As part of my new install I am now using KDE 4.10 as the desktop. But it appears to have a problem retaining settings. If I switch off, when it comes back on, the konsole window for example is now full screen when it should be just a small window and similarly for something like a Solitaire game.
But using the same DVD I used to install, I created another install inside VirtualBox and that doesn't exhibit the problem. I've been looking online at the KDE 4 pages but I can't get to the bottom of the issue. Can I copy any of the files over from the virtual machine or is there a preferred way to fix it? I've tried logging in as root and moving my copy of the .kde4 folder in the hope that it would create a new one without these problems but either I didn't do it correctly, or it didn't work, the end result being that there was no change.
As the virtual machine works and this one doesn't I assumed it might be graphics related but if I do anything to that, I lose everything and can no longer see the graphic I have for wallpaper and all the icons disappear. That then takes me ages to get it all back again so having done that three times now, I'm getting tired of it and now tend to avoid that.
So any ideas on what I can do to remedy the problem please?
On 06/07/13 14:44, Chris Walker wrote:
So any ideas on what I can do to remedy the problem please?
Install Gnome?
/Runs away and hides/
On 06/07/13 14:44, Chris Walker wrote: [Snip]
So any ideas on what I can do to remedy the problem please?
Just a stab in the dark. Try creating a new user. Log on as that user, and see if their settings "stick". If they do, start using that user (unless there's a reason why not to). You can copy the files to the new home directory and change their ownership with chown. Once you've done that, you can delete the old user, and change the name of the new user to the old user's name.
Otherwise, are any of your files read-only that shouldn't be? Presumably you can save files and edit them in your home directory, or subdirectories thereof? Your home partition isn't mounted read only or anything daft like that?
HTH Steve
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:13:24 +0100 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 06/07/13 14:44, Chris Walker wrote: [Snip]
So any ideas on what I can do to remedy the problem please?
Just a stab in the dark. Try creating a new user. Log on as that user, and see if their settings "stick". If they do, start using that user (unless there's a reason why not to). You can copy the files to the new home directory and change their ownership with chown. Once you've done that, you can delete the old user, and change the name of the new user to the old user's name.
OK. That's easy enough to do but.... what do I do when I'm asked 'Create a private group for the user?' and also 'Specify user ID manually?' The choise I'm offered at that point is 500 which is the same group as mine.
Otherwise, are any of your files read-only that shouldn't be? Presumably you can save files and edit them in your home directory, or subdirectories thereof? Your home partition isn't mounted read only or anything daft like that?
I don't think so. ls -la /home/ total 28 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 21 16:51 ./ drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jul 7 09:32 ../ drwxr-xr-x 44 chris chris 4096 Jul 7 09:33 chris/ drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 21 17:02 lost+found/
There is one further thing I thought I'd mention and that's the display corruption. When composing this message for example, I wanted to refer to the screen showing me the options for creating a new user. If I hover the mouse over the Control Centre icon on the taskbar, I get a repeating list of the same items all the way up the screen. I get the same thing for notifications. Is that another problem or likely to be related to this one?
On 07/07/13 09:44, Chris Walker wrote:
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:13:24 +0100 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 06/07/13 14:44, Chris Walker wrote: [Snip]
So any ideas on what I can do to remedy the problem please?
Just a stab in the dark. Try creating a new user. Log on as that user, and see if their settings "stick". If they do, start using that user (unless there's a reason why not to). You can copy the files to the new home directory and change their ownership with chown. Once you've done that, you can delete the old user, and change the name of the new user to the old user's name.
OK. That's easy enough to do but.... what do I do when I'm asked 'Create a private group for the user?' and also 'Specify user ID manually?' The choise I'm offered at that point is 500 which is the same group as mine.
I've not used your flavour of Linux at all, and not used KDE for years, so not exactly familiar with what questions you're asked, but, on Ubuntu & Lubuntu, all users get a private group created for them automatically, and the group ID and user ID are generated automatically unless you need to override them. I would expect you'd need to create a private group, and choose a new/free/empty group ID for them.
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There is one further thing I thought I'd mention and that's the display corruption. When composing this message for example, I wanted to refer to the screen showing me the options for creating a new user. If I hover the mouse over the Control Centre icon on the taskbar, I get a repeating list of the same items all the way up the screen. I get the same thing for notifications. Is that another problem or likely to be related to this one?
This worries me. Could it be that this installation is completely SNAFUed? Presumably the version in the Virtual Machine doesn't behave like that? Do you have a lot of time/effort/customisation/data etc tied up in this install? Wondering if it would be an idea to format and re-install and try again? Or maybe try a live CD and see if that works OK.
Problem is I don't know enough about your installation to comment knowledgeably. Can anyone else help?
Good luck!
Steve
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 12:58:33 +0100 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 07/07/13 09:44, Chris Walker wrote:
There is one further thing I thought I'd mention and that's the display corruption. When composing this message for example, I wanted to refer to the screen showing me the options for creating a new user. If I hover the mouse over the Control Centre icon on the taskbar, I get a repeating list of the same items all the way up the screen. I get the same thing for notifications. Is that another problem or likely to be related to this one?
This worries me. Could it be that this installation is completely SNAFUed?
It might well be ;-)
Presumably the version in the Virtual Machine doesn't behave like that?
Nope and it's machines, plural as I wanted to test my install procedure in case it was thrombosis of the keyboard. Those images are on a spare 1TB drive so that they can be seen and used from Windows 7 (the machine dual boots) so they won't be overwritten or lost in the procedure mentioned below.
Do you have a lot of time/effort/customisation/data etc tied up in this install?
Not too much, no. Apart from the usual stuff of different wallpapers, I've installed a copy of programs, one of which has to be compiled from source but it's not a big program so won't take too many minutes to do again.
Wondering if it would be an idea to format and re-install and try again? Or maybe try a live CD and see if that works OK.
If I'm going to download another CD/DVD, I'll try the latest installable version from the web site, run a hash program to make sure it's ok, and blast the old version out of the way. So as I type this, I have a 64 bit version downloading. I've also run rsync to copy all the existing files from "/" to a spare 500GB drive just in case there are some files I need. Once the download has finished I'll write it to DVD, boot into that and format the root partition and do a full install. If that exhibits the same problem, I'll grab a copy of Debian and try that ;-)
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 18:00:26 +0100 Chris Walker cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
Not too much, no. Apart from the usual stuff of different wallpapers, I've installed a copy of programs, one of which has to be compiled
s /copy/couple
I really should proof read things before I send them!
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