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alan.mckinnon at gmail

Nov 8, 2009, 2:37 PM

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KDE-4.3.73 I've disabled right mouse buttons

KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.

I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff on the
right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons presses.

Now I have no right click on the desktop (everywhere else works) and middle
click is disabled everywhere. Being an old-time X lad, this grieves me
greatly.

Systemsettings has nothing I can see about this - 1000s of hotkeys for
keyboard, nothing for mouse clicks. Any ideas on how to revert this desktop
change?

--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

rdalek1967 at gmail

Nov 8, 2009, 3:04 PM

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Re: KDE-4.3.73 I've disabled right mouse buttons [In reply to]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
>
> I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff on the
> right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons presses.
>
> Now I have no right click on the desktop (everywhere else works) and middle
> click is disabled everywhere. Being an old-time X lad, this grieves me
> greatly.
>
> Systemsettings has nothing I can see about this - 1000s of hotkeys for
> keyboard, nothing for mouse clicks. Any ideas on how to revert this desktop
> change?
>
>

LOL

rm -rfv ~/.kde*

I know you aren't going to do that tho.

Dale

:-) :-)

alan.mckinnon at gmail

Nov 8, 2009, 3:10 PM

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Re: KDE-4.3.73 I've disabled right mouse buttons [In reply to]

On Monday 09 November 2009 01:04:40 Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
> >
> > I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff on
> > the right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons
> > presses.
> >
> > Now I have no right click on the desktop (everywhere else works) and
> > middle click is disabled everywhere. Being an old-time X lad, this
> > grieves me greatly.
> >
> > Systemsettings has nothing I can see about this - 1000s of hotkeys for
> > keyboard, nothing for mouse clicks. Any ideas on how to revert this
> > desktop change?
>
> LOL
>
> rm -rfv ~/.kde*
>
> I know you aren't going to do that tho.

Too damn tootin' right I ain't gonna do that :-)

I fixed it meanwhile. The solution is obvious once you see it - click the
cashew.

p.s. you do know that sometime in the next 30 days you'll need to load a new
overlay to keep kde-3.5? Either that or take the plunge.

--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

volkerarmin at googlemail

Nov 8, 2009, 3:24 PM

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Re: KDE-4.3.73 I've disabled right mouse buttons [In reply to]

On Sonntag 08 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
>
> I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff on
> the right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons presses.
>
> Now I have no right click on the desktop (everywhere else works) and middle
> click is disabled everywhere. Being an old-time X lad, this grieves me
> greatly.
>
> Systemsettings has nothing I can see about this - 1000s of hotkeys for
> keyboard, nothing for mouse clicks. Any ideas on how to revert this desktop
> change?
>

no, but luckily you can use grep or find ;)

find with one of the time options like newer should be able to find you the
affected config file.

alan.mckinnon at gmail

Nov 8, 2009, 3:37 PM

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Re: KDE-4.3.73 I've disabled right mouse buttons [In reply to]

On Monday 09 November 2009 01:24:32 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sonntag 08 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
> >
> > I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff on
> > the right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons
> > presses.
> >
> > Now I have no right click on the desktop (everywhere else works) and
> > middle click is disabled everywhere. Being an old-time X lad, this
> > grieves me greatly.
> >
> > Systemsettings has nothing I can see about this - 1000s of hotkeys for
> > keyboard, nothing for mouse clicks. Any ideas on how to revert this
> > desktop change?
>
> no, but luckily you can use grep or find ;)
>
> find with one of the time options like newer should be able to find you the
> affected config file.

Tried that, no luck :-(

But then I started thinking like a user and not like a sysadmin. And I saw the
cashew....

--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

rdalek1967 at gmail

Nov 8, 2009, 3:44 PM

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Re: KDE-4.3.73 I've disabled right mouse buttons [In reply to]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 09 November 2009 01:04:40 Dale wrote:
>
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>>> KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
>>>
>>> I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff on
>>> the right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons
>>> presses.
>>>
>>> Now I have no right click on the desktop (everywhere else works) and
>>> middle click is disabled everywhere. Being an old-time X lad, this
>>> grieves me greatly.
>>>
>>> Systemsettings has nothing I can see about this - 1000s of hotkeys for
>>> keyboard, nothing for mouse clicks. Any ideas on how to revert this
>>> desktop change?
>>>
>> LOL
>>
>> rm -rfv ~/.kde*
>>
>> I know you aren't going to do that tho.
>>
>
> Too damn tootin' right I ain't gonna do that :-)
>
> I fixed it meanwhile. The solution is obvious once you see it - click the
> cashew.
>
> p.s. you do know that sometime in the next 30 days you'll need to load a new
> overlay to keep kde-3.5? Either that or take the plunge.
>
>

I got two installs. I plan on using the other one, with NO updates,
until KDE 4 is working for me. If that fails, I got the Mandriva DVD
and will use it for a month or two.

I got a plan.

Dale

:-) :-)

volkerarmin at googlemail

Nov 8, 2009, 3:46 PM

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Re: KDE-4.3.73 I've disabled right mouse buttons [In reply to]

On Montag 09 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 09 November 2009 01:24:32 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Sonntag 08 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
> > >
> > > I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff
> > > on the right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons
> > > presses.
> > >
> > > Now I have no right click on the desktop (everywhere else works) and
> > > middle click is disabled everywhere. Being an old-time X lad, this
> > > grieves me greatly.
> > >
> > > Systemsettings has nothing I can see about this - 1000s of hotkeys for
> > > keyboard, nothing for mouse clicks. Any ideas on how to revert this
> > > desktop change?
> >
> > no, but luckily you can use grep or find ;)
> >
> > find with one of the time options like newer should be able to find you
> > the affected config file.
>
> Tried that, no luck :-(
>
> But then I started thinking like a user and not like a sysadmin. And I saw
> the cashew....
>

wouldn't work here - ihatethecashew made it disappear ;)

rdalek1967 at gmail

Nov 8, 2009, 4:26 PM

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Re: KDE-4.3.73 I've disabled right mouse buttons [In reply to]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Montag 09 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> On Monday 09 November 2009 01:24:32 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>
>>> On Sonntag 08 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>
>>>> KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
>>>>
>>>> I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff
>>>> on the right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons
>>>> presses.
>>>>
>>>> Now I have no right click on the desktop (everywhere else works) and
>>>> middle click is disabled everywhere. Being an old-time X lad, this
>>>> grieves me greatly.
>>>>
>>>> Systemsettings has nothing I can see about this - 1000s of hotkeys for
>>>> keyboard, nothing for mouse clicks. Any ideas on how to revert this
>>>> desktop change?
>>>>
>>> no, but luckily you can use grep or find ;)
>>>
>>> find with one of the time options like newer should be able to find you
>>> the affected config file.
>>>
>> Tried that, no luck :-(
>>
>> But then I started thinking like a user and not like a sysadmin. And I saw
>> the cashew....
>>
>>
>
> wouldn't work here - ihatethecashew made it disappear ;)
>
>
>

I thought a cashew was a peanut or something? Why is there a nut in KDE
4? I'm not using KDE 4 yet. ;-)

Dale

:-) :-)

esigra at gmail

Nov 8, 2009, 9:37 PM

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Re: KDE-4.3.73 I've disabled right mouse buttons [In reply to]

Dale skrev:
> I thought a cashew was a peanut or something?

Not at all. The only common thing they have is that both are flowering
plants. But cashew is a big tree, while peanut is an annual herbaceous
plant. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut

> Why is there a nut in KDE4?

It seems to be at the end of the panel and clicking it brings up a panel
configuration menu. The first time I had a red X next to it, but it
seems to be gone now.

> I'm not using KDE 4 yet. ;-)
>

I had to migrate to it when emerge complained about packages masked for
removal. Spent the last few days reporting regressions at bugs.kde.org.
And now I am not talking about peanuts.

alan.mckinnon at gmail

Nov 8, 2009, 10:42 PM

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Re: KDE-4.3.73 I've disabled right mouse buttons [In reply to]

On Monday 09 November 2009 02:26:04 Dale wrote:
> > wouldn't work here - ihatethecashew made it disappear ;)
> >
> >
> >
>
> I thought a cashew was a peanut or something? Why is there a nut in KDE
> 4? I'm not using KDE 4 yet. ;-)
>

It's the most hated object in software history. Worse even than Microsoft Bob.

[.It's a little bean-shaped icon that hides in dark corners and clicking it
opens settings dialogs for the panel and desktop]

--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

nagatoro at gmail

Nov 8, 2009, 11:35 PM

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Re: KDE-4.3.73 I've disabled right mouse buttons [In reply to]

On Sunday 08 November 2009 23.37.18 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> KDE-4.3.73 from kde-testing.
>
> I was playing around with the desktop and found new shiny extra stuff on
> the right-click context menu. Including configs for mouse buttons presses.
>
> Now I have no right click on the desktop (everywhere else works) and middle
> click is disabled everywhere. Being an old-time X lad, this grieves me
> greatly.
>
> Systemsettings has nothing I can see about this - 1000s of hotkeys for
> keyboard, nothing for mouse clicks. Any ideas on how to revert this desktop
> change?

Top right corner of your screen -> Destop Activities -> Mouse "tab"

rdalek1967 at gmail

Nov 9, 2009, 1:16 AM

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Re: KDE-4.3.73 I've disabled right mouse buttons [In reply to]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 09 November 2009 02:26:04 Dale wrote:
>
>>> wouldn't work here - ihatethecashew made it disappear ;)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I thought a cashew was a peanut or something? Why is there a nut in KDE
>> 4? I'm not using KDE 4 yet. ;-)
>>
>>
>
> It's the most hated object in software history. Worse even than Microsoft Bob.
>
> [.It's a little bean-shaped icon that hides in dark corners and clicking it
> opens settings dialogs for the panel and desktop]
>
>

I have played around in KDE 4 but the only nut I have seen is me. LOL
I got to look for this nut. Of course, Erik corrected me about what a
cashew is, so maybe I'm not a nut after all. ;-) Apparently I am a
herbaceous plant. Is that better?

My biggest problem with KDE 4 is this, I run Dolphin has root and it
can't open text files, last time it wouldn't even open directories. It
gave a error about Klauncher. I'm sure it will be fixed and this is
just one issue but I'm waiting until it is a little less buggy. If it
can't do what I need it to do then why use it?

I think the first of next year, KDE 4 will be up to snuff and ready to
roll. They just need some time to work this stuff out. Oh, probably a
lot caffeine too. Or do they drink those expresso thingys now?

Dale

:-) :-)

peter at humphrey

Nov 9, 2009, 8:03 AM

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Re: KDE-4.3.73 I've disabled right mouse buttons [In reply to]

On Monday 09 November 2009 09:16:38 Dale wrote:

> I have played around in KDE 4 but the only nut I have seen is me. LOL
> I got to look for this nut. Of course, Erik corrected me about what a
> cashew is, so maybe I'm not a nut after all. ;-) Apparently I am a
> herbaceous plant. Is that better?

No, no, no - t'other road on. A peanut is not a nut, a cashew is.

I couldn't find my cashew either, at first, and was even considering
deleting ~/.kde4 and starting again. Then gkrellm failed to start one time
and there the cashew was - under gkrellm. All I had to do was move it to
where I could see it.

Note to Erik: it's not the one on the end of the panel across the bottom of
the screen; it's another one. That confused me for ages.

What's worse than no cashew? Two cashews! And now I've got two more in the
top-left screen corner )-:

--
Rgds
Peter

rdalek1967 at gmail

Nov 9, 2009, 10:04 AM

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Re: KDE-4.3.73 I've disabled right mouse buttons [In reply to]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 09 November 2009 09:16:38 Dale wrote:
>
>
>> I have played around in KDE 4 but the only nut I have seen is me. LOL
>> I got to look for this nut. Of course, Erik corrected me about what a
>> cashew is, so maybe I'm not a nut after all. ;-) Apparently I am a
>> herbaceous plant. Is that better?
>>
>
> No, no, no - t'other road on. A peanut is not a nut, a cashew is.
>
> I couldn't find my cashew either, at first, and was even considering
> deleting ~/.kde4 and starting again. Then gkrellm failed to start one time
> and there the cashew was - under gkrellm. All I had to do was move it to
> where I could see it.
>
> Note to Erik: it's not the one on the end of the panel across the bottom of
> the screen; it's another one. That confused me for ages.
>
> What's worse than no cashew? Two cashews! And now I've got two more in the
> top-left screen corner )-:
>
>

Yea, I found that little tiny sucker too. Mine was sort of dark so I
pulled out my magnifying glass. I noticed when I put the fuzzy mouse
pointer on it, it turned a yellow like color. I right clicked and up
popped a menu. So cool.

We must run gkrellm the same way. Mine covered it up to. It's been
hiding under there all this time. lol

Dale

:-) :-)

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