[kde] taskbar "tooltips"
I suppose that's what they're called. Hovering over the toolbar where an open app is represented, a popup occurs with the app name, and a miniaturization of the window itself. Is this configurable to get rid of the miniaturization and only show text? I looked through settings and Googled and found nothing helpful. The large size caused by the window's image is a seriously annoying window blocker when the mouse is left where a click occurred to focus that app's window. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
Re: [kde] does a gtk kcmshell5 module exist?
Duncan composed on 2016-07-28 05:32 (UTC): Felix Miata posted on Wed, 27 Jul 2016 23:59:17 -0400 as excerpted: If not, why not? I don't see one in kcmshell5 --list output. :-( AFAIK, no, doesn't exist. The colors module has an option to apply the color scheme to non-kde apps, and that will write appropriate gtkrc files to set gtk app colors, but AFAIK, little else gtk-related can be set using kde system settings. Which is frustrating, as it'd be useful to be able to set various other gtk elements like widget style, fonts, etc, without having to having to figure out which gtk-based package to install, along with possible deps, to do it, something I've never taken time to research. I asked because I had hoped to include such in a screenshot, with a more efficient use of space than a systemsettings window. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2016-July/msg00028.html is the actual screenshot in the context for which created, a show of gtk3 regression high DPI KDE users of Mozilla products are likely to be seeing soon, if they aren't already. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] does a gtk kcmshell5 module exist?
If not, why not? I don't see one in kcmshell5 --list output. :-( -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Need help
Dileep Sankhla composed on 2016-07-11 10:30 (UTC+0530): I'm new to KDE and Qt. I'm also comfortable with C++. What should I learn in Qt framework first to get started with KDE contribution? How can a beginner like me contribute to KDE? P.S. I know this question requires a subjective answer but I really don't know how to start. I just installed Kubuntu plasma desktop. Like for most things on the Internet, Google is your friend. Here are a few it found for me: http://kubuntu.org/contribute-to-kubuntu/ https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved http://wiki.qt.io/Qt-Contribution-Guidelines Given that you've "just installed" Kubuntu, we might be able to be more instructive by knowing a little more of your motivations and background, such as whether you are also new to Linux, and if not, what besides C++ you are comfortable with, and what attracted you to KDE and Kubuntu. Also: 1-subscribe to http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel to see what's going on. Might spot something you'd like to help with there too. 2-register on https://bugs.kde.org/ if you haven't already, then take a look through a query of open bugs. Maybe you'll spot something for which you could provide a patch to fix. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Mapping physical screens to KDE containments
Duncan composed on 2016-04-19 09:29 (UTC): Possible side effect: kmix's popup that normally appears in the middle of the monitor I'm on when I hit the volume-up/down button on my keyboard, still pops up, but is /tiny/, perhaps 16x16px, instead of the normal I'd guess 256x256. Do you have KDE forcing a DPI in systemsettings? What are your physical display densities, and your logical display density? Maybe an xrandr force of DPI (xrandr [-dpi ###,-fbmm ###X###]) at X startup would impact this favorably? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Mapping physical screens to KDE containments
Duncan composed on 2016-04-15 03:58 (UTC): Nick Coghlan posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:59:16 +1000 as excerpted: P.S. I know the underlying multiple monitor support in X11 is pretty terrible, so it wouldn't shock me to learn that this won't be 100% reliable until after Wayland is usable as the default display server :) ... It's only plasma and krunner that continue to get things so spectacularly wrong. Why I don't know, but it can't be blamed on xorg when only plasma and krunner have the problem, everything else works as expected. Never having configured either a triple display setup, or multi with LVDS, I can only speculate that blocking kscreen control of display configuration could work as well as it does here with only two and no hotplugging. Put the following in ~/.config/kded5rc: [Module-kscreen] autoload=false Configuration entirely via xorg.conf, or alternatively, via xrandr in a startup script, is prerequisite to this working as desired. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Mapping physical screens to KDE containments
Nick Coghlan composed on 2016-04-11 12:42 (UTC+1000): Using a multi-monitor setup under Plasma 5 (Fedora 23), I have a problem where the configured panel applet will disappear and not come back if an external monitor is reconfigured to clone the laptop monitor, and then switched back to being an independent screen. Looks like you must have found the explanation why I have a whole bunch of F23 and F24 installations in which I never see a panel any more. I'm never using a laptop, but I do have several multi-output gfxcards to which I only sometimes connect more than one display. When I do, it's always in an extended desktop mode configured manually either using xrandr or xorg.conf* via /etc/X11*. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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 Archives
Istvan Gabor composed on 2015-11-17 16:40 (UTC+0100): > How can I read previous posts sent to this list? > Currently the archive page after logging in says: > The Kde Archives > No messages have been posted to this list yet, so the archives are currently > empty. You can get more information about this list. This isn't the only kde mailing list with that erroneous footer. Maybe it needs a bug filed. > Where can I find the arhcives? http://marc.info/?l=kde&r=1&b=201511&w=2 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Plasma 5 as a daily driver?
Ian Pilcher composed on 2015-11-09 13:40 (UTC-0600): > With Fedora 21 about to reach its end of life, I'm trying to set up > Plasma 5 on Fedora 23, and it's proving to be ... challenging. > Here are the significant issues I've encountered in my first day or so > of working on this. Workarounds for any of these would be appreciated. > * No desktop on 2nd display - This occurs the first time that I log in >after every reboot. My second display is black; no wallpaper is >displayed, and mouse clicks have no effect, although it is possible >to move windows to the 2nd display. Logging out and logging back in >makes the desktop display properly on the 2nd display. > * Unable to set fixed konsole size - This one is known >(https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343321), but it's been more >than 9 months since this was reported, and the lack of activity in >git and Bugzilla makes me think this bug is going to be with us for a >long time. > * System Tray (or other panel widget) overlaps panel "cashew" - Having >a System Tray widget anywhere in my panel causes the right-most widget >to overlap the panel "cashew" (which isn't a cashew anymore, but I >don't know what else to call it). > * Lack of (functional) CapsLock/NumLock widget - This shouldn't be an >issue, because decent hardware should have these LEDs built in. Since >laptop manufacturers are intent on crapifying the world, however, this >is pretty much a requirement these days. The only widget I've found, >Key State, doesn't calculate its width properly; the result is yet >more overlap. > * Turning on the date display in the Digital Clock causes ... more >overlap. > These panel overlap bugs are pretty bad. It's really hard to get the > panel set up in a usable fashion. > All in all, I find myself wondering if other people are really using > Plasma 5 as a "daily driver" (or is my usage really so different that > others aren't hitting these bugs). No way I could use Plasma5 in its current state as primary DE. Indeed there are other options (the latter following can coexist with Plasma5): https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2015-October/016248.html https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/FedoraInstall -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] interesting comment from a poster on phoronix
Hussam Al-Tayeb composed on 2015-08-20 21:27 (UTC+0300): > On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 13:10 -0500, J. Leslie Turriff wrote: >> John Layt wrote: >>> J. Leslie Turriff wrote: >>>> Another of the many good reasons to stay on KDE3. >>> Now that is just trolling :-) >> True. I'm still really unhappy about the KDE4 upgrade fiasco >> and the lost >> functionality that still plagues KDE beyond KDE3. > what functionality did KDE4 miss? At what point in time? It took years to get only most of it back, only to have KDE4 go into feature freeze/out of support with only a very buggy v5 to take its place. > Things improved heavily throughout KDE4 lifecycle But it took a long time to get v4 nearly to the same quality of v3, well beyond .3 and .4, beyond .8, and beyond. Meanwhile, many of those dependent on what was missing. and who were able to, needed to stick with or revert to v3 or switch to TDE. > I found KDE4 by 4.14.xx (with the patched akonadi) to be as perfect as > a desktop can be (It ranked up there with XPSP3). Some v3 feature loss and original v4 bugs yet remain open, or got wontfixed: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158556 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166565 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234943 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262695 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283366 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297217 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297219 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321781 While others make migration to v5 painful to varying degrees individually, more seriously collectively: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317929 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340982 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341143 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343246 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346059 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346122 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350853 This 24/7 system is running KDE3. Only my far less used installations run v4, and v5 here gets similarly little. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] grouping tasks in taskbar
Gunther Clasen composed on 2015-05-12 15:46 (UTC+0100): >> I'm using kde 4.3.4 btw. As you used KDE for 15+ years[1], you apparently were satisfied with KDE3. TDE[2] is an updated fork of KDE3. TDE is available for CentOS 6 (among others)[3]. KDE 4.3 wouldn't have to be disturbed to at least give TDE a try. [1] https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=143142829815806&w=2 [2] https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ [3] http://ftp.fau.de/trinity/trinity/rpm/ -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] grouping tasks in taskbar
Gunther Clasen composed on 2015-05-12 15:46 (UTC+0100): > Yes, right-clicking on some _empty_ space on what seems to be called panel > nowadays gives me the "Task Manager Settings", which has grouping > options. > Well, Kevin, if these app entries in the taskbar have grouping options, > then I cannot see them. Rather than saying "yes, they are there", please > post where they are. Otherwise I will have to assume that this option is > unavailable on a full task bar (aka broken). > I'm using kde 4.3.4 btw. I see according to distrowatch.com CentOS 6.6 was released with 4.3.4 only last October. That's puzzling. 4.3.4 is now more than five years old, rather new at its release, when KDE4 was quite buggy and lacking many KDE3 features. Likely grouping was broken or missing in 4.3.4. Try some distro with any more recent KDE4 version, or upgrading your KDE4 to something non-ancient. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] kscreen autoload defeat
Did how to do this change from KDE4 to KF5? Old way: # kdedrc [Module-kscreen] autoload=false New way??? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] ISO 8601 date/time/metric format selection
Is there something in Systemsettings -> Formats that equates to $SUBJECT among those unwieldy by-region/country select lists? If so, what is/are it/they called? I can't tell if https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340982 amounts to an answer or not. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] How do I use kscreen?
Nikos Chantziaras composed on 2014-11-08 18:45 (UTC+0200): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Width: 51 >> Height: 29 >> If those are correct, that's somewhere around a 55" screen, which at >> 1920x1080 is a pixel density under 40. ... > No, those are centimeters, not inches. These screen dimensions correctly > describe my 23" monitor: You omitted quoting what followed >> OTOH, earlier in that output is reported "MMSize: QSize(510, 290)", which is >> a 23 inch 96 DPI screen. which already explained the difference to any who notice the cm/mm connection, which I didn't do. The bigger puzzle is why Xorg logs contain a variety of units instead of picking just one and sticking to it. >sqrt(51^2 + 29^2) > That's a diagonal of 58cm, which is 23", If actually 23.00", then it's 58.42cm. Display vendors often advertize a size "class" rather than a true diagonal dimension. > and that is my monitor's size. > And, as it happens, that means a pixel density of 96. More accurately, 23" is 95.778 DPI, as I figured out years ago: http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/displays.html ##.# cm and ###. mm are both too granular for configuring X in all cases of attempts via DisplaySize in xorg.conf* or --dpi in xrandr to force a desired DE DPI as the DM starts instead of leaving the task to the DE. More often than not they produce the desired result, but frequently they don't quite get it right in both directions, and the only way I've found that always works is the xrandr --fbmm method. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] How do I use kscreen?
Duncan composed on 2014-11-06 08:42 (UTC): > Note that it says first *DETAILED* timing is preferred. The established > and standard timings are compatibility/legacy timings. It's the first > DETAILED timing that's preferred, and as you can see here, that's > 1920x1080 (the h_active and v_active numbers) for this LG TV. The dot- > clock (aka PixClock) for that timing is 148.5 MHz. > If your xorg log EDID has a preferred (likely first DETAILED) timing/ > resolution of 1024x768 and you're definitely using a native 1920x1080 > full-HD monitor, then very likely that monitor EDID is defective and > reporting the wrong thing. Nikos Chantziaras posted 2014-11-03 13:02:43: "I upgraded my KDE installation to 4.11.13/4.14.2. I am now no longer able to configure my monitor through KDE System Settings..." Note keywords "upgraded" and "no longer". > If OTOH, the EDID in xorg is saying 1920x1080 is preferred, then it's > gotta be the drivers screwing things up, tho at this point I'm pretty > sure it's going to be the monitor and the driver is simply a reporter of > the facts as it collects them, caught in the crossfire. Not likely the upgrade process broke the display's EDID. Note in http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=s7b9kvGv the large size of his display: EDID Info: Name: "SyncMaster" Width: 51 Height: 29 If those are correct, that's somewhere around a 55" screen, which at 1920x1080 is a pixel density under 40. Maybe that's the root of the problem, some sort of driver sanity check failing and blacklisting the higher resolution mode getting through the automagic process. OTOH, earlier in that output is reported "MMSize: QSize(510, 290)", which is a 23 inch 96 DPI screen. That in a way maybe is saying the EDID is broken, maybe in a way that the older version/driver handled but the newer won't. I can't tell without the whole Xorg.0.log. I'm guessing that 510,290 report may be there because of normal X behavior when not overridden, forcing DPI to 96, disregarding the actual display dimensions. If that hardware was here for troubleshooting, I'd second[1] disable kscreen, then either configure an xorg.conf or a suite of settings in xorg.conf.d/, or try an X startup script forcing the desired settings using xrandr, similar to thus: # xrandr --output DVI-D-0 --mode 1920x1080 > ...various modeline generators to generate custom resolution modelines... I've never post-XFree86 found it necessary to include a modeline in a config file to get any display, with or without valid EDID, to use its native/preferred mode, or any other supported mode. Given the parameters one would feed a generator (desired mode, HorizSync range, VertRefresh range), Xorg does what a generator does automatically, and for me, always satisfactorily. [1] first thing I'd do is uninstall NVidia. I only ever use FOSS drivers. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Bad Gwenview
On 2014-08-03 05:40 (GMT-0400) Duncan composed: If you can't get gwenview behaving as you like, try gimv and see if it works better for you. The trackballs I own have no middle button, while keeping track of meanings of middle according to context is something I've never been able to manage, not to mention the difficulty of striking two buttons simultaneously. I have many installations, making the complicated options (multiple displays, mapping) much too much trouble to contemplate. Whatever version is whatever version, as most are whatever Cauldron, Factory or Rawhide offer. 4.13.80 just happened to be the one I wanted to view some images with. I've been able to find no decent keyboards made since the early '90s. All I have were made before Win keys existed. "Decent" is defined to mean function keys where they belong, where one hand's fingers can hit any combination of Fn/Shift/Alt/Ctrl easily. Looks like it has worked in v4 previously: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291759 While gimv might be better than "Gwenview", KDE3's Gwenview clearly is, because when 100% is selected, that's the way it stays until another selection is made. Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks selecting 100% ought to be sticky: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334530 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Bad Gwenview
In 4.13.80, is there a way to make it stop shifting back to fit from 100% when doing next/previous? The Fit button with mouse is a seriously long way away from the prv/nxt buttons. :-( -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] non-themed kdm greeter text needs to be bigger
On 2014-07-21 02:14 (GMT) Duncan composed: Felix Miata posted on Sun, 20 Jul 2014 10:18:34 -0400 as excerpted: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77321 Hmm... Regarding that bug, I see in your xorg.conf you have a screen section, but no display subsection. Does adding a display subsection with the following, in the screen section, work? Subsection "Display" Virtual 1920 1200 EndSubSection The way I remember it, since I've not tried in a long time, is that including a display subsection is totally pointless when the driver in use is KMS, meaning FOSS, for intel, nouveau & radeon. Since KMS went mainstream, I have had display subsections configured only for legacy intel (810), r128, mga and sis gfxchips, all of which see little uptime here any more. For those old chips virtual still works, but with KMS, panning since server 1.10.3 or whatever was latest when https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39949 was filed only works via xrandr, hence the quoted bug report. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] non-themed kdm greeter text needs to be bigger
On 2014-07-20 12:47 (GMT) Duncan composed: Felix Miata posted on Sat, 19 Jul 2014 22:57:29 -0400 as excerpted: kdmrc makes obvious how to choose sizes for main greeter texts headline, std & fail. What's required to configure the greeter's menu text to be the same legible size as the std text? http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-workspace/kdm/configuring-kdm.html doesn't say. Is there an indirect way to make all greeter text sizes bigger without resorting to theming? http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/greeterMousetypeKDE413.png Looks like you figured out how to make a greeter screenshot (an earlier question =:^). Yes and no. I asked in multiple locations, got only one response, via IRC: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/x11vnc That on its own was insufficient. I had to go back to IRC multiply to get it explained well enough to get the job done. I'm still wanting an answer not involving remote access, something much simpler, as is the case while performing a typical distro installation. Be that as it may, while I don't know the kde-specific technology, and don't have a greeter installed here at all as I login at the CLI, one general solution I've used to change font size in the past is to set X's DPI... On your giant display it may not have been obvious, but that screenshot was taken in what should be a 144 DPI context. It's a different degree problem according to what the DPI actually is, but not solvable via DPI when DPI has already been set where it needs to be set or DPI forcing is being ignored. It would be a lesser problem were not KDM ignoring the xrandr commands necessary to work around https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77321 and do DPI configuration via xorg.conf* DisplaySize instead of messing with xrandr. KDM3 doesn't misbehave like KDM4 does: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888055 Maybe I filed in the wrong place, but knowing what I know about v4 locking vs. v5 development, and LightDM replacing KDM, I suspect attempting a solution upstream of a distro would be an exercise in futility. Plus the complexity of getting a shot set up remotely made me avoid attempting to ensure that the problem and absence of apparent solution is the same on other than openSUSE. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] non-themed kdm greeter text needs to be bigger
kdmrc makes obvious how to choose sizes for main greeter texts headline, std & fail. What's required to configure the greeter's menu text to be the same legible size as the std text? http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-workspace/kdm/configuring-kdm.html doesn't say. Is there an indirect way to make all greeter text sizes bigger without resorting to theming? http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/greeterMousetypeKDE413.png -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Make a KDM greeter screenshot
The instructions at http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/taking-a-kdm-screenshot/ don't work for my openSUSE 13.1 KDE4/KDM4 installation. Anyone know where to find instructions that work? TIA -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] menu customiization
I've used KMenuEdit to create a bunch of custom Internet items. This is one such, Firefox.desktop: [Desktop Entry] Comment=Web Browser Exec[$e]=/usr/local/ffe10/firefox -no-remote -P ffe10 GenericName=Web Browser Icon=firefox Name=Firefox 10 Path[$e]= StartupNotify=true Terminal=0 TerminalOptions= Type=Application X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false X-KDE-Username= What I want to do is make them all available to all users on multiple systems in KDE's Internet menu. The problem is I can't find understandable instructions how to do this anywhere. http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kde-workspace/kmenuedit/index.html doesn't seem to cover it, and http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html is clear as mud to me. Has anyone ever figured this out, or found an understandable howto covering it? Do custom .desktop files belong in /etc/xdg/ somewhere? Is placement in /usr/share/applications/ appropriate? TIA -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] FTP with different timezone on the server
On 2014-03-08 22:12 (GMT) Duncan composed: (There is one additional caveat, however. I've been all freedomware for over a decade so I haven't the foggiest if this still applies or not, but at least MS Windows 9x assumed the hardware clock was local time, and dual boots would thus have the time N hours off on the MS Windows side if you had the hardware clock set to UTC. One would hope they've fixed that by now, and of course it doesn't apply if you're not dual booting, but years ago at least, it was a problem with dual boot installations.) https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_the_clock is one place that explains how Vista SP2 and newer Windows versions can use a registry "hack" that enables use of UTC. AFAIK, DOS, XP & older Windows versions, and OS2/eCS are all hard core local only. I'm frequently frustrated by the lasting inexplicable effect of the one hour DST changes on files transferred between Linux and eCS. I can reduce the effect by umounting eCS shares in Linux and shutting down eCS right before the clock change, but it only helps, is not a full cure those hours gained or lost copying or moving files across the network. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Downgrade KDE SC Version 4.12.2
On 2014-02-23 15:18 (GMT+0700) Kanjana composed: It looks like I need to reinstall the distro (this might be a quicker way doing things). It well might not. Experienced users usually keep /home on a separate filesystem to avoid possibility of data loss at OS installation and upgrade times. If this applies to you, it's somewhat unlikely a fresh OS installation will solve your problem, as it sounds like you have a configuration data corruption problem. As at least one other has already suggested, you should create a new login/user to see if it has the same problem before assuming a fresh installation might solve anything. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Downgrade KDE SC Version 4.12.2
On 2014-02-23 15:18 (GMT+0700) Kanjana composed: It looks like I need to reinstall the distro (this might be a quicker way doing things). It well might not. Experienced users usually keep /home on a separate filesystem to avoid possibility of data loss at OS installation and upgrade times. If this applies to you, it's somewhat unlikely a fresh OS installation will solve your problem, as it sounds like you have a configuration data corruption problem. As at least one other has already suggested, you should create a new login/user to see if it has the same problem before assuming a fresh installation might solve anything. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Konqueror please fix many bugs! And make Konqueror browser available!
On 2014-01-26 14:58 (GMT+0100) Kevin Krammer composed: http://www.nguyenthanhtoan.co.za/ wrote: Konqueror please fix many bugs in Konqueror browser when browsing http://www.facebook.com/ I don't have any problems using Facebook in Konqueror. Make sure you have the kpart-webkit installed and selected "webkit" as the HTML component in Konqueror's settings. Choosing to use WebKit instead of KHTML discards an advantage Konq has over all[1] other current web browsers: the ability to display objects on screen at accurate physical sizes when KDE is configured to a DPI matching physical display device pixel density. [1] specially styled web pages can enjoy the same advantage as Konq when viewed in recent Gecko browsers. Another exception is that most old and very old browser versions also are able to display physical sizes accurately if the DE is properly configured. Still another exception is when the physical display device is in fact 96 DPI, and DE DPI is at the usual OEM default of 96, in which case all browsers can display objects at accurate physical sizes. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] System Sounds gone since 4.11.4
On 2014-01-13 14:13 (GMT-0800) Jerome Yuzyk composed: Since KDE 4.11.4 (and now .5) I have lost my System Sounds. Audio works fine in all other ways (videos, streaming music). All sounds that were enabled before are still enabled. Are you *sure*? Any ideas what to look at? Are you referring to startup and shutdown sounds? The devs in their infinite wisdom have decided they should be off by default. This change has caused those of huge numbers of users to change to the new default, which because they had not been previously changed from default are considered personalizations never made, thus not necessary to be preserved when the default changed. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Why do you prefer KDE?
On 2013-12-21 18:45 (GMT-0800) Bruce Byfield composed: As you may have heard, KDE recently topped the Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Awards. That got me thinking. Why do people prefer KDE? What advantages do you think it has over other desktop environments? Originally it became my DE of choice because it was pleasant looking, in contrast to the ugliness that was Gnome when I was first exposed to both over a decade ago. The more I learned, the more I came to value KDE's ability to be adapted to me instead of me adapting to its writers' ideas how things ought to be. KDE4 lost some of its adaptability when it was rewritten to exclude various KDE3 features, some of which KDE4 still lacks[1], are poorly implemented[2], or are hampered by misfeatures[3], while imposing its difficult to disable or eradicate "semantic desktop". I have only KDE3 installed on my 24/7 system, while my other systems are about a 50/50 split between KDE3 & KDE4, not counting a nominal representation of selected other non-Gnome-derived DEs. [1] e.g. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158556 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229984 [2] e.g. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297217 [3] e.g. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318061 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297219 Feel free to quote. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] window snap ignores window border but open doesn't
On 2013-11-21 10:51 (GMT) Duncan composed: Shortest Duncan email I can remember ever encountering, only 8 new non-blank lines added to thread. :-) You're not the only one finding it frustrating =:^( , but based on an earlier thread[1], that's the new (deliberate) snapping behavior. Presumably opening behavior will switch to that at some point as well. Did you ever find the discussion of a proposal to implement this change? I looked briefly without success? I saw the clever workaround of adding panels on all sides in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323504 and commented/CC'd its https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325286 successor. My workaround for this and other KDE4 paradigm replacements is the same one I've been using since the v4.0 was unleashed - use v4 on (my many) test installations only, where "improvements" need not be a source of constant irritation and frustration, but KDE3 for mailnews, 15 tabs across two IRC windows, triple digit+ tabs among 6+ different web browsers, 10 Konsole tabs among 2 windows, and other routine applications on my 24/7 desktop. Lest anyone think KDE3 is "old", I keep another system booted to OS/2 24/7 for my DOS DB & spreadsheet apps. What ain't broke don't need fixin. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] global disable maximize windows by dragging to top of screen?
Is there a way to make drag to top of screen mean *only* drag to top of screen and nothing more, systemwide for all users? If so, how? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Introduction + create a custom user profile for KDE 4.10.5
On 2013-08-19 11:37 (GMT+0200) Niki Kovacs composed: * Deactivate all graphical effects. [1] ... [1] It's not that I don't like these. It's just that sometimes I have to install desktops on relatively low-spec hardware, and this is just to be on the safe side. One can do virtually all bling disabling globally (even on faster systems), instead of within KDE, thus: # /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-extensions.conf Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disable" EndSection -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] [openSUSE] kdenlive
On 2013-08-07 15:07 (GMT+0100) Sérgio Basto composed: On 2013-08-06 at 23:40 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Anyone successfully using this? http://www.kdenlive.org/ remains down (since Saturday at least), but I installed it anyway based on a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdenlive. rpmfusion ship it for Fedora , repoquery -q kdenlive --nvr kdenlive-0.9.6-2.fc19 Same system has F19, so I installed this, which uses a newer 0.8.8 mlt version. Its file picker also only offers the same three file types to open, none of which I recognize as common video file types. So far it is just as unintuitive and useless very other "video editing" application I've tried, which is a bunch. have you a better suggestion ? I was hoping someone would provide me with either a usable suggestion, or an explanation what it is I'm missing. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] [openSUSE] kdenlive
Anyone successfully using this? http://www.kdenlive.org/ remains down (since
Saturday at least), but I installed it anyway based on a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdenlive. So far it is just as unintuitive and
useless very other "video editing" application I've tried, which is a bunch.
Just getting it installed was no fun. I tried it on 12.1, 12.2 and 12.3. On
12.1 it wouldn't install due to some obsolete mlt5 requirement with only a
newer mlt6 available. On 12.2 I only managed to get the older v0.6. On 12.3 I
first got a non-functional 0.9.4 because it required an older ffmpeg than the
one installed. By forcing to the 0.9.6 version from Packman it installed, but
without having pulled in various packages that I had no expectation of
needing (dvgrab, dvdauthor, genisoimage/mkisofs).
The obvious place to start, I would think, is to open a video file, so that's
what I tried. Since all the files I have that need commercials removed are
.ts files, apparently I need something less obvious than "file open", as its
file picker found none of my .ts files in the directories in which they are
located.
So, is this yet another program that can't remove commercials from video
transport stream files? If it can, how? Help doesn't work ("help center" not
installed, without mention of package name containing "help center"). Do I
have to "capture" from the .ts files before editing? Is some sort of filter
missing? The file picker filter list only has 3 entries, none of which I
recognize as a video file type. Is there a FAQ somewhere that's accessible
that lists the file types it can work with?
TIA
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Re: [kde] SUSE/4.10.x konsole stuck on taskbar
On 2013-07-19 15:36 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: This has been happening for months on several systems. When session is exited with Konsole open at 0,0, on approximately every other session start, Konsole opens on taskbar, and can't be restored. Only ways to get it back are exit and start session again, or close Konsole from its taskbar context menu and start anew. Do others see this? https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320561 looks like a match. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] SUSE/4.10.x konsole stuck on taskbar
This has been happening for months on several systems. When session is exited with Konsole open at 0,0, on approximately every other session start, Konsole opens on taskbar, and can't be restored. Only ways to get it back are exit and start session again, or close Konsole from its taskbar context menu and start anew. Do others see this? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] 4.10.4: GTK KCM
The former kcm_gtk package is missing in openSUSE's factory, factory-snapshot and KDE unstable OBS. There is no GTK section after fonts in systemsettings. Has something replaced or obsoleted it? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Virtually Invisible Panel Clock
On 2013-05-31 10:28 (GMT+0200) tors...@tfrey.de composed: Felix Miata composed in English: On 2013-05-30 22:10 (GMT-0400) Doug composed: Maybe there's a way in your distro to change the taskbar color? Of course there is. That's not the point, which is it should be legible with whatever theming the distro uses as default. What point is there in a theme that makes the clock nearly invisible no matter how big it is? If I understand correctly you want to change the color of the clock? I have openSuse, but I think this is KDE and does not depend on the distro. Try to do a right-click on the clock, I have an option "settings for digital clock". Here I can change the color of the font , if the font should have a shadow and in which color. I'm not interested in fixing it for each and every new user. I want idiotic default invisibility avoided somehow, like it used to be, black text on whatever light background color, or white text on whatever dark background color. I need to find out what's responsible for the insanity before I can chose whether and where to file a bug about it. http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/kdemageialowfipanelclock1200-120.png -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Virtually Invisible Panel Clock
On 2013-05-30 22:10 (GMT-0400) Doug composed: Maybe there's a way in your distro to change the taskbar color? Of course there is. That's not the point, which is it should be legible with whatever theming the distro uses as default. What point is there in a theme that makes the clock nearly invisible no matter how big it is? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Virtually Invisible Panel Clock
On 2013-05-30 21:01 (GMT-0400) Doug composed: Felix Miata wrote: Regardless of distro, every new install I can recall in the last year or more the panel clock is all but useless. Why doesn't any theme used by default or containing string "upstream" in Fedora, openSUSE or Mageia have a legible clock (same as the adjacent icons, like Klipper and the panel settings button)? I don't know about the other distros, but in PCLinuxOS, there is a nice digital clock at the right end of the "panel" or task-bar. $SUBJECT was meant literally: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/kdemageialowfipanelclock1200-120.png Not nice, and looks the same in 4.10.3 in Fedora and openSUSE. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Virtually Invisible Panel Clock
Regardless of distro, every new install I can recall in the last year or more the panel clock is all but useless. Why doesn't any theme used by default or containing string "upstream" in Fedora, openSUSE or Mageia have a legible clock (same as the adjacent icons, like Klipper and the panel settings button)? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] global default panel height change?
In openSUSE, /usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/layout-templates/org.kde.plasma-desktop.defaultPanel/contents/layout.js contains this line: panel.height = screenGeometry(panel.screen).height > 899 ? 35 : 27 I always want 25%-33% more panel height than KDE developers think is appropriate, so I have been changing it to panel.height = screenGeometry(panel.screen).height > 899 ? 47 : 35 Each system update that included this file was overwriting my change. To compensate, I've been setting the immutable flag on the file. But this causes rpm failure when overwrite fails, and the updated package according to the package management system remains available for installation, not installed. What and where can be done to globally change the default height so that for each new user creation it starts out taller when KDE is first launched, but without causing this recurring updates headache caused by using the immutable flag? Note: all this would be unnecessary if https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229984 were fixed, so that personalizing panel height, as in KDE3, to a fixed and known value were possible without spending 20 minutes stabbing the panel with a mouse until the right number appeared at random. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Yet another failed KDE release?
On 2013-03-24 13:30 (GMT+0100) Kevin Krammer composed: Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote: It would be a help if KDE did not store in hidden "configuration" files (.kde4) a mort of stuff that is in fact user data, like all the Kmail messages, Konqueror bookmarks, etc. Actually .kde/ :) Actually it depends on whether you use it in a distro that supplanted KDE3 with (alphaware) KDE 4.0 (e.g. Fedora, as with Grub Legacy supplanted by Grub2; and Mandriva), or added KDE4 as an additional installation choice (e.g. openSUSE 12.3 released this month offering both KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.10, also as with Grub Legacy and Grub2; and Mageia 3's offer of both Grub Legacy and Grub2, having learned a huge lesson from KDE3->KDE4). 3 & 4 can't both use .kde/ (cf. /boot/grub plus /boot/grub2 vs. only /boot/grub) in the same $HOME without causing big trouble. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Yet another failed KDE release?
On 2013-03-23 02:10 (GMT+0200) Nikos Chantziaras composed: The way things are, there's never gonna be a stable KDE version. Not in a billion years. You mean besides the one that already exists? KDE3 -> TDE, not to mention openSUSE's KDE3, where the only work done is keeping it building and eradicating bugs, adding no new "features". -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] How to set the screen resolution and gamma value?
On 2013-01-18 17:51 (GMT+0100) Volker Wysk composed: You just have to install kgamma, then you get a Gamma control in System settings -> display and monitor -> Gamma Why, for heaven's sake, isn't something like that installed by default?! You'll have to ask the packagers of your distro to be sure, but I'd surmise it's because less than .01% of users have a clue what gamma is, and fewer care to futz with it, which makes it a non-essential component of a default installation. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] How to set the screen resolution and gamma value?
On 2013-01-16 15:18 (GMT+0100) Volker Wysk composed: I've updated from KDE 4.4 to KDE 4.8.4, and now I can't set the screen's resolution any longer. There's only one choice: 1920*1440. With this, the screen flickers, especially when the background is bright. What distro? What Xorg version? What output from 'lspci | grep VGA'? Which video driver shows in use in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Exactly how/where did you set it before? Are you saying krandrtray no longer works? In addition, the font in the menu bars is so small, I can hardly read it. You may want to try forcing DPI as an overall scaling factor if you don't like specifying fonts in the desktop font settings panel in systemsettings. With most drivers, DisplaySize can do it. Look at http://fm.no-ip.com/Share/DisplaySize for examples. For proprietary NVidia drivers it can be done a bit more directly. "xrandr -q" yealds: xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default Screen 0: minimum 1920 x 1440, current 1920 x 1440, maximum 1920 x 1440 default connected 1920x1440+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1920x1440 0.0* In KDE 4.4 I was able to set the screen's resolution. Last I checked it still does, though I almost never do it in the DE itself, preferring to use an xorg.conf* solution instead, where PreferredMode is the keyword. Check out the xorg.conf* files on http://fm.no-ip.com/Share/ for basic examples, and note that config files are for overriding automagic, which few need for mouse or keyboard any more. It's better to leave unneeded overrides out of config files. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] xserver module missing from kcmshell4 in 4.9.90 in mageia
On 2012-12-14 06:21 (GMT) Duncan composed: Felix Miata posted on Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:54:09 -0500 as excerpted: Is this intentional? FWIW, I have it here in 4.9.90 on gentoo. Do you have kinfocenter installed? I didn't think to check that until after clicking send, then I forgot I did. I don't use Mageia much (or KDE4 for that matter as KDE still hasn't fixed my personal blocker bugs 283366 & 158556, a big reason why not Mageia), and since this is Cauldron, I had no idea what to expect in doing a minimal install followed by installing the packages I knew I needed with urpmi --no-recommends. kinfocenter is in turn part of the kde-workspace tarball as shipped by upstream kde, so that's probably the package name if your distro ships only the monolithic unsplit packages, one per tarball, not the individual split packages in each tarball. Looks like Mageia's inherited Mandriva's un-bright splitting nuisance. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] xserver module missing from kcmshell4 in 4.9.90 in mageia
Is this intentional? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Nepomuk
On 2012-10-12 16:28 (GMT-0500) Brian J Densmore composed: Nepomuk is required to be installed in the latest KDE. But it isn't required to be running. KDE is highly configurable. Look up the following: nepomukserverrc nepomukstrigirc [Basic Settings] Start Nepomuk=false [main Settings] Used Soprano Backend=null rebuilt index for type indexing=false [Service-nepomukstrigiservice] autostart=false [General] folders[$e]=$HOME/tmp/null index hidden folders=false index newly mounted=false -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] no way to add application to panel in 4.8.4 in openSUSE
Where is this supposed to be? Right clicking panel only brings up a list of three: task manager settings, panel options, and remove task manager, and allows to add widgets via panel "options", but not applications. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] 4.8.4 large mouse pointer configuration
On 2012/08/07 08:57 (GMT+0200) Burkhard Lück composed: Felix Miata composed: Where is it? Systemsettings: Workspace Appearance and Behavior -> Workspace Appearance -> Cursor Theme page This accessibility handicap (chicken <-> egg) begs another question: why should anyone need to change it? Why doesn't the mouse pointer size adjust automatically as screen pixel density is increased like text does? The system that raised this question is 180 DPI, where the default pointer is all but invisible to the eyes that routinely use it. I expect to see something either under input devices -> mouse, or somewhere in accessibility, but I see it in neither. Is some special package needed? No, it is in kdebase/kde-workspace -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] 4.8.4 large mouse pointer configuration
Where is it? I expect to see something either under input devices -> mouse, or somewhere in accessibility, but I see it in neither. Is some special package needed? KDE3 had a package called kdeaccessibility, but I see nothing related in KDE4. :-( -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Remove "Send to" entries from Ksnapshot
Re: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287663 I don't see any such thing as "send to" or "export to" in 4.8.4 on openSUSE. Where is it hiding? Could the slowness have some relationship to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283366 ? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] How to setup dual monitor in kde?
On 2012/05/28 08:56 (GMT) Duncan composed: I can now say kde4's better than kde3! Lucky you. I can't: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158556 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283366 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Tell who did you PAY to include Akonadi?
On 2012/03/31 11:13 (GMT+0200) Kevin Krammer composed: However, KDE, as a lot of other Free Software initiatives, is open for contributions from all people, not just developers. So if anyone wants to contribute user level documentation for any of those software components they are very welcome to do so. My understanding is that this is a rather straight forward process, basically just logging into userbase.kde.org and creating a new page or adding to an already existing one. That a mere mortal user _can_ contribute documentation doesn't account for the knowledge of what to write. It's the devs who know what capabilities and methods for utilizing them are being put in, not ordinary users, no matter what writing talents they have to offer. I doubt many users with the urge to contribute have the clairvoyance to know what the devs are thinking or the talent to read sources to figure out what to write. I once accepted a job to write official documentation for an app. All I was given was a beta of the app and a PC to compose on. I got nowhere trying to write anything. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Tell who did you PAY to include Akonadi?
On 2012/03/31 08:20 (GMT) Duncan composed: I wonder if there's a kde4-desktop-based binary distro somewhere that never-the-less defaults to disabling at build-time all the semantic- desktop stuff A simple non-semantic option (not default) apparently is in the works for openSUSE: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2012-03/msg00675.html -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Error starting kde4 after upgrade from OpenSuse 11.4 to 12.1
On 2011/12/07 16:04 (GMT) Duncan composed: Meanwhile, there's a SuSE using regular here who may be able to help better than I can, as I'm on Gentoo, not SuSE. Hopefully he'll be along shortly... https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732342#c11 pending hardware info. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Konsole fonts: just a jump o the left
On 2011/11/17 15:27 (GMT) Duncan composed: Felix Miata posted on Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:43:18 -0500 as excerpted: Do you ever test in anything besides Gentoo? Are you sure you don't have a fontconfig problem? Dotan doesn't use Gentoo. AFAIK (from a different thread) he uses kubuntu. I'm a gentooer, as are Dale and Alex/Wonko, but not Dotan. This is what sometimes happen when I don't get enough sleep, a recurring problem for me. I see Duncan and Dotan in a thread and don't realize I'm seeing two different people until after more sleep or a post like yours. :-( I spend the most time by far in eCS & openSUSE, but ATM I'm updating a Mandriva 2011 to follow up on https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58615 and your previous thread post. That box also has Kubuntu, so I can try the same if mine can be found to match Dotan's release version. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Konsole fonts: just a jump o the left
On 2011/11/17 13:16 (GMT+0200) Dotan Cohen composed: Felix Miata wrote: Long time ago. Don't remember whether bug filed in a distro or in KDE, but got fixed. I looked and couldn't find it. Did you try a different font family with similar result, like Droid Sans Mono or DejaVu Sans Mono? Most of the fonts do suffer this, and all the legible ones. There do exits fonts (FreeMono for instance) which do not suffer. Turns out the bug I had in mind isn't yet closed: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58615 I forgot about this one: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=57564 Do you ever test in anything besides Gentoo? Are you sure you don't have a fontconfig problem? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Konsole fonts: just a jump o the left
On 2011/11/16 20:40 (GMT+0200) Dotan Cohen composed: I had changed my Konsole font size, and now the cursor is half-covering the preceding letter. Playing with the font size I cannot get the cursor to go back to where it should be. See screen shot (attached). Has anyone else ever encountered this? What must I do? Long time ago. Don't remember whether bug filed in a distro or in KDE, but got fixed. I looked and couldn't find it. Did you try a different font family with similar result, like Droid Sans Mono or DejaVu Sans Mono? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Question about Kubuntu
Wilson, Richard composed: I have been using Fedora for years and prefer it, but a teammate has convinced me to try Ubuntu -- he's managed to dispose of everything Windows (ok, he runs an XP VM for those times he HAS to connect to a website that requires IE). But everything else, including some weird VPN's we have to reach have just come up working for him. I am still trying to get one of them (Cisco AnyConnect) working under Fedora 15 64... As he's suggested a change from Fedora, it may be related to Fedora being the foremost bleeding edge distro, while *buntu is a bit more conservative. If you're looking for less bleeding, but fewer differences, you may want to try another RPM distro. Or for greater flexibility, Debian proper. Just so you are aware, *buntu is Debian-based, so you'll find more differences from what you're used to than you would if trying another RPM distro like openSUSE or Mandriva. The biggest difference is the low level package managers, dkpg in Debian, compared to rpm in Fedora. Fedora builds Yum/Yumex front ends on top of RPM, while Debians build Apt-get, Aptitude, Adept (which I routinely refer to as Inept), Smart & Synaptic front ends on top of Dpkg. A major reason why I avoid routine use of Debians is the lumping of everything in to only two runlevels, single, which is as the name implies, and same as in Fedora: single user, no networking, no X. Debian runlevel 2 is everything: full networking and X. This makes X troubleshooting rather clumsy compared to distros like Fedora and openSUSE that put multiuser+full networking in runlevel 3 and start GDM or KDM or equivalent only in runlevel 5. The last time I tried Ubuntu (it was the Karmic Koala release) I noticed that the download install DVD's came in 2 flavors, Ubuntu and Kubuntu. I am used to Fedora where I tell it to install KDE when I install the O/S. Are there still separate installation disks/processes for Ubuntu? If so what's the thinking behind that? With Karmic I had to get an alternate Kubuntu DVD to work with my old hardware; my new hardware (hopefully) won't be so picky. The thinking is a complete installation from a single _CD_. One initial facilitator of *buntu popularity was its distribution of free CDs merely for the asking. It may be that this policy remains in force. If now *buntus are available in DVD, it's a relatively recent development. On a CD, there's not room for a complete KDE and complete Gnome and the default apps that come with either, so different CDs have been provided according to which DTE is preferred. Any CD can be used as base to add any or all of the other available DTEs. IOW, if you install from a Kubuntu CD, adding Gnome can be as simple as running 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop'. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] application starter, etc
On 2011/08/07 22:13 (GMT) Duncan composed: Felix Miata composed: Which package should provide the panel? It sounds like the functional package is installed, since you're getting a desktop at all. The panel, the desktop, that's all part of plasma (the binary is plasma-desktop, the packages would include plasma-runtime, no such package plasma-workspace, no such package plasma-apps, no such package libplasmagenericshell, libplasmaclock, Both installed. kdeplasma-addons, Installing this would pull 77 runner, applet, wallpaper, dataengine groups, plus 7 more libs, & marble-common. Plus plasma-desktoptheme-default, which I installed, but didn't help. etc, or possibly kdebase-runtime and kdebase-workspace, if mandriva is packaging the unsplit upstream kde tarballs). However, it sounds like you may be missing an icons package, or more likely, the KDE SYstem COnfig CAche (sycoca) is screwed up and/or you have some vital environmental settings badly messed up. Does mandriva still use their own menu system as they used to, years ago? If so, it could be related to that and nothing other distros would even know about. I think the massive differences were dispensed with several years ago. I decided to evaluate another approach, 'urpmi task-kde4-minimal --no-suggests', which wants to install the following 15 packages: ark dolphin keditbookmarks kfind kmozillahelper kwrite libdolphinprivate4 libkbookmarkmodel_private4 libkerfuffle4 libkonq5 libpsync1 plasma-applet-folderview plasma-desktoptheme-aya plasma-wallpaper-timeoftheday task-kde4-minimal So I tried picking likely candidates for genuine deps, one by one, except with both plasma-desktoptheme-default and plasma-desktoptheme-rosa already installed, none except maybe folderview look like real deps. So I tried urpme plasma-desktoptheme-rosa, and it wants to remove kdebase4-workspace, plasma-desktoptheme-default, rosa-launcher & rosapanel. After seeing a lot of rosas mentioned in thread subjects on the Mandriva mailing list lately, and with 2011 still in RC, I suppose rosa may be the only available launcher, and broken. I think I'll just give up on this until after 2011 gets past RC. FWIW, this is what *kdm*, *kde* & *plasma* are installed: free-kde4-config-2011-0.85-mdv2011.0.noarch kde4-nsplugins-4.6.5-8-mdv2011.0.i586 kde4-splash-mdv-2010.1.0-3-mdv2011.0.i586 kde4-windeco-dekorator-0.5.1-6-mdv2011.0.i586 kdeadmin4-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.i586 kdeartwork4-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.i586 kdeartwork4-color-schemes-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.noarch kdeartwork4-emoticons-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.noarch kdeartwork4-kscreensaver-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.i586 kdeartwork4-sounds-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.noarch kdeartwork4-styles-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.i586 kdeartwork4-wallpapers-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.noarch kdebase4-runtime-4.6.5-6-mdv2011.0.i586 kdebase4-workspace-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 kdebase4-workspace-googlegadgets-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 kdegraphics4-core-4.6.5-3-mdv2011.0.i586 kde-l10n-en_US-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.noarch kdelibs4-core-4.6.5-8-mdv2011.0.i586 kdepimlibs4-core-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.i586 kdm-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 kdmfprintplugin-0.0-0.1050414.5-mdv2011.0.i586 libakonadi-kde4-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.i586 libkde3support4-4.6.5-8-mdv2011.0.i586 libkdecorations4-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 libkdecore5-4.6.5-8-mdv2011.0.i586 libkdefakes5-4.6.5-8-mdv2011.0.i586 libkdesu5-4.6.5-8-mdv2011.0.i586 libkdeui5-4.6.5-8-mdv2011.0.i586 libkdewebkit5-4.6.5-8-mdv2011.0.i586 libkwineffects1-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 liblockdev1-1.0.3-12-mdv2011.0.i586 libplasma3-4.6.5-8-mdv2011.0.i586 libplasma_applet_system_monitor4-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 libplasmaclock4-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 libplasmagenericshell4-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 libplasma-geolocation-interface4-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 mandriva-kde4-config-common-2011-0.85-mdv2011.0.noarch mandriva-kde-icons-1.0.4-13-mdv2011.0.noarch mandriva-kde-translation-2011-1-mdv2011.0.noarch plasma-applet-calculator-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.i586 plasma-applet-folderview-4.6.5-8-mdv2011.0.i586 plasma-applet-showdesktop-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.i586 plasma-applet-stackfolder-0.1.9-12-mdv2011.0.i586 plasma-applet-system-monitor-cpu-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 plasma-applet-system-monitor-hdd-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 plasma-applet-system-monitor-hwinfo-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 plasma-applet-system-monitor-net-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 plasma-applet-system-monitor-temperature-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 plasma-desktoptheme-default-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.i586 plasma-desktoptheme-rosa-1.2.0-4-mdv2011.0.noarch plasma-scriptengine-python-4.6.5-5-mdv2011.0.i586 polkit-kde-agent-1-0.99.0-3-mdv2011.0.i586 python-kde4-4.6.5-1-mdv2011.0.i586 xsettings-kde-0.11-5-mdv2011.0.i586 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ This message is f
[kde] application starter, etc
What package is supposed to provide a home for this? Apparently Mandriva's 4.6.5 doesn't include it as a dep of anything necessary to reach a KDE desktop. Startx gets me a KDE desktop, but most icons are missing, including the default app starter icon. There's a white X on a red background at the left end of the panel, and to its right are 5 empties, then tools. RMB on the X produces no response. LMB on it produces a list of 3 items: AROSA starter settings, Panel options & Remove this AROSA starter. Similar question for systemsettings. It opens, but none of its selections open. Kcmshell4 can't find some basic modules either. Grepping for locale in --list output produces nothing. Which package should provide the panel? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: 4.7 nepomuk won't die
On 2011/07/30 11:55 (GMT) Duncan composed: > There REALLY needs to be an option SOMEWHERE (discoverable, preferably in > the notification itself, if that's possible) to turn that off. +2^2 I never use any of kmail, dolphin or *pim*, and can't imagine anything else I would actually use that should require semantic desktop be enabled. I use SeaMonkey for mail, addressbook & IRC, largely because they are cross-platform, allowing me to support friends and others stuck in Windows needing mail help. There is only OFM for file management, MC in Linux, efficiently running whether X works (or needed) or not. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: updates
On 2011/07/30 08:02 (GMT-0400) Duncan composed: >> 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. > BUT, the account management link append appears and > is visible in EVERY post, so there's no reason for confusion unless you > simply don't bother to read it. Or maybe it's not there for him to read. Some email readers don't show anything past the line before "-- ". -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] 4.7 nepomuk won't die
I went into systemsettings to disable it. Now it periodically pops up a window telling me it's disabled. How do I make it go away, and stay away? openSUSE Factory (12.1M3) kdebase4-4.7.0-2.1.i586 kdebase4-libkonq-4.7.0-2.1.i586 kdebase4-nsplugin-4.7.0-2.1.i586 kdebase4-openSUSE-12.1-39.1.i586 kdebase4-runtime-4.7.0-2.1.i586 kdebase4-runtime-branding-upstream-4.7.0-2.1.i586 kdebase4-runtime-xine-4.7.0-2.1.i586 kdebase4-session-4.6.95-11.1.noarch kdebase4-workspace-4.7.0-1.1.i586 kdebase4-workspace-branding-upstream-4.7.0-1.1.i586 kdebase4-workspace-ksysguardd-4.7.0-1.1.i586 kdebase4-workspace-liboxygenstyle-4.7.0-1.1.i586 python-kdebase4-4.6.95-2.1.i586 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: Link (impossibly generic systemsettings and system monitor): GNOME & KDE Developers Go To Battle Over A Name
On 2011/07/24 08:45 (GMT+0100) Peter Nikolic composed: > WHat was wrong with the old " Personal Settings " name as in KDE 3.x.x i Personal Settings was not a KDE moniker, but one used by openSUSE and maybe some other distros. > could never understand the need for change except to pre-empt this exact > problem, After all the settings in question are for the individual user so if > user 1 logs out and user 2 logs in user2 may want/need different stiings > hence > thay are not System but on a Per user basis Not that there's any justification for what Gnome devs did, but what _was_ wrong with KControl? KControl still makes more sense to me, as it doesn't imply global settings management, as opposed to user-specific settings management, which is most of what they do. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: disable fx prior to first 4.6 startups
On 2011/07/08 01:35 (GMT+0200) Alex Schuster composed: > I have a dual core AMD 4850e CPU with 2.5 GHz, and on-board Radeon HD3200 > video (using the open-source radeon driver). Which seems to be barely enough > to run KDE4 (using six desktops and running much stuff I must admit). top > gives these values, sampled over two minutes: >27% X >16% kwin >13% plasma-desktop > 5% amarok > 5% dbus-daemon > 3% udisks-daemon > 3% akonadi_imap_re > 3% akonadiserver > 3% mysqld > 2% kget > 2% knotify4 KDE 3.5.10 on P4HT 3.4G & 4G DDR2-800; 32bit 2.6.31; rv380 Radeon running FOSS driver: uptime 16 days %CPU%MEMCommand 1 9.7 seamonkey-bin (2.2, 14 CZ tabs, 32 browser tabs) 2 6.8 Xorg 2 3.9 firefox-bin (3.6.18, only Flash-enabled Gecko) 0 3.3 seamonkey-bin (2.1, mail) 1 3.2 firefox-bin (5.0) 1 2.7 firefox (2.0.0.20) 0 1.7 konqueror 0 0.6 kpdf 0 0.5 kicker 0 0.5 ksnapshot 0 0.4 konsole 0 0.4 kwin 0 0.4 kded 0 0.4 konsole 0 0.4 ksirc 0 0.4 plugin-containe 1 0.4 kcmshell 0 0.3 kmix 0 0.3 kdesktop -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: disable fx prior to first 4.6 startups
On 2011/07/07 15:53 (GMT-0600) Stephen Dowdy composed:
> alternatively, programmatically:
> kwin_compositing_active=$(qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin
> org.kde.KWin.compositingActive)
> [ "${kwin_compositing_active}" = "true" ]&& qdbus org.kde.kwin
> org.kde.KWin.toggleCompositing
> I prefer to state modifications to config files in terms of
> k{read,write}config
> statements, as these should work regardless of the distro (i think). This
> should make it easier for end-users to get the desired effect w/o having to
> hunt around or try to figure out why a section/key/file don't exist.
> Just Cut/Paste and voila' (crossing fingers...)
> This will work to disable compositing for the user that runs it (after logout
> and log-back-in, or if they've never logged in yet:
> kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Compositing --key Enabled false
> This should work to create a SITE-specific (or machine specific)
> Override (that should not be touched by system updates). This will/should
> create files, group sections, and keys as appropriate
> if they don't already exist.
>
> kde_etc_config=$(kde4-config --path config | cut -f2 -d:)
> kwriteconfig --file ${kde_etc_config}/kwinrc --group Compositing --key
> Enabled false
>
> At least this all "Works for Me(tm)" ;)
I'll keep that in mind, but I just stumbled onto something that looks
(possibly) easier, and even more global (since it's in /etc/, where global
config files belong) on the ATI mailing list.
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-ati/2011-July/020647.html
I put a file:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/composite.conf with the following:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
I almost always need tweaks in /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
anyway, so this would be a minor change to what I'm already doing, if it
works regardless of distro. I'm usually multibooting, and all distros added
after the first on a system I typically pre-config with things like HOSTNAME,
exports, profile.local, resolv.conf and more.
--
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words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
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[kde] Re: disable fx prior to first 4.6 startups
On 2011/07/07 22:54 (GMT+0200) Alex Schuster composed: > schrieb Felix Miata: >> I've done several new installations lately, openSUSE 11.4 and Kubuntu >> 11.04, all on i865G video, in each case doing system updates (to e.g. >> 4.6.4) prior to first X start. All have been very difficult to get into >> anything after starting X, including systemsettings to turn off the >> broken desktop FX. Phantom windows come and go, including main menu& >> panel& clock settings, How on further i865G installations can I >> configure a system globally to disable desktop FX by default? Will it be >> the same for 4.7? > I'm not sure if I understand this right... so the active desktop effects > mess up everything, and it is even hard to start systemsettings and turn > them off? Exactly. I can rarely remember the run command hotkey. If I did, I'd open Konsole and try doing things from that, or run command. > Try Alt+Shift+F12, this toggles the desktop effects. I use it on a PC (not Another hotkey combination I'll probably forget as fast as I discovered it, or at least not remember when I need to. > You can also edit ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc, and set Enabled=false in the > [Compositing] section. That would not be a global fix. That file doesn't even exist on a new install until after KDE gets started, and then only for each individual's first login. On Natty, I looked and found only one kwinrc, hiding in a directory called /usr/share/kubuntu-netbook-default-settings/share/config, which makes no sense to me, since this is a desktop install, not a netbook. Looking on the mirrors in pool/main/k/ I see a kubuntu-netbook-default-settings/, but nothing that looks appropriate for a desktop installation. On 11.4, I couldn't find a kwinrc in any of /etc, /opt, /var or /usr. Anyway, would the kwinrc file in Natty's /usr rats nest be appropriate for global changes? It has no [Compositing] section. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] disable fx prior to first 4.6 startups
I've done several new installations lately, openSUSE 11.4 and Kubuntu 11.04, all on i865G video, in each case doing system updates (to e.g. 4.6.4) prior to first X start. All have been very difficult to get into anything after starting X, including systemsettings to turn off the broken desktop FX. Phantom windows come and go, including main menu & panel & clock settings, How on further i865G installations can I configure a system globally to disable desktop FX by default? Will it be the same for 4.7? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: Keyboards (was: Anyone know how...)
On 2011/07/05 01:07 (GMT) Duncan composed: > I know, but it's a usage issue with pan (my client). I've never used any email program that doesn't refuse to automatically wrap a long, whitespace-free line beginning with the character ">". Did you try doing nothing more than prepending > directly to http://? If so and failed and I wanted to keep using it, I'd be all over its devs about inability to not wrap long URLs. It's so unnecessary. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: Keyboards (was: Anyone know how...)
On 2011/07/05 00:06 (GMT) Duncan composed: > A better picture of the keyboard (black, as I have, without the wrist- > rest, which I don't use either). > http://compare.ebay.com/like/150611216303? > var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&_lwgsi=y > WORKSFORME! =:^) Not me. The most important part isn't there. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ErgoLogicFlexProKB2652.jpg shows my idea of ergonomic, but not their center portions, as I use them fully dropped like a normal flat KB. http://stanis.net/uvpub/omnikey102.html sums up what counts for me. Wrapping is not a "long" line necessity, as the following (I expect) shows. >http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Cordless-Desktop-Keyboard-Wheel/dp/B1RMDH >http://compare.ebay.com/like/150611216303?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&_lwgsi=y -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: Keyboards (was: Anyone know how...)
On 2011/07/04 18:05 (GMT) Duncan composed: > Felix Miata posted on Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:55:12 -0400 as excerpted: >> You mean a full KDE4 install? > Yes. Being a kde list, and kde3 being officially unsupported (except by > the trinity project, but that's a separate project that presumably has > its own lists), kde4 would be the assumption. Fine, but out of support doesn't make KDE3 into something other than KDE. Kaffeine3 in OP was intended to refer to whatever Kaffeine version(s) shipped in KDE3. >> So, I'm stuck for the moment using a >> junk keyboard, and thus stifled from making a whole lot of progress. > FWIW, you might consider my keyboard junk, but it does sort of fit the > "insanely priced" category, tho it's somewhat commodity still, and it > anyway works well for me. "Insanely priced" refers to http://www.ergonomicsmadeeasy.com/store/specialty/product/avant-stellar/ which is the only location I know of offering something resembling the best keyboard ever made: http://stanis.net/uvpub/omnikey102.html -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: Anyone know how to figure out what packages Kaffeine3 really depends on?
On 2011/07/04 05:41 (GMT) Duncan composed: > kaffeine for kde4 (that is, probably 1.1 or 1.2.something, depending on > how close to upstream they stick for updates between OpenSuSE releases), > would be FAR less dependencies, presuming you already have kde4 installed > as I expect you do or you'd be unlikely to be posting hereo be so. >> Dragonplayer built into what? I never hear of it before. >> zypper in dragonplayer wanted to install 36 packages. > > Dragonplayer is the media-player that comes with a full kde install. You mean a full KDE4 install? This is one of many multiboot systems in the building, but rebuilt specifically for use with my TV by minimally installing WinXP, oS 11.4 & oS 12.1. I started by refurbing a 6 year old Dell compact with 3.0GHz P4HT, then doing the minimal installs to poke for possible hardware problems. I still have yet to configure any users, wanting to first make sure everything that needs to work works. Consequently, I've installed virtually no software as yet on XP in order to prevent need to first configure user data on E:. The last system I used for the TV was just a bit short on video capability for smooth video. The first obstacle was lack of keyboard & mouse ports. There hasn't been a decent keyboard built in over two decades that wasn't insanely priced. I tried installing a PS/2 port PCI card, but it turns out those things are not real PS/2 ports, that is, they can't get you through a boot loader menu or into the PC BIOS. So, I'm stuck for the moment using a junk keyboard, and thus stifled from making a whole lot of progress. Anyway, after the minimal installs, I did Windows updates first to give the hardware some more runtime. Then I set installRecommends=no in zypper.conf, and started adding individual packages I knew I would use. So far this excludes 100% of KDE4, and includes only as much of KDE3 as I know I'll use for a home theater TV. Space so far used on 11.4 / is a mere 2.3G, on 12.1 / 2.0G, WinXP D: (OS/software drive) 2.4G. Now that I've seen SMPlayer play I can see the video hardware (i945G) seems adequate. http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/smplayer/index.php?title=Main_Page doesn't seem to have a pointer to any mailing list. Do you know if there is one? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: Anyone know how to figure out what packages Kaffeine3 really depends on?
On 2011/07/04 03:15 (GMT) Duncan composed: > Felix Miata posted: >> On openSUSE 11.4 I want Kaffeine to be able to directly play isos made >> from DVDs. Is this possible? If so, what does it take? I tried to have >> YaST2 install it, but it wants to install kitchen sinks, bathtubs and >> garages as well, and I don't want to be constantly updating lebenty >> bazillion Packman things never used, nor wasting disk space on them. >> I have win32codecs, libavcodecs, libxine1-codecs, libdvdcss2& >> mpeg2demux& >> its 3 *boost* deps installed. The fault window is currently complaining >> about missing demux, but also saying found input plugin without naming >> whatever it is. > Kaffeine3? Where'd you get that version number? The latest both on the > site (kaffeine.kde.org) and here on gentoo is 1.2.2 (released 2011.04.17, > 1.2.0 was 2011.04.04). > Or do you mean the last kde3-based release, 0.8.8 (released 2009.05.23)? http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/11.4/Multimedia/i586/kde3-kaffeine-0.8.8-50.pm.50.31.i586.rpm > I gave up on kaffeine when it was still beta for kde4... > > I needed a decent non-kde3-based media player as I was removing kde3 from > my system, and kaffeine clearly wasn't it, at that point, as it was > basically the same as the low-feature built-in dragonplayer, etc. Dragonplayer built into what? I never hear of it before. zypper in dragonplayer wanted to install 36 packages. > So I switched to the mplayer- and qt4-based smplayer, which I've been > quite happy with BTW and which if anything, has even MORE features than > kaffeine for kde3 did. I was just playing DVDs straight off the ISO > image (I have them saved to my computer) to test some graphics config > changes the other day, and I've played the physical DVDs themselves > before as well, tho not nearly as recently. I was only trying Kaffeine because I thought a KDE native would most likely be next best thing to VLC. zypper in smplayer only wanted to install 13 packages, so I removed everything installed explicitly for kaffeine, then installed smplayer. It seems good as VLC ever was. Thanks! 2011-07-03 20:25:50|install|libdvdcss2|1.2.10-2.pm.3.1|i586|Libdvdcss 2011-07-03 20:27:19|install|kde3-kaffeine|0.8.8-51.1|i586|KDE3 2011-07-03 20:27:23|install|kde3-kaffeine-lang|0.8.8-51.1|noarch||KDE3 2011-07-03 20:30:29|install|w32codec-all|20100303-0.pm.1.1|i586|Packman 2011-07-03 20:32:34|install|libavcodec53|0.8-0.pm.1.1|i586||Packman 2011-07-03 20:32:36|install|libxine1-codecs|1.1.19-2.pm.46.6|i586|Packman 2011-07-03 20:53:45|install|boost-license1_44_0|1.44.0-5.1|noarch||OSS 2011-07-03 20:53:46|install|libboost_system1_44_0|1.44.0-5.1|i586||OSS 2011-07-03 20:53:46|install|libboost_filesystem1_44_0|1.44.0-5.1|i586||OSS 2011-07-03 20:53:48|install|mpeg2demux|1.0.2-1.pm.8.3|i586|Packman 2011-07-03 23:21:28|remove |libxine1-codecs|1.1.19-2.pm.46.6|i586 2011-07-03 23:21:28|remove |mpeg2demux|1.0.2-1.pm.8.3|i586 2011-07-03 23:21:28|remove |libavcodec53|0.8-0.pm.1.1|i586 2011-07-03 23:21:29|remove |libboost_filesystem1_44_0|1.44.0-5.1|i586| 2011-07-03 23:21:29|remove |libboost_system1_44_0|1.44.0-5.1|i586 2011-07-03 23:21:29|remove |boost-license1_44_0|1.44.0-5.1|noarch 2011-07-03 23:21:29|remove |kde3-kaffeine-lang|0.8.8-51.1|noarch 2011-07-03 23:21:29|remove |kde3-kaffeine|0.8.8-51.1|i586| 2011-07-03 23:27:30|install|libvdpau1|0.4.1-10.6|i586||OSS 2011-07-03 23:27:30|install|liblzo2-2|2.04-14.1|i586||OSS 2011-07-03 23:27:30|install|libesd0|0.2.41-12.1|i586||OSS 2011-07-03 23:27:30|install|libdv4|1.0.0-155.1|i586||OSS 2011-07-03 23:27:31|install|libdirac_decoder0|1.0.2-12.1|i586||OSS 2011-07-03 23:27:31|install|libcrystalhd3|3.6.4-4.1|i586||OSS 2011-07-03 23:27:31|install|giflib|4.1.6-20.1|i586||OSS 2011-07-03 23:27:31|install|libfaac0|1.28-3.pm.6.1|i586||Packman 2011-07-03 23:27:31|install|libbs2b0|3.1.0-1.pm.4.1|i586||Packman 2011-07-03 23:27:31|install|libmpg123-0|1.13.3-1.pm.1.1|i586||Packman 2011-07-03 23:27:31|install|libbluray0|0+20110223-0.pm.2.1|i586||Packman 2011-07-03 23:27:35|install|MPlayer|1.0rc4_r33574-1.pm.1.3|i586||Packman 2011-07-03 23:27:36|install|smplayer|0.6.9+r3599-1.pm.3.1|i586|Packman -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Anyone know how to figure out what packages Kaffeine3 really depends on?
On openSUSE 11.4 I want Kaffeine to be able to directly play isos made from DVDs. Is this possible? If so, what does it take? I tried to have YaST2 install it, but it wants to install kitchen sinks, bathtubs and garages as well, and I don't want to be constantly updating lebenty bazillion Packman things never used, nor wasting disk space on them. I have win32codecs, libavcodecs, libxine1-codecs, libdvdcss2 & mpeg2demux & its 3 *boost* deps installed. The fault window is currently complaining about missing demux, but also saying found input plugin without naming whatever it is. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: Adding Fonts
On 2011/06/30 14:35 (GMT-0500) Billie Walsh composed: > KDE 4.6.2 > Kubuntu 11.04 > For some reason my method of adding my collection of True Type and Open > Type Fonts doesn't work. > Usually I can just add them to the usr/share/fonts directory someplace > and they work. They show in applications like Gimp but default to just a > simple block letter. In fact over half the fonts "installed" by the > system also don't show. > I've tried installing them with System Settings> Font Manager and > Kfontview but that doesn't work either. > What am I missing? I don't know. However, if you only have one user configured that needs those fonts, just put them in ~./fonts. Simple. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: [kde3] 11.4 - KControl is empty
On 2011/06/01 22:37 (GMT+0400) Ilya composed: >> I asked before I knew that a package (kdebase3-SUSE) that apparently should >> have been installed as a dependency of what I specifically asked zypper to >> install was required but not installed. >> > kdebase3-SUSE includes SUSE-specific settings. >> I don't expect SUSE-specific settings to be prerequisite to KDE function. >> Should not KControl always be populated with something, regardless whether >> any SUSE-specifics are installed or not? > kcontrol was broken in a SUSE-specific package desktop-data-openSUSE. Looks to me more like KControl was broken by depending on desktop-data-openSUSE, since the latter was not installed and KControl had nothing populating the selection pane. Where does the data to populate KControl come from in pure, unadulterated KDE3? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: How do I remove the "new activity" item from the desktop? [OT]
On 2011/06/01 02:29 (GMT-0700) John Woodhouse composed: > The important aspects are the edid disables. Also the 2 power save over rides > if > like me you want your monitor to remain on what ever. I use the power switch. > I > also wish there was a desktop switch to enable and disable system power save > modes at will. As things stand I have to install noacpi or it drives me up the > wall. 'Option "DPMS" "off"' isn't good enough for you? > One other aspect is that xorg.conf can disappear and be replaced by separate > files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ . No signs of this happening but it would > appear > that it's just a case of moving the xorg.conf sections into individual files. > A > meaningless change really as is often the case. Maybe https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32430 is what you're thinking of? Individual files was implemented to facilitate minor customizations that are difficult for individual users to figure out how to make in xorg.conf, which requires a certain system of serverlayout, identifiers, screen(s) & device(s) to get to actually work. Using the separate files one can implement as little as one line to implement desired customization. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: How do I remove the "new activity" item from the desktop? [OT]
On 2011/05/31 11:05 (GMT-0700) John Woodhouse composed: > I didn't match the dpi of the monitor to X settings. I generated xorg.conf > file > mode lines for my monitor using cvt in the console. Initially I used display > size for X scaling but later changed to dpi as this looked to give more > options > for messing about later. 100dpi came about as it seemed to be one of 2 values > X > prefers. That pair of preferences dates back to the days of bitmap fonts, infrequently used on any modern computer, and very rarely seen in web pages. Scalable fonts are tuned to look best at 72 and/or 96 DPI and the most common sizes used at those pixel densities. That tuning usually means a DPI multiple of at least four is required for fonts to scale decently from one step to the next, but fonts usually work much better with a density multiple of 12 or 16, and best at a multiple of 24. IOW, 72, 96, 120, 144, 168 & 192 are usually better than 84, 108, 132 & 156, which in turn are better than 86, 90, 111, 131, 143 & other random densities that match LCD device densities. > My monitor is more like 90. Many monitors use edid so don't need an > xorg.conf file but people sometimes over ride edid anyway. Override is commonly necessary for those with imperfect vision and/or above average device density. Some X implementations are so closely tied to EDID that escape therefrom can be difficult if not impossible, e.g. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692293 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: How do I remove the "new activity" item from the desktop? [OT]
On 2011/05/31 03:49 (GMT-0700) John Woodhouse composed: > I run a 22ins monitor at 1680x1050 that's been with me for many years. About > 9 > I think. Now hd tv's are available I am wondering about moving in that > direction > but there really isn't much of a gain in resolution so it's a question of just > how big one can go before the dot size/spacing becomes a problem. I run the > monitor at 100dpi which produces nice tight clear text. that is a little small > for ageing eyes without some aid. At some point I intend to play with this > and x > scaling to see just how large I can go before things get objectionable. It's not necessary for your DTE's DPI to match your display's DPI. Forcing DPI is a practical way to scale the whole desktop to meet personal needs. Usually setting DisplaySize in xorg.conf will get the job done at the outset, though proprietary NVidia users can set DPI directly. Xrandr can do it, but using it is actually less straightforward, particularly figuring out your distro's preferred place to put startup xrandr commands. DPI multiples of 12 can produce more pleasing results than exact display device matches or arbitrary values. http://fm.no-ip.com/Share/DisplaySize provides settings for reaching 12 multiples. I usually force 120 or 144 and view from a greater than average distance. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: How do I remove the "new activity" item from the desktop?
On 2011/05/30 03:51 (GMT-0700) John Woodhouse composed: > Frankly what it boils down to is I can't see the point in having a > largely empty screen. Many many others can't either. I can't see the point of having any icons on the desktop. It's rare that I actually see more than a tiny fraction of my desktop, over which virtually always lie open app windows. Without the panel and app starter, few apps would ever manage to get opened here. I've yet to start a "new activity", whatever that's supposed to be. I open apps exclusively from the quick launcher items on the panel, or from the (traditional) app starter. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: How do I restart KDM?
On 2011/02/18 17:52 (GMT) Duncan composed: > Felix Miata posted on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:55:36 -0500 as excerpted: >> how hard is it to click once on krandrtray, then to select the desired >> resolution directly? > Pretty hard when one doesn't run krandrtray by default, so one has to > start it first... First meaning once per user. Once started, the user must take explicit affirmative action to get it out of the tray. It's been years since I've used hotkey resolution switching other than to test if it's available, not only because I discovered krandrtray, but more importantly, when I want a different resolution, I typically find it preferable to start an entirely different session on :1 with a forced DPI suitable for that resolution. Try that on windoz!!! -- "How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: How do I restart KDM?
On 2011/02/18 17:18 (GMT+0100) Geoffray Levasseur composed: > To restart the deamon (so the parent process): > * on Debian and *Ubuntu: /etc/init.d/kdm restart > * on OpenSuse and Gentoo: /etc/init.d/xdm restart > Don't know for other distro. All my many openSUSEs it's '/etc/init.d/kdm restart', or 'rckdm restart' for short. IIRC, on Mandriva (and maybe Fedora before sysvinit was obsoleted) it could alternatively be 'service kdm restart'. Since I do so much cross-distro testing, and what works or not varies, and I usually have at least one vc logged in already, as long as it's not a Debian I'm running, I usually goto a vc and 'init 3; init 5' instead of needing to remember what works or not. -- "How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: How do I restart KDM?
On 2011/02/18 16:00 (GMT) Duncan composed: > I still miss the simple C-A-KB+/KB- resolution switching from > before RandR! Not everyone need miss this. It's one of the prices one pays for "upgrading" hardware before the old croaks. It still works on MGA, and presumably on R128 (Rage Mobility) and other pre-xrandr drivers. Still, now hard is it to click once on krandrtray, then to select the desired resolution directly? The old way requires cycling through in order to eventually reach the choice. -- "How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: How to set the KDE path?
On 2011/02/01 17:34 (GMT+0200) Dotan Cohen composed: > It is rather frustrating that the Plasma Krunner (Alt-F2) does not > follow the path configured in $HOME/.profile. If the user has a > wrapper function for /usr/bin/firefox in $HOME/.bin/firefox and > $HOME/.bin starts the path, Konsole will open the firefox wrapper but > Krunner will open /usr/bin/firefox. > The lead Plasma developer mentions that the user can configure the KDE > path by placing an executable in ~/.xinitrc > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263883 > However, it "doesn't work". Googling the issue I see lots of people > asking and the answer is usually to configure the path in > .bash_profile or .profile. That does not work in KDE 4.x, I assume > that it worked in 3.x by the age of those posts. > > So, what is the correct syntax for configuring the KDE path in > ~/.xinitrc? Thanks! Start with http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2011-01/msg00812.html maybe? What I've seen of the responses on your quest to solve this disgusts me. What I do with alien installs is put them in /usr/local/, then start them using fullpath of the executable, putting it in a script in default $PATH if necessary to ease load on user memory. -- "How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] Re: Problems with Screen Resolution
On 2011/01/31 16:10 (GMT) Wilson, Richard composed: > First, my apologies, this is only partially a KDE issue, but I am hopeful > that one of you can help me with this. x...@freedesktop.org or the fedora users list would be better for follow up as the root of your problem has nothing to do with KDE. > I have just upgraded my workstation from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 and am now > running KDE 4.5.5-1. > My Flat Panel monitor supports a native mode of 1280x1024 and this is what I > have historically run it at under previous versions of Fedora. When I > upgraded to Fedora 12, I had similar problems getting the resolution to > 1280x1024, I had to use system-config-display and create an xorg.conf file > and add nomodeset to my kernel boot line in grub to get it to work. > Fedora 14 has deprecated system-config-display; if I add nomodeset to the > kernel line, I don't get a login screen and everything I've tried so far has > not worked -- at least I have 1024x768 resolution -- with Fedora 12 it > defaulted to 800x600. There is no more nomodeset option for Intel video users. > Section "ServerLayout" > Section "Files" > Section "InputDevice" Delete all above sections. They have nothing to do with your problem. Automatic works for them for most people. > Section "Module" > Load "record" > Load "glx" > Load "dri2" > Load "dri" > Load "extmod" > Load "dbe" > EndSection The above section is probably no longer necessary. Depends on which chip you have maybe. > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Compaq" > ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x1024" > HorizSync 31.5 - 64.0 > VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0 > Option "dpms" > EndSection Try adding to above section 'Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024" > Section "Device" > ### Available Driver options are:- > ### Values:: integer,: float,: "True"/"False", > ###: "String",: " Hz/kHz/MHz", > ###: "%" > ### [arg]: arg optional > #Option "NoAccel"# [] > #Option "SWcursor" # [] > #Option "ColorKey" # > #Option "CacheLines" # > #Option "Dac6Bit"# [] > #Option "DRI"# [] > #Option "NoDDC" # [] > #Option "ShowCache" # [] > #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # > #Option "PageFlip" # [] > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "intel" > BusID "PCI:0:2:0" > EndSection You can see most of those are commented away. Uncommenting NoDDC might have an impact. BusID is probably not needed. Be sure on follow up to tell exactly which Intel chip is reported by lspci. > Section "Screen" AFAICT, this whole section is obsolete for Intel chips, but may be useful for some older chips like MGA. > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videoard0" > Monitor"Monitor0" > DefaultDepth24 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 1 > Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 4 > Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 8 > Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 15 > Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 16 > Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" >
[kde] Re: don't want 4.5.95 panel sorted
On 2011/01/22 01:55 (GMT+0200) Nikos Chantziaras composed: > Felix Miata wrote: >> but I can never remember what settings gizmo to open to permit me to turn it >> off. Right clicking the panel I see nothing. Right clicking application >> launcher shows nothing apparent. Nothing in systemsettings looks applicable. >> Where is it? This was nothing but simple to get rid of in KDE3. :-( > Which panel? The task manager? Right click on it and select "Task > Manager Settings". There's a "Grouping and Sorting" section. The panel at the bottom of the screen that KDE3 called Kicker. Where is the "task manager"? -- "How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] don't want 4.5.95 panel sorted
but I can never remember what settings gizmo to open to permit me to turn it off. Right clicking the panel I see nothing. Right clicking application launcher shows nothing apparent. Nothing in systemsettings looks applicable. Where is it? This was nothing but simple to get rid of in KDE3. :-( -- "How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] printer not accepting jobs
[Canon MF4370dn directly on ethernet and using proprietary Canon v2.1 CNCUPSMF-4390ZK.ppd driver.] This results from attempting to print an image from gwenview-1.4.2-134.3 on openSUSE 11.2 (and gwenview-4.5.95-1.1 on 11.4). That results from a printer data error when the system tries to send the job to the printer. After deleting the job in KJobViewer and cycling the printer's power, it remains disabled. If I try to go into KMenu to use the Cups menu selection, it never opens, and I have to log out and back in again to make the bouncing cursor program startup indicator go away. In KJobViewer, I can find no way to make the printer accept jobs again. I'm forced to go into YaST2 and edit the printer's settings, an extremely lengthy process, in order to get jobs accepted again. Once that's done, printing a test page from YaST2 works fine, and so does printing the same image from Kwickshow. 1-How do I reenable printer accepting jobs without starting all over in YaST2? 2-What can be done to get GwenView to print in 11.2/KDE3? -- "How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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] xrandr commands in xinitrc ignored by KDM; kdmrc location
1: Desktop obeys xrandr commands in xinitrc, but KDM does not. Is there a better place to put xrandr commands so that KDM will respect them. Is a bug needed to be filed to get KDM to respect xrandr commands that the DTE respects? It seems rather inconsistent that one does and the other doesn't as now. :-( 2: is the native KDE location of the working kdmrc in /usr*, or is that an openSUSE thing? If /usr*, why? /etc was made for config files. Config files don't belong lost in /usr*, where they're both harder to find and harder to backup. -- "How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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.
