Archives for: February 2009
By basd on Feb 27, 2009 | In kde4 | Send feedback »
but not so bad in the overall scheme of things. I have two kde 3.5 kicker panels running on my desktop kde 4.2.And now for no apparent reason, one or the other of them is disappearing when I switch desktops with the desktop pager. During one login, the…
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By basd on Feb 27, 2009 | In opensuse | Send feedback »
Just kidding (old Herman's Hermits song). I'm getting hits from Google world-wide concerning the OpenSUSE kernel update.
Sooo...I guess this was not just some self-inflicted anomaly. Rather, shared pain.
Of course, I'm no help at all, since I d…
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By basd on Feb 26, 2009 | In opensuse | Send feedback »
This probably sucks worse for other users than for me, because I have an R/T kernel installed in addition to the default one.But in any event, it sucks for me too.
Today YAST updated the kernel to 2.6.27.19-3.2. But, the update didn't go so well. As…
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By basd on Feb 25, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
Well, I wasn't having any luck with plasma widgets -- and there aren't very many anyway. So, I tried some google gadgets.
Actually, they only appear on one desktop, so you can have different groups of google gadgets on different desktops. There does…
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By basd on Feb 24, 2009 | In -arghhh!! | Send feedback »
If you are running joomla CMS and VirtueMart anywhere, it's probably a good idea to be running the CURRENT version.There are allegedly some 13 or more variants of worms and bots cruising around trying to access legacy exploits and crash your install. On…
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By basd on Feb 24, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, gnome | Send feedback »
I suddenly remembered I actually have a life, so I have been running my computer on the stable kdomows desktop for a couple of days -- without even logging to the actual kde 4.2 desktop, even out of curiosity. And, not even compulsively running daily up…
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By basd on Feb 21, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, gnome, -arghhh!! | Send feedback »
So, I'm looking at this really cool desktop where everything is sort of where I want it and everything is stable and works. (Would that it stay that way ...)
Nothing here but a vast sea of darkness, a couple of desktop icons, four thin panels around…
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By basd on Feb 20, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
As my posts might suggest, I keep trying to find the combination of desktop elements that will provide maximum functionality.But, there always seems to be some reason "it didn't work." So, I thought that by reducing the number of widgets, panels and ico…
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By basd on Feb 20, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
So, being tired of chasing my plasma panel icons around and having weird widget behavior, I decided to go back to running kde3 kicker on my plasma desktop.My observation has been that there seems to be a limit on the number of widgets (including panel ic…
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By basd on Feb 19, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
Since mission-critical stuff isn't annoying me at the moment, I can go back to thinking about minor details that would make life easier.Sometimes it's difficult to realize the true awesomeness of my present computer system when I think back on my first c…
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By basd on Feb 16, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
For some reason, kde 4.2 is now scrambling the order of my icons in one of my panels.
Very inconvenient, as I have a lot of them (and sort of rely on their order to remember which are which, since my URL icons all look the same).
I still think ther…
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By basd on Feb 13, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
Let's see, I quit using a KDE4.2 login and started running plasma on top of Gnome because Gnome would make wireless connections, but now Gnome won't make wireless connections. But now I've got plasma running on top of a KDE 3.5 session.
Both KDE4.2 an…
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By basd on Feb 13, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, gnome | Send feedback »
At one point, I had to stop randr from running at startup, or it locked everything up. Now, suddenly and for no apparent reason, I can't get my external monitor active unless I not only run randr but also trigger the vga monitor via the internal keyboar…
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By basd on Feb 12, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, gnome | Send feedback »
One way to check whether there are corrupt configuration settings in a user account is to create a new user account. Or use one that is seldom used.So, I logged into my root account.
What a surprise! First of all, the plasma desktop borked completel…
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By basd on Feb 12, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, gnome | Send feedback »
Maybe I should never update. My i586 machine that has the initial kde 4.2 release -- not thereafter updated -- is working fine.Whereas my x64 machine has many broken things. Waahhh!
As noted, I am [still] using plasome, because the kde networking int…
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By basd on Feb 10, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, gnome | Send feedback »
Plasma wasn't saving the desktop correctly and was basically all screwed up. I couldn't delete widgets, either.So, I copied the plasmarc and plasma-appletsrc files to a temp location, then (from gnome) copied them back to .kde4/share/config. I deleted…
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By basd on Feb 9, 2009 | In kde4, opensuse | Send feedback »
I've been reasonably successful using plasome. That is, running plasma on KWin, in a Gnome session.This is working out perhaps a bit better than my icekd34omows, because I use a lot of icons to quick-start thing, including links to a few websites.…
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By basd on Feb 8, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, gnome | Send feedback »
Following the system of hybridization I have mentioned to create kdomows, icekd34omows, and the like, I wondered what would happen if I ran plasma on top of a Gnome login.
Works fine. The plasma widgets geometry is not saving correctly for this optio…
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By basd on Feb 7, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, gnome, icewm | Send feedback »
It's radically important for me to be able to use wireless network connections on the go. So, till KDE 4.2 programmers get their act together, I need an alternative.Fortunately, I've got one.
I went back to my Kdomows install. But, it had fallen behi…
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By basd on Feb 7, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | 1 feedback »
I posted a number of really positive things about 4.2 after it's release. It is, after all, my primary desktop. And, it's important to note that I am using 4.2 through the "lens" of OpenSUSE, since I install from the Factory repository.
But actual r…
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By basd on Feb 5, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
Yes, it's that bad.
Well, okay, I am not the brightest lightbulb in the pack. I get tunnel vision. I can't see the forest for the trees. More cliches here.
But, in any event. When we last left our interpid hero, he was trying to print out a 48…
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By basd on Feb 5, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
Yesterday kde4.2 wasn't working so well for me. But as the day went on there were some code corrections I downloaded (and/or something) and the biggest annoyance -- non-working touchpad -- went away. There also seemed to be a serious memory leak for aw…
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By basd on Feb 4, 2009 | In kde4, opensuse, -arghhh!! | Send feedback »
when you've got serious work to do.Okay, that naturally falls into the "do as I say, not as I do," category. I start the day with a software update. I started doing this when the updater applet ceased working, because I wish to be certain I have all th…
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By basd on Feb 4, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
Why is it the more technology we get, the more difficult everything is?
As a point of reference, a case filing that used to cost $50 and take 3 minutes now takes 20 minutes and requires a $300 fee. Do we actually call this progress?
I've been work…
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By basd on Feb 3, 2009 | In kde4 | Send feedback »
Having a cool, stable, free desktop is pretty neat. Of course it results in nothing to post about.I have developed a regular "plasma crash" at startup. But, I don't precisely have any idea what is crashing. Everything actually seems to be working fine…
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