The plasmoid that don't want to stay away [SOLVED]

[Willy Hamra]

2009/8/3 Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Jonas Norlander<jonorland at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Myriam Schweingruber<myriam at kubuntu.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Jonas,
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:05, Jonas Norlander<jonorland at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I have a strange problem, there is a plasmoid (CPU Load) that always
>>>> reappear after a reboot despite that I have removed it. I have tried
>>>> to remove it both from the "Add widgets" dialog and by clicking the
>>>> cross on itself but after a reboot it's there again. Looking in the
>>>> config files don't give me any clues.
>>>>
>>>> Some one seen this before or have any ideas?
>>>
>>> Well, I haven't seen this before, but you can have a look at the
>>> configuration files for plasma located in ~/.kde/share/config/, mainly
>>> the files plasma-appletsrc, plasma-desktop-appletsrc,
>>> plasma-overlay-appletsrc and plasma-desktoprc. It could well be that
>>> there still is a configuration remaining in there that makes the
>>> removed applet shows up again.
>>
>> That's what i suspected to and I have looked through all files there
>> that I thought was related to plasma but the content in them is kind
>> of cryptic to me and I don't know what settings is related to what
>> plasmoid. I will take a look again at them later to see if I can
>> figure out how the work.
>>
>
> I found one reference to cpuload in plasma-appletsrc:
> [Containments][1][Applets][48]
> geometry=33.0000000000001,480,332,135
> immutability=1
> plugin=cpuload
> zvalue=348
>
> I deleting that from the file and rebooted and the plasmoid "stayed away".
>

i believe the problem lies in that KDE might not be writing these
changes to the file right away. i'm not on my computer t test this
now, but in the past, i have witnessed many times, how my changes to
plasmoids (adding, removing, moving, resizing) are all lost if for
some reason X crashes, or computer resets ( i used to lose power a lot
back then), in other words, KDE didn't properly shutdown. could it be
your KDE is not properly closing everytime? some bug of some sort?


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Willy K. Hamra
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