From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S9MMe-0003u1-BO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:06:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDD34E097B; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:05:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5356E0AD7 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:04:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaoo28 with SMTP id o28so10271424iao.40 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:04:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=w4T7PmZLI0aJvtfHmU6jqnkQqcy1diYxz7bJclXCVnM=; b=sM/hHbkyo7N5/DAyD/VfdcBXTsvFsZOpSDfprxIhNxvxXJCKyGQc2ElXXFi6EVocTJ pX/jje1JjuCXRg2OBjMTBBOorQH14Qb0vLaht2IPVRXCcfI0jLvS9tFggDzG+biIvhew JER5QdT+HHJmRxtOD+LxoZoWkaBtipQlTSzWWlvaS6cdNHu993+m7CLHpSnQUnPmUtNM s7ylw1evQgA32gOVm0l6xfu9953i1aDp0mgyKZ/AzBqmP8vikwmCsZxxoWGUjKrJkX6G KD7C/lZaaLfppOS5fpBmD5TiUHeLhRdPnzobBF7OhPuSqlRAHv67RZmZbEgnaLrPLoja +UWg== Received: by 10.50.17.229 with SMTP id r5mr4421858igd.45.1332101058450; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.15] (bas1-hamilton02-1176396372.dsl.bell.ca. [70.30.98.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k8sm6561076igz.4.2012.03.18.13.04.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F663FF5.6040600@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:05:09 -0400 From: Colleen Beamer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120317 Thunderbird/11.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Assistance if possible References: <4F65614E.90103@gmail.com> <20120318145537.2f54e685@khamul.example.com> <4F65DEAF.4040504@gmail.com> <20120318143229.7bcda6bc@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20120318143229.7bcda6bc@weird.wonkology.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6b9442de-c078-433f-ba54-a5633d4a335f X-Archives-Hash: 7e7c5563dfddf8e2945d49b109c21ef0 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