On Sunday 02 Sep 2012 12:41:51 Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:

> > The solution is to kill the kio_http that was running it.  Use ps, top,
> > lsof as you prefer to find which PID you should kill.
> 
> Well, I got annoyed beyond reason and just renamed the config file.  Now
> all is quiet except for me surfing the web.  ;-)  I used ps and I
> couldn't figure out what process was running it.  Then again, I wasn't
> sure what to look for either.  o_O
> 
> I lost my settings tho.  :-(

Restore your settings from a back up.

Then 'ps axf | grep kio_http' (while you have all applications closed) and 
kill that if it is still running.

Warning:  I think that going back into the settings and running Search for a 
weather URI will launch again a kio_http process and you're back where you 
started.

> >> While I am at it.  I'm supposed to get my weather stuff from NOAA or at
> >> least that is where it came from ages ago.  Ever since I went from KDE3
> >> to KDE4, it wants to come from wetter.com which doesn't work to begin
> >> with.  This is what I think it is doing to my network.  It is trying to
> >> get data that doesn't exist to begin with so it just keeps trying.
> >> Anybody know how to beat this thing silly?  By the way, using iftop,
> >> that is where all this traffic is going to.
> > 
> > I am not sure if wetter.com is hardcoded somewhere.  In my
> > .kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc I can see my BBC URI in the
> > weather applet settings, but nothing about wetter.com.
> 
> I researched this a good while back and it appears that it is hard
> coded.  Back in KDE3, I think it had some way of selecting what to
> connect to, depending on what country you are in I guess.  Now, It's
> either wetter.com or nothing on my rig.  From my vague recollection of
> others describing it, if you live in the USA, no weather updates.  Since
> KDE4 seems to have broken it, maybe KDE5 will fix it.  LOL

If you have your NOAA URI correctly set in your .kde4/share/config/plasma-
desktop-appletsrc it should go fetch the weather feed from there.

-- 
Regards,
Mick