Kde annoyance while opening a file [SOLVED]

ranger719 · Last edited by ranger719 on Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:09 pm; edited 2 times in total

Hi,
I have a little problem with KDE. First, I will explain my setup. My workstation runs KDE and mounts a share via samba (cifs). The share is located on a server in my LAN. This server has an USB-drive which is shared over the samba-share. The USB-drive spins down after a defined time of inactivity.
Now the problem: Everytime I open a textfile in kate, kedit or I open a movie-file in kaffeine which is located on my workstations internal drive my whole systems hangs because the program (kate, kaffeine and so on) accesses some old files (history) on my "USB-drive-share". The disks wakes up, which takes a few secs, and then my system is usable again. I don't have a big problem with the system hanging while waiting for data form the USB-drive, but I have a problem with all my KDE-applications trying to read something from files which are somewhere in a history-list. Can I disable this "feature"? Is this a bug? I guess it is for my setup

Any ideas? Should I post this at the kde-forums? Is there a switch which I do not find? Is this the right forum? I think 'Multimedia' is not the right place.

Thank you.

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ranger719 · Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject:

I posted the same question on the kde forums.. But no reply yet..
I now have a workaround for this problem. At least for kaffeine. I just made /home/user/.kde/share/config/kaffeinerc readonly and deleted all the recent opened entries. This works, but now kaffeine prompts at every startup that the config-file is readonly. That's okay for me, after logging in kaffeine resides in my taskbar. So it alerts me only once after the login.

ranger719 · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:10 am Post subject:

chattr +a ~/.kde/share/config/kaffeinerc does the job (better than read-only). As long as I cannot configure the "Recent-Files-Behavior" for KDE-Apps thats my way to go. chattr +i also works, but kaffeine still alerts on startup that it cannot write the config-file.

ranger719 · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject:

I found a solution. The german computer-magazine c't had an article how to configure KDE/Gnome in Edition 5/2008.

You can set a flag in the global config-file for a KDE-application for each attribute to make it immutable. It is [$i]. Unfortunatly, not all programs have a shared global config, but you can create them.

I did this: "joe /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kaffeinerc" and put this in the file: