Re: X mysteriously slow, no clue why
On Sun March 28 2004 05:00 am, Magnus von Koeller wrote: ] I tried shutting down all unnecessary daemons, everything. Nothing ] improves this sluggishness. I don't know exactly when this started, ] it certainly wasn't associated with an update. If you don't know when it started, how do you know it's not related to an update? Anyway, what's your swap doing? I noticed a recent version of top [finally] contains the iowait state information, which might be useful for you. Is your hard disk gronking more than it used to? It's not the fc-cache problem is it? That's mentioned regularly every week or so on this list, and so I'm sure you've already tried the solution that comes back for that one. Cheers, Jedd.
Re: KOrganizer Alarm Deamon should have knowlege of birthdays in KAdressbook
Am Monday 29 March 2004 01:29 schrieb Wolfgang Mader: > Is ist possible to make the Alarm Deamon of KOrganizer awear of the > birthdays of the contacts in the kde addressbook? This is just too easy ;) Look at menu File->Import->Import Birthdays... HS -- Mein GPG-Key ist auf meiner Homepage verfügbar: http://www.hendrik-sattler.de oder über pgp.net PingoS - Linux-User helfen Schulen: http://www.pingos.org pgpf7O3vOfzeG.pgp Description: signature
KOrganizer Alarm Deamon should have knowlege of birthdays in KAdressbook
Hello, Is ist possible to make the Alarm Deamon of KOrganizer awear of the birthdays of the contacts in the kde addressbook? Thanks Wolfgang
Re: KDE3.2.1 X resolution
> DefaultDepth16 >Depth 16 > Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" > "640x480" > > But I am not able to select 1280x960 in KDE. I am shure my graphic card and > my monitor device is able to do this - I had it up and running with > XFree4.2. Any hints? Maybe your monitor supports "1280x1024" instead? Mine does. At that resolution and with a 64 pixels wide kicker a 1280x960 wallpaper fits perfectly. 8) Haplo
Re: KDE3.2.1 X resolution
Hello list, My /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 has this enrties: DefaultDepth16 Depth 16 Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" But I am not able to select 1280x960 in KDE. I am shure my graphic card and my monitor device is able to do this - I had it up and running with XFree4.2. Any hints? cheers Wolfgang
Re: KDE3.2.1 X resolution [FIXED]
On Saturday 27 March 2004 10:58 am, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > On Saturday 27 March 2004 17:58, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > You have two options: (1) restore "-dpi 100" in Xservers, so that > > you'll have the same as you had before upgrading [note that you'll > > have to change back your KDE fonts]; (2) stay in 75, 75 (which is > > what XFree detects is appropiate for your card, I think/it seems) > > and change/tweak *once* the font-size for GTK apps, just as you did > > in KDE. > > I did some research and evidence suggested that XFree86 should be able to > calculate the resolution automatically, given the correct info. > > It obviously wasn't able to pull the LCD display for this info via the > mechanism described in the manual. > > So I took a ruler and manually measured the physical size of the LCD diplay > in millimeters and entered it into the monitor section of XF86Config-4 > using the DisplaySize option. > > This worked. XFree86 now correctly finds the dpi to be 96x96 dpi. > > Thanks for the hints. > > Anders That's what I did. In fact, using DisplaySize is the most Correct (TM) way to do it, since it gives you the true dpi of your monitor, and if you change your resolution, X will still get the true new dpi of your monitor. pgpG6UggO8bEM.pgp Description: signature
KDM only ever starts into 'failsafe'
Hi, while trying to solve my other problem, I've managed to bork my KDM as well. Now, whenever I try to login through kdm the only thing I get is an xterm. This is while I did select KDE as session type. Any ideas? Best and thanks in advance, Magnus -- --- Magnus von Koeller --- email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] address: International University Campus 9, App. 13 D-76646 Bruchsal / Germany phone:+49-7251-700-7754 mobile: +49-179-4562940 web: http://www.vonkoeller.de pgpmLfqaVMZRo.pgp Description: signature
Re: X mysteriously slow, no clue why
On Saturday 27 March 2004 20:17, Jarno Elonen wrote: > When I deleted them, everything went back to normal and there's now only > one cache file. No idea how they all got created in the first place, > though. I think at least it was created on every login. I had a lot of those as well. After switching to kde 3.2.1 and latest iteration of XFree86 (-7), it has gone away. Anders -- This email was generated using KMail from KDE 3.1.5 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re: X mysteriously slow, no clue why
> I have this REALLY weird problem right now. My whole X has suddenly > started to be really slow. KDE used to be really snappy and nice to > use, now it's really sluggish and slow to respond. This is probably not the same problem, but a few days back on my system, starting any KDE application started taking about 10-15 seconds. Inspecting with 'strace', the reason turned out to be having dozens of '~/.fonts.cache-N' files (where 'N' is an integer). When I deleted them, everything went back to normal and there's now only one cache file. No idea how they all got created in the first place, though. - Jarno
X mysteriously slow, no clue why
Hi, I have this REALLY weird problem right now. My whole X has suddenly started to be really slow. KDE used to be really snappy and nice to use, now it's really sluggish and slow to respond. I have really run out of ideas where this is coming from. I tried finding out what processes might hog the processor with ksysguard, top and ps but I had absolutely no luck. The only thing that ever uses about 30-40% processor time is X. The only weird thing was this, from the output of top: 1636 root 5 -10 187m 55m 133m S 7.5 11.0 10:09.30 XFree86 Why would X have used so much processor time, even though the machine is just up for two hours? I tried shutting down all unnecessary daemons, everything. Nothing improves this sluggishness. I don't know exactly when this started, it certainly wasn't associated with an update. I run Debian unstable with all the newest packages, including KDE 3.2.1 and XFree86 4.3. Does anybody have a suggestion here? I'm really running out of ideas... Thanks in advance, Magnus -- --- Magnus von Koeller --- email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] address: International University Campus 9, App. 13 D-76646 Bruchsal / Germany phone:+49-7251-700-7754 mobile: +49-179-4562940 web: http://www.vonkoeller.de pgpetmRo1ZJcG.pgp Description: signature
Re: KDE3.2.1 X resolution
* Anders Ellenshøj Andersen [Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:41:28 +0100]: > On Saturday 27 March 2004 17:11, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > > > After upgrading to kde 3.2.1 my x resolution has gone from 100x100 to > > > 75x75 dpi. > > So my guess is that this is a small, intermittent glitch in XFree86 4.3. > I am not sure. KDE seems to be handling the change reasonably well, though I > did have to tweak the fonts a bit after switching to 3.2.1. > The problem is very bad in gtk applications (gqview and gimp), where the > fonts > are barely readable. > I did look in the XFree log file, and there is a line from display > initialisation which says. > (==) SIS(0): DPI set to (75, 75) > I have rebooted a couple of times and that doesn't change anything. > Also I checked in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers > There is no -dpi 100 option in there. You have two options: (1) restore "-dpi 100" in Xservers, so that you'll have the same as you had before upgrading [note that you'll have to change back your KDE fonts]; (2) stay in 75, 75 (which is what XFree detects is appropiate for your card, I think/it seems) and change/tweak *once* the font-size for GTK apps, just as you did in KDE. -- Adeodato Simó (a.k.a. thibaut) EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | IM: my_dato [jabber.org] | PK: DA6AE621 He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying. -- Michel de Montaigne signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: KDE3.2.1 X resolution [FIXED]
On Saturday 27 March 2004 17:58, Adeodato Simó wrote: > You have two options: (1) restore "-dpi 100" in Xservers, so that > you'll have the same as you had before upgrading [note that you'll > have to change back your KDE fonts]; (2) stay in 75, 75 (which is > what XFree detects is appropiate for your card, I think/it seems) > and change/tweak *once* the font-size for GTK apps, just as you did > in KDE. I did some research and evidence suggested that XFree86 should be able to calculate the resolution automatically, given the correct info. It obviously wasn't able to pull the LCD display for this info via the mechanism described in the manual. So I took a ruler and manually measured the physical size of the LCD diplay in millimeters and entered it into the monitor section of XF86Config-4 using the DisplaySize option. This worked. XFree86 now correctly finds the dpi to be 96x96 dpi. Thanks for the hints. Anders -- This email was generated using KMail from KDE 3.1.5 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re: KDE3.2.1 X resolution
On Saturday 27 March 2004 17:11, Craig Dickson wrote: > Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > > After upgrading to kde 3.2.1 my x resolution has gone from 100x100 to > > 75x75 dpi. > > So my guess is that this is a small, intermittent glitch in XFree86 4.3. I am not sure. KDE seems to be handling the change reasonably well, though I did have to tweak the fonts a bit after switching to 3.2.1. The problem is very bad in gtk applications (gqview and gimp), where the fonts are barely readable. I did look in the XFree log file, and there is a line from display initialisation which says. (==) SIS(0): DPI set to (75, 75) I have rebooted a couple of times and that doesn't change anything. Also I checked in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers There is no -dpi 100 option in there. Anders -- This email was generated using KMail from KDE 3.1.5 on Debian GNU/Linux
Re: KDE3.2.1 X resolution
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 March 2004 17:11, Craig Dickson wrote: > Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > > After upgrading to kde 3.2.1 my x resolution has gone from 100x100 to > > 75x75 dpi. > > I saw this happen yesterday, quite some time after I had upgraded KDE to > 3.2.1, so I don't think that's what does it. > Check /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers. There used to be -dpi 100 options in there, but I think they're gone now (at last). Cheers. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAZaxsgm/Kwh6ICoQRAiC4AKC3fXHL5tOu6dYGTYMO7I/T4gLYcACeNFsn 5I2o3jPBXYxrjeNMsb00ZWM= =1Wz2 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: KDE3.2.1 X resolution
Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > After upgrading to kde 3.2.1 my x resolution has gone from 100x100 to 75x75 > dpi. I saw this happen yesterday, quite some time after I had upgraded KDE to 3.2.1, so I don't think that's what does it. I looked in /var/log/XFree86.log and saw an error relating to reading VESA information from the video card. This caused it to default to 75 dpi instead of 100, resulting in very small fonts. So I restarted the X server and the error was not repeated. Everything seems happy now. So my guess is that this is a small, intermittent glitch in XFree86 4.3. Craig
KDE3.2.1 X resolution
After upgrading to kde 3.2.1 my x resolution has gone from 100x100 to 75x75 dpi. I saw a post about changing a config file in /usr/share/config I have no such folder on my system. Why is this not done automagically? What to do? Anders E. Andersen -- This email was generated using KMail from KDE 3.1.5 on Debian GNU/Linux
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environment problems with KDM and Konsole
Hi, I set my locale ($LANG and $LC_ALL) as user and not in /etc/environment. However, obviously KDM does something wrong here: if I change the first line of /usr/bin/startkde from #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/sh -l (thus making that run a login shell and read $HOME/.profile which sets LANG and LC_ALL), everything works as expected. But I also know that this change is not correct. Actually, kdm should run the script from a login shell but doesn't. That results is program misbehaviour and e.g. konsole only shows the EuroSign correctly when started a second time from itself (that's also strange because konsole itself should _not_ run a login shell). Either I do something wrong or KDE (means KDM and Konsole) mixed it all up :-( What to do? HS -- Mein GPG-Key ist auf meiner Homepage verfügbar: http://www.hendrik-sattler.de oder über pgp.net PingoS - Linux-User helfen Schulen: http://www.pingos.org pgpw2bx4jLCCu.pgp Description: signature
linux crashes when switching between vt7 and vt8
I am using debian woody with kernel 2.4.25 (backports.org) and kde 3.1.4. X uses the driver from nvidia. When I start two graphical vts using kdm and try to switch between them using Ctrl-alt-Fx, somtimes the x-server, to which i am switching, restarts. Some times the wohle system crashes (even ctrl-alt-backspace wont help). This happens after approx. 20 times switching. After a crash, I cannot find anything specific in the logs. Since I thought, the nvidia-drivers causes this, I tried the driver nv. But that didnt help. I also tried different kernel (2.4.18, 2.4.21 and 2.4.25) and different kde versions (3.1.3, 3.1.4) -- with no success. When I start my second X-server from vt2 using startx, the problem did not occur (at least until now). So I think maybe kdm is the problem. Does anyone know this problem and can give some hint? Regards, Juergen _ Der WEB.DE Virenschutz schuetzt Ihr Postfach vor dem Wurm Netsky.A-P! Kostenfrei fuer alle FreeMail Nutzer. http://f.web.de/?mc=021157
Re: Changing default browser
Oops. This didn't get sent to the list. jedd wrote: On Fri March 19 2004 04:02 am, Paul Scott wrote: ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .kde/share/mimelnk/text/html.desktop Actually it seems to be recorded in .kde/share/config/profilerc That file does not exist on my system. Is that not a user option? Copy that file somewhere, make a change in 'file associations' for .html type files, apply them, and then do a diff against the copy and the current profilerc file and see if things have changed. When you right click on a target URL and select 'open with...' do you get the items you're trying to automatically associate? As in, are you sure that the pre-defined associations actually work when picked manually from the list? Yes. Thanks, Paul
