KDE problems

From: Sean Watson (sean_at_seanwatson1.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: 03/27/05

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    I have installed FC3 on the following system

    HP Pavillion t650uk
    AMD64 3200
    512ram
    2 80gig hds - XP on one FC3 on other
    ATI 9200
    DVD writer, DVD rom
    Broadband and home network through Belkin modem router (wireless router
    - but this machine connected to it by cable)

    Gnome works fine - desktop fine, network browsing fine, internet
    browsing fine. KDE, however, is not well.

    1. When is KDE started an 'autorun' icon bounces up and down for about a
    minute. What is this for and how do I get rid of it?

    2. Desktop is empty apart from Wastebin and two permanent optical drive
    icons - even when no CD/DVD is mounted. No 'Computer' icon, no 'Home'
    icon. How do I get rid of the optical drive icons (won't go to wastebin)
      and get my 'Computer' icon (with the same contents as Gnome) and
    'Home' icon - onto the KDE desktop (without upsetting Gnome)?

    3. When Home is opened from the Start menue - Konquerer opens with a
    split panel - folder contents on right - tree on left. The tree includes
    devices - but the list is a mess. It includes:

    Hard Disc [/]
    Hard Disc (hda2) [/mnt/XP]
    Hard Disc (hdb1) [/mnt/Partition]
    Hard Disc (hdb2) [/]
    Hard Disc (hdb5) [/home]
    Hard Disc [/home]

    Surely / and /home should not be mounted twice. The only changes I have
    made to fstab - are the addition of /mnt entries for my XP drive and
    vfat Partition (both of which work fine). How do I tidy this up (without
    upsetting Gnome settings)?

    4. The really annoying bit - the LAN browser just won't work despite the
    fact that LAN browsing works fine in Gnome - through the 'Network' icon
    which appears in 'Computer'. When I try to browse the network in KDE
    (using this 'LAN browser' entry in the Konquerer tree - because there
    doesn't seem to be any other way) I get a message saying 'The Lisa demon
    does not appear to be running'. So .. I go to 'Services' and start Lisa.
    I then get

    Internal error in server
    Received unexpected data from localhost

    After a wait the LAN browser will open - but what it shows is truly
    wierd. I get a huge list of folders with what appear to be nonsense IP
    addresses next to them - all of the form 127.0.0.x. Inside each of
    these folders is a folder called 'FISH'! No sign of my Windows network.

    The 'Network' button, on the far left hand side of Konquerer, lists only
       KDE FTP archives and websites - no home network.

    How do I stop this strange (and slightly scary) behaviour and get
    browsing of my home network running in KDE?

    Any help would be much appreciated.

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