[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-12 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 04:06:34 AM Duncan did opine: gene heskett posted on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:11:03 -0400 as excerpted: Be careful with it, and redirect any output path you don't need to /dev/null. I have contacted the author, a student who was not aware of any problems, advising

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-11 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, April 11, 2011 07:45:35 AM Duncan did opine: gene heskett posted on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:41 -0400 as excerpted: Chuckle. There are broadcast related things that I am an expert at, but cobbling up bash scripts is about the limit here on a 64 bit machine. I usually manage to

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-11 Thread Duncan
gene heskett posted on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:08:52 -0400 as excerpted: Re my script. I didn't use pgrep, but $pidof, and it works, I can start and stop kmail and this script follows suit: ...snip script setup... Cmd=/usr/lib/qt4/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmail /KMail org.kde.kmail.kmail.checkMail

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-11 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, April 11, 2011 08:46:30 PM Duncan did opine: gene heskett posted on Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:08:52 -0400 as excerpted: Re my script. I didn't use pgrep, but $pidof, and it works, I can start and stop kmail and this script follows suit: ...snip script setup...

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-09 Thread Duncan
gene heskett posted on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:57:21 -0400 as excerpted: The specific problem file for me was $KDEHOME/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc . Let me see if I can look at that one. And you just might have nailed it, from a bash konsole, $KDEHOME is not defined, either for me

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-08 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, April 08, 2011 02:08:02 AM Duncan did opine: gene heskett posted on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:09:52 -0400 as excerpted: I tried that. The new user also has no top bar of a window decorations. Wandering around in ~/.kde4, I found a bunch of what look like junk directories in .kde

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-08 Thread Duncan
gene heskett posted on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:33:30 -0400 as excerpted: On Friday, April 08, 2011 02:08:02 AM Duncan did opine: gene heskett posted on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:09:52 -0400 as excerpted: Wandering around in ~/.kde4, I found a bunch of what look like junk directories in .kde and

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-08 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, April 08, 2011 06:23:40 AM Duncan did opine: [...] Does touching /.autofsck still work? It's supposed to here on Gentoo. Of course as I mentioned I run reiserfs, which is a bit of a special case in how it handles that. I will do that, and reboot in a few minutes. Because I

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-08 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, April 08, 2011 05:13:09 PM Duncan did opine: gene heskett posted on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:50:36 -0400 as excerpted: [huge snip] I'm off to do a full powerdown reboot, and at least 1 full cycle of memtest86. /.autofsck touched. With 4Tb of fscking to do, I won't say brb. :-)

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-08 Thread Duncan
gene heskett posted on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:58:46 -0400 as excerpted: Well, apparently the fsck worked, but the invocation is silent, all one sees at boot time is a stalled boot, with the drive activity led stuck on. So I take it you got that working, and the earlier post to the effect that

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-07 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:03:40 AM phanisvara das did opine: On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:09:11 +0530, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: What is this zypper ve you speak of? This is pclos, 32 bit on a 64 bit phenom quad, pkg manager is synaptic adapted to rpms. oops, sorry. i'm

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-07 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:32:06 PM phanisvara das did opine: On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:09:11 +0530, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: What is this zypper ve you speak of? This is pclos, 32 bit on a 64 bit phenom quad, pkg manager is synaptic adapted to rpms. oops, sorry. i'm

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-07 Thread phanisvara das
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:20:06 +0530, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: ... Well, based on a nothing to lose theme, I nuked the whole ~/.kde4 tree, logged out and back in. But I still had 10 workspaces when I logged back in, which is puzzle #1. It should have defaulted to 4 I believe.

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-07 Thread Duncan
gene heskett posted on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:09:52 -0400 as excerpted: I tried that. The new user also has no top bar of a window decorations. Wandering around in ~/.kde4, I found a bunch of what look like junk directories in .kde and .kde4 subdirs of .kde4 and nuked those, but what seems