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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 10:13 PM
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ZOMFG! I have WPA/WPA2 PSK on Linux!
While the latest Mandriva Kernel rollour nerfed my wireless with the Broadcom Linux driver, which would not give me WPA, I did have the latest Broadcom Win x64 driver as well. So I installed it with ndiswrapper. Bang. WPA/WPA2 PSK as neat as you please.

Amazing what makes my day. I wish I had a life.
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RoyGBiv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 11:55 PM
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1. I hear ya ...

The highlight of my day was figuring out what file controls what's on the plasma desktop in that maze under .kde4 and then realizing that one of the problems I was having is caused by kde not cleaning this file properly. One can add widgets all day long, but when you try to delete them, residuals are left.

Got so excited I clapped my hands together.

My cat just shakes his head at me and walks away sometimes ...

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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 12:26 AM
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2. And what file is that, oh enlightned one?
I await your reply in slobbering expectation.
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RoyGBiv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 12:50 AM
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3. Here's a napkin ...

$HOME/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc

If you're really hopeless, you can look around inside the file and try to figure out which containers are what. I had one account I was playing with that just had one widget on the desktop, and I resized it to FRAKING HUGE, and it became obvious. I tentatively gather that desktop widgets are stacked near the top as you add, but I'm guessing there.

Anyway ... on another account I had lots of widgets, and there it just became easier to delete the thing then restart plasma.

The key to this is knowing that when you close plasma it writes the state of widgets on the desktop to this file. If you've deleted something, it "cleans" that container, meaning when you start plasma, there are containers where the deleted widget was, but it doesn't do anything. Very annoying.

So, what you do is get the desktop the way you want it with the widgets and views and icons and what have you on the panels and desktop, etc. then delete the plasma-appletsrc file. After that you "kill -s 9 <PID for plasma>" Finally, you run plasma again, and the desktop and panels will load as they were when you closed it.

Or at least it is working for me.

I still get lots of lockups and freezes when adding certain widgets at all, but that's another issue.
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RoyGBiv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 12:11 PM
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4. Correction ...

The plasma-appletsrc file is not written until you log out of X.

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