[Kstars-devel] Interesting HTM timing results

[Jason Harris]

Hi James,

On Thursday 01 June 2006 18:10, James Bowlin wrote:
> Also, it seems that running the new KStars has an adverse impact on my
> existing KDE setup.  After I run KStars most things in KDE stop working.
> I need to restart KDE to get them back to normal.  Dcop is unhappy.
> KLauncher can't work and the K-Menu now fills the screen with options.
>
> I installed the new qt and the new kde stuff under /usr/local/qt4 and
> under /usr/local/kde/4.0.  But I didn't create a new user account.
> I just sourced a file defining KDEDIR, QTDIR, etc, before working on
> or running the new KStars.  Is creating a new user account essential?
>
A new user isn't essential, but it will clear up many of these issues.  You 
create a new user (mine is named "kde-devel"), and in its .bashrc, you define 
the QTDIR, KDEDIR, etc. for KDE4.  Then all you have to do is login as 
yourself, open a konsole, and do "su - kde-devel".  You can then execute 
kstars in that konsole without adversely affecting your running KDE-3.x 
session at all.

I don't know if it will clear up the CPU usage issue, but I think it might.  
Let me know if you continue to get 100% usage, even with a separate user.  
I'm not seeing that problem here (well, at least not when kstars is just 
idling).

> Logging out of KDE and logging back in seems to clear up most of the
> problems.  Running the new KStars again brings them back.
>
If you really don't want to create a new user, just run "kdeinit" (not from 
the konsole where you've set up kde-4 though!) to reset everything back to 
normal after running kstars-4.0.  I used to do it that way, until I finally 
gave in and created a new user.  :)

> When KStars ran (from a konsole), it waited a little while and then
> spit out a bunch of messages like:
(snip!)

All that junk is it setting up the kde-4 infrastructure.  You'll still see 
that even if you set up a different user (but only the first time you run 
kstars).

>
> I'm going to give it a rest for a while.

Hope it helps,
Jason

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