Re: K Icon Editer?

[tgray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Here we go... ready?  You are going to:

LEAVE THE GUI ENVIRONMENT!  

1.  Hit the keys <CTRL>+<F2> (or any of the Function keys up to 
"F6" on your average system.)  This will take you to another "	
"terminal" different from the one you're running KDE on.  

2.  Login, either as yourself or root, it's up to you (probably) root 
will definitely be able to do it, whereas the user you're running the 
KDE under *should* be able to do what needs to be done.

3.  Type the command "ps -ax" and press enter.  (Do I need to tell 
you about the quotes?)  If the output from this is too much, add 
type "ps -ax | less" instead.  This lists all the processes running on 
your box.  Locate the one that is the icon editor and make a note 
of the number in the left hand column of the output.  This is the 
process ID, or "pid".  If you use the less command you just press 
"q" to exit it ad return to the command prompt.

4.  Type the command "kill #" where # is replaced with the pid you 
should have made a note of in step 3.  This will tell linux to stop 
running that process.  You can repeat the "ps -ax" command to 
confirm that it is, indeed, "killed".

5.  Hit the keys <CTRL>+<F7> to return to the terminal that is 
running KDE... you should see everything being happy now.  I hope.

There are probably about fifty other ways of doing it, not counting 
minor variations on the way I've described, many most definitely 
being better, but hey, I'm a newbie at this too.

Alternatively, you could try hitting that littel "Kill" icon that's on your 
KDE desktop and placing the changed mouse pointer over the 
offending Icon editor's windows and left-clicking, but I think learning 
the command stuff is more satisfying and when your proficiency 
with them increases, infinitely more powerful.  Heck, it's a 
repeatable problem, try both ways.

As far as correcting the problem with the resizing bit... I'm not sure. 
 That's a bit beyond my area of knowledge as of yet.  Knowing the 
content of the error message would be helpful to those more 
knowledgeable than myself though.

(I hardly ever have anything to contribute to this list as I'm learning, 
so if any of the Linux veterans would care to comment on the 
accuracy and/or quality of this attempt I would appreciate it.)

On 14 Mar 2000, Jon Sanders <members@kalamazoolinux.org> wrote: 


> I am a relative newbie to the Linux community (and to this list! ;),
> and installed RedHat 6.0 on my maching a few weeks ago. I've managed
> to configure and work out everything myself so far, but I've had one
> major problem: the K Icon Editor. When I use it and try to resize
> anything, I get this error window that pops up (don't recall what it
> was, exactly). Then, another one pops up. And another one. I've sat it
> out through a few hundred of these windows, but there's nothing I can
> do but a manual reboot.
> 
> And that's not a great thing.
> 
> Any ideas/comments?
> -Jon Sanders
> 
> 


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