Very Computer

On SuSE 7.0, XF86 4.0/nvidia modules, pretty std. setup otherwise.

I had KDE 2.0.1 installed from RPMs and it worked OK.

Than I installed the 2.1-beta1 RPMs. All my custom settings (desktop
background, Alt+F2 command history etc.) were lost. The custom settings of
other programs were maintained though.
The really bad thing is, the desktop stopped saving the new settings. If I
set a desktop background etc. - it is lost the next time I restart KDE. I
get a blank red screen background every time.
Other things work though - such as session restoring and the settings of
other programs. There are no error messages that I can find.

So what is wrong. Is the 2.1-beta1 supposed to be less stable? (I had two
or three random crashes as well).

Dan Armak

Sounds like something in the rpm caused your problem.  I had 2.0
installed/uninstalled from slackware pkgs, then compiled 2.1 from tarballs:  
All of my settings stayed the same. I think that your settings are saved in a
$HOME subdirectory (.kde).  

Quote:

> So what is wrong. Is the 2.1-beta1 supposed to be less stable? (I had two
> or three random crashes as well).

Well, it says beta doesnt it , beta = far from stable or finished product
....

I'm having this exact problem in 2.0.1.

I'm running SuSE 6.4.  I installed the RPM's from SuSE's ftp site.

KDE will not restore my desktop backgrounds nor other Panel settings upon
login.  Other programs seem to set and restore their settings just fine.  It
lost my Alt-F2 command history and desktop background settings after the
install of 2.0.1.  No error messages.  Well, actually, most of the time when
I try to set a desktop background, I get one of those nice KDE bombs when I
close the control panel -- but no apparent ill effects.  But I was having
*this* problem under KDE 2.0.

I noticed in this newsgroup that at least one other user is having the same
problem under KDE 2.0.1.  (Message: KDE2 Help, dated 12/30)

Danny

Quote:> On SuSE 7.0, XF86 4.0/nvidia modules, pretty std. setup otherwise.

> I had KDE 2.0.1 installed from RPMs and it worked OK.

> Than I installed the 2.1-beta1 RPMs. All my custom settings (desktop
> background, Alt+F2 command history etc.) were lost. The custom settings of
> other programs were maintained though.
> The really bad thing is, the desktop stopped saving the new settings. If I
> set a desktop background etc. - it is lost the next time I restart KDE. I
> get a blank red screen background every time.
> Other things work though - such as session restoring and the settings of
> other programs. There are no error messages that I can find.

> So what is wrong. Is the 2.1-beta1 supposed to be less stable? (I had two
> or three random crashes as well).

> Dan Armak

2.1beta1 is obviously beta software, however, it's been more stable for me
than any of the previous KDE releases.  I'm running RedHat 7.0 and always
compile from tarballs....

Steve

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