Re: Plasma won't run on recently upgraded F8 to F9 [Solved]

On Friday 27 June 2008 18:22:04 Claude Jones wrote:
> On Friday June 27 2008 12:22:57 pm Claude Jones wrote:
> > If I try to start plasma from a command line,  I get this:
> >
> > <unknown program name>(4531)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an
> > argb visual 0x9d39570 62914561
> > <unknown program name>(4531)/ checkComposite: Plasma is
> > COMPOSITE-less on 0x9d32b10
> >
> > This machine had the early beta of KDE4 applied to it while
> > still on F8, which I subsequently removed FWIW. It was
> > upgraded via yum upgrade to F9 recently. I did this
> > successfully on my home machine, which had gone through
> > similar experimentation with KDE4 on F8 - my home machine is
> > running current kde-redhat-unstable quite nicely.
>
> Just to add some info: I don't really actually know whether
> plasma is running or not. I became a bit less certain after
> reading a page that Rex had linked to in some previous post,
> which discusses the idea behind plasma;
>
> What I don't have is a taskbar/panel. I can right click and
> add a panel, which always goes to the top of the screen - the
> repositioning handle doesn't seem to work so there it stays; I
> can add widgets to it, including a task launcher, BUT, running
> programs don't create buttons on this panel, which means I
> have to use 'Alt-tab' a lot to navigate between my running
> programs right now. So, is this plasma on crutches, thin
> blood...?

Well, this was a bit complicated, but I've managed to fix it. 
Today's updates were probably instrumental. Previously, even 
creating a new user from scratch and logging into KDE as that 
user would produce no task bar panel in KDE. Today, I decided to 
zap the .kde folder from my root-user folder from a command-line 
login, and then, I closed the console and logged in to KDE as 
root; finally, a plasma task bar appeared. Then I created a new 
user, and logged into that new user and got the same result. 

So, finally, I logged into gnome under my original user name, and 
I renamed my .kde folder in my original home directory and 
created a new one;   then I copied the contents of the original  
/.kde/share/apps/kmail and of /.kde/share/apps/kontact and two 
files, kmailrc and kontactrc, from /.kde/share/config folder from 
the original .kde folder into the new .kde folder, creating the 
directory structure to make everything identical. 

When I then logged in to KDE next, I had a plasma task panel! 
There's a bit of customization that's been lost, but, nothing I 
can't recreate - the big deal for me was keeping all that email - 
about 6.5GB worth of accumulated files and customizations and 
special filters and so forth from years and years... 


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