and this learner will be sticking to kde for now. it's interesting that the linux community seems to be divided between the kde and gnome camps. if i change now, in a month or 2 there'll be someone saying kde is better...
anyway, today i'm glad to have sorted yesterday's problem. i have plenty more . . . happy to say i'm managing to slowly answer the questions i have through googling, man pages, rute, experimenting and breaking, reinstalling, luck, and this forum (both posting and reading).
these days i am spending at least a quarter of my home computer time in linux (even if many of my emails come from windows), and this will only get larger and larger as i work my way through all the mysteries and intracacies of an operating system that is both very similar yet very different to one i have already "mastered".
thanks again to you all. roger
steve wrote:
steve wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tue, 25 May 2004 22:54, steve wrote:^^
Roger Searle wrote:[ snip ]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] roger]# find /home -mtime -1 -size +10240k | xargs ls -ld
then to konqueror to see that .xsession-errors is 8.3GB !!! so... rm .xsession-errors
Thanks for the help finding this. The obvious question now being: what
was causing that? Presumably it's going to grow again.
Yes, It is.
You're going to have to read _all_ of it to find that out (:
.xsession_errors is usually filled by Konqueror. Time to move over to gnome? It's much more mature than kde.
Steve
Sory to follow up on my own post... very bad form I know. I've just run up2date on my Fedora 1 machine, and it's found a load of kde updates. Maybe there are similar available for you on Mandrake?? Every little helps!
Steve
Not necessarily, the command;-
tail -f .xsession-errors
will allow you to watch the tail of the file as it grows. ( CTRL-S and CTRL-Q ) allow you to stop and start the flood of text.
There will probably be a meaningful message or three in there.
/usr/sbin/lsof | grep '.xsession-errors' will also tell you which programs have .xsession-errors open.
