Dale wrote: > Duncan wrote: >> Dale posted on Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:10:42 -0600 as excerpted: >> >>> Maybe one day it will work. I been using that other app you mentioned >>> and it works OK. I had to change a few things but it is cool. I just >>> wish I could get it to move from the far right corner. When I try to >>> move it, it just bounces right back to the far right corner. The others >>> move fine but not that one. Oh well. Beats what I had before. >> So yawp is working, but lcd-weather is not? That's weird. Not what I'd >> have predicted at all, since I /thought/ the weather-parsing >> infrastructure was in a lib common to both. >> >> Maybe I was wrong? >> >> You mention that it sticks to the far right corner... of what? A panel, >> or a desktop activity, or ??? FWIW, here, I have (my multiple instances >> of) yawp on the desktop, in a separate activity that contains all them >> and my comic-strip plasmoid. That way I can spread them out as I wish, >> and switch to my weather and comics activity to view them, without >> cluttering up my mostly clear normal desktop. Anyway, I have no problems >> getting yawp to go where I want it on the desktop. >> >> I tried yawp in a panel quite some kde versions ago and decided I didn't >> like it there so much. IIRC it was because in a panel, it would only >> show a limited amount of info, I think due to the space constraints. But >> that was some time ago and I really don't know how it behaves in a panel >> any more. >> >> But that reminds me... I DO have some issues with the comic-strip >> plasmoid. It seems I can't set any new comics, only the old ones, as any >> new ones don't update. >> >> I somehow got the impression at some point (IDR how), that certain >> plasmoids use $TMPDIR for storing their update file, then try to RENAME >> (NOT move or copy, RENAME) to the final location. Since my $TMPDIR is on >> tmpfs (with the user's tmpdir symlinked into it from its default location >> in ~/tmp), that doesn't work so well, as renames across filesystems >> simply doesn't work (while moves or copies and then deletes, would work). >> >> But I would have /thought/ that would have been fixed quite some versions >> ago, and had forgotten about it. >> >> But now I'm wondering if that's the root problem behind both your broken >> LCD-weather and my broken ability to add new comics to comic-strip. >> >> I'm headed in to work a Christmas Eve close, but I have tomorrow off. >> Maybe I'll play around with tmpdir a bit tomorrow, and see if it makes a >> difference. >> >> Reminder: Backup your plasma-destop-appletsrc file before you do any >> serious playing around with plasma. It could save you some trouble if >> something goes wrong. >> > It is rather odd that one works and the other doesn't. I'm just glad it > does. At least I have one that works. > > I do have it on the little kicker thingy at the bottom. It's right next > to my clock in the far right corner. I can move all the other stuff but > that weather thing just will not move. I even tried moving the clock to > the right of it and it just pops right back. > > I have mine set up for current and the next day. That is about as close > to what the weather people can predict anyway. ;-) It doesn't take up > to much room and if I click on it, it shows more details and a few more > days. > > Maybe one day I will just do a major upgrade and start with a fresh .kde > directory. It would be the first time I had to do that. ;-) My emails > are in .mozilla anyway. All .kde has is settings. > > Thanks much. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Oooops! >>> It would *NOT* be the first time I had to do that. This NyQuil is doing something to me. lol I wish it would do more for my cough tho. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
