On 03/18/12 09:32, Alex Schuster wrote: > Colleen Beamer writes: > >> Yes, I have activity manager in world, but I've unmasked all kde >> packages for version 4.8.1 and because of that, I can't get >> activitymanager installed because the latest verion for that is only >> 4.7.4 and I get told kactivities-4.8.1 blocks activitymanager.. I can >> get into KDE after my upgrade, but I can't move windows around, nor >> close or resize them. So I assume activitymanager is somehow needed. > > Anyway, moving windows around is KWin's responsibility, and has nothing > to do with activities, they are more about switching sessions on the fly. > I'd rename my ~/.kde4 directory and try again, maybe you have some > corrupted config. Or try as another user. Does the problem persist? > > Wonko > > Thanks! Problems solved. I may have been using Gentoo for a while, but every once in a while, I have a learning curve. To explain: Yesterday, when I tried to update world, I got a bunch of messages because kde-4.7.4 packages were installed and some upgrades wanted changes to USE flags. I resolved the problem by unmerging and installing the masked packages for kde-4.8.1.
Allan McKinnon was right in that I told emerge to bring in activity manager - despite the fact that I had unmerged version 4.7.4, I thought I needed it so had it in my package.keywords file. When I couldn't move windows around, I had an "epiphany" and realized that there must be other kde-base packages that needed to be upgraded to 4.8.1 because I had installed kdebase-meta when I was installing Linux on this computer back last summer when it was new. Anyway, I did the upgrades necessary for kdebase-meta and now everything is back to normal. So, thanks again, everyone that responded. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
