Re: [kde] keyboard and mouse not working after upadte to latest xorg server
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 07:48:29 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Peter Nikolic posted on Sat, 02 Aug 2014 21:25:03 +0100 as excerpted: Thanks for the reply i think it may be as you suggest a permissions problem but it is proving to be hell to sort out every thing was fine untill i accepted the update to the latest Xorg server then well FWIW, latest xorg-server 1.16.0 here, recently upgraded (as it'd have to be, because it only recently came out). No problems to report, but as I said, I do the text login, startx with a kde xsession setting, thing here, and don't even have a *dm installed, so if there were issues with it and *dm, I'd never know it. But it does seem to me that your issue is likely related to logind console session dynamic permissions. Obviously those logging into a text login session and running startx from there have a login session already going when they run startx, with console perms already set for the existing login. That contrasts significantly with the *dm login case, where X is already running and at least basic input perms would be necessary in ordered to be even to login graphically at all, which seems to be your problem. I just don't know how to fix it since the little *dm experience I have is over a decade outdated now, well before systemd's logind solution and indeed, before hal and the like as well, so literally, generations of solutions have come and gone since then. =:^\ Ok well i am going to be out all day tomorrow fishing =:^) so will try to solve it monday evening and get back to you then . Hi Duncan Right had time to fiddle for a while now .. I can get KDE up using xinit startkde all fine but still no keyboard or mouse , so this seems it may be a kde based problem have to install and try another desktop to test this out . PS if anyone else has any suggestions please pipe up i am now getting desperate to get this machine back up and running have neither the space or software on here to do what i need .. Pete -- Linux voyager 3.6.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 12 23:58:58 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] Qtdmm
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:59:06 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Peter Nikolic posted on Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:21:45 +0100 as excerpted: I useed to use Qtdmm on the older system at home but that box died so the rebuilt box is up to date KDE 4.9.00 now qtdmm doe not run i have been looking around for something to replace it with does anyone know of something or even if qtdmm is being ported FWIW, a quick google told me that qtdmm is qt-based (qt2 and qt3, apparently not ported to qt4) digital multimeter readout and recorder software. IOW, it's designed to hook up to a specific type of electronic meter hardware, without which it's likely to be rather useless. At this point, it's a pretty safe bet that if it hasn't been ported to qt4 already, it's not going to be. Qt4 has been mature for some time now, and development effort is now focused on qt5 (which was due for a beta about now, but what with qt ownership transfer from Nokia, the beta has been delayed a bit), so while existing qt4-based apps (including all of kde4) are likely to continue to be supported for awhile, if it's not on qt4 yet, chances are it's not now going to be ported. There's a smaller chance it'd be ported to qt5, skipping qt4, but that's not likely either, as if it hasn't been ported by now, chances are that it's basically dead, unless someone else decides to pick up development. Replacement is the next question. It's here where even a short description like I provided above would have been helpful, as there's a fair chance that people might not know what qtdmm is, but still know about a replacement, if they knew what they were looking for a replacement for. The first thing I'd suggest is doing the google I just did, if necessary to find contact details for the author, then get in touch with him and simply ask. Maybe it simply hasn't been ported because there's already a better solution available, and he can suggest that. Or maybe all he needs to know is that someone's still using the app and is interested. It could be he's done the port already, and just didn't think anyone was interested any longer so he never posted it. It's simple enough to ask, and you'll never know if you don't. Beyond that... I'm not an expert in the area by far, but what immediately struck me when looking at the screenshots is how similar the graphs looked to the routine voltage, power, etc, computer status graphs I run more or less constantly, here. There's at least two whole entire kernel driver areas dedicated to drivers for sensors of that type, and quite a variety of software that can hook into them to drive graphing, logging, etc. lm_sensors is lower level userland software that can be used to program and read these sensors and output to the text terminal or to a file, and there's a whole host of GUI software that builds on that. ksysguard (aka system monitor), the yasp-scripted plasmoid, and superkaramba are all kde4 based software that can be used for this, and there's gkrellem and various gdesklets, konqy, etc, for gtk and non-kde use. But, what I do NOT know is how well that existing software works with generally external sensors, as its more common use and the way I use it here is to report on the computer's own system sensors. I AM sufficiently familiar with yasp-scripted and superkaramba at least, that I know if there's lower level drivers/software available for those external sensors that can make the information available either as text files (perhaps in the kernel's /sys tree) or output it to the text console as STDOUT, it's very possible to scrape that data and display it in the yasp-scripted or superkaramba GUI as text, bar-graphs or plotter/ line-graphs, as desired, because I do just that, file or STDOUT scraping, for a number of the outputs I display running plotters for, updating them once a second, here. The big question, then, is whether there's drivers or user-mode software available to take the raw output as presented by the external device and present it as a text file or as STDOUT. Chances are, especially for relatively common devices, yes. Linux has better support for this sort of thing now than ever before, with a lot of hardware manufacturers specifically cooperating with the Linux community to ensure that drivers are available for their hardware. That would explain why this specific specialized software hasn't been ported -- no need as there's much more widely applicable general solutions now available. But... not being a specialist in the area, I really don't know the specifics. There are most likely area specific mailing lists and/or web forums available, that would have better information. I'd suggest googling, maybe something line your hardware brand and model, and linux (with or without driver). It's quite possible there's already quite a variety of supported software available and you
Re: [kde] Qtdmm
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:48:29 +0200 Thorsten Schnebeck thorsten.schneb...@gmx.net wrote: Hmm, maybe a distribution issue? Here I use Kubuntu 12.04 with KDE 4.9.00 and qtdmm 0.8.13 starts fine (using qt3lib-mt). HTH Thorsten Hu looks like qt3lib-mt does not exists for Arch i will have to go turn AUR upside down thanks for the heads up .. Pete -- Quinton Motor Club Ltd , Registered in England 946724 Registered Office , Whale Co , Suit 2 146 High Street Burton on Trent Staffs DE14 1JE ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Qtdmm
Hi folks . I useed to use Qtdmm on the older system at home but that box died so the rebuilt box is up to date KDE 4.9.00 now qtdmm doe not run i have been looking around for something to replace it with does anyone know of something or even if qtdmm is being ported TIA Pete -- Linux voyager 3.4.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 15 18:59:31 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: Okular does not print
On Saturday 16 July 2011 21:54:32 gene heskett wrote: On Saturday, July 16, 2011 04:51:00 PM John Layt did opine: On Saturday 09 July 2011 10:24:59 BasaBuru wrote: hello: I don't now why the okular does not print. When put for print okular not send anything to the printer. I assume you are printing a PDF file, and that printing from other programs does work? Okular cheats with PDF's, calling the lpr command to print, which sometimes causes issues. On Debian make sure you have the cups-lpr package (name may be slightly different) installed for best results. If you run Okular from the command line then try printing, you should see the output from the lpr command and any error messages. Copy-and-paste the command oud output here and I'll try figure outwhat is wrong. Hijacking a thread here, but it sure needs help. When okular is set to auto-scale, it sends to a US letter printer about 9 wide, so the right hand inch is missing. Whomever decided it should be FF's default pdf reader needs a very close examination of their thinker. Adobe reader Just Works(TM). Cheers! John. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. Cheers, gene +1 Pete -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 01:09 up 5 days 8:11, 6 users, load average: 0.71, 0.76, 0.57 ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Another Dolphin failing
Hi . Just had to rescue a friends netbook running opensuse 11.3 and kde 4.6.0 32 bit he managed to get a lot of it right but pointed out a failing with Dolphin a set as wall paper function when you right click on an image something i believe that windBloWs already does cant say from first hand knowldge cus i aint a windBloWs person It would be a nice touch esp for the not so knowledgeable users. Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 14:47 up 1 day 23:50, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.16, 0.17 ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: Another Dolphin failing
On Wednesday 06 July 2011 19:00:59 Martin Bednár wrote: On mercredi 06 de juillet 2011 15:52:05 Peter Nikolic wrote: Hi . Just had to rescue a friends netbook running opensuse 11.3 and kde 4.6.0 32 bit he managed to get a lot of it right but pointed out a failing with Dolphin a set as wall paper function when you right click on an image something i believe that windBloWs already does cant say from first hand knowldge cus i aint a windBloWs person It would be a nice touch esp for the not so knowledgeable users. Pete . Hi, Please use punctuation, it will make your posts a lot easier to read. You can set an image as wallpaper by simply dragging the icon anywhere on the desktop. For now it is not possible to change the wallpaper using a remote call (dbus). The configuration module and the dragdrop are your only options for now. Martin ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. Hi . Ok so you can just drag an image onto the desktop and it becoms the wallpaper Ok just tried that on this version of kde which i believe is the same great Thanks .. Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 19:17 up 2 days 4:20, 4 users, load average: 0.25, 0.14, 0.10 ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: Anyone know how to figure out what packages Kaffeine3 really depends on?
On Monday 04 July 2011 02:55:28 Felix Miata wrote: On openSUSE 11.4 I want Kaffeine to be able to directly play isos made from DVDs. Is this possible? If so, what does it take? I tried to have YaST2 install it, but it wants to install kitchen sinks, bathtubs and garages as well, and I don't want to be constantly updating lebenty bazillion Packman things never used, nor wasting disk space on them. I have win32codecs, libavcodecs, libxine1-codecs, libdvdcss2 mpeg2demux its 3 *boost* deps installed. The fault window is currently complaining about missing demux, but also saying found input plugin without naming whatever it is. Hi . Pull Kaffeine off pacman it just works . the navitve version supplied by most distro's seem brain dead some leagal clap trap somewhere i know it get up my nose big time . I use kafeine all the time i also have vlc very poor when put alongside kaffeine Pete -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 07:47 up 2 days 10:47, 4 users, load average: 0.17, 0.23, 0.18 ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: How to set up the screen saver to activate when the mouse is at a corner?
On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:42:42 gene heskett wrote: On Sunday, May 15, 2011 02:20:50 PM Marcelo Magno T. Sales did opine: Hello, There was an option in the screen saver configuration screen to activate the screen saver when the mouse was moved to a corner of the screen. When I updated from KDE 4.5.x to 4.6.x (Kubuntu), the screen saver stopped been activated when I place the mouse on the corner I had selected for that. This was working ok in 4.5.x. I see that the option to set this up does not exist in the screen saver configuration screen anymore. I noticed that, in System Settings, there is an applet named Workspace behavior (or something like that, I'm translating from brazilian portuguese), which has a Screen corners tab. There I can configure some actions to be started when the mouse is placed at a chosen corner, but activating the screen saver is not on the list of possible actions. Is there a way in KDE 4.6.x to set up the screen saver to be activated when the mouse is placed at one of the screen corners? Thanks, Marcelo Marcelo, I have no clue, and despite asking here and there, no has told me yet why x/kde turns off the DPMS such when it starts, leaving you only with the power wasting screen decorators. I wish it would i get sick of typing xset -dpms after ever single update So while this box runs 24/7, when I get up to go carve a stick of wood, it may be hours before I come back and I seen no earthly reason that the monitors backlight needs to have those hours or watts wasted to run it during those extended times when I am not around. I made me a ~/bin directory years ago to hold the stuff that I need as the lone user of this machine, and there are all sorts of things in there, some of which have largely been rendered moot by the making of ntpd in recent history so that it Just Works(TM). Anyway (and a copy is attached if the server passes it) -- #!/bin/bash xset +dpms sleep 1 xset dpms 0 0 450 -- That's it, 4 lines. Adjust the last value which is the DPMS powerdown time in seconds, to suit you, put it in your ~/bin (export PATH=~/bin:$PATH) and give it execute perms. If KDE had an init.d, which I haven't found, I would see if I could set it up to be the last thing that the kde/x startup does. As it is, I am reminded to run it from a konsole the first time I come back in the room find I am looking at the analog clock I use for a blanker. :( I have no clue where in the startup DPMS gets shut off, according to my Xorg.0.log, it is still enabled at the end of the x startup logging, but it will not work, and never has since kde4 came out, until I either run this script or do the 2 important 'xset' lines by hand from a konsole. Pete -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 19:51 up 4 days 18:47, 4 users, load average: 0.12, 0.22, 0.25 ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: How to set up the screen saver to activate when the mouse is at a corner?
On Sunday 15 May 2011 20:08:32 gene heskett wrote: On Sunday, May 15, 2011 03:06:21 PM Peter Nikolic did opine: On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:42:42 gene heskett wrote: On Sunday, May 15, 2011 02:20:50 PM Marcelo Magno T. Sales did opine: Hello, There was an option in the screen saver configuration screen to activate the screen saver when the mouse was moved to a corner of the screen. When I updated from KDE 4.5.x to 4.6.x (Kubuntu), the screen saver stopped been activated when I place the mouse on the corner I had selected for that. This was working ok in 4.5.x. I see that the option to set this up does not exist in the screen saver configuration screen anymore. I noticed that, in System Settings, there is an applet named Workspace behavior (or something like that, I'm translating from brazilian portuguese), which has a Screen corners tab. There I can configure some actions to be started when the mouse is placed at a chosen corner, but activating the screen saver is not on the list of possible actions. Is there a way in KDE 4.6.x to set up the screen saver to be activated when the mouse is placed at one of the screen corners? Thanks, Marcelo Marcelo, I have no clue, and despite asking here and there, no has told me yet why x/kde turns off the DPMS such when it starts, leaving you only with the power wasting screen decorators. I wish it would i get sick of typing xset -dpms after ever single update Huh? Did I use a double negative somewhere Pete? xset -dpms turns it off, leaving you with the scene I described and detest. See man xset. Hi .. I think it is an opensuse 11.3 issue or an issue with the update system i will crack it one day not tried 11.4 on here yet it may well be fixed in that .. any how i wont hijack th thread any more get me nutts chewed .. :-) .. Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 20:26 up 4 days 19:21, 4 users, load average: 0.38, 0.34, 0.23 ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)
On Thursday 14 April 2011 14:34:47 Billie Walsh wrote: On 04/14/2011 08:20 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, I suppose we all have our favorite parts of KDE. For me it's Quanta. For whatever reason the devs at wherever have pretty much decided it was not worth the effort to bring it along with KDE 4.x. There is one person trying to bring it along and I hope someday he manages to do it. No offense, but why at all should Qanta be part of a Desktop Environment? I like Quanta, but what makes it worthwile to integrate it tightly into a DE? Just for openers, it's about the best webpage editor around for any operating system. I can't speak for anyone else but I spend about eight to ten hours a day working on web pages. Nothing fancy, genealogy and history pages. Quanta, even in it's crippled stated, is head and shoulders above anything else. When it was whole, it was awesome. As I said before, we all have our favorite parts. That may not be a must have for a lot of people but for those that need it Kopete is meant to be replaced by telepathy (which is in early development) So I suppose a KDE frontend will be developed by the KDE project. Which has to be maintained again, same situation but different program. - Clemens I'll second that i spend a lot of time working on motorsport web sites and Quanta was the bees knees of editors for the job i use Bluefish right now but it aint a patch on Quanta and neither for that matter is Komposer that is a joke to put it very mildy .. Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.5.5 (KDE 4.5.5) release 1 16:43 up 1 day 21:40, 5 users, load average: 0.24, 0.28, 0.21 ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: Kmix KDE4.6 Pulseaudio
On Tuesday 15 February 2011 11:44:24 Duncan wrote: Peter Nikolic posted on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:24:01 + as excerpted: I have been looking at opensuse 11.4 RC1 with KDE 4.6 now i am not sure where the correct place for this is but here goes . OS11.4rc1 install seems to default to pulseaudio (pa) which if it works is fine apart from with pa running Kmix adopts a dire personality where each slider id it it's own Tab . Question is how can i revert Kmix back to the old sensible method but keep with pa i have tried binning /home/user/.kde4/config/kmix* that just stops kmix until i log out and back in again when we are back in the same disgusting boat of one slider oer tab dont like it dont appreaciate it find it very clunky to use all in all hard work for something that should be simple . I'm not an OpenSuSE user (Gentoo) nor a pulseaudio user (straight alsa, phonon-vlc as the kde/phonon backend), but here's a simple trick that may well fix it for you, given the above: Those kmix config files? Instead of deleting them, truncate them to zero bytes (delete everything in them, or delete them and then touch them to recreate @ 0 bytes), then set permissions on them read-only. (I've used this trick to good effect with a number of other kde uncooperatives. If they can't write the bad config...) If that doesn't work (it might not depending on the config saving mechanism) try setting them to root ownership and read-only. If that doesn't work (depending on the technique used by config-saving mechanism, you may need to set perms on the containing directory, which isn't ideal given its a general kde config dir, not kmix specific), there's three more complex options you might be able to try depending on how your system is setup: If the filesystem in question is ext2/3/4 based, consider setting the files in question immutable. (FWIW I've never done this as I run reiserfs here and IIRC it doesn't have an immutable bit, but it's an interesting concept.) If your system runs SELinux security contexts, you can try editing the security contexts of the files so kmix can't touch them. (Again, no selinux here so I've not actually tried it.) Setup a script that deletes the files either as part of the login process, before kmix is up and running to read them, or perhaps as part of the logout process. (I HAVE done this sort of thing, before, actually somewhat frequently, as because the technique simply runs a script, it's as flexible as the commands I can run from a script. =:^) Well fixed it uninstalled pulseaudio all fine now mixer back to sanity sound still working from what i have been told on the suse list it seems it is a personality used for pulseaudio henc i will not use pa till this problem is solved Unless anyone knows how to doctor this so called personality Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.5.5 (KDE 4.5.5) release 1 16:36 up 4 days 17:33, 5 users, load average: 0.31, 0.12, 0.04 ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
