exit konsole, you will get an error message about not being able to run "konsole-noxft". GAH! I tried several things to destroy this nonsense, from changing the real konsole-noxft to another name and then symlinking konsole-noxft to plain ole konsole, editing the properties for the konsole icon on the panel so that it runs "konsole" instead of "konsole-noxft" (but this only lasts until your next login), and finally, when nothing worked, I flat-out deleted konsole-noxft (because I NEVER want to run without xft damnit!) and that worked...for a while. I quite getting the error message and konsole started just fine from kicker (you do not get any problem if you run konsole from the kmenu (??). Then, and suddenly, I lately found that I couldn't run konsole from the kicker icon at all because it started complaining about not being able to find "konsole-noxft". Duh, I deleted it and it was all perfectly fine for about a month. Has anyone come up with a permanent fix for this that does NOT involve the very sad and repulsive suggestion from the KDE people of deleting the kicker konsole icon and just putting a konsole icon on the desktop? I will not do this. My desktop is clean and pristine and there will be no nonsensical icons on it. At the moment, I have replaced the konsole icon with one for eterm but there is no antialiasing possible with this. Anyone find a better fix than the KDE-suggested one? praedor
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