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

[Jonas Norlander]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Willy Hamra<w.hamra1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

I wouldn't rule that out as I have/had some crashes with plasma but
sessions are restored after reboot and other plasmoids seems to save
it changes between reboot.
It is probably a bug in plasma/KDE.

/ Jonas