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On Friday 17 April 2009 23:21:19 Jorge Morais wrote: |
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> > On Monday 13 April 2009 20:49:44 Philip Webb wrote: |
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> > > 090413 Philip Webb wrote: |
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> > > > I've found out how to fix it: something is starting Plasma, |
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> > > > so Htop to the rescue ! -- kill Plasma & the hideous mask is removed |
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> > > > -- it appears at the very end of the KDE start-up process -- |
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> > > > & the handsome KDE 3 desktop backgrounds reappear |
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> > > > together with the desktop menus called up by mouse clicks. |
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> > > |
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> > > I didn't find out what was starting Plasma, but I fixed it : |
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> > > 'cd /usr/bin; mv plasma plasma-aside'. back to normal ! |
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> > > (clutches garlic, crucifix, incense ... ) |
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> > |
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> > Why invoke the supernatural when common logic is so superior? |
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> > |
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> > emerge -C plasma |
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> > emerge --depclean |
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> Is it a good idea to tell people to run emerge -C? |
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> emerge --depc atom is dependency-aware. |
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The OP downgraded from kde-4 back to kde-3 |
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He should not have had plasma at all anymore, but it got left behind in error |
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and something was starting it. So he needed to get rid of it, and emerge -C |
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followed by --depclean really is the ideal method, |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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