[Nottingham] Re: KDE Startup problem

[Charles Samuels]

Saturday 12 March 2005 10:35, skrev David Aldred:
> Right, got the box here and switched on now.
>
> On Friday 11 Mar 2005 20:23, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Friday 11 March 2005 8:06, David Aldred wrote:
> > > - Everything runs extremely slowly (switching to a console and doing
> > > top reveals a kedinit process taking 99%+ or processor time: killing
> > > that gets things going faster).
> >
> > Find out the actual name of that kdeinit with: ps aux | grep $pid (where
> > $pid is the pid of the rogue kdeinit).  I think you'll find it is a
> > knotify.
>
> It isn't: it's
> kdeinit: kwin -session (followed by a long hex number)
>
> > My guess is that you can fix the problem by deleting
> > ~/.kde/share/apps/kwin/eventsrc (but sending me a copy of it first :)
>
> There's no ~/.kde/share/apps/kwin directory.

Well, in short the KDE Window Manager has gone nuts.  Since I don't know 
Mandrake too well, I might guess that Mandrake may set a $KDEHOME, changing 
it from ~/.kde to something else, like ~/.kde3 or something, give that a try, 
$KDEHOME/share/apps/kwin/eventsrc

-Charles
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