[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

On Sunday, April 10, 2011 08:45:58 AM Duncan did opine:

gene heskett posted on Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:56:17 -0400 as excerpted:
If you've enough technical reasoning ability and *LOTS* of patience
and time, it's possible to hand-correct that file I mentioned.

Having carved lots of code, but on simpler systems, that is the
difference.. I have no clue what the rules are for whatever language
this stuff is written in. I am moderately conversant in bash, C, and
assembly for 1802/Z80/6x09 cpu's plus Basic09. No c++, pascal, only a
taste of lisp, and of course ARexx, even selling some of that in the
amiga days.

If you're seeing actual code in that file (plasma-desktop-appletsrc),
you're either looking at the wrong one, or it's /seriously/ corrupted!

No, what I saw was the [] sections, multiplied several to the line in some
cases, with name=whatever's following.

The file should be as I described it earlier, more or less standard
ini-file format, key=value pairs grouped into sections headed with
[section-names], blank lines between sections. Except that the sections
here have a complex relationship to each other.

For instance, after some AppletGlobals sections, I have the following
(if you have autowrap on for reading unwrapped posts, turn it off for
this):

[Containments][120]
ActionPluginSource=Global
activity=1
... some other such lines...
wallpaperpluginmode=SingleImage
zvalue=0

[Containments][120][ActionPlugins]
LeftButton;ControlModifier=applauncher
MidButton;NoModifier=switchwindow
RightButton;NoModifier=contextmenu
wheel:Vertical;NoModifier=switchdesktop

[Containments][120][ActionPlugins][RightButton;NoModifier]
_add panel=true
_context=true
...etc...

Later in the file:

[Containments][120][Applets][171]
geometry=2,0,512,483
immutability=2
plugin=comic
zvalue=3348

[Containments][120][Applets][171][Configuration]
Share=false
arrowsOnHover=true
...etc...

Still later:

[Containments][2]
ActionPluginsSource=Global
activity=1
activityId=64bdc67e-a9ba-4000-9c8e-6b86ab930729
...more lines...
wallpaperpluginmode=SingleImage
zvalue=0

[Containments][2][ActionPlugins]
LeftButton;ControlModifier=applauncher
MidButton;NoModifier=switchwindow
RightButton;NoModifier=contextmenu
wheel:Vertical;NoModifier=switchdesktop

[Containments][2][ActionPlugins][MidButton;NoModifier]
mode=1

So in ordered to make sense of it, you first have to know that each
activity or panel will be a containment, then realize that all the same
containment number sections are related, then read enough of the
settings to figure out which panel or activity it actually is and
whether it's garbage or something you want to keep (keeping in mind
there might be others that look similar but don't have all the same
applets attached, which means figuring out the applet config), then
either delete everything with that containment number or keeping it.
Then if you keep it you dive into the individual applets it contains
and decide whether they are junk or the ones you want to keep... which
means figuring out which applet numbers apply to which applets by
correlating the config data with the applet like you did for the
container...

Thru possibly a dozen applets or more, each with multiple sections, in
each of the containers, with some applets orphaned (no valid container),
and some multiplied several times where there should be only one, due to
the screwed config...

My correct config has 99 sections. The bad one must have had 150 or
more, with more bad sections being added every time I restarted
plasma-desktop or tried to fix it via GUI. Tho a simpler "good" config
may have only perhaps 20 sections or so...

The problem is that if you delete the wrong thing, you could trigger
even more duplicating...

Luckily, at least here, it was all invalid section deletions. I didn't
have to figure out individual invalid lines, or what would make them
valid. If it had gotten to that point I probably would have given up.

See my plasma-desktop-appletsrc at:
<http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/stuff4george/plasma-desktop-appletsrc>
as it exists this morning. And I had to restart httpd just now, no idea
what killed it. You can back out to just the 'gene' and see what keeps me
out of the bars _most_ of the time. ;-) I need to redo the front page pix
though, I was in the process of doing something about my weight, about 200
lbs there in 2004, from a high of about 215 10 years ago to 165 now. The
beard is a little shorter now as the weather is warming, and the hair is
shoulder length today. And a few more dings on my face from the
dermatologists scalpel. I should wear more sunscreen, but I have enough
allergies as it is. Mrs #3, 21 years and counting. A Good girl. The pix
are generally dual linked by jigl.pl, so if you click on a thumb, you get a
slide, click on the slide and get the camera output.

I might have a question about what I can start in one of these [] sections.
I have several background, non gfx apps that I have to start by hand after
a reboot because putting them in rc.local is too early. X (kde) seriously
needs its own version of rc.local that is user specific. Maybe it does,
but I haven't found it. My own version of ~/gene/etc if you will. One in
particular needs to be run as soon as kmail has done its initial check-mail
scan and is settling down to rebuilding the indices.

And I just had to kill yet another copy of knotify4, hung at 95% of a core,
bouncing from core to core. When I went to bed it was about 20 down in an
htop display, using no cpu. And it has now been restarted, by kdeinit I
assume, running normally again.

Thanks Duncan.

--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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<http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html>
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