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KDE wizard after every reboot, why??

deksawyer

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Monday, August 7th 2006, 11:39pm

KDE wizard after every reboot, why??

I'm using Kubuntu Dapper 6.06 and have just updated to KDE 3.5.4.

Everytime I reboot, or start a fresh session, a KDE setup wizard screen pops up and I have to quit that to get my desktop.

Any ideas??

D.

**EDIT** It's Kpersonalizer that's popping up after every login..............

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Wednesday, August 9th 2006, 5:20am

RE: KDE wizard after every reboot, why??

Did you ever actually step through the wizard? Or have you just ignored it everytime and shut it down? Usually after you go through it, it doesn't come back. If however, you have gone through it then your startup scripts are the problem.

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Thursday, August 17th 2006, 1:07pm

RE: KDE wizard after every reboot, why??

I have the exact same problem. I have actually 3 computers, running kubuntu Dapper 6.06 also, and 2 of them won't stop showing me the Installation Wizard.

(With different logins)

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Thursday, August 17th 2006, 7:00pm

How are you people logging out?

I'm quite used to just do a <CTRL> + <ALT> + <DELETE> to restart X server, and if you do that, KDE will not save its session, and assume its a fresh one.
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Friday, August 18th 2006, 10:24am

no no,... normal logout.

I found a solution, but I'm really not happy with it!

You have to edit: ~/.kde/share/config/kpersonalizerrc

The file existed on the computers that had the problem. I looked into it, and there were following lines:
[MainToolbarIcons]
Size=22

[SmallIcons]
Size=16

[ToolbarIcons]
Size=22


I added this at the beginning:
[General]
FirstLogin=false

and everything worked fine.


The problem with this method is, that I had to do this with all users, and I will have to do it again for every new user.

For some reaso, kpersonalizer 'forgets' to add the FirstLogin=false line...


Well, I hope this helps some of you.


*** EDIT: PS: I also have kde 3.5.4 and the same kubuntu version... ***

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Friday, August 18th 2006, 12:04pm

I think an alternative solution was to modify /usr/bin/startkde, changing this line

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kpersonalizerrc General FirstLogin true


to false.

I believe this is one of the KDE 3.5.4 bugs unique to Kubuntu, as I don't see any other KDE distro complaining about it.
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Monday, August 28th 2006, 1:55am

A solution...

The bug is definitely kubuntu related.

The KDE script(s) that generates the skeleton $HOME/.kde directory for each user gets its information from a preset directory. In kubuntu the directory is:
/usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde-profile/default

The KDE script(s) that generates the default kpersonalizerrc file expects a FirstLogin=true, otherwise it ignores the line. In the lack of the [General] section, KDE fails to set FirstLogin to false after the first login, thus proposing kpersonalizer at each and every session.

To solve the problem, edit the following file:
/usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/kpersonalizerrc

Change:
FirstLogin=false
to
FirstLogin=true

This will solve the problem for any new users you add that have never used KDE, since the generated kpersonalizerrc file will contain the [General] section.

For already existing users experimenting the persistent kpersonalizer, do as indicated in the previous post; prepend:
[General]
FirstLogin=false

in :
$HOME/.kde/share/config/kpersonalizerrc

for each user.

Hope that helps.

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Sunday, October 28th 2007, 5:14pm

RE: A solution...

I am having a similar problem but with "KILE"

i am using ubuntu-gnome and I have kile installed
and everytime I login , it starts automatically , I dono why!
I tried to check every damm place to stop the auto start of kile
but no success so far.

when I run kile from terminal this is the output i get

Source code

 
1
2
3
4

 kbuildsycoca running...
kile: ERROR: Could not create symlink: /home/cherry/.lyx/lyxpipe.in --> /tmp/kde-cherry/kileXknNqM/.lyx/lyxpipe.in
kile: ERROR: Could not create symlink: /home/cherry/.lyx/lyxpipe.out --> /tmp/kde-cherry/kileXknNqM/.lyx/lyxpipe.out
kdecore (KProcess): WARNING: _attachPty() 14


I also tried to put

Source code

 
1

 FIRSTLOGIN=false

in the kile file of same folder.
and I also installed lyx
but I have no idea for the source of error