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On Tuesday 30 August 2016 22:51:47 Mick wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 30 Aug 2016 15:30:51 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 30 Aug 2016 13:38:13 J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > > On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 11:56:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > > On Tuesday 30 Aug 2016 12:06:43 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > > > You should elaborate more and be specific on what you mean by "The |
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> > > > > reason is an intermittent series of apparently unrelated things |
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> > > > > going |
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> > > > > wrong." |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Here's one then: In KMail (yes, I know*) the folder list contains an |
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> > > > item |
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> > > > "trash" (ugh!), but when I come to empty it it's called "Wastebin" |
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> > > > (much |
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> > > > better) in the drop-down menu. |
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> > > |
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> > > Check your language/internationisation settings. |
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> > > The translations is from "kde-apps/kdepim-l10n" |
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> > |
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> > I can't find anything wrong with those settings. Everything is set to |
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> > British English. |
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> > |
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> > $ locale -a |
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> > C |
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> > en_GB |
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> > en_GB.iso88591 |
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> > en_GB.iso885915 |
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> > en_GB.utf8 |
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> > POSIX |
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> > |
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> > $ eselect locale list |
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> > |
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> > Available targets for the LANG variable: |
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> > [1] C |
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> > [2] en_GB |
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> > [3] en_GB.iso88591 |
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> > [4] en_GB.iso885915 |
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> > [5] en_GB.utf8 * |
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> > [6] POSIX |
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> > [ ] (free form) |
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> |
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> This is all OK. |
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> |
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> > > > And another: if I move my user account away and create a new one, |
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> > > > setting KDE plasma up from scratch (this is ~amd64), the |
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> > > > system-settings |
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> > > > panel has no icons and the single-click-to-open preference is |
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> > > > ignored, |
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> > > > even though it's the default and I already have it set anyway. Then, |
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> > > > if |
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> > > > I revert to the original home directory, which has followed events |
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> > > > through the last six months, those faults disappear. |
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> > > |
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> > > Hmm... not sure where this comes from |
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> > |
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> > But this time, the single-click-to-open preference is still ignored. |
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> > |
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> > You see, the system is behaving inconsistently - even irrationally at |
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> > times. |
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> The latest Konqueror (stable) update to 4.14.20 fixed the one click |
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> problem, as well as opening files within Konqueror itself, rather than |
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> opening a separate dolphin window. Dolphin is still borked and behaves |
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> /irrationally/. I hope the next update will fix that too. |
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Thanks to all who've helped. I've now just completed a rebuild from bare |
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metal and everything seems fine at the moment. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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