Re: properly functioning torrent manager for KDE/Plasma 5
I agree with qbittorent, having started with ktorrent and transmission. On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Marco Valli wrote: > In data Wednesday 06 January 2016 13:20:13, Gary Dale ha scritto: > > Are there any fully functioning torrent managers for KDE? > > I suggest qbittorrent. > regards > > -- > Marco Valli > > -- _________ Michael Hoodeshttp://hoodes.com Seattle, WA
Re: how to stop tool tips on panel in jessie?
Doc, To fix when cursor moves over a plasmoid in a panel, a large tool tip appears for a second or two: System Settings, Workspace Behavior, then unclick Show Informational tips On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:56 AM, D. R. Evans wrote: > I just upgraded to jessie, and somehow a setting was changed so that > whenever > the cursor moves over a plasmoid in a panel, a large tool tip appears for a > second or two. > > How do I turn off this behaviour? (I really don't need distractions > appearing > on my screen and covering information when I am trying to work.) > > Doc > > -- > Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR > > -- _____ Michael Hoodeshttp://hoodes.com Seattle, WA
How to set fg/bg on Widgets and desktop popups
Wheezy KDE: 4.8.4, QT 4.8.2 All my widgets (time and weather) display text white fg and light gray bg. Popups are the same. It's mostly unreadable. Is there any way to set fg/bg ?... yes I have tried settings and web search. I am running Oxygen theme. -- ___ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: Konqueror plugin crashes
Felix, I have been getting those crashes since KDE 3.1.2 and now also on KDE 3.1.3 and this is the error: http://www.hoodes.com/graphics/konqbug.jpg There are hundreds of nspluginviewer konqueror crash bugs for all levels of KDE at bugs.kde.org. But this has only been happening to me recently. I don't know where to locate the cause of the error. Also FWIW - I do not have the same symptoms as other posters with KDE 3.1.3 - It's working AOK for me here. Michael On Monday 04 August 2003 02:36 am, Felix Homann wrote: > Hi, > > since the upgrade to KDE 3.1.3 (Sid) the nspluginviewer crashes > almost "once per konqueror", i. e. sometimes plugins do not load at > all, sometimes they load and after a minute they crash, or without > any obvious plugin working a "nspluginviewer has crashed" window pops > up. > > Anybody got similar problems? > > Regards, > > Felix
Re: Disk mount/unmount GUI...
xvmount - I finally found this and crossed off my plan to write such an application. On Friday 14 March 2003 07:51 am, Terry Gray wrote: > Does Debian, or KDE, have an application similar to Mandrake's > DiskDrake, or selecting and mounting/unmounting disk partitions. > > Terry Gray -- ___________ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: KDE 3.05 to 3.1...
I just upgraded testing also (109 packages 40MB) with apt-get without any problems EXCEPT libc6 upgrade failed as it was missing programs cut and tr. I copied them from my SID partition and that fixed the upgrade. I don't know why my testing system was missing those programs and where to get them. On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:52 pm, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Samstag, 8. März 2003 21:25 schrieb Ralf Nolden: > > I assume you're using testing. Mind that testing will undergo a > > major breakage tonight. (see debian-devel-announce) > > I just upgraded testing (115 packages, 35MB). No breakage at all so > far, all is running fine :) -- ____________ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: Where is kdenetwork, where is Chris?
Thank you Karolina for continuing to package the latest release(s) of KDE for SID. I too (as Caolite) have been very happily running your debs and was hoping that you would be continuing to update them. As I have mentioned before, I have a backup Woody partition running Ralph's 3.1 debs and that's the release I check for bugs if necessary. On Tuesday 04 March 2003 at 7:35 am, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > tisdagen den 4 mars 2003 15.43 skrev Caoilte O'Connor: > > Karolina's debs were excellent, and I for one will continue to use > > them until at least kde 3.1.1. > > There are packaging bugs (*blush*) and unique debian bugs. But I have > fixed those I found, last week. I will also build KDE 3.1.1, as soon > as it is out, maybe next week. And in between I am building more > applications, or rebuilding for new upstreams versions. > > Karolina -- _______ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: How Do I Burn CDs?
Bob, Before you go, try gcombust ... this has been the most consistent stable, accurate and lean and mean burner for Linux I have found. I have tried them all and always got back to gcombust. Michael On Monday 03 March 2003 09:17 am, Robert Tilley wrote: > As heretical as this may sound, I've actually been contemplating > moving back to a Windows XP OS simply for the ease of CD burning. I > have no cd burning program on my Debian unstable box, having tried > all available (namely, xcdroast, which is horribly unusable). > > Can anyone suggest any alternatives before I resume kneeling at the > altar of Bill? > -- > Comments are most appreciated, > > Bob -- ____________ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: kdm still slow on startup, solutions?
Norbet, I corrected this (as I posted earlier) by adding a missing truetype parameter to my SID (KL debs) which is running xfs: I added Truetype (/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype) to the catalogue = parameter in /etc/X11/fs/config Your reason might be a different font but it's a good place to start if you are running xfs or xft. Michael On Monday 10 February 2003 at 4:10 pm, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi! > > I still have the problem mentioned earlier that kdm_greet eats up > loads of CPU/mem and takes very very long for start-up. Is there any > solution to this problem known. I have read about solution with > libvorbis (hee, sounds strange), FontPath and fs/config mixtures, and > hell what more. > > Best wishes > > Norbert ___________ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: Missing entrys in controlcenter
kinfocenter - should be already installed. Michael On Monday 10 February 2003 04:56 am, Florian Struck wrote: > Hi i am using kde 3.1 from Karolina. > Today i realized that there is an entry missing in controlcenter that > was there in earlyer versions of kde. > I mean the system information where i can see infos about my hardware > (usb devices pci devices irq's io's etc.) > What package do i need to install to get those or isnt that part of > kde3.1 anymore? > Thanks for hints. > Florian -- ___________ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Delay on KDM startup fixed. Was Re: delay on KDM startup and KDE startup (3.1)
Oswald and all, My delay on SID (KL debs) KDM startup has been fixed and is now ~11 seconds which is the same as I see on my Woody partition (RN Debs). I don't run xft so I thought Oswald's comment wasn't relevant. However for the last couple of weeks my Phoenix session was not running TrueType fonts which I prefer (verdana). Tracking down the problem (KDE apps were seeing TrueType), I added the Truetype directory to XF86Config-4 (this didn't do anything as I AM running xfs). I then added Truetype (/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype) to the catalogue = parameter in /etc/X11/fs/config This fixed truetype fonts in Phoenix and ALSO fixed the KDM startup time. My fonts in kdmrc are Helvetica, Times Roman and Charter - I think times roman is the Truetype font. Presumably kdm init (greet) was looking for a defined font that wasn't available. Michael On Tuesday 04 February 2003 at 1:08 am, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 07:48:14AM -0800, Fedor Karpelevitch wrote: > > Any clues to what's the problem or how to fix it? > > possibly (probably, even) xft-related. try disabling it. > > greetings > -- ___________ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: konqueror 3.1.0 does not launch from kicker
Craig: - DUH. I guess I am so used to looking at deb files with MC that made me think a grep would work! Thanks for the unpack info. It appears that the launch problem is fixed with Karolina's latest konqueror deb and it doesn't use konqueror.desktop. Michael On Monday 03 February 2003 12:23 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > Michael Hoodes wrote: > > OK I'll bite. What package has konqueror.desktop in it? > > My Woody 3.1 partition doesn't have it. What's a good > > way to check for inclusion of that file? I've tried > > grep konqueror.desktop * in my 130MB Sid /var/cache/apt/archives > > directory but that didn't find it. > > It's in Karolina's konqueror rc6 package. I still have a copy of it. > > Grepping your archive directory probably won't do. A .deb file is an > uncompressed ar(1) archive containing a gzipped tar file > (data.tar.gz) which in turn contains all the files to be installed. > Since the tarball is compressed, grepping it isn't useful. I don't > suppose zgrepping the .deb would be useful either, since the ar(1) > archive isn't compressed. > > To unpack a .deb: > > ar -x file.deb > tar xzf data.tar.gz > > then look under ./usr/share/services for the konqueror.desktop file. > > The exact file you want is: > > konqueror_4%3a3.1.0+rc6+kl-2_i386.deb > > unless Karolina has posted a fixed version already. > > Craig -- ___ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: konqueror 3.1.0 does not launch from kicker
Karolina, It IS fixed - my error. I believe it was fixed when I installed konqueror_3.1.0+rel+kl-2_i386.deb from shakti.ath.cx/debian. (I downloaded it directly - my apt-get didn't get it automatically). Michael On Monday 03 February 2003, 01:09:10 pm, Michael Hoodes wrote: > Karolina, > > Fixed where? > I am up to date (Apt-wise) from both Dresden and shakti.ath.cx. > And as always much thanks for providing the Sid 3.1 debs! > Michael On Monday 03 February 2003 12:30 pm, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > måndagen den 3 februari 2003 20.51 skrev Michael Hoodes: > > But the problem is not a system stopper. I start Konqueror from > > a run command and that is fine. > > That's why I didn't notice the problem, even though I used KDE 3.1 > final for almost a week. I almost always start kde indirectly, or by > F2 popping up a command line where I enter the www address. > > Anyway, it is fixed. > > Karolina -- _______ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: konqueror 3.1.0 does not launch from kicker
Karolina, Fixed where? I am up to date (Apt-wise) from both Dresden and shakti.ath.cx. And as always much thanks for providing the Sid 3.1 debs! Michael On Monday 03 February 2003 at 12:30 pm, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > måndagen den 3 februari 2003 20.51 skrev Michael Hoodes: > > But the problem is not a system stopper. I start Konqueror from > > a run command and that is fine. > > That's why I didn't notice the problem, even though I used KDE 3.1 > final for almost a week. I almost always start kde indirectly, or by > F2 popping up a command line where I enter the www address. > > Anyway, it is fixed. > > Karolina -- ___________ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: konqueror 3.1.0 does not launch from kicker
Craig, OK I'll bite. What package has konqueror.desktop in it? My Woody 3.1 partition doesn't have it. What's a good way to check for inclusion of that file? I've tried grep konqueror.desktop * in my 130MB Sid /var/cache/apt/archives directory but that didn't find it. But the problem is not a system stopper. I start Konqueror from a run command and that is fine. Michael On Monday 03 February 2003 at 10:36 am, Craig Dickson wrote: > Joseph Reagle wrote: > > >That's probably the konqueror.desktop missing file problem. > > >I have fixed that problem. > > > > I just upgraded to from kde 3.1.0rc6 to kde 3.1.0 and have this > > problem presently. > > I fixed it for myself by extracting the konqueror.desktop file from > the rc6 package and copying it to /usr/share/services. ... > Craig -- ___ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: kdm problem in Karolina's 3.1.0+rel debs
James, The kdm hang is due (as earlier posts indicated) to an incompatibly with newer versions of QT in Sid and possibly GCC 32 libs and has been around for about a week. On my system SID KDM startup is 35 seconds. (KDM startup on my woody system is 9 seconds). Be patient! I did see that kdm_greet and krootimage were the KDM processes that were stalling. However I don't see a memory leak or size excess of the KDM process after KDE starts. Michael On Monday 03 February 2003 at 7:52 am, James D. Freels wrote: > I have upgraded to Karolina's new 3.1.0+rel kde debs on my Debian/Sid > system. With this upgrade, along came a problem with kdm. It seems > there is a memory leak. The kdm startup hangs in a loop and becomes > very large in memory size; never finishing. It is running the > "kdm_greet" process. I just enter "/etc/init.d/kdm stop" to end it, > and I can then enter kde from startkde within xinit. Everything else > seems OK from here. > > -- > James D. Freels, Ph.D. > Oak Ridge National Laboratory > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___________ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: Woody/KDE3.1RC7 debs : Screensavers Report
Welcome to the world of jwz's xscreensaver. Yup I didn't count them but I'll accept 160 ... And ALL of them work for me from the kde control panel in both the little display window and using Test for a fullscreen view (except for some esoteric screensavers like vidwhack and webcollage - both of which I'd like to get working). The appearance in the control panel was what got me going on xscreensaver and prompted my comments earlier. And yes there are other fish to fry! However jwz's xscreensaver is enough of a reason to run linux!!! Michael On Monday 27 January 2003 at 7:47 pm, Nick Boyce wrote: ... > BTW: does everyone else have ~160 screensavers ??? That's like > a _lot_ .. (even allowing for the spurious duplicates). And do they > work ? > > Cheers > > Nick Boyce > Bristol, UK
Re: Woody/KDE3.1RC7 debs : Screensavers Report
Paul, Thanks for the clarification - I understood that. BUT - The XScreensaver Option does not work (on both Woody and Sid kde 3.1) (I have installed both xscreensaver and xscreensaver-nognome) as I believe the xscreensaver program does not run as a daemon by xscreensaver.kss. Definition of not working: The screen is blanked at the correct time, but the xscreensaver screensaver is not displayed. However the blank screen is ended properly by a mouse or keyboard movement. I think that kde can avoid running xscreensaver as a daemon by providing a random selection of screensavers when XScreensaver option is chosen. Would that work? i.e. put randomizing code in xscreensaver.kss similar to what I use for display of random Eterm pixmaps: background %random(`cat pixmaps.list 2>/dev/null`) But I am not enough familiar with perl to put that (or similar code) in the kss file. Or indeed if that is the solution for getting the xscreensaver program to run properly. Michael On Monday 27 January 2003 at 6:48 am, Paul Cupis wrote: ... > Not quite sure what my point is, but I hope that clarifies things > somewhat. > > Paul Cupis > - -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kweather freeze the kicker!
Tim, I suspect KL's sid debs did not/will not make a difference with Kweather. Kweather will fail and "kill" your session if it's defined weather station is not found or is not responding. I run Kweather on both Woody (Ralph's debs) and Sid(Karolina's debs) and have encountered the same problem. My station KSEA seems to work OK so you might try that to see if the problem goes away. You can manually change the weather station by edit of .kde/share/config/weather_panelappletrc This Kweather "bug" exists at bugs.kde.org. Michael On Monday 27 January 2003 04:11 am, Yun-Ta Tsai wrote: > Greating all,;) > I had noticed that someone mention the same problem before. > While kweather can't function, it will affect the kicker too, even > the whole KDE. > > I'm using Ralf's sid deb, and I'm going to transfer my system to > KL's sid deb which is newer. Then I will see if the problem still > exists or not... > > Best Regards and Happy New Year > Tim
Re: Woody/KDE3.1RC7 debs : Screensavers Report
What I have done was apt-gotten xscreensaver-nognome and xscreensaver which set the scene for kde for both Woody (xscreensaver 3.09) and Sid (xscreensaver 3.10) Other comments have been made about doubles in the list and that XScreensaver does not seem to work. I have looked at the doubles and it appears that there are different screensavers for each of the doubles i.e. Gravity, Gravity (GL), or Bouble, Bouble. xscreensaver program works well (on kde 3.1 RC6 and RC7) when a specific screensaver is chosen. However the option XScreensaver does not work which is a random display of screensavers. The random option is what I would like. I believe the problem with XScreensave is the improper operation of /usr/bin/xscreensaver.kss. Has anyone got the xscreensaver option working? And do you have a "good" xscreensaver.kss? The way kde executes the xscreensaver modules is by executing either the xscreensaver program or the module each time - i.e. xscreensaver is not run as a daemon. If kde provides the randomization then the current way of executing xscreensaver program (on demand) would work. jwz the author of xscreensaver in the past has not been exactly happy with the way kde has handled xscreensaver and I am glad that it appears kde is treating it correctly! On Sunday 26 January 2003 at 6:33 am, Paul Cupis wrote: Michael > Yes. > > xscreensaver-nognome does depend on xscreensaver. So does > xscreensaver-gnome. > > xscreensaver depends on xscreensaver-gnome | xscreensaver-nognome, > and those two packages conflict with each other (i.e. installing > xscreensaver package will pick one, probably xscreensaver-gnome > unless you already have, or are installing xscreensaver-nognome). > > Bleh, that doesn't read very nice. Anyway, gnome users should use > xscreensaver-gnome, kde users should use xscreensaver-nognome. IMHO, > apt-get-ing the xscreensaver package may pick the wrong one of these > by default. > > My 2¢ > > Paul Cupis > - -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get update - kweather
Yes I agree Kweather is a toy. I think the problem you are having with it is the same as I described in an earlier post. The Czech Republic page for Meteorological Station Information Lookup has many sites but it seems that the one you chose is not operational. Kweather then passed your site address to kde and the system gets unresponsive. If you want to "play" with the toy, specify my weather station KSEA as the ICAO location code which is up correctly most of the time. This is Seattle and it's raining right now. Kweather should be handling error conditions better! As far as getting happy from a software installation, I only wish that happiness was that easy! Michael On Saturday 04 January 2003 at 10:47 am, Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka wrote: > So you are happy one. I tried Ralf's debs (which are great for me), > the installation went well, but when I added it to kicker, it said > that some site had somwething missing (i do not remember it > correctly) and kicker got stiffed. So I uninstalled Kweather, it is a > toy. The main and needed parts work super fine, so I do not care > Kweather anymore. Thanks Ralf for you work > Vlada
Re: apt-get update Kmail "nit"
Ralf, Once again thanks very much for your work!!! RC6 installed well (under KDE RC5)on my woody system except for one or two -f installs and a dpkg --remove (I believe it was a conflict with kdeartworks and kscreensaver. I "fixed" it by removing kscreensaver. The nit in Kmail is that Kmail RC6 now displays the folder list in true alphabetic sort. i.e first the (inbox, ...drafts) folders with Capital first letters and then the folders with lower-case. Previous versions of Kmail displayed the folders in mixed Alpha for example, my kde-debian folder followed my KDE-CHATTER folder. With Kmail RC6 KDE-CHATTER is on top of list, and kde-debian is far away from it. Now to complicate it - the Kmail folder list display functions, when moving, copying to a folder and in Compose mode when displaying Sent-Mail folder choices are all Mixed Alpha sort. I haven't been able to find an option for changing the folder list. If this is going to be the modus operandi, I can manually change my lower case folders to First Letter Capital but I don't really want to touch the existing folders. Michael On Saturday 04 January 2003 04:57 am, Ralf Nolden wrote: > I also updated kdelibs, kdebase, kdeartwork, kdepim and kdenetwork > which reflect the latest changes so you're basically running KDE-3.1 > RC6. Please report all problems ASAP because otherwise the filal will > contain those bugs. Especially if it's shows > Ralf > - -- > We're not a company, we just produce better code at less costs. > - > > Ralf Nolden > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get update - kweather
Vlada I have installed Kweather from Ralph Nolden's debs. I have been running Kweather on kde 3.04, 3.05 3.1 RC5, and now on 3.1 RC6 without problems (other than my earlier posted problem). The specific deb file I am using (from my archives) is: kweather_4%3a3.0.99+cvs20021227-0woody1_i386.deb and as stated earlier it is part of kdetoys at (in my case): http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde/woody/i386/kde-3.1/kdetoys On Saturday 04 January 2003 at 7:18 am, Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka wrote: > For me Kweather keeps crashing, sorry > Vlada
Kweather destroys kde when it's server is down
I really like the Kweather tool applet and appreciate the way it's been improved with newer levels of KDE. However once or twice a year it causes my KDE system to come to a halt with swapper thrashing and taskbar not responding when it's referenced weather HTTP site is not available. It starts producing KDE error messages and CAN NOT be killed using either KsysGuard or a command line kill -9 of it's pid. This happens with KDE 2.2 through 3.1. I am monitoring weather every 30 minutes, but when Kweather can't get it's data it gets into an error loop posting a message every few seconds. I am copying the kweather author (Jürgen Hochwald) with this note who may be able to help. One thing is kweather itself but how can a task such as kweatherservice be killed? As above Ksysguard allows a kill but kweatherservice comes back to the process list immediately. The same thing happens when I do kill -9 of it's pid. I presume Kweather and KDE error processing are in a tight loop and I don't how to stop it. Michael
Re: Warning
On Monday 30 December 2002 at 7:09 am, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > I updated to latest debian "unstable" level, and my KDE does not work > anymore. These break-everything debian updates makes me kind of tired > sometimes. Karolina, I used to feel that way ... probably before you made the KDE 3.x debs available for Unstable (Thanks very much again) but I have switched to running Unstable as my main system as it has been remarkably stable for the past year or so. Yes occasionally it will break (last one for me was the libfontconfig1_2.1-7 problem) but that is truly the nature of the beast. I have found , #Debian and #Debian-kde on irc to be excellent sources of fixes for any berserker behavior of Debian upgrades. > Anyway, I started the X server separately from KDE, and then it > works. But now I get the default X cursor instead of the arrow. It > appears that xsetroot does not accept the -solid #C0C0C0 option like > it used to. > > There are also other problems, since "startx" gets hung in "ksplash" > without updating the screen to anything. I can't help with those problems although ksplash hang usually is a missing kde component and that shouldn't happen with you should it? > I really don't know what is updated that breaks everything, and don't > feel I want to bother with it right now. I am running unstable and your KDE 3.01RC5 debs (from dresden) and I am running AOK. (This is the second time this week I've posted this.) I run apt-update probably 2-3 times a day. I also apt-get -f install usually when files are not automatically installed. I do so with out fear for two reasons: 1. If SID KDE 3.1 breaks, I have a configured working Afsterstep session 2. If SID Debian breaks, I have a backup partition running Woody which now is also running KDE 3.1 from Ralph (Thanks Ralph). Finally if both my Debian partitions break (both Woody and SID) I have OS/2, Win98, RedHat partitions to fall back on. > Other builds of KDE3 are out True enough - But once you have run a Keramiked 3.1 KDE, you don't want to go back. And your deb's are pretty much the only choice for us unstable users (with computers not fast enough to compile!)
Re: Karolina's KDE 3.1RC5 packages - K Menu Issues...
Doug, I am running unstable KDE 3.1 (dresden w today's updates) and my K menu looks fine as does all the Debian submenus. Michael On Saturday 28 December 2002 01:41 pm, Doug Holland wrote: > I just apt-get updated my system today, which fetched a bunch of > fresh KDE packages from http://wh9.tu-dresden.de/kde3/karolina, and > now I noticed many of the items in my K menu are now gone. > Specifically, the Debian menus are now missing, which contained all > sorts of stuff. > > Is there any easy way to get them back?
Re: Karolinas 3.1rc5?
James, Thanks very much. That did the trick!! I had seen the libpng discussion but didn't think it applied. I got the file from debian.org unstable. Michael On Friday 13 December 2002 at 6:14 am PDST, James Greenhalgh < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The latest libpng12 in sid has caused some problems. You can revert > to the older one or wait for the new one, they are aware of the > problem. > > download and dpkg -i > http://hobbiton.opendoorsoftware.com/debian/libpng12-0_1.2.5-6_i386.d >eb > > -James
Re: Konqueror and NY Times sluggish KDE 3.0 to 3.1 Beta 2
> fredagen den 1 november 2002 21.19 skrev Michael Hoodes: >> I don't know if that is the solution to the Konqueror pause problem . >> and there are people with IPV6 who would not be too happy if it was >> turned off! Is it possible to make IPV6 a setting option in >> Konqueror? On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 09:33:03 +0100, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > Actually, KDE has three modes when it comes to IPV6. > 1) No IPv6 > 2) always IPv6 > 3) check if IPv6 is available (in the kernel) before using it. > So the solution appears to be the automatic mode. For those who does > not want IPv6, the driver is just removed from the kernel (it is > loadable, isn't it?) and KDE won't use it. That has been my point! My Kernel is compiled without IPv6 for a long time so I do not understand how KDE was issuing IPv6 calls to cause the Konqueror pause. I suspect it is doubleclick.net at high network traffic times that causes the pause. When Konqueror pauses, both Opera and Mozilla can access the page(s) without pausing. -- ____ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: Konqueror and NY Times sluggish KDE 3.0 to 3.1 Beta 2
onsdagen den 30 oktober 2002 23.09 skrev Michael Hoodes: > I am using the karolina debs and kdelibs have been split up. I don't > know where to find the source and what "split" contains the IPV6 > call. I have a relatively slow machine and generally don't compile > KDE for that reason. On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 07:19:04 +0100 Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > I already have IPV6 turned off in kdelibs. I don't know if that is the solution to the Konqueror pause problem and there are people with IPV6 who would not be too happy if it was turned off! Is it possible to make IPV6 a setting option in Konqueror? Would I be able to install your kdelibs (w/o IPV6) on my karolina kde 3.1 Beta-2 from wh9.tu-dresden.de or will I get into trouble? I'd like to test it to see if the pause I'm getting is IPV6. Michael -- ___________ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: Konqueror and NY Times sluggish KDE 3.0 to 3.1 Beta 2
I'll accept that the Konqueror pauses are doubleclick.net and sure we could try to deny it (Nathaniel and UDO on the 31st in this list) with dns or /etc/hosts but the fact remains that both Netscape and Opera deal with the doubleclick response without waiting for it. I don't know if Konqueror can do that easily but that would be the solution. I think Konqueror was OK back in KDE 2.2 (response on NYT pages was the same as Netscape, Mozilla and Opera) but it's possible that doubleclick has been added to NYT or doubleclick has changed it's evil ways. -- _______ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: Konqueror and NY Times sluggish KDE 3.0 to 3.1 Beta 2
On Thursday 31 October 2002 at 12:38 am, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:09:57PM -0800, Michael Hoodes scrawled: > > Let's hope official KDE 3.1 will fix the problem. Is there any > > way I can be insured of that? > > > > What confuses me, is how can KDE make an IPV6 call when I > > specifically compiled my kernel without IPV6? Comment has been made in this list that IPv6 dns calls can be made w/o IPv6 in the kernel. Is that correct? Or should I compile the kernel with IPv6 support? > Sounds like a problem lower down than KDE. If it makes an IPv6 call, > which times out rather than being rejected immediately with an error, > that is clearly a bug *outside* *of* *KDE*. The comment about "rejected" was an assumption by myself. I didn't see such an error. It could be an error outside of "Debian" but since I see the pause problem within Konqueror isn't it within KDE?. > Recompiling the debs without IPv6 support is not an option, because > of the popularity of IPv6. Double-check, with stuff like route -A > inet6, and ifconfig, that you really don't have IPv6 support. If you > don't, then there's a deeper problem outside of KDE. I did check and route -A inet6 gives /proc/net/ipv6_route: No such file or directory and /proc/net/ipv6_route:, NET6 (IPv6) not configured in this system. I stand corrected. The debs w/o IPv6 is not an option. You commented to another post here - "It could be Java". No it's not Java ... I don't see Java in my task list or any other "strange" executing programs when konqueror is pausing. There are several (more than a few) xsession errors like kio (kioslave): WARNING: SlaveBase::checkCached... but that's fairly normal. Supposedly the problem of the konqueror pause has been fixed by removal of IPv6 from kdelibs. (from earlier postings on this list). Is this coincidental? Does the konqueror pause occur on other releases - i.e. Redhat, Mandrake,Suse? Michael -- ___ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: Konqueror and NY Times sluggish KDE 3.0 to 3.1 Beta 2
Roy and Todd, Thanks to the posting by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it appears that our problem (NY Times, UK Register and NHL) is due to an erroneous IPV6 call that is rejected and/or times out. It is also recommended to recompile kdelibs with IPV6 set to no. It makes a lot of sense, earlier in this list (on the 12th and 13th) several posters indicated the problem went away with 3.08 of konqueror - Self-compiled KDE3.1 beta users are OK. I am using the karolina debs and kdelibs have been split up. I don't know where to find the source and what "split" contains the IPV6 call. I have a relatively slow machine and generally don't compile KDE for that reason. Let's hope official KDE 3.1 will fix the problem. Is there any way I can be insured of that? What confuses me, is how can KDE make an IPV6 call when I specifically compiled my kernel without IPV6? -- _______ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Konqueror and NY Times sluggish KDE 3.0 to 3.1 Beta 2
Subject: Konqueror and NY Times sluggish KDE 3.0 to 3.1 Beta 2 I have been using Konqueror for browsing the NY Times for as long as it's been possible from early versions of KDE (1.x?, 2.x) and recently (since 3.0 and now 3.1 Beta 2). I have noticed sluggish behavior that occurs consistently with the 3.n versions of KDE. It pauses (for more than 20 seconds to 30-50 seconds) with an image indicator (bottom left) indicating n/n+1 images and the percentage indicator (bottom right) showing from 96-99%. Normal acceptable new page display for me is 2-4 seconds. This slow response occurs during the AM peak (6 AM Pacific) which pretty much includes the whole United States wake-up/start of business peak. This occurs on a broadband connection on either Woody or Sid with a 2.4.17 kernel. I also assume there is an upstream cache (attbi). I assume that Konqueror pauses when a page is not in attbi cache. Logically the time that this happens (6 AM - 9 AM) explains the delay. BUT - When I go to mozilla or Opera at the same time using the same page of origin, response on new pages is 2-4 seconds. Konqueror at the same time stays sluggish. I don't know if this is a Debian problem (that's what I use) or general KDE. Is this a known "bug"? I would really dislike going to Mozilla or Opera for my AM NY Times browsing but will do so if Konqueror remains sluggish. Michael -- ___________ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: Help with KDE3 Please (kicker panel, pgd login and Välkommen )
Tom, I'll try and help with a few of your questions, however please don't try and evaluate Debian on the strength of KDE 3.1 Beta or Unstable. I do run Unstable and 3.1 Beta on a seperate partion from my Testing/KDE 3.03. And although KDE is Beta, it is pretty stable as is the Unstable OS but KDE 3.1 Beta does have some problems. (It IS a Beta!) > I can login in to KDE3 and run, but I don't get the menubar across > the bottom of the screen, so when I minimize a window, I don't know > how to get it back! I'd thought 'kicker' was what I needed, but that > is installed fine. kcontrol is broken ... you can try finding the appropriate settings in the kd...rc files, but kicker panel was hard for me to find also! The default settings for that are to "not display". To fix that, run kcmshell panel from a command line. Change the Position as desired but most importantly change the Length from 0% to 100%. From memory I had found a way to display that from a menu but I can't find that now!!! Once you have the taskbar defined, you can get to that thru the K menu. > Your secondary question was about "Välkommen" That is the greeting that was "left" by the Swedish packager (Karolina Lindqvist - to be thanked for the 3.1 debs) and pgd is part of the login. As far as "Välkommen" I'm saving this for future KDM logins - It's a bit nicer than my English Welcome! As far as pgd ... you can define that from the kcontrol panel - login manager but since that doesn't work change the DefaultUser=pgd in /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc to the DefaultUser=yourid that is desired for login. Michael
Re: Run kde3 from kdm
Jordi, What version of KDE (3.0, 3.01, 3.03) are you running? What version of Debian (potato, woody, sarge, sid) are you running and did you upgrade from potato to woody? You might try apt-get ---reinstall install kdm to see if that fixes it. (Or apt-get remove, apt-get install kdm) Michael On Saturday 28 September 2002 at 4:24 am, Jordi wrote: > I already have the symlinks as you said, with the same wrong > behavior. > > Michael Hoodes escribió:: > > Jordi, > > > > Make sure you have a symlink in /usr/bin > > ln -s /etc/kde3/debian/startkde kde3 > > and then kde3 should work in kdm (3.0-3.03) > > the startkde in /usr/bin should also be symlinked to > > etc/kde3/debian/startkde. > > > > For KDE 3.1 (3.07), There is a subtle warning not to > > use kcontrol to modify kmrc, but that's where you > > can specify SessionTypes in /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc > > > > For KDE 3.1 (3.07) I am using startkde (symlinked as > > above) as I didn't get kde3 to work initially.
Re: Run kde3 from kdm
Jordi, Make sure you have a symlink in /usr/bin ln -s /etc/kde3/debian/startkde kde3 and then kde3 should work in kdm (3.0-3.03) the startkde in /usr/bin should also be symlinked to etc/kde3/debian/startkde. For KDE 3.1 (3.07), There is a subtle warning not to use kcontrol to modify kmrc, but that's where you can specify SessionTypes in /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc For KDE 3.1 (3.07) I am using startkde (symlinked as above) as I didn't get kde3 to work initially. Michael
Re: KDM is Broken?
Robert, For KDE (2, 3.0n) try Control Center; System; Login Manager; Sessions; and add your desired Window Managers. KDE 3.1 Beta 2 Control Center might be broken and the sessions might not stick. If so in "/etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc" modify the "SessionTypes=" line.
Re: Kpackage
Paul, If my memory is correct, the librpm4 was placed (by mistake) in the kpilot package. Do an apt-get install kpilot and kpackage should be happier. FYI, My librpm4 is at 4.04 and kpackage seems to work. Michael
kde 3.1 and kcontrol
Thanks very much to Karolina Lindquist - the 3.1 debs are much appreciated and quite stable too! One problem I have is with kcontrol, that Look&Feel Desktop (libkcm_kong.la not found) and Window Behaviour (libkcm_kwinoptions.la not found) do not work. Have I missed downloading something? Thanks. Michael -- ____ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.comSeattle, WA
Re: kmail is slow...
Alain, I also have an IDE Burner and DVD drive. I also have 20 GB of IDE Disk, 4 GB of SCSI Disk. I personally would really like to have an ALL SCSI system but the cost of SCSI in the USA is too high. Today I can walk into almost any computer store or mail-order (USA) and buy a 60 GB IDE disk for under $100. Cost is also the reason I have an IDE CD Burner and not SCSI. Although you do not have much disk, I don't think that's the problem with Kmail. There might be a problem with the Duron but that's not something I am familiar with. I ran some tests on my Pentium II 266Mhz running Woody and Kernel 2.4.17 and ICE. Here are some tops: IceWM 1.0.9 ... kdm, sshd, xscreensaver, one xterm 32 processes: 30 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.6% user, 1.2% system, 0.0% nice, 98.2% idle Mem:385152K total,52580K used, 332572K free, 3020K buffers Swap: 835344K total,0K used, 835344K free,30868K cached IceWM 1.0.9 ... adding two xterm Kmail 41 processes: 39 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 1.0% user, 1.6% system, 0.0% nice, 97.4% idle Mem:385152K total,78932K used, 306220K free, 4216K buffers Swap: 835344K total,0K used, 835344K free,45196K cached Adding Mozilla 1.1 Alpha, and Opera 6.0 52 processes: 51 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 1.2% user, 1.4% system, 0.0% nice, 97.4% idle Mem:385152K total, 142048K used, 243104K free, 5044K buffers Swap: 835344K total,0K used, 835344K free,80800K cached The key to me is that Kmail remained snappy to me in all cases and the memory taken for KDE and Kmail was very minimal ... 78932 - 52580 = only 26532. What surprised me is that it was not as expensive as I thought to run Kmail (KDE under Ice). Please try to bring up Ice without any of your other tasks running. Keep adding your normal tasks until Kmail slows down and you might see the reason it is slow. I did a df before and after Kmail started and I saw the root partition decrease a little after Kmail. Regards, Michael On Friday 21 June 2002 11:55 am, you wrote: > Michael, > > I fully understand what you mean, but i doubt that's where the > problem comes from. > > It's running very nicely with the following software > > Forte / Applix 5 / Opera / Mozilla > Agent under wine > Nethack ;) > Tomcat/Apache/Postgres > > Not every app at the same time, i do not want to shoot in my foots... > > I also patched the kernel to avoid swapping with Rick Van Riels > patches (the former VM) > > 84 processes: 83 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.2% user, 0.8% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle > > Mem:386124K total, 296320K used,89804K free,76888K > buffers Swap: 326080K total,26224K used, 299856K free, > 125256K cached > > SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 29324 28M 11524 S 0.1 7.5 1:03 kmail > > And as you see it's not a memory nor a swap problem > > It's an all SCSI system except the burner and the DVD. > > /dev/sda2 1757080 1686812 70268 97% / > /dev/sda128124 1387 25285 6% /boot > /dev/sdb1 1066576689736376840 65% /home > > There's plenty of space left for the temporary files of the mail > software > > The video card should be a well supported one Matrox G200 running in > 16bits depth at 1152x864. > > I decided to fully switch my desktop to Linux, servers are all linux > in my company. > > So imported a 3 years long email folders hierarchy with Eudora2mbx > (http://www.jjminer.org/eud2mbox/) with a full hierarchy of folders, > usually there are only 10 mails in the Inbox. Filters are cleaning up > the mess that comes from my 5 POP accounts > > 115 folders, 85MB of data > > Hardware... OK > Software... OK > Software usage ... OK > > I compacted the hierarchy... emptyed trash... > > So I suppose that there must be a problem with Kmail as a standalone > app without the KDE desktop or something else is making mess. AFAIK > > Do not know where, this is why i'm asking. > > I'd like something as easy as Eudora and avoid using Mutt or Pine. > > Sylpheed would have been fine.. but Kmail has some very good features > with paar to Eudora (Filters, HTML... ease of use) > > Thanks for your suggestions anyway. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kmail is slow...
Alain, A few things come to mind: 1. Running kmail (a KDE app) under ICE on a disk limited system might cause slowness. How big is your swap defined? Have you looked at top when the system is slow to see what tasks are running? If you do a ps aux | more you will see the KDE tasks running. There is a lot of "baggage" running KDE apps under ICE, I would probably recommend running Pine if you can as that is quite functional and very effecient. I run Kmail on a 233 Pentium with 384Mb under KDE (2.0, 2,1, 3.1) and it is always "snappy". 2. Most important with mail systems in general and Kmail in particular is that you should keep your inbox small. I have maintained a few hundred users and invariably the user's with problems (whether they used Outlook Express or Pine or Kmail) was they had humongous inboxs. 25Mb and larger is a humongous inbox and guaranteed to make your mail program slow and sluggish. My inbox (Kmail is currently 5 messages and is 100Kb) is usually kept below 10-12 messages ... when mail comes in I move it to related folders. Shrink your inbox and Kmail should become more responsive. Michael On Friday 21 June 2002 02:15 pm, Alain Bosch wrote: > Hi, > > Did someone out there have the same problems i have now when > installing just kmail with an apt-get install kmail? > > Kmail is really slow when using it, not very snappy. > > I have a Duron 1000 and everything works very nicely except > kmail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting xscreensaver to work...
Understood, however I am standalone and I believe that's what I had to do to make it work. Add a "xhost hostname" after the xscreensaver statements and the "everybody" access will go away. >>[Michael Hoodes] >> xhost + >[Petter Reinholdtsen] > 'xhost +' is a very bad idea. Letting every user on the system record > the keys pressed do not sound like the correct solution.
Re: Where is KwinTV? Again.
Pedro ... Thanks .. the fullscreen= worked I guess I shoud ratfm (read ALL the @*&@99 manuals!). Actually it's in man xawtv. I will still keep gvidm as I like easy change of resolution not only for published image viewing but also to test my web pages under development. Florian - I tried the "Load "v4l" and it didn't work! It's probably a combination of my kernel (2.4.17) or Xfree (4.1+) but most likely my nividia graphics card Diamond Viper. But thanks for suggesting it! Michael On Sunday 03 February 2002 01:41, I Michael Hoodes wrote: > FWIW - I run asmix as my volume control (on the KDE desktop), > I also use a neat tool called gvidm (on my KDE Toolbar) which lets > me easily change resolution (from my normal 1600x200 to 640x480) > for full screen TV. Both those tools probably allow me to "love" > xawtv!!! Pedro wrote: > sorry for being OT... > > Just set this in your .xawtv file: > > fullscreen = 800 x 600 > > (or 640x680) > > and xawtv will switch resolutions when you press the fullscreen > button. > Pedro Corte-Real
Re: Where is KwinTV? Again.
I think the story of KwinTV is documented here. Myself? I run quite happily for years - xawtv. It runs beautifully under KDE and any other window manager. It's fast, accurate and is continually being updated (w/o breakage) and is available (woody, sid) by apt-get xawtv It's home page is http://bytesex.org/xawtv/index.html and the author is a Debian developer. I don't know why kde is moving forward with KwinTV ?... I'll try it again like I have done in the past but I always go back to xawtv! FWIW - I run asmix as my volume control (on the KDE desktop), I also use a neat tool called gvidm (on my KDE Toolbar) which lets me easily change resolution (from my normal 1600x200 to 640x480) for full screen TV. Both those tools probably allow me to "love" xawtv!!! Michael On Saturday 02 February 2002 at 10:20, Maximilian Reiss wrote: > Am Samstag, 2. Februar 2002 at 4:03 schrieb Chris Cheney: > > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:04:36PM +, John Gay wrote: > > > I thought this was now an official part of kde multimedia? Who is > > > building the multimedia packages or are you looking for a > > > volunteer? After my initial, > > > > As far as I can tell it is still part of kdenonbeta, I will take a > > look at it after getting the rest of kde cleaned up and > > if it works ok I will package it. > > Kwintv was long unmaintained. Development started again some time ago. > Debs are at: > deb http://arachni.kiwi.uni-hamburg.de/~harlekin/ ./binary-i386/ > They will go into main some time, but right now there are way to many > segfaults on various systems. > Also xv support is missing (but worked on) > > Thanks for the info! I'm fetching these to see how they work on my > system. Once I can get it working, I'll be happy. > Chris: >Thank you for your info as well. I am guessing that Max's deb's should > be replacable with yours, so it should be a simple matter of just > letting apt replace Max's debs with yours once they are uploaded. > Cheers, > John Gay
