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PostPosted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:46 pm    Post subject: KDE 4.3 forgets settings every new login Reply with quote

Hello everyone,

I have recently upgraded from kde 3.5 and have found that kde 4.3 is very nice.

The only issue I have is that I set up the desktop effects and everything looks nice. then I log out and in, or restart, and everything resets to some crappy looking defaults. I tried deleting all the .kde folders and the problem is still there.

Another thing is that KDM is not working, so I have to sue GDM now to login, which is annoying.

Should I just revert to KDE 3.5?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How isn't KDM working? What is it doing when you try to run kdm?

What is the output of `ls -ald ~/.kde*` (run as your user)

And is this problem only with one user, all users, even root?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the.root wrote:
How isn't KDM working? What is it doing when you try to run kdm?

What is the output of `ls -ald ~/.kde*` (run as your user)

And is this problem only with one user, all users, even root?


When I try to start a session, the screen blinks and returns to the login screen again. I read in another thread to start consolekit service before. Will try now.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah i ran into that recently. make sure hald and dbus are started, then start consolekit.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I added hald and dbus to boot level, and consolekit to default, now kdm works.

It still forgets my configuration. For example, I set up transparency and get opaque every time. Rather annoying.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I added hald and dbus to boot level, and consolekit to default, now kdm works.

It still forgets my configuration. For example, I set up transparency and get opaque every time. Rather annoying.


Still forgets configuration :/

I have root logins disabled.

ls -ald ~/.kde*
drwx------ 3 myuser myuser 4096 Oct 29 00:32 /home/myuser/.kde
drwxr-xr-x 4 myuser myuser 4096 Oct 29 00:32 /home/myuser/.kde4
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmm, i'm not sure offhand, will try to look into it. Is it only composite settings that are not remembered or all settings? and i assume we're talking about kde's built in composite/desktop effects, that you access through KDE's system settings?
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

the.root wrote:
hmm, i'm not sure offhand, will try to look into it. Is it only composite settings that are not remembered or all settings? and i assume we're talking about kde's built in composite/desktop effects, that you access through KDE's system settings?


Yes only the composite settings. Rather odd.

I may go into settings (system settings) and click apply without changing a thing (on appearance) and the composite is enabled again.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well i still don't have any great ideas, sorry. A few things to try though:

Is your system up-to-date, etc?
Code:
emerge --sync
emerge -avuDN world
revdep-rebuild
etc-update


Remerge kwin & systemsettings (i think these package contains all the composite stuff, but not sure)
Code:
emerge -av kwin systemsettings


what happens when you run system settings as root and try to save the settings/reboot?
Code:
ALT F2 + kdesu systemsettings


What's your xorg setup like?
Code:
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

the.root wrote:
Well i still don't have any great ideas, sorry. A few things to try though:

Is your system up-to-date, etc?
Code:
emerge --sync
emerge -avuDN world
revdep-rebuild
etc-update


Remerge kwin & systemsettings (i think these package contains all the composite stuff, but not sure)
Code:
emerge -av kwin systemsettings


what happens when you run system settings as root and try to save the settings/reboot?
Code:
ALT F2 + kdesu systemsettings


What's your xorg setup like?
Code:
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
eselect opengl list


Tried everything you suggested.

Here is my xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"                     
        Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"   
        Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
        #InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"   
        #InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection                                       

Section "Files"
EndSection     

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
#       Load  "dri"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "glx"     
        SubSection "extmod"
                Option      "omit xfree86-dga"
        EndSubSection                         
EndSection                                   

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "AllowEmptyInput" "true"
        Option      "AutoAddDevices" "true"
        Option      "AutoEnableDevices" "true"
EndSection                                   

#Section "InputDevice"
#       Identifier  "Keyboard0"
#       Driver      "kbd"     
#       Option      "XkbLayout" "us,us"
#       Option      "XkbVariant" ",intl"
#       Option      "XkbModel" "pc104"
#       Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
#EndSection

#Section "InputDevice"
#       Identifier  "Mouse0"
#       Driver      "mouse"
#       Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1"
#       Option      "ConstantDeceleration" "3"
#EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
        Option      "UseFastTLS" "1"
        Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        #       Modes    "1920x1200" "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes    "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
                Modes    "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "DRI"
        Mode         0666
EndSection


eselect opengl list

Code:

  [1]   ati *
  [2]   xorg-x11


I am using ATI 9.9 from portage. I tried saving with 'kdesu systemsettings' too and the same keeps happening. Does kdesu save my user or for root?

Basically I set the oxigen widget style, get all the effects, restart and effects are off. I select the oxigen again and click apply, get the effects again.
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