Re: KDE 3.5.10 Desktop Background Issue


On 02 October 2008 20:54:00 Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 20:42 +0200, Sandro Steger wrote:
On 02 October 2008 19:57:23 Rex Dieter wrote:
Sandro Steger wrote:
Hello fellow fedora users,

for some reason I can't set the Desktop background using the
"Configure Desktop ..." tool from the Desktop Context Menu. It
doesn't work with the Control Panel as well (Well, basically it's the
same dialog).

Odd, unfortunately I can't reproduce that, seems to work as advertised
for me (I don't usually set/use background images, or change colors
often).

-- Rex

Same, that's why it took me a while to notice.

I suspect a corrupted config file to be the cause.
Is there a command to get kde to reload all user settings without
relogging in? That would make it a lot easier and faster to find the
cause.

----
No - log out
press <Control><Alt><F1>
log in as your normal user in the virtual console
type 'mv .kde .kde-bak'
type 'exit'
press <Control><Alt><F7>
login as usual, your settings will be back to the beginning and all of
your old data/settings are in your $HOME/.kde-bak

Craig


Thank you for your help, but I planned to evade that (the reason for my previous
question).

Anyway, I found the cause and it indeed seems like a bug.

Explanation:
Konqueror breaks the configuration (located at ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc)
when using the "Set as background" function in some conditions.

The solution:
Konqueror adds a part starting like [Desktop0Screen0] in
~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc
Removing that part does the trick.

Can someone confirm this? If yes, I'm gonna file a bugreport on the kde bugzilla
or the mailinglist.

Greetings,

Sandro

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