Re: Keyboard does not work for user with old config
On Freitag, 1. Februar 2019 23:57:58 CET Michael Schürig wrote: > Since a recent update to the current packages in unstable the keyboard does > not work anymore in my old user account. For a newly created user > everything appears to be working fine. The culprit appears to have been kaccess. I don't understand what's been happening and I doubt I ever will in any depth. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/
Re: kdeconnect doesn't
On Donnerstag, 1. November 2018 05:17:00 CET Gary Dale wrote: > I managed to get kdeconnect to work between my laptop and my phone by > installing ufw and opening the kdeconnect ports in it. However the same > solution doesn't work on my desktop, which is where I really need it. I > rarely use my laptop. [...] > Any ideas? Maybe this is affecting you https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400178 Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/
Re: Akonadi: upgrading to PostgreSQL 11
On Donnerstag, 1. November 2018 19:52:20 CET Sandro Knauß wrote: > Hey, > > > PostgreSQL 11 recently appeared in unstable. I upgraded from 10 to 11 an > > afterwards removed 10. And thereby rendered Akonadi unusable. Simply > > reinstalling version 10 fixed things for the time being. > > > > This left me wondering about the proper way to change an existing Akonadi > > DB to a newer PostgreSQL version. Is this meant to happen automatically > > or am I supposed to do it manually (some invocation of > > pg_upgradecluster)? > you have to run pg_ugprade manually after major upgrade. Thanks for pointing this out. However, it's not as easy as *just* running pg_upgrade. Before that, the new cluster must be created with initdb Here's what I did in ~/.local/share/akonadi $ /usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/initdb --data-checksums --locale=en_US.UTF-8 db_data $ /usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_upgrade --old-datadir db_data.old/ --new- datadir db_data/ --old-bindir /usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin --new-bindir /usr/ lib/postgresql/11/bin The options to initdb I found through trial and error, after a plain initdb did not create a suitable cluster, i.e. pg_upgrade complained about configuration mismatches between the old and the new cluster. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/
Akonadi: upgrading to PostgreSQL 11
PostgreSQL 11 recently appeared in unstable. I upgraded from 10 to 11 an afterwards removed 10. And thereby rendered Akonadi unusable. Simply reinstalling version 10 fixed things for the time being. This left me wondering about the proper way to change an existing Akonadi DB to a newer PostgreSQL version. Is this meant to happen automatically or am I supposed to do it manually (some invocation of pg_upgradecluster)? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/
Re: kio_sftp: "The host key for this server was not found, but another type of key exists."
On Donnerstag, 6. September 2018 16:38:23 CEST Boris Pek wrote: > Hi, > > > Network folders in Dolphin don't work for me anymore after some recent > > update. I'm using a current unstable system. sftp on the commandline > > continues to work as before. > > > > The error message I get in Dolphin is > > > >> The host key for this server was not found, but another type of key > >> exists. An attacker might change the default server key to confuse your > >> client into thinking the key does not exist. Please contact your system > >> administrator. > You need to remove the string with that host key from file > ~/.ssh/known_hosts Or just delete file ~/.ssh/known_hosts completely. It > will be filled again during your regular usage of ssh connections. Unfortunately, that does not work. I removed the offending key from known_hosts and explicitly forced the addition of an RSA key with ssh -o HostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-rsa user@server The error message in Dolphin remains the same afterwards. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/
kio_sftp: "The host key for this server was not found, but another type of key exists."
Network folders in Dolphin don't work for me anymore after some recent update. I'm using a current unstable system. sftp on the commandline continues to work as before. The error message I get in Dolphin is > The host key for this server was not found, but another type of key exists. > An attacker might change the default server key to confuse your client into > thinking the key does not exist. Please contact your system administrator. My connection attempts were to machines running Debian/testing and macOS (10.13.6). I've found a couple of similar errors on the web https://askubuntu.com/questions/598455/problems-with-kio-sftp-in-dolphin-konqueror https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274170 However, they have in common that they are several years old. If they are still pertinent, I ought to have seen this problem for a long time. Which is not the case. Things worked flawlessly until recently. Notwithstanding, I tried forcing the use of an RSA key like this ssh -o HostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-rsa user@server but it didn't result in any noticeable change. ~/.xsession-errors contains contains informative entries for log_kio_sftp, but no error messages. Any ideas what might be going wrong and what I can do about it? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/
Accessing Google Contacts and Calendar
In the past, KDE/Akonadi was able to access Google Contacts and Calendar by means of the resources contained in the package akonadi-kde-resource- googledata. Some time ago those resources broke and it was, to the best of my ability, impossible to connect them to a Google account. Just now I checked if something had changed in the meantime. As far as I can tell, it's still not possible to save the access credentials logging in at Google provides in the resource configuration. However, what surprised me is that akonadi-kde-resource-googledata doesn't appear to exist anymore for amd64. Is there a replacement I haven't found? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/
kde-open5: mailto URI opens "wrong" application
When I clicked on a mailto URI in Chromium, to my surprise Icedove was started. Yes, it's installed, but only as a fallback, normally I use KMail. And KMail is selected in System Settings > Default Applications > Email Client. The unwanted invocation of Icedoce apparently goes happens through xdg-email and kde-open5. The latter presumably uses what it finds in /etc/mailcap. Now, I figured out that I can affect the precendences with some magic entries in / etc/mailcap.order. But I really think this should not be necessary. Is this the expected behavior? A bug? What to do about it, apart from uninstalling Icedove or editing mailcap.order? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/
KMail print font size
I rarely print email messages, but every now and then I can't avoid it. That's when I remember that "there is a problem". Every version of KMail I remember up to the latest (5.2.3) insists on printing the message body in a tiny font size, maybe 6pt. I've tried the default settings, tinkered with custom settings (see below), turned "Use Fixed Font" on and off. Plain text message or HTML. No difference. Is there anything I can do about this? Michael kmailrc: [Fonts] body-font=DejaVu Sans Mono,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 composer-font=Noto Sans,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 defaultFonts=false fixed-font=Oxygen Mono,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 folder-font=Noto Sans,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 print-font=Noto Sans,14,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 quote1-font=DejaVu Sans Mono,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 quote2-font=DejaVu Sans Mono,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 quote3-font=DejaVu Sans Mono,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/
Re: Plasma 5.7.4 in unstable now installable
On Samstag, 3. September 2016 18:24:09 CEST Michael Schuerig wrote: > On Mittwoch, 31. August 2016 22:14:16 CEST Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > All seems fine so far. > > For me, automatic screen locking after some idle time and screen power > management doesn't work. The screen just stays on all the time. I can lock > it manually, though. Found it. Apparently, one of the tabs in Chromium kept open a WebRTC connection which prevented automatic screen locking. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/
Re: Plasma 5.7.4 in unstable now installable
On Mittwoch, 31. August 2016 22:14:16 CEST Martin Steigerwald wrote: > All seems fine so far. For me, automatic screen locking after some idle time and screen power management doesn't work. The screen just stays on all the time. I can lock it manually, though. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/
Re: KDEPIM: Display glitches
On Samstag, 6. August 2016 18:08:09 CEST Luigi Toscano wrote: > Il 06 agosto 2016 16:16:50 CEST, Michael Schuerig <michael.li...@schuerig.de> ha scritto: > >As far as I can tell, yet, things are working. But there are a number > >of > >display glitches in several programs. > > > >KMail > >* Message Headers are missing > >* Menu View > Headers does not have a submenu > > Install kdepim-addons. Thanks, that was apparently missing. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/
KDEPIM: Display glitches
I'm running a current "unstable" system on my system and after a failed attempt a few weeks back, I'd kept KDEPIM on hold. Today I took the plunge and upgraded. As far as I can tell, yet, things are working. But there are a number of display glitches in several programs. KMail * Message Headers are missing * Menu View > Headers does not have a submenu Kontact * Month view: day numbers are much too large almost cut in half (lower missing) KNotes: * Windows for pre-existing notes are completely black. Windows for new notes are as determined by preferences. (Is there a way to reset the old notes?) * Dragging a note window around only has an effect when the mouse button is released; only then the window moves with its top-left corner to the mouse position. Any suggestions on what might be wrong and how to fix it? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/
Re: Plasmashell is eating too much CPU sometimes
On Thursday 03 March 2016 11:32:56 C. Mourad Jaber wrote: > I'm currently experimenting an issue with plasmashell > (plasma-framework:5.16.0-1). > > For an unknown reason plasmashell process start to eat 1 CPU at 100% > and it stay stuck to consume all that power... I've seen this, too. A reliable way to cause it on my system is to start VLC on the command line with a non-existing file. This provokes VLC display a CPU-burning loop of error messages. The only way I've found to stop this is to kill the VLC process. Plasmashell is not involved in this in any obvious way, but some time afterward plasmashell itself goes to 100% CPU, too, and needs to be forcibly restarted. Michael [*] https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6339 -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/
Re: So I have a Plasma 5 desktop!
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 16:46:33 Josep Febrer wrote: El Dimarts, 14 de juliol de 2015, a les 19:49:11, Michael Schuerig va escriure: I think we're talking about two different things. I know that you get a process viewer out of the box when pressing Ctrl-Esc. That's not what I want. I'm trying to rebind it to launch KSysGuard proper with my own custom tabs. Incidentally, I have the same problem with some other KDE apps as well. I can't create global shortcuts, in the way described above, for Kate, for instance, whereas I can create a shortcut for KCalc and non-KDE apps in general. Did you have installed any appmenu related packages? I did, and until I removed them I got some strange behaviors that were gone when I uninstalled them. How would I know what the packages in question are? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/15969454.WkHTTP16mV@fuchsia
Re: So I have a Plasma 5 desktop!
On Tuesday 14 July 2015 19:21:09 Martin Steigerwald wrote: * I've tried (multiple times) to make Ctrl-Esc open KSysGuard, by assigning it as a Custom Shortcut for KMenuEdit. But when I press the shortcut, all I get is No service configured. Works here. Out of the box. I just miss the icon in Alt-F2 to start it. I think we're talking about two different things. I know that you get a process viewer out of the box when pressing Ctrl-Esc. That's not what I want. I'm trying to rebind it to launch KSysGuard proper with my own custom tabs. Incidentally, I have the same problem with some other KDE apps as well. I can't create global shortcuts, in the way described above, for Kate, for instance, whereas I can create a shortcut for KCalc and non-KDE apps in general. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2300576.K5jnchiKqe@fuchsia
Re: So I have a Plasma 5 desktop!
On Monday 13 July 2015 15:09:35 Volker Wysk wrote: Hi! Am Samstag, 11. Juli 2015, 15:32:18 schrieb Michael Schuerig: Oh dear. Installing/upgrading plasma-workspace and plasma-desktop did something. I wish I hadn't done it Now I have a barely functional desktop in kindergarten coloring. Somehow I didn't plan to spend the weekend on configuring this into something I can use again. Systemback is a program wich saves the state of the system, und makes it possible to revert to a previous state. You could have saved the state previous to upgrading plasma-workspace. Then you would be able to go back now. Of course, it's too late now, but you (and others) could use Systemback in future. It is in the Debian repositories. I don't think there's a package in the official repo. Do you happen to know how systemback works? Anyway, for cases like this, I'm considering to switch to btrfs and use snapper pre/post snapshots. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/23194138.Hh98120Wdn@fuchsia
Re: Where to set KDEDIRS or alternative?
On Sunday 12 July 2015 17:14:52 Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2015-07-12, Michael Schuerig michael.li...@schuerig.de wrote: I'm using a few self-build KDE applications that are installed in /usr/local/kde4. In order for KDE to find them, I've added this path to KDEDIRS (in /etc/environment). With Plasma 5 this setting apparently has become obsolete. Is there another one that replaces it? http://jpwhiting.blogspot.fi/2014/11/autostart-in-plasma-5.html This seems to be an answer to an entirely different question. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1698208.cDaad0TKjD@fuchsia
Re: Where to set KDEDIRS or alternative?
On Sunday 12 July 2015 19:53:38 Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2015-07-12, Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: Oh, but /usr/local/kde4/bin *is* in the PATH on my system. And with=20 KDEDIRS set appropriately, KDE did find them there, too. I'm unclear on that; Was /usr/local/kde4/bin(1) included in the PATH setting and KDEDIRS _also_ referred to it, or did only KDEDIRS reference that specific directory? Not that it matter much; If the directory is in the PATH, IDK why things aren't being found there. KDEDIRS is needed to have sycoca4 pick up things like plugins and stuff. And very many apps is mostly built out of plugins. In my case, without KDEDIRS being effective, desktop files below /usr/local/kde4 are no longer found. And so KDE doesn't know about these applications anymore. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1700176.uXUdeX2MLg@fuchsia
Re: So I have a Plasma 5 desktop!
On Sunday 12 July 2015 19:06:55 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 07/12/2015 06:12 AM, Michael Schuerig wrote: And I'm pretty sure that everything plasma5 haven't landed in unstable yet, but if the issues you have mentioned are the biggest ones around, I'm so far pretty happy about the state of things. I'm waiting for some things I see missing before I upgrade plasma-desktop. What I see missing are showdesktop and klipper, I've been using them for many years and would hate to loose them. Also I know once I remove a KDE-4 package there is no looking back and you can loose the functions of your desktop. Once I find my missing packages I will be extremely happy! So far so good.. Klipper is there already. Showdesktop? A widget to hide all windows and show the desktop underneath? That's there, too. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1893010.HJ1x44eA9o@fuchsia
Re: So I have a Plasma 5 desktop!
On Sunday 12 July 2015 11:05:19 Martin Steigerwald wrote: It didn´t take me long to restore it to a state I am happy with. I'm not yet happy, but if it is the way forward, I have to bite the bullet now, it seems. I do think Plasma 5 could have spend some more time in experimental. But I can't really complain, I asked for unstable and that's what I got. Anyway, some features appear to have been lost in the upgrade. Here's what I'm missing so far: * ksysguard (panel) widgets. I thought these little graphs were really useful. In my case, I had them for overall CPU utilization, network I/O, and temperature. * I've tried (multiple times) to make Ctrl-Esc open KSysGuard, by assigning it as a Custom Shortcut for KMenuEdit. But when I press the shortcut, all I get is No service configured. * Skype and others don't show up in the system tray any more. Apparently, I need to install sni-qt which isn't packaged, yet. See https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289t=124670 * Folder View for the desktop doesn't seem to work. Originally, I was able to choose Folder View somewhere in Desktop Settings and indeed the contents of ~/Desktop were shown on the desktop. After another update, the setting disappeared and Layout is fixed at Desktop. * Plasma Search, the successor to KRunner, doesn't remember the history. (Really? :-O) * The Veromix plasmoid doesn't work anymore and there doesn't seem to be a suitable replacement to control PulseAudio from a panel. The Debian/KDE packagers are doing a time-consuming and largely unappreciated job, I know that. And I don't think the packaging is at fault for any of my more or less little complaints. Rather, it looks to me like the upstream KDE developers are giving their user base a second helping of the KDE 4 transition of a few years back. I'm not entirely happy about that. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/12847431.T25E5A4Qgp@fuchsia
Re: So I have a Plasma 5 desktop!
On Sunday 12 July 2015 10:43:28 Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2015-07-12, Michael Schuerig michael.li...@schuerig.de wrote: * Folder View for the desktop doesn't seem to work. Originally, I was able to choose Folder View somewhere in Desktop Settings and indeed the contents of ~/Desktop were shown on the desktop. After another update, the setting disappeared and Layout is fixed at Desktop. What do you mean by originally and another update ? After first updating to Plasma 5, I was able to select Folder View for the background. Then, after installing some more new packages and rebooting, Folder View wasn't available anymore. I think I did something with activities, too. Right now, I have exactly one activity. And I'm pretty sure that everything plasma5 haven't landed in unstable yet, but if the issues you have mentioned are the biggest ones around, I'm so far pretty happy about the state of things. Indeed. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1657995.8UT5ooaPCo@fuchsia
Where to set KDEDIRS or alternative?
I'm using a few self-build KDE applications that are installed in /usr/local/kde4. In order for KDE to find them, I've added this path to KDEDIRS (in /etc/environment). With Plasma 5 this setting apparently has become obsolete. Is there another one that replaces it? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/13968503.sPYW8cghsl@fuchsia
Re: Where to set KDEDIRS or alternative?
On Sunday 12 July 2015 18:16:19 Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 18:12:48 +0200 Michael Schuerig michael.li...@schuerig.de wrote: Hello Michael, /usr/local/kde4. Any particular reason for placing them there? Yes, to keep them separated from other local stuff. Usually, self-built apps are placed in usr/local/bin which, as you probably know, is included in the $PATH, where anything can find them. Oh, but /usr/local/kde4/bin *is* in the PATH on my system. And with KDEDIRS set appropriately, KDE did find them there, too. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/15304118.B2DrjXAPIx@fuchsia
Re: So I have a Plasma 5 desktop!
On Thursday 09 July 2015 12:02:39 Martin Steigerwald wrote: And, yah, now systemsettings are working better again! At least I have lot more modules in there again. When I launch systemsettings5, I just get this message System Settings was unable to find any views, and hence has nothing to display. After clicking OK, it just quits. Do I have to install new packages manually to make it work? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/6748488.WQTJ5pjG9x@fuchsia
Re: So I have a Plasma 5 desktop!
On Saturday 11 July 2015 14:19:13 Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Samstag, 11. Juli 2015, 14:00:33 schrieb Michael Schuerig: On Thursday 09 July 2015 12:02:39 Martin Steigerwald wrote: And, yah, now systemsettings are working better again! At least I have lot more modules in there again. When I launch systemsettings5, I just get this message System Settings was unable to find any views, and hence has nothing to display. After clicking OK, it just quits. Do I have to install new packages manually to make it work? Hmmm, do you have plasma-workspace, plasma-desktop and kio installed? Aside from that I installed from kde-config-* packages, but I think these are optional modules for systemsettings. Oh dear. Installing/upgrading plasma-workspace and plasma-desktop did something. I wish I hadn't done it :-( Now I have a barely functional desktop in kindergarten coloring. Somehow I didn't plan to spend the weekend on configuring this into something I can use again. I assume it is correct that none of my previous desktop settings have been migrated? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/12946444.tvj0un3GNi@fuchsia
Re: Systray: barely visible, monochrome icons
On Sunday 12 April 2015 22:18:24 Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Donnerstag, 2. April 2015, 10:54:57 schrieb Michael Schuerig: Most KDE icons in my systray are barely visible monochrome outline variants. In contrast to that, icons for Chromium and Skype are full color. These icons are nothing new, I think they've been like that on my system for most of KDE 4. I figured that some keen-eyed KDE developers must have liked the look, but maybe it's just a misconfiguration on my computer. So if it is my own mistake, what do I need to do to get fully colored, nicely usable systray icons? I have no idea. I think by changing icon theme. The new monochrome ones are default for systray status icons and I think will also be default for toolbars in Plasma 5. This is a upstream design decision. I see, thanks. At least I know now that it's not an error, just an inscrutable design decision. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1871198.DLZNMBboAf@fuchsia
Systray: barely visible, monochrome icons
Most KDE icons in my systray are barely visible monochrome outline variants. In contrast to that, icons for Chromium and Skype are full color. These icons are nothing new, I think they've been like that on my system for most of KDE 4. I figured that some keen-eyed KDE developers must have liked the look, but maybe it's just a misconfiguration on my computer. So if it is my own mistake, what do I need to do to get fully colored, nicely usable systray icons? My desktop theme is Air for netbooks, however, the theme selection doesn't seem to make a difference. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2398889.RZjWVoeDYz@fuchsia
Re: What is the baloo file indexer doing?
On Saturday 20 December 2014 18:38:49 Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2014, 18:04:05 schrieb Volker Wysk: 2) Run kdebugdialog and activate debug for baloo_file, then run tail -f ~/.xsession errors – This works as well, it may need a restart of Ballo file indexer tough. I get the messages on the console. This one may work without restarting baloo. :) What *I* am seeing there right now is endlessly repeated entries like this baloo_file(28519) Baloo::FileIndexingJob::start: (299868) The argument in parentheses is *always* the same. Also, when I grep running processes, I see that baloo_file_extractor is indeed called with the argument 299868. Which doesn't make sense because according to its --help text, it expects a URL. I've only been looking into this because after a reboot, after 10 days without one, baloo seem to be twiddling its thumbs with high intensity and no discernible purpose. strace output[*] indicates that while baloo and subprocesses does open a lot of files, there not one among them that would make sense to index. Baloo works a lot better than nepomuk ever did, however, I'm still hesitant to reboot or start a new KDE session as that is when things tend to go weird. baloo is 4:4.14.2-1 on an up-to-date sid. Michael [*] strace -f -p `pidof baloo_file` -e trace=open 21 | egrep -v '.kde| \.local|kdeglobals|/lib|/etc|/usr|/var|/dev|SIGCHLD' -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1508815.iDJeFMxWj5@fuchsia
KMail: Push-IMAP?
Most of my email I receive on two IMAP accounts, personal and mailing lists, who between them have about 50 folders. Filtering into folders is done server-side. New messages are retrieved in 7 and 11 minute intervals respectively, in order to receive messages in a timely fashion. As it happens, on my otherwise idle notebook, the retrieval causes just enough load to make the fans spin. If possible, I'd like to avoid that. Folders holding high-volume mailing lists are likely to acquire a few new messages on each check. For most other folders the likelihood is rather low, but if there are messages, I'd rather get them quickly, at least for my personal account. From earlier messages on kdepim, my understanding is that KMail (or rather Akonadi) supports a limited form of push-email through IMAP IDLE. However, apparently this is (or was) only available for a single inbox per account and at any rate not scalable to the number of folders I have. From the KMail settings I can see that my IMAP server does support IDLE, but I can't see whether KMail makes any use of it. Any suggestions on how to deal with a case like this? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5802524.uimq5Eohtq@fuchsia
Re: ksysguardd is the culprit (was: Automounted NFS shares never timeout)
On Saturday 23 August 2014 16:08:47 Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Samstag, 23. August 2014, 15:50:36 schrieb Michael Schuerig: On Saturday 23 August 2014 15:39:40 Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Freitag, 21. März 2014, 20:37:00 schrieb Michael Schuerig: On Thursday 20 March 2014 11:43:06 Michael Schuerig wrote: I'm afraid that I may have to dismantle my panels to find the cause, however, I'm reluctant to do so as setting them up the way I want them takes quite some time. Is there a way to save/restore the configuration of one or more panels? I have monitor widgets for CPU, network I/O, and temperature on my panel. All those widgets rely on a separate ksysguardd process to provide the data that they display. During its data collection ksysguardd for some reason periodically accesses my auto-mounted NFS share and keeps it from timing out. Are there any other monitor widgets available that do not rely on ksysguardd? Did you ever report a bug about this behavior? I think thats something that can be fixed in ksysguardd. Yes, I did, back then. Nobody noticed. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332420 Ah, I see. I wonder to what people the assignee KSysGuard Developrs route to, maybe its basically unmaintained or some such. I don´t use autofs, so I have no comment on it. I didn't follow up on it, either. My immediate problem was solved by switching from NFS to sshfs with the additional benefit of authentication. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/6265388.k9U8AOLYAk@fuchsia
Re: pm-suspend and KDE sleep
On Wednesday 16 July 2014 12:34:58 Sune Vuorela wrote: But nowadays, systemd is the default. Is it? On my main computer, I run a regularly updated sid and nothing there has replaced sysvinit, so far. Also, I just installed a VM from the current jessie alpha 1 installer and I still got sysvinit. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1553680.OECKCb18Hv@fuchsia
Re: pm-suspend and KDE sleep
On Wednesday 16 July 2014 13:23:50 Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2014-07-16, Michael Schuerig michael.li...@schuerig.de wrote: On Wednesday 16 July 2014 12:34:58 Sune Vuorela wrote: But nowadays, systemd is the default. Is it? On my main computer, I run a regularly updated sid and nothing there has replaced sysvinit, so far. Also, I just installed a VM from the current jessie alpha 1 installer and I still got sysvinit. I don't know if the installer is fixed yet, but on all my systems, I have been automatically switched to systemd. That's curious. Do you remember what triggered the install of systemd? And judging by the flamewars in various forums, I'm not the only one being switched. But it is decided that the default for jessie is systemd. I know and I'm fine with that. I was expecting the switch to magically happen in sid at some point, but apparently I missed it. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/8793645.B89BNFy1sF@fuchsia
Re: pm-suspend and KDE sleep
On Wednesday 16 July 2014 14:13:54 Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2014-07-16, Diederik de Haas didi.deb...@cknow.org wrote: I'm in the same boat as Michael Schuering and I haven't been switched e= ither. I now do have various systemd related packages installed, but I'm not=20= switched. Have you the systemd-shim package installed? Did you actively select it at some point? Speaking for me, not Diederik, yes systemd-shim is installed and I don't remember selecting it; which doesn't mean I didn't. Anyway, on a server (jessie; headless) I just installed systemd-sysv and from the looks of it, it works. On my notebook (sid; multiarch amd64 and i486) installing was a little more complicated. I had to put policykit (0.105-6) to prevent it and packages depending on it from being uninstalled. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/3867417.glsfWoPZX6@fuchsia
Re: KDE 4.13 Desktop Search
On Tuesday 27 May 2014 12:32:56 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On 05/26/2014 10:42 PM, Michael Schuerig wrote: Apparently, KDE 4.13 is currently making its way into unstable. I wanted to take the opportunity to look at the improved Desktop Search, but I can't find it. Did I overlook it or is it just not there yet? FWIW, in System Settings, there is no longer a Desktop Search entry. Have some patience please. The folks worked hard to get 4.13 so quick into the archives. The new Desktop Search i.e. baloo was in the NEW queue. It is cleared now and resides in experimental. Sure, I just didn't know what I was supposed to be seeing in unstable right now. BTW, this one looks very fast in indexing and querying. That's great. Thanks for clarifying. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/4676390.zqaDYHUeN3@fuchsia
KDE 4.13 Desktop Search
Apparently, KDE 4.13 is currently making its way into unstable. I wanted to take the opportunity to look at the improved Desktop Search, but I can't find it. Did I overlook it or is it just not there yet? FWIW, in System Settings, there is no longer a Desktop Search entry. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1522165.ogI5ju6KZr@fuchsia
Re: Quick was to switch screen saver and screen energy saving?
On Sunday 18 May 2014 18:12:59 Martin Steigerwald wrote: [...] How about just selecting Disable powermanagement or Energieverwaltung deaktivieren available when clicking on laptop battery icon in systray? (Dunno how that would look on a desktop system). Or extra player: I think some players inhibit the screen blanker and screen energy saving. I'm already using VLC and what prompted my original question was that for some time it did not disable the screen saver anymore. In the meantime, fortunately this feature started to work again. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Message noise in .xsession-errors and stderr
I have just looked at .xsession-errors and noticed that it has grown to almost 7,000 lines in less than 20 hours. By far the worst offender apparently is CWP (Customizable Weather Plasmoid, 1.10.2-1): As far as I can tell, it is responsible for about 4,000 lines. Then there are about 1,300 lines of this form file:///usr/share/kde4/apps/kwin/desktoptabbox/informative/contents/ui/main.qml:185:9: QML Image: Failed to get image from provider: image://client/7/-1/60934643-872 When I start Kate from a terminal, this is what I get $ kate QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QDBusObjectPath) Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceRemoved(QDBusObjectPath) /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Generic_Ultra_HS_SD_2fMMC_00264001 : property Drive does not exist /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/M4_CT256M4SSD2_1226090E21F2 : property Drive does not exist /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/MATSHITABD_MLT_UJ252_VM21_000133 : property Drive does not exist /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/SAMSUNG_HN_M101MBB_S2R8J1MBA03178 : property Drive does not exist /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/M4_CT256M4SSD2_1226090E21F2 : property DeviceNumber does not exist /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/M4_CT256M4SSD2_1226090E21F2 : property Device does not exist Now is this something to be concerned about? How would I know? However, I'm wondering why these components and apps still bother me with these messages even though I have chosen to Disable all debug output in KDebugDialog. I'm wondering, is there something wrong with my system or do I have to report a couple of bugs? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/4895910.NyfdqKbLXP@fuchsia
Quick was to switch screen saver and screen energy saving?
In the last couple of days I've been watching several longish videos on the web (purely technical content, of course). After a couple of minutes the screen saver kicks in unless I prevent it through gratuitous mouse fumbling. So I went to System Settings and disabled auto start of the screen saver. Later on my monitor goes completely blank as screen energy saving does its job, otherwise laudable. Is there a simple way to tell KDE to please keep my screen turned on? Older versions of Power Devil had profiles that might have been useful for this (although I'm not sure whether the screen saver was controlled). Current Power Devil ties in with activities, but that doesn't seem like a good fit in this case. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1728557.G2zeNtMGkq@fuchsia
Re: Quick was to switch screen saver and screen energy saving?
On Tuesday 01 April 2014 08:20:06 Richard Newton wrote: system settings Power management Screen energy saving Yes, I know that. The point is having a *quick* way to affect both screen saver and screen energy saving instead of having to spend about 10 clicks in System Settings. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/199493982.d4xJOoFFMQ@fuchsia
Re: Quick was to switch screen saver and screen energy saving?
On Tuesday 01 April 2014 17:05:06 Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:27:05 +0200 Michael Schuerig michael.li...@schuerig.de wrote: Hello Michael, Yes, I know that. The point is having a *quick* way to affect both screen saver and screen energy saving instead of having to spend about 10 clicks in System Settings. You don't say whether you're viewing these videos as embedded streams, or if you did, I missed it, but how about trying to get your browser to launch these videos in a player, rather than play them embedded in the page? Yes, I took it for granted that I'm watching these videos on the page. I do download as I prefer the UI of VLC over what most pages give me (and VLC does not cook my CPU). Unfortunately, that approach does not work with, say, InfoQ and other sites that synchronize slides with the videos content. Also, if there's an easy way to cobble together a plasma widget for this purpose, I'd consider it. However, I don't want to dig deeply into lots of APIs for just this. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: How to enable NTP?
On Saturday 22 March 2014 09:16:15 D. R. Evans wrote: I noticed that the clock on my desktop machine is wandering significantly, even though ntpd seems to be running: [HN:radio] ps auxw | grep ntp ntp 2908 0.0 0.0 43184 1532 ?Ss Mar17 0:13 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g -u 117:123 n7dr 22453 0.0 0.0 7836 868 pts/5S+ 09:11 0:00 grep ntp [HN:radio] but if I go to the KDE system settings, the option under Date Time | set date and time automatically is greyed out, and it is not enabled. The Help says, this settings tells KDE to use ntpdate or rdate to set the clock at the start of a session. Presumably, you have installed neither and that may be a good thing because ntp does a more thorough job of keeping the clock accurate. What do I need to do to enable NTP properly in debian? As far as I remember, just installing the ntp package is enough. (I'm used to this all happening automatically in Kubuntu, so I was quite surprised to discover that the clock is a couple of minutes in error, especially since ps says that ntpd is running.) Sorry, can't help you there. As far as I can tell that is not supposed to happen. You might want to check /var/log/syslog for anything related to ntpd. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Automounted NFS shares never timeout
On Monday 17 March 2014 14:46:54 Michael Schuerig wrote:
I have a single NFS share automounted by autofs. Once it is mounted,
it is never (auto-)unmounted, even though I don't explicityl access
it. Lsof does not show any open files below the mount point.
When I start plasma-desktop under strace, the main thread blocks in a
call to lstat.
$ strace -f plasma-desktop
[pid 2189] lstat(/net, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
[pid 2189] lstat(/net/tardis, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...})
= 0
[pid 2189] lstat(/net/tardis/srv, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0,
...}) = 0
[pid 2189] lstat(/net/tardis/srv/test, unfinished ...
I'd like to use gdb to generate a backtrace from there, but I don't know
how to set a breakpoint on that specific lstat syscall.
Michael
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ksysguardd is the culprit (was: Automounted NFS shares never timeout)
On Thursday 20 March 2014 11:43:06 Michael Schuerig wrote: I'm afraid that I may have to dismantle my panels to find the cause, however, I'm reluctant to do so as setting them up the way I want them takes quite some time. Is there a way to save/restore the configuration of one or more panels? I have monitor widgets for CPU, network I/O, and temperature on my panel. All those widgets rely on a separate ksysguardd process to provide the data that they display. During its data collection ksysguardd for some reason periodically accesses my auto-mounted NFS share and keeps it from timing out. Are there any other monitor widgets available that do not rely on ksysguardd? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1537923.MiIUzQIJ58@fuchsia
Re: Automounted NFS shares never timeout
On Tuesday 18 March 2014 11:47:38 Michael Schuerig wrote: [...] I've reduced my setup to automount only a test share with very little content. This share gets (auto-)mounted at /net/tardis/srv/test. Autofs (/etc/auto.net) automatically creates the entire hierarchy including /net $ inotifywait -m -r --format %T %w %e --timefmt %F %T /net Setting up watches. Beware: since -r was given, this may take a while! Watches established. 2014-03-20 11:02:18 /net/ OPEN,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:18 /net/ CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:18 /net/ OPEN,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:18 /net/tardis/ OPEN,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:18 /net/ CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:18 /net/tardis/ CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:18 /net/tardis/ OPEN,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:18 /net/tardis/srv/ OPEN,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:18 /net/tardis/ CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:18 /net/tardis/srv/ CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:33 /net/ OPEN,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:33 /net/ CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:33 /net/ OPEN,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:33 /net/tardis/ OPEN,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:33 /net/ CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:33 /net/tardis/ CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:33 /net/tardis/ OPEN,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:33 /net/tardis/srv/ OPEN,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:33 /net/tardis/ CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR 2014-03-20 11:02:33 /net/tardis/srv/ CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR ... These accesses repeat exactly every 15s. They go only as deep as /net/artis/srv and do not descend into /net/tardis/srv/test. They only occur when plasma-desktop is running. I'm afraid that I may have to dismantle my panels to find the cause, however, I'm reluctant to do so as setting them up the way I want them takes quite some time. Is there a way to save/restore the configuration of one or more panels? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1488964.zZ6z2C2drv@fuchsia
Re: Automounted NFS shares never timeout
On Tuesday 18 March 2014 10:02:43 Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
On Tuesday 18 March 2014 02:36:36 Michael Schuerig wrote:
Anyway, there are no discernable accesses by any KDE component. The
fault is probably elsewhere.
Then what happens if you test this with
- plain console
- a very simple session (fvwm + xterm)?
On the console and in a KDE session for a freshly created user, the NFS
is automatically unmounted when the timeout expires. In my usual KDE
session, if I kill plasma-desktop, the timeout works, too. Restarting
plasma-desktop causes the share to be automounted again, ie, without any
explicit access to it.
Here's what the pstree output for plasma-desktop looks like:
plasma-desktop
├─ksysguardd
├─{KCupsConnection}
├─{QInotifyFileSys}
├─{QProcessManager}
└─{plasma-desktop}
I've also tried strace'ing plasma-desktop (with -e trace=open and with
grepping for relevant paths), but didn't see any accesses to the share
there.
As I wrote in another reply, I was hoping to get some insight from
autofs. Presumably it needs to know about which accesses and processes
keep a mounted share from timing out. Unfortunately, even at debug
level, no such information is in the log.
Michael
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Re: Automounted NFS shares never timeout
On Tuesday 18 March 2014 13:18:20 Libor Klepáč wrote: Hello, i have simillar problem, but with autofs+cifs. I run commands umount -l /mnt/smb4/*/* /etc/init.d/autofs stop before leaving home and suspending my notebook. Somewhere in the autofs docs I read a warning against manually unmounting (or mounting) automounted shares. I don't remember the details. When i forget to run those commands, plasma-desktop and krunner get stuck after resume. lsof is also stuck. Have a look at this bug report https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184062 Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1576154.pYFETzoV60@fuchsia
Automounted NFS shares never timeout
I have a single NFS share automounted by autofs. Once it is mounted, it is never (auto-)unmounted, even though I don't explicityl access it. Lsof does not show any open files below the mount point. My hypothesis is that some process periodically accesses the share, unfortunately, I can't find any such process. I'd have to catch it red- handed exactly when it accesses the share. I was suspecting the Removable Device Automounter (kded_device_automounter) and disabled it, but that didn't change anything. Any suggestion what (if any!) part of KDE might be causing this? Any general suggestion for finding the culprit? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2871672.tEf1DIEK6Z@fuchsia
Re: Automounted NFS shares never timeout
On Monday 17 March 2014 22:37:35 Carsten Pfeiffer wrote: On Monday 17 March 2014 14:46:54 Michael Schuerig wrote: I have a single NFS share automounted by autofs. Once it is mounted, it is never (auto-)unmounted, even though I don't explicityl access it. Lsof does not show any open files below the mount point. My hypothesis is that some process periodically accesses the share, unfortunately, I can't find any such process. Could it be a file indexer? Updatedb? Nepomuk? I don't think so. I've disabled nepomuk indexing and updatedb only runs once a day. I'd have to catch it red- Any suggestion what (if any!) part of KDE might be causing this? Any general suggestion for finding the culprit? Maybe replace mount.nfs with a script that logs the output of pstree to a file? That wouldn't help. If the share is never mounted by an explicit access everything is fine. However, once it is mounted, it is never automatically unmounted even though it should. As far as I can tell, something is keeping the automount alive. I've set the autofs timeout to 60s, but that didn't change anything. I suspect it is in some way related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184062 ie, the desktop hangs if a mounted share disappears. IOW, something related to plasma apparently keeps looking at those shares. As far as I can tell, I have hidden the share in question everywhere it might be shown in plasma or dolphin. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Automounted NFS shares never timeout
On Tuesday 18 March 2014 00:15:07 Diederik de Haas wrote: On Monday 17 March 2014 23:04:47 Michael Schuerig wrote: IOW, something related to plasma apparently keeps looking at those shares. Have you looked at the KRunner plugins? Anything in particular? What would I be looking for? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Automounted NFS shares never timeout
On Tuesday 18 March 2014 00:22:43 Johannes Zarl wrote: On Monday 17 March 2014 14:46:54 Michael Schuerig wrote: Any suggestion what (if any!) part of KDE might be causing this? Any general suggestion for finding the culprit? You could try out whether lsof finds any open file on the nfs share: lsof /media/YOUR_NFS_MOUNT If that doesn't find anything, you can let it repeat every second for a while: lsof -r1 /media/YOUR_NFS_MOUNT I had already tried single shot lsof, without finding anything. Now with $ lsof -r2 -x +D /net/tardis/ I dont't get anything either. I thought that maybe autofs was at fault, but it works perfectly for another sshfs share. That one really gets unmounted when it isn't explicitly accessed during its timeout interval. A notable difference between NFS and sshfs is that in Dolphin the NFS share is shown in the places panel under Devices, whereas the sshfs share is not. Killing all dolphin processes doesn't change anything, though. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2400037.GRgC81f7cY@fuchsia
Re: Automounted NFS shares never timeout
On Tuesday 18 March 2014 00:03:26 Carsten Pfeiffer wrote: On Monday 17 March 2014 23:04:47 Michael Schuerig wrote: [...] You can try running kdebugdialog and enable various sections (e.g. kdirwatch, kdirlister, kfile, maybe solid) and have a look at .xsession-errors. Maybe inotifywatch (https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools) helps in finding what happens at all. I tried inotifywait -r (BTW, inotify-tools are available as a package at least in sid), lsof +x +D, watched .xsession-errors -- nothing. Also, I set autofs logging to debug, generating a lot of messages, including Mar 18 01:45:01 fuchsia automount[28054]: 1 remaining in /net Anyway, there are no discernable accesses by any KDE component. The fault is probably elsewhere. Thanks for replying. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/3777623.3J8dOsJvfk@fuchsia
Re: KMail: MBox account via sftp -- supposed to work?
On Friday 07 March 2014 09:49:06 Kevin Krammer wrote: Either way, that should probably be filed as a bug report (there could already be one). https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331845 Thanks for looking into it. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21792240.RtjXXo0qos@fuchsia
KMail: MBox account via sftp -- supposed to work?
I'm looking for a way to monitor local mail notifications on my home server, ie the stuff cron jobs and daemons send to root and are forwarded to my user account there. I'm much in favor of a lightweight solution and I've stumbled upon the approach to create a KMail Mbox account via sftp: sftp://michael@my-server:22/var/mail/michael This only sort of works. KMail (or the Akonadi resource behind it) read the mbox's content once, but doesn't appear to update it when new messages arrive. I was only half expecting this to work and therefore am not overly surprised. Nevertheless, I'm wondering if this is *supposed* to work. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1404793.j8poEruEeL@fuchsia
Re: KMail: MBox account via sftp -- supposed to work?
On Wednesday 05 March 2014 19:29:27 Kevin Krammer wrote: On Wednesday, 2014-03-05, 19:15:50, Michael Schuerig wrote: I'm looking for a way to monitor local mail notifications on my home server, ie the stuff cron jobs and daemons send to root and are forwarded to my user account there. I'm much in favor of a lightweight solution and I've stumbled upon the approach to create a KMail Mbox account via sftp: sftp://michael@my-server:22/var/mail/michael This only sort of works. KMail (or the Akonadi resource behind it) read the mbox's content once, but doesn't appear to update it when new messages arrive. There is no change notification over SFTP so you need to configure an interval check. Right click the folder, properties, retrieval (third tab, might be called differently, translated back from German localisation which calls it Abruf). I'm using the English locale :-) Unfortunately, setting the sync interval doesn't seem to have an effect. Neither does manually checking mail for the account or updating the folder. I only get new messages when I restart the corresponding agent in Akonadi Console. I can also trigger a sync by switching the Read-Only only option. Incidentally, when switching read-only off, I get this curious notification: Resource My-Server is broken. This resource is now online (I'm also regularly getting that message for my local MBox account, which otherwise works without a problem.) Versions: KMail 4.11.5, Akonadi 1.11.0-1 Thanks for your comments. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
KMail print font size
When I print a message in KMail 4.11.5, the font size is very small and there doesn't seem to be any way to change it. I've tried a custom font setting for printing output; turned View Use Fixed Font on and off; tried it with plain text and HTML messages. Nothing changes the illegibly small size of the printout. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2885299.hYr6KCWxLB@fuchsia
KMail: ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail
KMail (4.11.5; sid) just lost a message I was sending without any apparent trace. Hoping to get it back somehow, I started digging around in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail. Nothing there, because the newest file in there appears to be from July 2013. Curiouser and curiouser. In such a case the answer is usually -- Akonadi. I speculate that the contents of that directory, the dimap subdirectory in particular, is just debris. In my case, dimap alone amounts to 2.5GB of dead weight. I think when updating to the Akonadi- based KMail users should have been informed that the old cache directory is no longer needed. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4530283.nPjhAYEyhI@fuchsia
Email indexing starts from 0% in each new session
I'm not quite sure how email indexing is supposed to work. The experience I get from the recent upgrades in unstable is that indexing starts anew at 0% each time I start/re-login to a KDE session. It pegs at least one core to 100% and makes the fans do overtime. Because that rather annoys me, I had suspended email indexing. It claimed to have indexed 9% (~60.000 emails), but when I resumed indexing just now (same session as when I suspended it). It quickly dropped from 100%(!) through a few intermediate percentages down to 0%, now slowly working its way back up. The behavior I'm seeing doesn't seem right to me. Is it supposed to work like that? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1457450.aZm7pp9qo2@fuchsia
Re: Email indexing starts from 0% in each new session
On Saturday 16 November 2013 14:54:17 Kevin Krammer wrote: On Saturday, 2013-11-16, 11:36:25, Michael Schuerig wrote: I'm not quite sure how email indexing is supposed to work. The experience I get from the recent upgrades in unstable is that indexing starts anew at 0% each time I start/re-login to a KDE session. It pegs at least one core to 100% and makes the fans do overtime. Because that rather annoys me, I had suspended email indexing. It claimed to have indexed 9% (~60.000 emails), but when I resumed indexing just now (same session as when I suspended it). It quickly dropped from 100%(!) through a few intermediate percentages down to 0%, now slowly working its way back up. The behavior I'm seeing doesn't seem right to me. Is it supposed to work like that? Not expected behavior. We are incidentally debugging that right now at the KDE PIM sprint :) Well, I've disabled Nepomuk Semantic Desktop and now KMail has become almost snappy. No more hassle with indexers burning my CPU, of course. However, when I started this message, KMail hauled this notice at me: You do not have the semantic desktop system enabled. The following features will not work correctly: * Recipient auto-completion * Distribution lists * Per-contact crypto preferences I completely understand that disabling Semantic Desktop deprives me of search and tags, but why the features above are tied in with Semantic Desktop is beyond me. At times like this I tend to think that KDE and especially KDEPIM has some serious architectural issues. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2366793.2TySsfkVLK@fuchsia
Re: KMail2 filter's duplicating messages, and other misc issues
On Wednesday 14 August 2013 01:08:35 Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: I have several pop accounts setup to filter messages into a large list of mailing list folders, and a bunch of messages are getting dup'ed. Same here for filtering on IMAP accounts. I've moved most of my filtering to the IMAP server, but I'm still doing additional local spam filtering (using bogofilter). I always end up with duplicated messages in my local spam folder. Other (minor) issues: 1. There's also long delays sometimes when selecting folders before the message list fills in. (I am actually quite impatient, so this actually annoys me quite a bit, but it really is a minor issue) 2. seems to be forgetting my passwords occasionally. 6. on laptop start up, kmail complains about waiting for a lock, and then exits. I suspect these are both problems in the interaction with kwalletd. Also, Nepomuk indexing seems to interfere with KMail startup. I've disabled indexing and when KMail hangs on session start, I kill it as well as kwalletd. 3. kmail is occasionally blocked from doing anything for long periods, with no real indication that it's doing much of anything. This may be caused by kwalletd. For me, about once a day Akonadi or its interaction with KMail gets wedged. In such a case, it helps to restart the Akonadi server (- Akonadi Console). 5. kmail crashes fairly regularly. That's one thing that does *not* happen for me. However, I may be preventing crashes as I have to restart KMail about twice daily for other reasons. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2630584.rCWGgUXn9F@fuchsia
Re: new version of kmail eat CPU
On Monday 22 July 2013 14:39:40 MERLIN Philippe wrote: Hello, I am in Debian Sid AMD64 Kmail 4.10.5 and at start of new version of kmail, the Cpu are occupied by the process virtuoso_t ,mesured by top its give 130% CPU.Is there anything to do to improve this? The CPU usage is probably not related to KMail and not even to mail at all. Open System Settings Desktop Search, uncheck the Enable Email Indexer checkbox and Apply the change. If that does not change the CPU usage, even after login out and in again, you can be pretty sure that your problem is not related to mail. Much more likely, it is the file indexer that's hogging your CPU. If you're lucky, it is just doing its intended job of indexing files. If you have large ( 100.000) numbers of indexable files, a complete indexing run can take a day or two. The index itself is in ~/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main and you can delete it without losing data. In the past, this index has been unusable a few times on my machine; possibly by corruption or incompatible updates, I'm not really sure. At any rate, deleting the index and forcing a restart of Nepomuk (by logging out/in), has cured the problem most of the time. Alas, if you are not lucky, like me, then Nepomuk is running in circles, indexing the same smallish number of files over and over again. If that's the case, you'll notice it in the Desktop Search Settings where indexing progress is displayed. HTH, Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1770362.mxqTdpFJWp@fuchsia
Nepomuk file indexing stuck in a loop
With the recent upgrade to KDE 4.10 in unstable, Nepomuk file indexing has become somewhat troubled on my system. As far as I can tell, indexing is stuck in a loop through about 10 files, in different folders. The progress display is rather quick, but it seems that all these files are PDFs and undamaged. After the upgrade, I deleted the Nepomuk repository and by now I have rebooted several times. In ~/.xsession-errors, the only messages that seem vaguely relevant are about 5 of the form akonadi_nepomuk_feeder(6556) ItemQueue::fetchJobResult: Not all items were fetched: 2 3 I've already run nepomukcleaner, but with no effect. Does anyone have an idea what might be going wrong and how to diagnose it? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/7369215.BFaCeBe5Cs@fuchsia
Screen locker not disabled by VLC
Among the casualties caused by the upgrade to KDE 4.10 is, on my system, that the screen saver is not disabled anymore by media players, in particular VLC. So, when I watch a movie now, I have to hit a key or move the mouse every now and then in order to avoid the screen from being locked. I'm using the Simple locker, although I'd prefer to use the normal screen saver with a blank screen. However, the latter doesn't appear to work. I get a blank screen for a very short time, but then the simple locker kicks in. One time, after logging out and in again, session management restored about 50 black screen saver windows. Any ideas what's going wrong? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2313853.CnWo2nRUWl@fuchsia
KMail 2: problems after recent changes in unstable
The recent update of KMail/KDE to 4.10 has resulted in several changes for the worse on my system. * Sometimes messages selected in the message list are not shown. The message frame keeps showing Retrieving Folder Contents. Please wait If this happens, all folders and accounts are affected. Restarting Akonadi seems to help. * IMAP: Messages in threads marked as ignored or watched are not properly marked as read. After migrating to KMail 2, there were thousands of purportedly unread messages, all of them in threads marked either as ignored or watched. Making these messages unread only persistently(!) worked after I removed the ignored and watched markings. This is not just a migrating issue, I see the same behavior with newly started threads. * After starting KMail, I get a notification that doesn't make sense: Resource Local is broken. This resource is now online (sic). Akonadi Console shows the resource having status Online, Idle with status message Ready. * Every now and then I get an error message Conflict Resolution - Local of type KMail Mail Folder Two updates conflict with each other. Please choose which update(s) to apply. If I keep both messages, I can see that they have the same date, so presumably this is indeed an update conflict. However, as there is no other process touching ~/Mail, I have no idea why KMail brings this upon itself. * I have several rules for handling messages marked as spam. They are marked as read and then moved into a Spam folder. The moving works, but the messages show up twice in the Spam folder. One copy is marked as spam and read, the other is unmarked and unread. As far as I can tell, only IMAP accounts are affected. What makes these issues particularly unfortunate is that from a *user's* point of view I see no improvements that might balance them. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8817081.tx3B3A8NLD@fuchsia
Bug#706227: krfb: Crashes on start; missing file?
Package: krfb Version: 4:4.8.4-1+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, when I start krfb it crashes immediately. On the commandline I get $ krfb krfb(1808) KXMLGUIClient::setXMLFile: cannot find .rc file krfbui.rc for component krfb KCrash: Application 'krfb' crashing... KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit sock_file=/home/michael/.kde/socket-fuchsia/kdeinit4__0 It looks like a file defining the user interface is missing from the package. I tried the 4:4.10.2-1 package, too, and get the same error there. Michael -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages krfb depends on: ii kde-runtime 4:4.8.4-2 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libjpeg88d-1 ii libkdecore5 4:4.8.4-4 ii libkdeui5 4:4.8.4-4 ii libkdnssd4 4:4.8.4-4 ii libqt4-network 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11 ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11 ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.2+dfsg-11 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5 ii libx11-62:1.5.0-1 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.3-2 ii libxext62:1.3.1-2 ii libxtst62:1.2.1-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 krfb recommends no packages. Versions of packages krfb suggests: ii khelpcenter4 4:4.8.4-2 ii krdc 4:4.8.4-1+b1 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130426180342.7098.85038.report...@fuchsia.fritz.box
Error message The Zeroconf daemon (mdnsd) is not running.
When I'm trying to access the zeroconf:/ URL in Dolphin or Konqueror, I get an alert telling me The Zeroconf daemon (mdnsd) is not running.. There is indeed no mdnsd running on my system and there doesn't seem to be one available in debian (sid) at all. However, all kinds of avahi packages are installed and avahi-daemon is running. This isn't a pressing problem for me and I'm asking more out of curiousity. Maybe I'm missing something zeroconf could do for me. I stumbled upon this, while trying to import photos into Digikam (2.6.0) from an android phone running sshd (SSHDroid). The import can be done via sftp (Import from Remote Computer), but is somewhat rudimentary, as no previews are shown. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201303300742.52217.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: Kontact, KMail won't start with Qt dfsg-2 packages
On Wednesday 05 September 2012, Reinhold Rumberger wrote: Am Dienstag 04.09.2012, 20:58:53 schrieb Michael Schuerig: I've recently upgraded all the Qt packages 4:4.8.2+dfsg-1 to 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 and only today I restarted my computer. After that KMail and Kontact didn't start anymore. From what I could tell with strace, both of them were blocked in a system call (select or epoll, I think). After reinstalling all the old Qt packages, things are fine again. I've looked for a bug report, but didn't find anything related. I'm happy that I've got things back to a working state again and I don't have much time for trial-and-error bug hunting right now, however if anyone can suggest a more focussed strategy for uearthing the cause of the problem, I might give it a try. Are you sure you didn't install/upgrade anything else? To the contrary, I'm sure that I did upgrade other packages as they have become available in unstable. Putting the blame on Qt was not my first idea at all. At first, I just restarted my computer, but that didn't change anything, Kontact and KMail still blocked when launched. Then, after reinstalling the older dfsg-1 Qt packages and rebooting again, everything worked again. Sorry for the sparse details, my first concern was to get my computer in order again, I wasn't trying to systematically track down a bug. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209050846.57475.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Kontact, KMail won't start with Qt dfsg-2 packages
I've recently upgraded all the Qt packages 4:4.8.2+dfsg-1 to 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 and only today I restarted my computer. After that KMail and Kontact didn't start anymore. From what I could tell with strace, both of them were blocked in a system call (select or epoll, I think). After reinstalling all the old Qt packages, things are fine again. I've looked for a bug report, but didn't find anything related. I'm happy that I've got things back to a working state again and I don't have much time for trial-and-error bug hunting right now, however if anyone can suggest a more focussed strategy for uearthing the cause of the problem, I might give it a try. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209042058.53374.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: Kontact, KMail won't start with Qt dfsg-2 packages
On Tuesday 04 September 2012, Benjamin Eikel wrote: Hello Michael, Am Dienstag, 4. September 2012 um 20:58:53 schrieb Michael Schuerig: I've recently upgraded all the Qt packages 4:4.8.2+dfsg-1 to 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 and only today I restarted my computer. After that KMail and Kontact didn't start anymore. From what I could tell with strace, both of them were blocked in a system call (select or epoll, I think). After reinstalling all the old Qt packages, things are fine again. I do not see problems with these package versions and Kontact. Starting works without problems for me. Did you restart your computer since installing those packages? For me the trouble only started after that. I have a hunch that my problem is related to DBus in some way. As far as I can tell, only Kontact and KMail were affected. Notably, for these two applications only single instances are started and I think this is handled through DBus. My rather shaky hypothesis is that in my case the applications were blocking on a call to DBus while trying to find out if there was already a running instance. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209042328.25128.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: Kontact, KMail won't start with Qt dfsg-2 packages
On Tuesday 04 September 2012, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: On Tue 04 Sep 2012 18:28:24 Michael Schuerig escribió: [snip] Did you restart your computer since installing those packages? For me the trouble only started after that. I have a hunch that my problem is related to DBus in some way. As far as I can tell, only Kontact and KMail were affected. Notably, for these two applications only single instances are started and I think this is handled through DBus. My rather shaky hypothesis is that in my case the applications were blocking on a call to DBus while trying to find out if there was already a running instance. Qt dfsg-2 do not introduce any change that could case this. On the other hand, so far you were the only one to had this problem. Check that your system is actually not broken. Well -- reinstalling all those dfsg-1 packages did unbreak my system. Or so it seems. Do you have any suggestion what else might have caused the symptoms I was seeing? If I find the time, I may try my luck with the dfsg-2 packages again, but probably not until the weekend. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209050006.23200.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.8.3 available in qt-kde.debian.net
On Monday 21 May 2012, Martin Steigerwald wrote: [...] Thats at least from what I understood so far. A lot more than I did, at any rate. Thanks for the summary. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201205212328.50357.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.8.3 available in qt-kde.debian.net
On Monday 14 May 2012, Eshat Cakar wrote: Hi, KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.8.3 has been uploaded to our semi-official mirrors (available for both, amd64 and i386, systems). Installation on an up-to-date unstable system went smoothly. However, using the updated Plasma has been rather rocky, so far. With desktop effects enabled, KWin crashes every few minutes. I blame this more on NVidida's driver than on KDE, and surely not on the package maintainers. With desktop effects disabled, the contrast of text against background in the taskbar is rather low. I'm using the Air for netbooks desktop theme, where it is least bad, but still far from good. Does anyone have an idea what I can do about this? In the settings for Desktop Search I noticed a new checkbox Enable Email Indexer. Does this work separately from the File Indexer? IOW, am I supposed to exclude the folders where KMail keeps its data from file indexing? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201205201302.19275.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Crash-proofing the session state?
This topic haunts me since I started using KDE 2 in the old days, but it got me again today. Something crashed my notebook; something probably completely unrelated to KDE. After rebooting, KDE dutifully restored the last saved session. Which, in this case, was about 5 days old. Thanks to sleep/suspend I finish my session only rarely. In the past, I've tried to periodically save session state through dcop/dbus, but it didn't work as hoped. The state was saved, apparently, it was not picked up when restarting after a crash. Is there any way to avoid losing session state? Apart from the obvious and tedious one to restart the session regularly. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201202151134.35058.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Desktop Search: Query Base Folder Listing
In KDE 4.7, the configuration window for Desktop Search Desktop Query contains settings for a Query Base Folder Listing. The help docs don't say anything about it and a search on the web didn't bring up anything either. Can anyone give me a hint what this setting is supposed to affect? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201201030912.14994.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: Thanks for KDE 4.7.4
On Monday 19 December 2011, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Thanks for KDE 4.7.4. Installed nicely after I selected to upgrade shared-desktop-ontologies from aptitude´s conflict resolution offerings. Hi Martin, can you give a hint how you managed to upgrade from 4.6.5 in unstable? I've tried $ sudo aptitude install -t experimental kde-standard and various other things. In each case, aptitude suggests to remove a large number or KDE packages. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201112191949.30089.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: Thanks for KDE 4.7.4
On Monday 19 December 2011, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 19. Dezember 2011 schrieb Michael Schuerig: On Monday 19 December 2011, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Thanks for KDE 4.7.4. Installed nicely after I selected to upgrade shared-desktop-ontologies from aptitude´s conflict resolution offerings. Hi Martin, can you give a hint how you managed to upgrade from 4.6.5 in unstable? I've tried $ sudo aptitude install -t experimental kde-standard and various other things. In each case, aptitude suggests to remove a large number or KDE packages. I don´t remember that step anymore. I upgrade from previous 4.7.2 packages. They upgrade from 4.6.5 wasn´t to difficult at all. Try the dist-upgrade thing Petr suggested. When aptitude doesn´t yield expected results, try apt-get or cycle through the offerings that aptitude gives you. Maybe install shared-desktop-ontologies from experimental manually before you try to install KDE 4.7.4. shared-desktop-ontologies 0.8.1-1 is installed. Still, when I try a dist-upgrade (or rather full-upgrade) to experimental, aptitude suggests to remove 140 packages. I don't think this is caused by KDE by itself, rather it is because other installed (unstable) packages are in flux in experimental. Among the suggested removals are gimp, lots of libghc-* packages, libreoffice, and various nvidia packages. As far as I can tell, my main problem is that a full-upgrade to experimental is far too unspecific. I'd rather have a way to upgrade only the KDE packages and their dependencies. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201112192115.06414.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: Thanks for KDE 4.7.4
On Monday 19 December 2011, Michael Schuerig wrote: [Updating to 4.7.4] OK, I've managed it through some non-reproducible jugging with aptitude and apt-get. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201112192200.11183.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: Okular: print without scaling
On Thursday 07 July 2011, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Sonntag, 3. Juli 2011 schrieb Michael Schuerig: So what ever lets PDF be scaled on your setup, it might not be Okular. Or at least Okular doesn´t scale by default everywhere. Here it almost certainly doesn´t. I was prepared to put the blame on the PPD or the printer. However, Adobe Reader has no such problems when printing to the same printer and, presumably, using the same PPD. Hmmm, then that might be something with your settings and Okular. Or a different okular / KDE version. I am using KDE 4.6.3/4.6.4 stuff. I have 4.6.4. I don't see any relevant setting neither in Okular nor anywhere else. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107072056.08353.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: Okular: print without scaling
On Sunday 03 July 2011, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Samstag, 2. Juli 2011 schrieb Michael Schuerig: Some time ago, Okular apparently has started to scale PDF documents on printouts. That may be well-intentioned, but isn't such a good idea when printing official forms. Adobe Reader has options to control scaling, including one to turn it off. Are there similar settings somewhere in Okular that I have just missed? Hmmm, I never saw Okular scaling a PDF print here so far. Also I do not see any settings related to scaling. Neither in Okular´s print dialog nor in the driver related settings. I am using a HP OfficeJet 5610 with hplip. I'm printing on a Lexmark C544 using the Lexmark-provided PPD. Through CUPS, of course. The KDE print dialog does not contain anything related to scaling. The printer properties accessible through this dialog just mirror the settings contained in the PPD and there isn't anything related to scaling either. Another thing I forgot to mention: when I choose Print to File (PDF), i.e., the PDF-printing provided by KDE, not CUPS, there is no scaling. (CUPS PDF-printing just gives a blank page.) So what ever lets PDF be scaled on your setup, it might not be Okular. Or at least Okular doesn´t scale by default everywhere. Here it almost certainly doesn´t. I was prepared to put the blame on the PPD or the printer. However, Adobe Reader has no such problems when printing to the same printer and, presumably, using the same PPD. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107030955.25835.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Okular: print without scaling
Some time ago, Okular apparently has started to scale PDF documents on printouts. That may be well-intentioned, but isn't such a good idea when printing official forms. Adobe Reader has options to control scaling, including one to turn it off. Are there similar settings somewhere in Okular that I have just missed? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107021331.47437.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: On-screen display popup during DVD viewing
On Saturday 18 June 2011, Juan Carlos Romero wrote: Perhaps is power management lowering your monitor brightness when no activity noted. Yes, apparently that's what it was. Disabling Dim Display in all relevant power management profiles got rid of the popup. Thanks everyone. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201106200050.23422.michael.li...@schuerig.de
On-screen display popup during DVD viewing
When I'm watching DVDs with vlc, at regular intervals an OSD popup appears. It looks similar to the volume popup, but has another icon that looks like a monitor. The same popup sometimes appears before the screensaver is activated and after it is deactivated. In the case of vlc, the popup might be triggered by a periodic event fired to prevent the screensaver from activating while a video is being shown. At any rate, I'd like to get rid of the popup. Does anyone know how to? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201106171916.27405.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: On-screen display popup during DVD viewing
On Friday 17 June 2011, Josep Febrer wrote: A Divendres, 17 de juny de 2011 19:16:27, Michael Schuerig va escriure: When I'm watching DVDs with vlc, at regular intervals an OSD popup appears. It looks similar to the volume popup, but has another icon that looks like a monitor. The same popup sometimes appears before the screensaver is activated and after it is deactivated. In the case of vlc, the popup might be triggered by a periodic event fired to prevent the screensaver from activating while a video is being shown. At any rate, I'd like to get rid of the popup. Does anyone know how to? Perhaps you can send a screenshot when this popup appears, in this way it will be much easier to help you. Here is the relevant bit: http://www.schuerig.de/michael/kde-osd.png Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201106172116.37608.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: On-screen display popup during DVD viewing
On Friday 17 June 2011, Juan Carlos Romero wrote: That's the brightness control. Any idea, why it appears when I don't call for it? Event better, how to stop it doing this? I have already tried setting the global shortcuts for decrease/increase brightness to none, but that didn't help. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201106172254.07477.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: akonadi-kde-resource-googledata: still working for anyone?
On Monday 30 May 2011, José Manuel Santamaría Lema wrote: [...] If I tested correctly in my computer, rebuilding akonadi-kde-resource-googledata should be enough to make it work again. Note that I had to remove the Adress Book and add it again, otherwise it doesn't work for me. Also I tested the google calendar sync only _after_ rebuilding, looks like it works. It seems to work for me now, too. It is not enough, to restart the Akdonadi Server or the KDE session. The respective resources have to be removed and added again to make it work. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105301215.45226.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: I notice we now have postgresql support in Akonadi...
On Saturday 28 May 2011, David Goodenough wrote: Does anyone know what commands would need to be issued in order to backup the MySql Akonadi data? Also where is the Postgresql embedded data stored for Akonadi? I think this is a misconception. While Akonadi runs a private MySQL server instance, it does not do so with PostgreSQL. Instead, it just creates its own database that is served by the single, system-wide PostgreSQL server instance. In other words, your data will be stored somewhere below /var/lib/postgresql. As far as backups go, are you sure you even need to backup the Akonadi database? Is there anything in the database that won't be recreated from its original source? If your contacts are stored in one or many vCard files and your calendar is in an iCal/ics file, I don't think you'll lose anything when you just switch to PostgreSQL. But don't take my word for it -- and make backups! Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105281317.36593.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: I notice we now have postgresql support in Akonadi...
On Saturday 28 May 2011, David Goodenough wrote: On Saturday 28 May 2011, Michael Schuerig wrote: On Saturday 28 May 2011, David Goodenough wrote: Does anyone know what commands would need to be issued in order to backup the MySql Akonadi data? Also where is the Postgresql embedded data stored for Akonadi? I think this is a misconception. While Akonadi runs a private MySQL server instance, it does not do so with PostgreSQL. Instead, it just creates its own database that is served by the single, system-wide PostgreSQL server instance. In other words, your data will be stored somewhere below /var/lib/postgresql. That is not what the docs say. They say that with Postgresql you have a choice, and that the data can either be held in a server instance or in an embedded form (like the MySql data). The package description says:- By default, a local PostgreSQL server instance will be started for each user. Alternatively, connection to an external PostgreSQL database is supported as well. Well, if the docs say so. But the only place for configuring the Akonadi database backend I see is in Akonadi Console, Configure Server. There, if I choose PostgreSQL, the caption says External PostgreSQL Server and below that there are fields for specifying the connection parameters. As far as backups go, are you sure you even need to backup the Akonadi database? Is there anything in the database that won't be recreated from its original source? If your contacts are stored in one or many vCard files and your calendar is in an iCal/ics file, I don't think you'll lose anything when you just switch to PostgreSQL. But don't take my word for it -- and make backups! well knowing what to back up helps. I would expect it to be somewhere under ~/.kde, but I am not sure. For MySQL, the database is stored in ~/.local/share/akonadi. Configuration is in ~/.config/akonadi. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105281533.08252.michael.li...@schuerig.de
All Akonadi agents at 100% CPU
This morning I upgraded to the new 4.6.3 packages as they became available in unstable. The upgrade itself went smoothly, but when I rebooted and started a new KDE session, each of the five running Akonadi agents was at 100% CPU. After some unsuccessful manual attempts at downgrading things, I restored everything from last nights backup. Unfortunately, this did not change things for the better, after a reboot the agents still went to 100%. So I take it that another recent change is affecting Akonadi and it was only triggered by rebooting or restarting the session. I had a look with strace, but the only thing to see there are endless reads from the same file descriptor (11). Has anyone seen this behavior and, better still, has an idea what I can do against it? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105271050.p4rao9qy027...@post.webmailer.de
Re: All Akonadi agents at 100% CPU
Also, I noticed that the akonadi_* processes are eating memory like mad. I've just killed a bunch of them at over 1GB (as shown in KDE's System Monitor). I've limited these processes to 10% CPU (using cpulimit) and after their automatic restart, each of them has already consumed 0:20 CPU time and is converging on 400MB of memory. In the strace output, I see these three line endlessly repeated read(11, , 4) = 0 read(11, , 16384) = 0 read(11, , 8) = 0 Is it possible that these processes are trying over and over to connect with some other part of Akonadi and just don't get a response? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105271440.11305.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: All Akonadi agents at 100% CPU -- solved
On Friday 27 May 2011, Michael Schuerig wrote: [...] Well, I finally got things in working order again by removing ~/.config/akonadi and recreating the respective agents. Google calendar and contacts resources (akonadi-kde-resource-googledata) still don't work; both write the same message to ~/.xsession-errors Unable to retrieve item from resource: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. Also, I had to throw away the Nepomuk index (~/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk) as otherwise Desktop Search would not resume indexing. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105271949.03659.michael.li...@schuerig.de
akonadi-kde-resource-googledata: still working for anyone?
Is anyone beside me using akonadi-kde-resource-googledata to integrate KDE contacts and calendars with their Google account? For 4.6.2 I had to recompile the package as well as libgcal0 in order to make things work. With 4.6.3 that doesn't help anymore. For both calendar and contacts resources (agents), I get messages like the one below in ~/.xsession-errors Unable to retrieve item from resource: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. I hope that it works in general and it's only a correctable fault on my system. So, does it work for anyone? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105280143.10329.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Does KDE reset mouse acceleration properties?
I've recently started to use a Microsoft Arc Mouse and the first thing I noticed was that the mouse pointer was moving much too fast. Even at the slowest setting available in System Settings, it was still too fast. After some search, I had come up with an autostart script that slows things down to a speed I can handle. #~/.kde/Autostart/slow-down-mouse #! /bin/sh -e MOUSE=Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v5.0 xinput set-prop $MOUSE Device Accel Constant Deceleration 8 xinput set-prop $MOUSE Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration 8 xinput set-prop $MOUSE Device Accel Profile 2 This is rather inelegant as it is only for one user and only takes effect after KDE has started. Through further searching I found that I ought to be able to set things according to my preferences in a configuration file like this #/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-mouse-acceleration.conf Section InputClass Identifier Microsoft Arc Mouse Driver evdev MatchUSBID 045e:074f Option AccelerationProfile 2 Option ConstantDeceleration 8 Option AdaptiveDeceleration 8 EndSection Indeed, this achieves the desired effect before KDE is started; while the KDM greeter (login screen) is shown, the mouse is slowed down properly. But later in KDE, the mouse is again at undiminished speed. It seems as if KDE is doing something here that it ought not to. On a slightly different note, I'm curious how others deal with their mice. Am I just manually challenged and everyone else actually wants their mouse in turbo mode? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105170121.38431.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: kmail filters
On Sunday 08 May 2011, Dietz Pröpper wrote: since 4.x, I observe a strange problem with kmail - every now and then, filtering of received messages seems to break, leaving everything in the default inbox. Executing the filters manually yields the expected result. Yes, I've seen this, but only rarely, say once or twice per month. In my case it was with a cached IMAP account. I don't know about non-cached IMAP or POP3. As far as I remember, the problem only occurred for an account receiving several high-traffic mailing lists. I've since switched to sort messages into folders on the server-side. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105082116.34081.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: Digikam + Nepomuk: hundreds of synthetic tags
On Thursday 28 April 2011, Michael Schuerig wrote: [after two-way sync'ing metadata between Digikam and Nepomuk] Unfortunately, there was another non-intended, negative effect. In Digikam, I now have literally hundreds of new tags like this nepomuk:/res/d3039469-bfc4-48ab-beaf-2717ae1ccb8a [...] Can anyone enlighten me as to the purpose of these tags? Is there any good reason that they are visible in Digikam? Is there a way to get rid of them, like munging Digikam's sqlite database? I've deleted these tags directly at the database level. Cursory checks indicate everything is still well. I'm not completely sure of this, as apparently the Digikam database doesn't use referential integrity constraints (such as references and on delete cascade) at all :-O So some cruft may have been left in the database and some ill effects may still occur. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105011204.11943.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Digikam + Nepomuk: hundreds of synthetic tags
I'm using KDE 4.6.2 from experimental-snapshots and Digikam 2:1.9.0-1 (re-compiled to work with 4.6.2). Looking around in the new settings offered by Digikam, I enabled Store metadata from Digikam in Nepomuk and Read metadata from Nepomuk (both in the settings for Metadata Nepomuk). This had the intended effect of making image ratings and tags visible in Dolphin. At least I can search for ratings in Dolphin, I haven't found out about tags yet. Unfortunately, there was another non-intended, negative effect. In Digikam, I now have literally hundreds of new tags like this nepomuk:/res/d3039469-bfc4-48ab-beaf-2717ae1ccb8a As they make no sense at the user-level, I neither need nor want them. Presumably these tags have some internal purpose in Nepomuk, therefore I haven't yet started to delete them again manually. Besides, as I could only delete them individually, this would be a rather tedious chore. Can anyone enlighten me as to the purpose of these tags? Is there any good reason that they are visible in Digikam? Is there a way to get rid of them, like munging Digikam's sqlite database? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201104281448.16714.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: Nepomuk task bar icon
On Sunday 24 April 2011, Dietz Pröpper wrote: Hi, in former times (before 4.6) I had a nepomuk task bar icon that showed it's activity and allowed to suspend indexing etc. Is that gone in 4.6? Apparently it is gone. I've been looking for it, too, but didn't find it. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201104261035.11430.michael.li...@schuerig.de
Re: Writing a desktop entry for rooted, screened script?
On Friday 15 April 2011, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Wednesday, 2011-04-13, Michael Schuerig wrote: I realize that this question is not specific to Debian or even KDE, but that's the context where it arises for me. I have several very simple scripts that consist of barely anything but an invocation of rsync. So far, I've always run these scripts on the commandline, using sudo and screen where necessary or useful. As it is, that's a rather rustic way of doing things, I'd like to have better integration with KDE. I'd like it to work like this: - the script is started from the KDE launcher - kdesu (or kdesudo) asks for the password to get root permissions - the scripts runs in a screen session and its icon appears in the system tray - when I click on the icon, a Konsole window pops up, connected to the screen session Is this at all possible with just a bit of configuration and scripting? Might be doable. kstart should be able to run any application, hide its window and put an icon into the system tray instead. Using a terminal emulator as such a program, which then runs a command at start and a script doing the su/screen stuff. I didn't get it to work with screen, but at least I can hide the konsole showing the output most of the time. The resulting commandline is a bit convoluted $ ksystraycmd --hidden -- \ konsole --title Backup --icon folder-sync \ --nofork --noclose \ -e /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu --noignorebutton -t \ /usr/local/bin/mybackup However, if I use the menu editor to and an entry and put in that line as the command, it does not work. The same goes if I add the command to a script and call the script from the menu (desktop) entry. As far as I can tell, ksystraycmd doesn't work in that context. Note that although I'm using KDE 4.6.1, I'm still using the classic launcher. Maybe that makes a difference, although it shouldn't. As far as screen is concerned, I don't think it is easily possible to do what I want. I.e., I'd like to detach the screen session and close the konsole when its window is hidden, and when it is shown again, I'd like to launch a new konsole and reattach to the screen session. My quick experiments with kstart have not been encouraging. Just $ kstart --tosystray konsole seems to annoy kwin so much that it moves all windows to the first desktop. Nothing else seems to happen. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201104151236.07539.mich...@schuerig.de
Writing a desktop entry for rooted, screened script?
I realize that this question is not specific to Debian or even KDE, but that's the context where it arises for me. I have several very simple scripts that consist of barely anything but an invocation of rsync. So far, I've always run these scripts on the commandline, using sudo and screen where necessary or useful. As it is, that's a rather rustic way of doing things, I'd like to have better integration with KDE. I'd like it to work like this: - the script is started from the KDE launcher - kdesu (or kdesudo) asks for the password to get root permissions - the scripts runs in a screen session and its icon appears in the system tray - when I click on the icon, a Konsole window pops up, connected to the screen session Is this at all possible with just a bit of configuration and scripting? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201104131702.34612.mich...@schuerig.de
Re: nepomukstrigiservice segfault (was: KDE Software Compilation 4.6.1 has been uploaded to qt-kde.debian.net)
On Sunday 03 April 2011, Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2011-04-03, Michael Schuerig mich...@schuerig.de wrote: nepomukstrigiservice has been happily indexing for 25 minutes now, 21 more than before. What kind of changes did you do to the code? I haven't yet reported this bug at strigi.sf.net, as sourceforge appears to be down right now. It would be nice to have a patch in the debian package soon, even before a new upstream is released. I just talked with upstream. He would really like to see the file that made you hit this thing. Just a late addition. This bug has already been fixed in the KDE copy of libstreams months ago: http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=libstreams.gita=commith=1b4fd7f8e95a5eefb3570a609faa9f89495c4cf6 If it has found its way into the upstream repository I can't really say as I'm unable to find it... Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201104140102.20867.mich...@schuerig.de
Putting the brakes on the mouse
Recently I've been using a vintage Logitech optical mouse, but I have been looking for another mouse for a long time. I had a SteelSeries Kinzu, which was nice, but in less than a year its left button was broken (first time for me in over 25+ years of using mice). Today I got a Microsoft Arc Mouse, despite it being branded by the evil empire. The first thing I noticed is that due to its high resolution it is much too sensitive. System Settings Mouse Advanced has a setting for the pointer acceleration, but even at 0.1, the lowest possible setting, the mouse pointer is still too fast for me. A bit of searching turned up the xinput utility and a way to slow the eager rodent down. $ xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2[master pointer ... ⎜ ↳ Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v5.0 id=18 [slave pointer (2)] ... $ xinput set-prop Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v5.0 Device Accel Constant Deceleration 5 I haven't yet decided where this last line ought to go to make it permanent, and anyway, I think it is a kludgy solution. The KDE configuration tools ought to be able to set up a modern, high-resolution mouse. Are there non-KDE tools for this task? I remember 15 years back on Mac System 7 it was possible to define multiple thresholds and acceleration factors. Does X support this, too, even if there may not be a configuration GUI? Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201104081258.53090.mich...@schuerig.de
