Re: [kde] LibreOffice - no entry from applications
Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 09:51:58 schrieb Kevin Wilson: > Hello > After switching to KDE I installed LibreOffice 4 from RPM. > I cannot find a menu entry for it from under "Applications". > Is there a way I can add a menu entry? > http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-workspace/kmenuedit/quickstart.html -- Burkhard Lück ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] kde stops seeing Xonar Exxence soundcard
I have no idea why, but suddenly kde fails to see my Xonar Essence sound card. Yast (I'm running opensuse 12.2 on this box) still has it registered as the default sound card, and when playng a test sound through Yast, it works. So it's not a hardware problem. But kde doesn't see it anymore, it's not listed anymore when configuring kmix. It did so for, well, at least over a year... I've thrown away .pulse, (found a comment on an Ubuntu forum which suggested that would help), but that didn't change anything. Anyone an idea whats going on here, and how sound through my beautiful Xonar can be restored? ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] kde stops seeing Xonar Exxence soundcard
Op 21-05-13 01:10, Duncan schreef: Jogchum Reitsma posted on Mon, 20 May 2013 20:18:46 +0200 as excerpted: I have no idea why, but suddenly kde fails to see my Xonar Essence sound card. Yast (I'm running opensuse 12.2 on this box) still has it registered as the default sound card, and when playng a test sound through Yast, it works. So it's not a hardware problem. But kde doesn't see it anymore, it's not listed anymore when configuring kmix. It did so for, well, at least over a year... That's typically a problem with your phonon configuration or the phonon- backend used. These are configured in kde settings (accurate kde3 name kcontrol, inaccurate kde4 name system settings, inaccurate because they're mostly user-specific kde settings, NOT global system settings, but I believe OpenSuSE calls them something else again...), hardware, multimedia, phonon. The left tab, device preferences, lets you configure for each "sound role" the device priority stacking order. Try testing each one, and move the working ones to the top, then when you have the order you want, hit the apply device list to... button, and chose the other roles you want to apply it to as well. If you're unhappy with the available list of devices and/or if you have problems with devices disappearing and "new" ones popping up for no reason, as I did back some time ago with the now deprecated phonon-xine backend, consider switching backends. I use the phonon-vlc backend here and haven't had problems since I switched from phonon-xine to it, but the default and now phonon-recommended backend is phonon-gstreamer. (FWIW, I don't use the gstreamer backend here as many years and ancient crufty versions ago I had problems with gstreamer, and haven't had it on my system since. I'm sure it works much better now than it did back then, but there's a whole gstreamer ecosystem to install (which would mean building them first, since I'm on gentoo) if I decided to try it, and there have always been other alternatives that worked fine, so I've never gotten around to trying it.) I did take a look in the so-called KDE System settings on the tab you mention, but the Xonar isn't mentioned there too... I'll upgrade to 12.3 and see what happens then. Thanks! ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] kde stops seeing Xonar Exxence soundcard
Op 21-05-13 07:29, tors...@tfrey.de schreef: Am 21.05.2013 01:10, schrieb Duncan: Jogchum Reitsma posted on Mon, 20 May 2013 20:18:46 +0200 as excerpted: I have no idea why, but suddenly kde fails to see my Xonar Essence sound card. Yast (I'm running opensuse 12.2 on this box) still has it registered as the default sound card, and when playng a test sound through Yast, it works. So it's not a hardware problem. But kde doesn't see it anymore, it's not listed anymore when configuring kmix. It did so for, well, at least over a year... That's typically a problem with your phonon configuration or the phonon- backend used. These are configured in kde settings (accurate kde3 name kcontrol, inaccurate kde4 name system settings, inaccurate because they're mostly user-specific kde settings, NOT global system settings, but I believe OpenSuSE calls them something else again...), hardware, multimedia, phonon. The left tab, device preferences, lets you configure for each "sound role" the device priority stacking order. Try testing each one, and move the working ones to the top, then when you have the order you want, hit the apply device list to... button, and chose the other roles you want to apply it to as well. If you're unhappy with the available list of devices and/or if you have problems with devices disappearing and "new" ones popping up for no reason, as I did back some time ago with the now deprecated phonon-xine backend, consider switching backends. I use the phonon-vlc backend here and haven't had problems since I switched from phonon-xine to it, but the default and now phonon-recommended backend is phonon-gstreamer. (FWIW, I don't use the gstreamer backend here as many years and ancient crufty versions ago I had problems with gstreamer, and haven't had it on my system since. I'm sure it works much better now than it did back then, but there's a whole gstreamer ecosystem to install (which would mean building them first, since I'm on gentoo) if I decided to try it, and there have always been other alternatives that worked fine, so I've never gotten around to trying it.) My advice is to upgrade to opensuse 12.3, which I personally consider as "rock stable". Some minor problems just disappeared. I'll do that, but it is strange a sound card disappears from KDE, while it is still available for Yast... ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] LibreOffice - no entry from applications
Burkhard Lück wrote, On 05/21/2013 01:22 AM: > Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 09:51:58 schrieb Kevin Wilson: >> Hello >> After switching to KDE I installed LibreOffice 4 from RPM. >> I cannot find a menu entry for it from under "Applications". >> Is there a way I can add a menu entry? >> > http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-workspace/kmenuedit/quickstart.html LibreOffice usually separates out the desktop stuff into a subdirectory called "desktop-integration" where you should (maybe) find an RPM/DEB/ETC that installs the XDG/FreeDesktop bits needed to do this. (this includes all the Icons, MIME mappings, etc), so would be preferred over manually adding Kickoff entries, if you can avoid that. Additionally, you might need to: kbuildsycoca4(or)kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental and/or logout/login again as i've been only partially successful at times in getting the icons to showup in the current session. Debian Wheezy/KDE 4.8.4 seems even worse about not giving me proper icon imagery until a logout/login cycle :-( We have an NFS shared /usr/local/share/applications here where a firefox.desktop is used. In Firefox 21, the icon changed location, and 'kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental' does NOT load the new icon in Kickoff (shows blank) until a complete recycle. I dunno if plasma-desktop/kickoff (whatever) is supposed to periodically poll or inotify() watch its path elements for changes, but it's definitely not helping me out. --stephen ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] kde stops seeing Xonar Exxence soundcard
Jogchum Reitsma posted on Tue, 21 May 2013 16:49:56 +0200 as excerpted: > I did take a look in the so-called KDE System settings on the tab you > mention, but the Xonar isn't mentioned there too... In that case, you may wish to switch backends, as I mentioned. The phonon-xine backend is deprecated and shouldn't be used (if it's even still available on your distro). I don't do gstreamer here and the phonon-vlc backend has worked well for me, but phonon-gstreamer is the default and recommended backend. (I've never ever used pulse so have no idea how it interacts with all that.) But upgrading to something a bit more current as someone else suggested and as you said you'd try might do it, too. Hopefully... =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] kde stops seeing Xonar Exxence soundcard
Op 21-05-13 23:06, Duncan schreef: Jogchum Reitsma posted on Tue, 21 May 2013 16:49:56 +0200 as excerpted: I did take a look in the so-called KDE System settings on the tab you mention, but the Xonar isn't mentioned there too... In that case, you may wish to switch backends, as I mentioned. The phonon-xine backend is deprecated and shouldn't be used (if it's even still available on your distro). I don't do gstreamer here and the phonon-vlc backend has worked well for me, but phonon-gstreamer is the default and recommended backend. (I've never ever used pulse so have no idea how it interacts with all that.) But upgrading to something a bit more current as someone else suggested and as you said you'd try might do it, too. Hopefully... =:^) Upgrading didn't change anything, I'm sorry to say. It's bed time here, tomorrow further. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] kde stops seeing Xonar Exxence soundcard
Am 22.05.2013 00:33, schrieb Jogchum Reitsma: Op 21-05-13 23:06, Duncan schreef: Jogchum Reitsma posted on Tue, 21 May 2013 16:49:56 +0200 as excerpted: I did take a look in the so-called KDE System settings on the tab you mention, but the Xonar isn't mentioned there too... In that case, you may wish to switch backends, as I mentioned. The phonon-xine backend is deprecated and shouldn't be used (if it's even still available on your distro). I don't do gstreamer here and the phonon-vlc backend has worked well for me, but phonon-gstreamer is the default and recommended backend. (I've never ever used pulse so have no idea how it interacts with all that.) But upgrading to something a bit more current as someone else suggested and as you said you'd try might do it, too. Hopefully... =:^) Upgrading didn't change anything, I'm sorry to say. It's bed time here, tomorrow further. I am sorry for that - at least you have an up to date system (ouch). Perhaps this might help you better http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Audio_troubleshooting and here: http://userbase.kde.org/Phonon http://userbase.kde.org/Phonon#Missing_device_entries I tried on my computer (not your soundcard): - Delete in yast all soundcards. In KDE should automatically arise some kind of messages like "devices are deleted should I remove..".I said yes - remove - restart - result: no sound at all - let the yast autoconfigure your sound card (add / change) - once again KDE should give some messages about devices; I said "no - not remove" - restart - everything worked like before. A litlle bit of try and error ... ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
