27 Dec
2018
27 Dec
'18
3:40 p.m.
Hi all,
I've got a little but nagging problem with Kpersonalizer.
I've setup a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian (the latest Raspbian Stretch works
very well on a 3 B+, by the way) and installed TDE from Slavek's
repositories. Then I decided to rename the "Pi" user.
Since that, every time I log in I get Kpersonalizer. If I don't run it, I get
no icons on the desktop. If I do, some of my previous settings are kept, some
are lost (colours, windows decorations).
This certainly is a permission problem and dome file not being written, but
where?
Root works very well. I could (and possibly will) create a new user, but first
I would like to understand what is not going right.
Thierry
27 Dec
27 Dec
4:08 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Kpersonalizer problem
On Thursday 27 December 2018 10:40:55 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
Hi all,
I've got a little but nagging problem with Kpersonalizer.
I've setup a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian (the latest Raspbian Stretch
works very well on a 3 B+, by the way) and installed TDE from Slavek's
repositories. Then I decided to rename the "Pi" user.
Since that, every time I log in I get Kpersonalizer. If I don't run
it, I get no icons on the desktop. If I do, some of my previous
settings are kept, some are lost (colours, windows decorations).
This certainly is a permission problem and dome file not being
written, but where?
Root works very well. I could (and possibly will) create a new user,
but first I would like to understand what is not going right.
Thierry
The pi installer cannot be defeated. I installed 5 times trying to get
the first user to be named me. I gave up, so on my pi, I am pi. The only
arm install I've found that lets you name the first user is armbian
stretch on an arm64. Its a genuine PITA on a 6 machine home network.
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5:14 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Kpersonalizer problem [solved?]
On Thursday 27 December 2018 17.08:16 Gene Heskett wrote:
The pi installer cannot be defeated. I installed 5
times trying to get
the first user to be named me. I gave up, so on my pi, I am pi. The only
arm install I've found that lets you name the first user is armbian
stretch on an arm64. Its a genuine PITA on a 6 machine home network.
Hi Gene,
Seems I did defeat it. I installed the latest Raspbian (based on Stretch) and
it did install the Pi user. I then renamed the user and the home directory,
changed the primary group to users.
Everything worked except this recuring kpersonalizer thing. I checked the
kpersonalizerrc file, but it was correct.
In the end I removed the execution permission to kpersonalizer
un /opt/trinity/bin and it seems to do the trick: I can log normaly into my
user.
THierry
9:10 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Kpersonalizer problem [solved?]
On Thursday 27 December 2018 12:14:07 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Thursday 27 December 2018 17.08:16 Gene Heskett
wrote:
Good to know, but in my case I was restricted to jessie because at the
time, that was the only distro that had realtime enough kernels to run
LinuxCNC.
And they are a problem child, randomly throwing away both keyboard AND
mouse events FROM ITS OWN CONSOLE. Remote logins don't seem to suffer
near as much. Strangely, that behavior seems to be related to the
reboot, when its bad, sometimes a reboot fixes it, but more often will
get worse, so you just keep rebooting it till its mostly gone away.
Then it will work fine for 3 or 4 months.
Makes it hard to stay the hell outta the bars though. Intermittents with
no explanation bug me... 3 different kernel builds do it, the newer, the
worse it is.
Not this lists problem, just a comment about the sucky arm support in
general. No more main memory than the pi 3b has, xfce is the fawnciest x
install I've tried. Runs an 11 by 54 inch Sheldon Lathe, now about 70yo,
just fine after putting motors and ball screws on it I could control
from software.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
The pi installer cannot be defeated. I installed
5 times trying to
get the first user to be named me. I gave up, so on my pi, I am pi.
The only arm install I've found that lets you name the first user is
armbian stretch on an arm64. Its a genuine PITA on a 6 machine home
network.
Hi Gene,
Seems I did defeat it. I installed the latest Raspbian (based on
Stretch) and it did install the Pi user. I then renamed the user and
the home directory, changed the primary group to users.
Everything worked except this recuring kpersonalizer thing. I checked
the kpersonalizerrc file, but it was correct.
In the end I removed the execution permission to kpersonalizer
un /opt/trinity/bin and it seems to do the trick: I can log normaly
into my user.
THierry
10:03 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Kpersonalizer problem
On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 11:08:16 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett(a)shentel.net> wrote:
If you're really desperate, Gentoo will allow you to set up a Pi with whatever
username you want (actually, whatever everything you want, within the limitations
of running on a rather slow ARM SOC). I just set up a minimal install on a Pi3
so that I could use it as a NAS (in conjunction with the hard drive scavenged
from my old, deceased NAS), and the only non-root user on the system is not
named pi.
The catch, of course, is the need to set up distcc/cross-compiling/arm emulation
on a more powerful machine if you don't want to wait forever whenever you
install something.
E. Liddell
On Thursday 27 December 2018 10:40:55 Thierry de
Coulon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a little but nagging problem with Kpersonalizer.
>
> I've setup a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian (the latest Raspbian Stretch
> works very well on a 3 B+, by the way) and installed TDE from Slavek's
> repositories. Then I decided to rename the "Pi" user.
>
> Since that, every time I log in I get Kpersonalizer. If I don't run
> it, I get no icons on the desktop. If I do, some of my previous
> settings are kept, some are lost (colours, windows decorations).
>
> This certainly is a permission problem and dome file not being
> written, but where?
Check permissions and ownership on files inside .trinity/share/config ,
particularly kdeglobals . They should be owner = your user,
group = your user, permissions = -rw------- (or -rw-r--r--) for
all the normal files.
Root works
very well. I could (and possibly will) create a new user,
but first I would like to understand what is not going right.
Thierry
The pi installer cannot be defeated. I installed 5 times trying to get
the first user to be named me. I gave up, so on my pi, I am pi. The only
arm install I've found that lets you name the first user is armbian
stretch on an arm64. Its a genuine PITA on a 6 machine home network.
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