[PLUG] What is kded ...
Michael Rasmussen
mikeraz at patch.com
Wed Jan 11 15:13:03 UTC 2006
Josh Zeckser asked:
> ... and why does it always place a big Volume box in the middle of my
> screen when I log into KDE?
According to the man page (doesn't Gentoo install them?)
kded -- triggers Sycoca database updates when needed
Sycoca?
mikeraz at tire:/var/www/rando/brevets$ apropos sycoca
kbuildsycoca (1) - Rebuilds the system configuration cache
kded (1) - triggers Sycoca database updates when needed
mikeraz at tire:/var/www/rando/brevets$
System Configuration Cache. Hmmm, a quick Google (I'm Feeling Lucky)
for sycoca and we find:
Sycoca - Introduction
Sycoca stands for System Configuration Cache and is nominated to be
the succesor of kregistry. It is a light weight database optimized for
looking up static system configuration information fast and with
minimal memory usage.
The database will offer read-only access to many clients at once. The
database is read-only which means that looking up can be very fast
since no locking or transaction operations need to be performed. The
database is created/updated by kbuildsycoca from human readable
configuration files. kded monitors these configuration files and will
call kbuildsycoca to update the database when a change in any of the
configuration files is detected.
So maybe you should let it run to gather the information or check the
logs to see if any errors are being reported or maybe run a kbuildsycoca
to make sure you have the cache built in the first place.
Or maybe read up on sycoca at
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/ksycoca.html
aka
http://tinyurl.com/exp66
and decide on what course of action works best for you.
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