I like KDE4, especially once it got past the infancy stages of KDE4.0, but there is a definite problem I am having with Kwrite and Kate saving text files. I have encountered the issue with Kubuntu Hardy, Fedora 9, Fedora 10, and maybe something else. I don’t remember what distributions I have used.
I open the text editor. Write something, Save it as a txt file, and it seems to be fine. But when I open it, I have nothing but a blank page. I don’t have a solution to this, but it almost made me give up on KDE4 altogether. Instead, I have decided to install Gedit as my solution. Gedit works fine. Once a file is saved, there is no issue using Kwrite or Kate, it is only the initial period of saving the file.
I think it is not properly saving the encoding, or something. It handles text files fine, unless it is a new file, and you are trying to save it.
Gedit is a good text editor. There’s also the added bonus that many of the command line tips that are available on the internet include Gedit in their commands for editing files. I had been changing them to Nano in any place that Gedit was part of the command, since I couldn’t trust Kwrite, but using Gedit makes it easier because now I can just copy and paste, instead of having to edit the command to Nano.
admin Linux Fedora 10, Fedora 9, Gedit, Kate, KDE 4.1, Kubuntu Hardy, Kwrite
Upgrading to KDE 4.1 in Fedora 9 I received this error message.
Plasma Workspace - The KDE Crash Handler
A Fatal Error Occurred
The application Plasma Workspace (plasma) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV). Please help us improve the software you use by filing a report at http://bugs.kde.org. Useful detail include hot to reproduce the error, documents that were loaded, etc.
The error is also occurring in other distros like Kubuntu and Mandriva.
How to fix KDE 4.1
Get to your login screen and choose “console login” from the menu. From the console you will delete two files in the plasma configuration and this will fix the problem.
Here are the command line commands you will need.
cd ~/.kde/share/config
rm plasma-appletsrc
rm plasmarc
reboot
In Kubuntu the first command will be cd ~/.kde4/share/config because there is the .kde folder for KDE3 and the .kde4 folder for KDE4 (Which will be phased out in Intrepid Ibex).
Instead of rebooting you could try startx to login to the graphical desktop, but it’s probably best to reboot anyway. Removing these two files will reset plasma to the default configuration. I believe that something about haveing moved and/or resized the panel is not allowable with KDE4.1 and that is what is causing the crash. If you haven’t made any modifications to the panel, you might not get the error. If you do get the plasma error in KDE 4.1, that’s all there is to it. Happy computing.
admin Uncategorized Fedora9, KDE 4.1, Kubuntu, Plasma Workspace, Signal 11, SIGSEGV