[tde-users] Re: Oh, my -- this is no fun at all

said E. Liddell: | On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:44:52 -0700 | | William Morder via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote: | > Kate (or somebody else?) posted something about a dirty "fix" under | > that heading. It might not be the solution to the problem, but it is | > somewhere to start looking. | | It may have been me. There are several nuclear options: | | 1. The values indicating when/whether the script has been run are stored | as plain text in ~/.trinity/share/config/kdeglobals in the [R14 XDG | Updates] section and can be mangled to show that the script has run | successfully even if it hasn't. | | 2. Mangle the starttde shell script to comment out the line that runs | r14-xdg-update . | | 3. Mangle the r14-xdg-update script itself to remove the problem test or | turn the whole script into a no-op. | | None of these is optimal, but any of them should stop the thing from | harassing you if it's failing for a reason that can't be easily traced. While it seems to have been resolved here, I do wonder why the R14 script exists to begin with. What does it give us that we need? -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/