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> I have recently started having trouble displaying images in kmail.
> After starting kmail konqueror will not start until after a reboot.
> I have traced it to a process called "kded". If I kill kded
> everything works just fine. My question is:
> What the heck is kded and how do I stop it from starting in the first
> place?
kded is the 'small kde daemon'
It has lots of uses, including watching the filesystem and triggering
updates of things that need updating. This may include menu updates,
settings changes that need to be propagated, and updating views in
konqueror file manager views and file open/save dialogs.
Turning it off is probably a bad idea. If it's running slow, you should
look at your system performance, in particular hard drive speeds, using
or not using FAM or dnotify (both of which on some systems vastly speed
up such file system watching, and on others trigger bugs that make
things very slow indeed.)
Regards,
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Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/
KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/
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