On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:18 AM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@...> wrote: > Tim, Robert, Serghei, all > > Is there a way to tell Trinity to ignore all the kde4 junk in > /usr/share/autostart? (other than uninstalling kde4) I say this because I just > took all my binary packages and installed them on a box with both a prior kde3 > install (in /opt/kde) and a kde4 install (/usr/bin) and things were wild to say > the least. > > I moved both existing ~/.kde and ~/.kde4 directories to ~/.kde-sav and > ~/.kde4-sav before launching Trinity. (I forgot to delete the ksycoca from > /var/tmp though and I suspect that caused 90% of the problem) > > Trinity started just fine and did the initial configuration. Then ksplash from > the old kde3 install appeared. Then akonadi/nepomuk started trying to index > everything, then the kde4 plasma-panel loaded over the Trinity kicker and all > the window decorations were gone. > > I suspect Trinity was trying to pull the decorations from the old kde3 install > due to the sysconfigcache in /var/tmp (I'll try deleting that next time), but > the real issue is the kde4 autostart mess: > > [21:42 supersff:/usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions] # l /usr/share/autostart/ > total 128 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 10 16:53 . > drwxr-xr-x 408 root root 12288 Feb 15 11:49 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4417 Jan 27 08:47 kaddressbookmigrator.desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3649 Jan 27 08:46 kalarm.autostart.desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6539 Jan 18 15:24 kgpg.desktop > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11509 Jan 19 16:04 klipper.desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4196 Jan 19 16:23 kmix_autostart.desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6638 Jan 19 16:03 konqy_preload.desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5846 Jan 27 08:46 korgac.desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2881 Jan 19 16:04 krunner.desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13602 Jan 19 16:04 kwrited-autostart.desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10584 Jan 19 16:04 nepomukserver.desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3710 Jan 19 16:05 plasma-desktop.desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28 Jan 19 16:05 plasma.desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 908 Dec 9 02:51 > polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6000 Jan 18 15:24 printer-applet.desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3506 Jan 19 16:23 restore_kmix_volumes.desktop > > In order to make Trinity play nicely with an existing kde4 install, can > something be changed in the Trinity code to tell it to ignore all the kde4 > autostart files? > > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... > Read list messsages on the Web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > Perhaps we can make an autostart directory for Trinity, and have it use only that? -- Kris "Piki" Ark Linux Webmaster Trinity Desktop Environment Packager