[Kde-kiosk] Black Desktop with KDE3.4 and context menus

[Waldo Bastian]

On Friday 25 March 2005 15:39, Klaus Weidenbach wrote:
> Heihei,
>
> I am reworking my KIOSK system for KDE3.4 and I found some strange
> behaviours. I used a recent CVS version from kiosktool to set up a basic
> KIOSK profile. If I don't activate "Disable context menus" I get some
> problems. If I right click on a Desktop icon I see the context menu and
> when I click on the desktop again, so that this menu gets closed, the
> desktop turns completely black for a short time and there is only the
> kicker on the bottom.

It looks like kdesktop crashes then.

> If I repeat it several times it happened that the 
> whole desktop stayed black until restarted KDE. I saw no wallpaper and also
> no icons anymore. I have no problems with users without KIOSK profiles or
> if I select "Disable context menus" I didn't realiced such a black desktop
> yet.

Can you open a konsole and run "dcopquit kdesktop" to close kdesktop and then 
run "kdesktop" from konsole... does it still go black now? What does it say 
in konsole?

> Well, could it cause problems to use the kiosktool to edit KIOSK profiles
> for KDE3.4 at the moment? The kiosktool seem not to be updated yet and I
> just found some things that should not exist anymore for KDE3.4, I think.
> Like in kdeglobals there is an entry:
> [Paths]
> Trash=$HOME/Desktop/Trash/
>
> Are there many other things that need to get updated in kiosktool before,
> or does it not influence it in a bad manner?

No, it shouldn't matter, but you can always run into bugs of course.

Cheers,
Waldo
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