[kde-linux] Upgrade from 3.5.5 to 3.5.7 now my KPowersave & KNetworkManager will not dock

[Ben Kevan]

On Thursday 12 July 2007 10:13:41 am Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Thursday 12 July 2007, Ben Kevan wrote:
> > Ever since I upgraded from KDE 3.5.5 to 3.5.7 on my openSuSE 10.2 box the
> > KPowersave and KNetworkManager consistently do not dock themselves into
> > the system tray. Once I close just KNetworkManager and reopen it, it will
> > then dock and KPowersave will magicly follow.
> >
> > The only thing I have in ~/.kde/Autostart is:
> >
> > cat .kde/Autostart/startberyl.sh
> > #! /bin/sh
> > rm ~/.beryl-managerrc
> > beryl-manager
> > beryl --use-copy
> >
> > Also, my SuperKaramba's on my desktop do not always come up, but this is
> > NOT consistent, sometimes they come up and sometimes they don't.
>
> You could try to start Beryl right away instead of first starting with KWin
> and then later replacing it with a different window manager.
>
> The KDE startup script startkde will start whatever program the environment
> variable KDEWM points to and only start KWin if the variable is not set.
>
> You can set this variable either somewhere globally (depending on your
> distribution) or through KDE's environment extenter mechanism.
>
> For doing the latter, create a file with .sh extension in $HOME/.kde/env/
> (might need to create this directory) and set KDEWM to whatever executable
> starts beryl.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin

Thank you Kevin for the response. I must add, that even when I am not starting 
using Beryl, I also have the same issue, but seems to really only not dock 
the KNetworkManager and not both KNetworkManager and KPowersave. 

Also, with setting up Beryl as the WM, would it allow me to run 
beryl --use-copy as a command, or will it only except beryl? Also, would 
beryl-manager still have to be run via script to start? 

Thanks

Ben

Ben

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