General Support - Possible resolution - hd icons don't appear on the desktop feffer777 - 10.07.2006, 20:03 Uhr Titel: Possible resolution - hd icons don't appear on the desktop
A while ago, I and others posted about our hd icons not appearing on the desktop. There seems to be a resolution to the problem. Here's the link to the bug site:
In the last comment, Lubos Lunak of the kde org indicates that the problem was with mediamanager kded module not being loaded. Based on his comment I opened the mediamanager.desktop file which I found on the path /usr/share/services/kded/mediamanager.desktop and at the bottom added this line:
Code:
X-KDE-Kded-phase=1
and after it, a carriage return. After restarting, my hd icons are on the desktop as before. It didn't seem to increase my boot time noticeably or create any other problems that I noticed. I don't know whether this will be resolved later in the repo, but adding that line fixed it for me.
Regards,
Ron
max11max - 10.07.2006, 20:24 Uhr Titel:
feffer777,
Works for me, I had the same problem.
Thanks for that
max
clubex - 10.07.2006, 22:00 Uhr Titel:
Excellent feffer777!
I had the same problem.
Your fix did it for me too.
Many thanks.
Crust - 10.07.2006, 22:16 Uhr Titel:
Worked for me.
Thanks.
-Crust
drb - 10.07.2006, 22:41 Uhr Titel:
Which programme do you use to edit mediamanager.desktop? I'm not given an option and can only open it with kate by forcing it. I then see lots of strange characters so I'm concerned I may corrupt the file if I then edit and save it.
drb
h2 - 11.07.2006, 00:37 Uhr Titel:
nano works fine, kate works fine. The strange characters you see are utf 8 renditions of various alphabets out there.
When in doubt, simply create a copy of that file, name it whatever you want, then open the original, add the last line to it, plus the last linebreak. Must be edited as root.
In this case however, you don't even need to open the file, simply go to console, login as root, then run these two commands:
Since it's so simple, this fix is now implemented in my dist-upgrade script as one of the install tweak options.
Sometimes it pays to read bug reports, nice find feffer777.
drb - 11.07.2006, 08:46 Uhr Titel:
h2 - thanks for that!
zulu9 - 11.07.2006, 11:15 Uhr Titel: works fine. Maybe make this post sticky, so everyone can find it easily.
Kano - 11.07.2006, 11:20 Uhr Titel:
echo X-KDE-Kded-phase=1 >> /usr/share/services/kded/mediamanager.desktop
seems to work. echo adds a new line already, you don't need a 2nd one. only echo -n would not add a new line.
bluewater - 11.07.2006, 12:28 Uhr Titel:
i did a test first ctl alt bspace,, no icons.. did feffer fix,, then , ctl alt bspace , i now have icons
Therefore as it works downunder , it must be so ,, cheeky grin
titan - 11.07.2006, 19:16 Uhr Titel:
Saw the fix this morning but thought I would wait a while see if any problems turned up. Just used the Kano script, all now works fine.
Thanks
Ian
michael7 - 11.07.2006, 22:18 Uhr Titel:
feffer,
works fine. Maybe make this post sticky, so everyone can find it easily.