Re: black screen and cursor, and nothing more
On 17/08/18 16:28, dep wrote: > greetings. > > i'm making an attempt to switch from trinity desktop environment to > whatever version of plasma is installed when one installs kubuntu-desktop > in ubuntu 16.04. window manager is kwin. > > when i select plasma at the login screen, all seems to go well but for the > appearance not of plasma but of a black screen with a mouse cursor. no > clicking of either button produces anything, and the only escape is > ant-f1, login, and rebooting from there. > > i'd guess it's a tiny configuration issue, but i have no idea what it is. > searching the web i've found other instances similar to but not exactly > like this one. > > anybody know what's happening and how to fix it? > > thanks. Hi I can't really help you, but I thought I should add that for at least a couple of months now there has been a roughly 50% chance that when I boot my PC I will get exactly what you describe - a black screen with only a mouse cursor - instead of the login screen. I just press ctrl-alt-backspace twice to fix this...I think it restarts the X server or something? Anyway, it results in a working login screen within a second. Kind regards, Huw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Unable to remove fuzzy clock plasmoid
On Saturday, 15 April 2017 10:53:48 BST Matthias Apitz wrote: > On Saturday, 15 April 2017 11:45:44 CEST, huw <h...@synapticsilence.net> > wrote: > > I just added the fuzzy clock plasmoid to my desktop. Not > > knowing the dimensions before it actually appeared, I > > unwittingly placed it too close to the edge of my screen and > > half of it is now off-screen. Whether a result of that or not, > > the situation now is that if I right-click on it I don't get its > > menu (instead I get the menu that I would if I'd just clicked in > > the desktop). > > > > Clicking and dragging doesn't work either, so I can't drag it > > fully onto the desktop to have a better chance at finding its > > right-click menu. > > > > If I bring the widgets menu back up it doesn't appear in the > > "uninstallable" section so I can't remove it that way either. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Use the menu bringing it up from the pannel. > Last resort, use ps in a terminal to get the name of the application an > remove this with rm. > > ma Thanks Matthias. I did try the widget menu but it didn't help - only widgets that are marked as "uninstallable" can be removed this way, it seems. With regard to ps, it doesn't look like widgets show up as processes, at least not that I could see. I grepped for clock, fuzzy, and fuz and couldn't find it. I did eventually resolve the issue by using Marek's suggestion in this thread, but I appreciate your taking the time to help. Kind regards, Huw signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Unable to remove fuzzy clock plasmoid
On Saturday, 15 April 2017 11:20:13 BST Marek Paśnikowski wrote: > On Sat, 2017-04-15 at 10:45 +0100, huw wrote: > > > Any suggestions? > > I suggest editing the plasmoid out of the Plasma's configuration file. > But it depends on the major version of KDE. > > The configuration files for KDE4 are in $HOME/.kde/share/config . The > file you would be editing is plasma-desktop-appletsrc . I do not > remember clearly the directory of the KDE5 configuration, but I do know > it is different from KDE4. > > In the file you have sections starting with > [Containments][number1][Applets][number2]([optional]) . All sections > which have the same numbers 1 and 2 describe one plasmoid. Search for > line "plugin=fuzzy-clock". Remove the sections describing this plasmoid > and reload Plasma. > > This has done the trick - many thanks for your advice. Incidentally, there were a number of plasma-desktop-appletsrc files dotted around so I used locate to find them. The one I needed to edit was in ~/.config Kind regards, Huw signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Unable to remove fuzzy clock plasmoid
I just added the fuzzy clock plasmoid to my desktop. Not knowing the dimensions before it actually appeared, I unwittingly placed it too close to the edge of my screen and half of it is now off-screen. Whether a result of that or not, the situation now is that if I right-click on it I don't get its menu (instead I get the menu that I would if I'd just clicked in the desktop). Clicking and dragging doesn't work either, so I can't drag it fully onto the desktop to have a better chance at finding its right-click menu. If I bring the widgets menu back up it doesn't appear in the "uninstallable" section so I can't remove it that way either. Any suggestions? Thanks, Huw signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [kde] k3b issue
On Saturday, 30 April 2016 06:46:42 BST ArnabBowmick wrote: > my k3b is not detecting the blank dvd although it is showing in kde desktop > panel. how to solve this? > Hi I'm no expert - hopefully one will come along soon. In the meantime, have you tried clicking Help -> system check? I think this will help identify what k3b detects and what it doesn't. Kind regards, Huw signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ 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] KDE4 digital clock font color
On Thursday 12 Nov 2015 22:55:22 Istvan Gabor wrote: > Hello: > > My question applies to KDE 4.11.5 (openSUSE 13.1). > I would like to change digital clock color font from gray to black. Digital > clock setting offers a "Custom font color" option which I set to black > (00), but the setting is not applied to the font color, it remains the > same gray. How can I change the color of clock font? > > Thanks, > > suseuser04 > It works just fine here, on KDE 4.14.2 Linux Mint. Are you also ticking the checkbox where it says "custom font colour"? I just tested this, and it seems the colour you select has no effect unless you also tick the box. Regards, Huw ___ 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] Kontact unable to create calendar
On Sunday 02 Mar 2014 09:50:09 huw wrote: On Saturday 01 Mar 2014 12:52:11 Kevin Krammer wrote: Hmm. Settings menu in the top menu bar has an entry Configure KOrganizer (or similar, translating from a German localized oned). It opens a settings window that has a General section. In that I have four tabs, the last one is labelled Calendar It list both of my two calendar sources and it has a three buttons, one labelled Add... Through that I get a list of possible calendar backends, one of the being ICal file. Selecting that lets me choose a .ics file as the calendar source. Help - About Kontact says Kontact shell 4.11.5 Debian unstable, but there might be a newer version in the archives now. Cheers, Kevin I seem to be on a really old version! That must be the reason. I wonder why that is - SolydXK is supposedly based on Debian Unstable, but Synaptic is not showing any updates for the Kontact suite. Hmm. I'll have to try installing a newer version somehow, but that's something I'll ask the distro's community about. Thank you, Kevin, for pointing me in the right direction, I appreciate it. (Incidentally, I'm not seeing my own messages to this mailing list for some reason) Kind regards, Huw I solved this, by the way. It turns out that the version of Kontact (and Kmail) I was using didn't have some kind of kdepim groupware metapackage installed. That also meant that it somehow doesn't use Akonadi; I thought that wasn't possible? Anyway, now I have the proper calendar application and I have been able to import my old calendar after a bit of fiddling with Akonadi's resource settings (which no ordinary desktop user should be expected to mess with in my opinion). Kmail still isn't using Akonadi for some reason, and that's absolutely fine with me, since Akonadi is the cause of nearly every bug I've ever had with Kmail. Kind regards, Huw ___ 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] Kontact unable to create calendar
On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 21:43:03 Duncan wrote: FWIW, that's almost certainly why you were using such an old version. Kmail 1, as shipped with early kde4, wasn't akonadified yet. Kmail2 is the akonadified version, and first shipped with kdepim 4.6, tho kdepim version numbers weren't synced with the monthly kde releases until 4.7, and upstream support for kdepim 4.4 continued thru kde 4.7 and some distros continued to ship it for 4.8 as well. After 4.8 however, while a few distros continue to ship the old kdepim 4.4 in ordered to avoid the akonadification and yours is apparently one of them, it has gotten increasingly difficult to do so as kdelibs and etc move on and various minor bits break, plus it's old enough now few people consider it in support contexts any more, thus the situation we saw here. Anyway, if you're actually using the event calendar and etc, then a newer kdepim may eventually make sense for you, particularly a later one like kde 4.12, since (they claim, I won't touch kdepim at all these days so I wouldn't personally know) many of the bugs have been worked out by now, and the kdepim suite integration akonadi makes possible can be considered a bonus in that situation. But it still doesn't make sense for the people who pretty much only used kmail, and for whom the rest of the groupware is simply bloatware. That's why many of us have moved to other solutions. I and others have been quite happy with the gtk-based claws-mail (the migration was a pain but I've been very happy I did it), and others have switched to thunderbird. I've seen a few that switched to evolution, but since that's basically groupware too, particularly for people who prefer to stick with a kde desktop in general, that's a lot of extra bloat too, since it brings in much more of gnome. It raises a question in my mind. I will probably sound like yet another whiner and I'm sure it's been said before on this list, but why oh why have the KDE devs persisted with Akonadi? I know that I'm far from alone in having experienced multiple issues with it, when Kmail1 worked just fine. There's just bug after bug after bug, problem after problem. Every solution, every temporary workaround, has involved fiddling deep within config files for this most maligned of daemons. I strongly doubt they've had a single email from someone thanking them for the life-saving addition of this problematic, hellish...whatever Akonadi is. What benefit has it brought anyone? I've often criticised the Gnome team since Gnome 3.x for trying to make too many decisions for the users, but KDE's insistence on Akonadi makes me look rather hypocritical. With regard to groupware - apparently, wanting mail + calendar puts me in the category of people who need groupware. So be it, but again I have to ask why Akonadi is a must. Thunderbird apparently manages to integrate mail + calendar quite well. Whenever I've had a problem with Kmail I've switched to Thunderbird temporarily and always been quite pleased with it. However I'm something of a KDE fanboy - despite its ongoing issues - and I actually /want/ the semantic desktop experience or whatever they're calling it. Here's an example: the system clock, sitting right there in my systray. I /like/ that I can click on it and bring up a little calendar that has integrated perfectly with my Kontact calendar. Anyway. I just clicked About, and apparently I'm using Kmail 1.13.7 on KDE development platform 4.12.1, so it looks like SolydXK is managing to bundle Kmail1 rather than Kmail2. As long as they can keep it working, I'll be grateful. Akonadi seems capable (thus far) of handling my calendar, but the longer I can keep my mail out of its satanic clutches, the happier I will be. Huw ___ 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] Kontact unable to create calendar
On Sunday 09 Mar 2014 01:49:01 Thomas Tanghus wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2014 22:52 huw wrote: but the longer I can keep my mail out of its satanic clutches, the happier I will be. Do you really think your BS will encourage the developers to iron out the remaining bugs? Don't bother answering - it was a rhetorical question. Thanks for your fascinating contribution to the discussion. As a user, giving feedback and filing bug reports is all I can do, yes? Or would you prefer I sit quietly and just accept every single decision that's made for me, ignoring all the problems? Kindly keep the mailing list free of your idiocy in the future. Thanks. Huw ___ 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] Kontact unable to create calendar
On Saturday 01 Mar 2014 12:52:11 Kevin Krammer wrote: Hmm. Settings menu in the top menu bar has an entry Configure KOrganizer (or similar, translating from a German localized oned). It opens a settings window that has a General section. In that I have four tabs, the last one is labelled Calendar It list both of my two calendar sources and it has a three buttons, one labelled Add... Through that I get a list of possible calendar backends, one of the being ICal file. Selecting that lets me choose a .ics file as the calendar source. Help - About Kontact says Kontact shell 4.11.5 Debian unstable, but there might be a newer version in the archives now. Cheers, Kevin I seem to be on a really old version! That must be the reason. I wonder why that is - SolydXK is supposedly based on Debian Unstable, but Synaptic is not showing any updates for the Kontact suite. Hmm. I'll have to try installing a newer version somehow, but that's something I'll ask the distro's community about. Thank you, Kevin, for pointing me in the right direction, I appreciate it. (Incidentally, I'm not seeing my own messages to this mailing list for some reason) Kind regards, Huw ___ 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] Kontact unable to create calendar
I've just installed SolydXK, KDE version, which is based on Debian unstable. I'm using Kontact 1.13.7 and KDE 4.12.1. I backed up my previous calendar, and now I can't import it. If I try and import it as a new calendar I get unable to create calendar ~/icalout.ics. If I try to merge it with an existing calendar (which as yet has nothing in it) I get a different error popup which keeps popping up every time I click OK, and I can do nothing but kill the whole process. How do I import my calendar? (I can retrieve the error message later if necessary - if I tried to do it now I wouldn't be able to send this email) Many thanks in advance. Huw ___ 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] Kickoff launcher doesn't save settings
Hi everyone A minor issue, but it bugs me nonetheless. I use Kickoff and I don't want it to switch tabs when I hover the mouse over them. I uncheck the relevant box in the settings and click apply, and it behaves for the rest of the session. However it does it again in the next session unless I go back into the settings. Any idea how I can fix this? Thanks in advance. Huw ___ 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.
