Changing cursors w/KDE 3.2
Hello all, I'm having a problem installing a new set of cursors under KDE. I had installed the crystalblue cursor set from kde-look.org, followed the instructions (move the theme directory into ~/.icons , and changing the ~/.icons/default/index.theme), but every time I still get the same set of default cursors. I can't find any error in the various logs saying it couldn't load the cursors. Any suggestions? Ian -- Ian R. Meinzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: kmail and multiple smtp profiles
Am Dienstag, 18. Mai 2004 18:33 schrieb Tobias Kraus: [...] > > My suggestion would not switch the transport, but alter the > > transport configuration itself. > > > > So the active transport would always be the same, but point to a > > different SMTP server. > Works perfectly! Thanks For the archive: I've set the following line in my kmailrc: [Transport 1] host[$ie]=$(/home/ford/bin/test-kmail-smtp) [...] where test-kmail-smtp returns the smtp-server on stdout according to the network I'm connected to. This works even without restarting kmail (1.6.2, kde 3.2.2) Tobias > > Cheers, > > Kevin > > -- > Diese Email-Adresse dient nur als Spam-Ziel. > Nachrichten an diese Adresse werden nicht gelesen! > > This email address is a spam-tarpit. > Mails sent to this address are not read! -- Diese Email-Adresse dient nur als Spam-Ziel. Nachrichten an diese Adresse werden nicht gelesen! This email address is a spam-tarpit. Mails sent to this address are not read!
KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:40:24 +0200 From: Sylvain Joyeux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have the same problem here (writing of kdeglobals and korgacrc for no obvious reasons). I don't have time to check the KDE sources. See Riku Voipio's recent message (and my response) in this thread. His suggestion fixed the problem. (The solution was to find korganizer in the taskbar, disable alarms, and make it quit.) Tell me: you do want to _use_ your laptop, don't you ? If not, just put it into sleep :p. If you do, then you'll save data, read, whatever and - eventually - your HD will spin up every 5 seconds because of the ext3 commit. No, it won't. See my response to Riku. Getting rid of korganizer's write-once-a-minute behavior let the disk spin down and -stay- down. And I didn't have to do anything to ext3's commit interval (e.g., touching /tmp/foo does spin the disk up instantly, so writes to the filesystem are still happening immediately). I do agree that KDE shouldn't write its config files, but I don't see the point of (desesperately) trying to fix something which is obviously not the way you'll use your laptop (or at least, it is not the way I use mine ;)) If someone asks for help solving a problem, it's generally not very helpful to anyone (the asker, the answerer, or the peanut gallery) to insist that they're not solving a real problem just because it's not -your- problem. I often use my laptop to take notes in a meeting, or to read mail out of a single large RMAIL buffer, etc. In those cases, there's no point to having the disk spun up (and one of these laptops also has the loudest disk I've ever heard, so it's annoying as well). Since I got this behavior with no effort under Mandrake 8.2, I figured it should be attainable under Debina. In fact, having now nuked korganizer, it was. If you do really want to fix that, you should take a look at tmpfs. I think the best way to achieve what you want is building a .kde/share/config in tmpfs, saving it on disk on shutdown, reading it from disk on start. An interesting idea. Don't need it this time, but maybe some other time. (I was speculating on doing something like this when I first noticed the problem, but was hoping it wouldn't be necessary...) Tnx.
KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 16:59:21 +0300 From: Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:17:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But the instant I actually log in, I get constant disk spinups, > again because I cannot keep KDE from -constantly- writing > ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals and korgacrc. This wasn't happening > in the (much older) KDE in my Mandrake 8.2 installation. I don't know what is writing kedglobals, but you can disable korgacrc by removing korganizer from the taskbar and disabling alarms. Ah ha! Thank you---that stopped -both- files from being written. Apparently korganizer's alarms were what was doing it. OTOH, is are your partitions mounted noatime? that was the single largest win to keep disk from spinning up for me. The other one was enabling laptop_mode using the script provided by the patch. Wasn't mounted noatime; remounting it that way didn't help until I nuked korg's alarms. Haven't tried laptop_mode.sh yet & may not need to; with this change (and remember that I'm running cpudyn and have /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mdoe set to 1), my disk spun down and -stayed- down until syslog wrote a "-- MARK --" entry; I've now added "-m 0" to its init so that won't happen. I may remount without noatime just to see if random thing are reading behind my back (presumably they'd be operating out of the cache in RAM most of the time, but I'm curious, and I actually sometimes use atime to see if I've used a file recently...) Thanks again! dark> A bad analogy is like leaky screwdriver | (*snicker*)
Re: KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 15:58, Antiphon wrote: > Question: Is 2.6.6 the first kernel version to include laptop mode? I think so. It was announced that way on kerneltrap.org. Anders -- This email was generated using KMail from KDE 3.2.2 on Debian GNU/Linux
RE: KDE + TwinView on Sid vs. Sarge
Under the desktop, I do have the Xinerama test for the taskbar, it does identify the screens, and the taskbar does display on only one screen (screen 2) as it should, but when I maximize a window, it spreads across both screens. I would like to change this behavior back to just maximizing on the one screen, just like it was under Sarge. --JATF -Original Message- From: johnny geling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 4:31 PM To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: KDE + TwinView on Sid vs. Sarge I have a similair setup, only with 2 graphic cards. Running SID and no problem with Xinerama extension from Xfree. Have you setup xfree configuration correctly and does it use Xinerama? I've noticed Xinerama support on 3.2.x has been improved comparing 3.1.x. Maximizing a window and it stay on that screen. Look at your xfree setup and then search for Xinerama option in configuration panel of desktop/panel (I suppose using dutch translations.) On Tuesday 11 May 2004 17:31, Freivald, Joseph A, GVSOL wrote: > I was using Sarge on my laptop up until last week, when I moved to Sid. > Everything in the upgrade went fine, except that I had to remove > console-common in order to get the dist-upgrade to complete. > > Here is the wrinkle: I use the NVidia Proprietary driver with TwinView > so I can hook up an additional monitor to my laptop. Under KDE 3.1.x > (Sarge), when I would maximize an application, it would maximize only on > that monitor. Under KDE 3.2 (Sid), they now spread across both screens, > which means I can't really use the maximize button because one screen is > 1024x768 and the other is 1600x1200. > Is there a setting in KDE that allows me to get this feature back? I > seem to remember seeing "Cinellera Support" in the 3.1.x control center, > but I can't find it in KDE 3.2. > --JATF -- Johnny Geling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Open a mail directly from kmail search results?
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 07:43, Jonathan Byrne wrote: > Using kmail 1.6.2 in KDE 3.2.2 on Sarge. > > I'm sure there must be a way to open a mail directly from > a kmail search result rather than have the main message > list pane jump to that message when the message is > clicked in the search result. However, the handbook > doesn't mention it and just digging around turned up > nothing. Ditto for googling. Anybody got the magic clue > for me? :-) > > I hope it can be done because Kmail is worlds faster than > Thunderbird on an IMAP mailbox with 80,000+ spams in it > (no, I'm not kidding; I'm in the spam-filtering industry > :-) and the search behavior is the only thing keeping me > stuck on Thunderbird for this task. I set the search > window to stay above others, run a search, and want any > search result, when double-clicked, to open in a new > window. Thunderbird does. Kmail doesn't. Help! :) The only thing I can suggest is using the Last Searches folder (at the bottom, or click on "open" in the search dialog) after every search. That opens in a new window if you double click, and setting a shortcut to open the search window again should be relatively painless. c
Re: KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:17:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But the instant I actually log in, I get constant disk spinups, > again because I cannot keep KDE from -constantly- writing > ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals and korgacrc. This wasn't happening > in the (much older) KDE in my Mandrake 8.2 installation. I don't know what is writing kedglobals, but you can disable korgacrc by removing korganizer from the taskbar and disabling alarms. OTOH, is are your partitions mounted noatime? that was the single largest win to keep disk from spinning up for me. The other one was enabling laptop_mode using the script provided by the patch. -- Riku Voipio| riku.voipio at iki.fi | kirkkonummentie 33 |+358 44 5000343 --+-- 02140 Espoo| | dark> A bad analogy is like leaky screwdriver |
Re: KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing
Question: Is 2.6.6 the first kernel version to include laptop mode? On May 18, 2004 5:37 pm, Joan Tur wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Es Dimarts Maig 18 2004 21:53, en [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure: > | [Please keep me CC'ed! I"m not on debian-kde. Tnx.] > | > | I've just started using Debian Sarge on a Thinkpad 240, having used > | Debian on a desktop, and Mandrake 8.2 on an identical ThinkPad. > | Unfortunately, it's driving me crazy, because KDE 3.2 insists on > | writing out ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals and korgacrc every five > | minutes or less, which keeps the disk spun up no matter what else I > | do. (I'm also running noflushd, though that's unlikely to help me > | much because I'm also using ext3fs---noflushd's manpage remarks that > | ext3 writes out its journals directly, hence bypassing noflushd's > | efforts.) > > I've successfully tryed kernel 2.6.6's "laptop mode". It delays disk > writes, and has to be set up together with low time hd spindown & growing > hd read ahead... > > http://breu.bulma.net/?l3089 > > - -- > Joan Tur (aka Quini), Eivissa-Spain > Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Yahoo & AIM: quini2k > www.ClubIbosim.org > Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAqoIQok8j9RhtetwRAm6kAJ4ni2PerAUnrOSATDHFUiYi9fFPYwCfQsoR > oF6d7Xk+C3OTGPu/lbbG//Q= > =Oyio > -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing
I have the same problem here (writing of kdeglobals and korgacrc for no obvious reasons). I don't have time to check the KDE sources. Tell me: you do want to _use_ your laptop, don't you ? If not, just put it into sleep :p. If you do, then you'll save data, read, whatever and - eventually - your HD will spin up every 5 seconds because of the ext3 commit. I do agree that KDE shouldn't write its config files, but I don't see the point of (desesperately) trying to fix something which is obviously not the way you'll use your laptop (or at least, it is not the way I use mine ;)) If you do really want to fix that, you should take a look at tmpfs. I think the best way to achieve what you want is building a .kde/share/config in tmpfs, saving it on disk on shutdown, reading it from disk on start. My 2 cents ... -- Sylvain
KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing
***PLEASE*** KEEP ME CC'ED. I had to go dig the messages I'm replying to out of the archive (and almost didn't see them at all) because I'm not on debian-kde! I still can't keep my laptop's disk from being constantly spun up by KDE. Thank you for the suggestions about laptop_mode and smart_spindown, but (a) they don't work or can't be used, and (b) I think you're missing the point. smart_spindown and the 2.6.6 kernel laptop mode aren't useful to me, because I'm running the 2.4 kernel. I -did- try setting /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode to 1, and I installed cpudyn and configured it to spin disks down. Neither helped. (I haven't [yet] fiddled with mount options to ext3 to make it flush its journals less often. This seems dangerous, because it raises the risk of losing data in a crash or dead battery, and would be unnecessary if I could just get KDE to stop prodding the disk all the time!) If I leave the machine sitting in the GNOME Desktop Manager login screen (e.g., freshly booted and have not yet logged in), the disk stays spun down. (At least for 15 minutes; that's as long as I gave it.) But the instant I actually log in, I get constant disk spinups, again because I cannot keep KDE from -constantly- writing ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals and korgacrc. This wasn't happening in the (much older) KDE in my Mandrake 8.2 installation. Because the machine does NOT spin up the disk when I haven't logged into KDE, I think I can rule out a huge number of possible random background processes, etc---something about being logged in is doing it, and those constantly-written config files sure seem to be the likely suspects. (Maybe they're being constantly read as well, or something that's defeating any attempt to defer disk I/O? I dunno.) Note that I'm not automatically creating any windows when I log in, so it's not as if, e.g., emacs is writing out stuff periodically because of some auto-save-list-file-name setting or anything like that. It's just sitting there in KDE with a desktop with no windows on it. Btw, a trivial loop reveals that those two files are being updated -precisely- every minute. Maybe if I just purge KOrganizer completely, it'll shut up? It seems to be part of kdepim, which was automatically included by something else in my installation (probably KDE itself), so I'm unclear on whether that's a viable option. Maybe if I symlink those files to /dev/null and hope nothing -actually- needs them? I haven't (yet) reported this as a non-Debian-specific bug to the KDE folks, mostly because they have a painful web-forms interface and won't take mail. I'm still hoping someone here has a useful suggestion before I have to resort to that. Thanks again.
Open a mail directly from kmail search results?
Using kmail 1.6.2 in KDE 3.2.2 on Sarge. I'm sure there must be a way to open a mail directly from a kmail search result rather than have the main message list pane jump to that message when the message is clicked in the search result. However, the handbook doesn't mention it and just digging around turned up nothing. Ditto for googling. Anybody got the magic clue for me? :-) I hope it can be done because Kmail is worlds faster than Thunderbird on an IMAP mailbox with 80,000+ spams in it (no, I'm not kidding; I'm in the spam-filtering industry :-) and the search behavior is the only thing keeping me stuck on Thunderbird for this task. I set the search window to stay above others, run a search, and want any search result, when double-clicked, to open in a new window. Thunderbird does. Kmail doesn't. Help! :) Thanks! Jonathan
