1st October 2016, 9:07
(This post was last modified: 2nd October 2016, 3:21 by kdemeoz.
Edit Reason: solved!
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I first made this enquiry in April this year, in the Mint KDE forum, as my Tower's OS then was still Mint KDE; https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p...6&t=219848. No root cause or solution was ever found [by me], & so the annoying bug continued. I'm now asking here in Maui, because i'm a bit shocked to discover, having recently replaced Mint KDE with Maui, that the problem STILL occurs.
When i installed Maui, i formatted my / partition, thus replacing Mint with Maui, but i reused my /opt & encrypted /home partitions. I have these possible ideas:
PS - though my link to my original Mint posts show i had some confusion initially about my Lappy [which also back then ran the same Mint 17.3 KDE as Tower], eventually i confirmed that it too had this annoying problem. Recently [but a few weeks before upgrading Tower] i migrated Lappy from Mint 17.3 KDE to Mint 18 Xfce. Just like with Tower, i only formatted its / but reused its /opt & encrypted /home partitions. Therefore if the problem root cause is some corrupted ~/.kde [etc] file, that file would still exist in Lappy's /home. Here's the important point though; ever since Lappy's OS stopped being a KDE DE, Lappy stopped having this annoying fault. If only i could also eliminate it from Tower.
When i installed Maui, i formatted my / partition, thus replacing Mint with Maui, but i reused my /opt & encrypted /home partitions. I have these possible ideas:
- The "bug" has continued across from Mint KDE to Maui because there is a file, somewhere within the inherited ~/.kde folder, or somewhere else in my /home, that is being read & actioned by Maui... ie, if i could find that file & delete it, the problem would be solved --OR--
- It isn't actually a "bug" at all, but instead it's a deliberate "feature" of KDE... ie, maybe KDE then also has a setting hidden somewhere i've not found, with which i could disable this infuriating "feature"?
PS - though my link to my original Mint posts show i had some confusion initially about my Lappy [which also back then ran the same Mint 17.3 KDE as Tower], eventually i confirmed that it too had this annoying problem. Recently [but a few weeks before upgrading Tower] i migrated Lappy from Mint 17.3 KDE to Mint 18 Xfce. Just like with Tower, i only formatted its / but reused its /opt & encrypted /home partitions. Therefore if the problem root cause is some corrupted ~/.kde [etc] file, that file would still exist in Lappy's /home. Here's the important point though; ever since Lappy's OS stopped being a KDE DE, Lappy stopped having this annoying fault. If only i could also eliminate it from Tower.