Re: [kde] What is "DimDisplay" and why is KDE demanding it?
Nikos Chantziaras posted on Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:41:46 +0300 as excerpted: > In KDE 4.11 (since the first beta, currently on 4.10.97), every time I > login I get an error message: > >The profile AC tried to activate DimDisplay, a non existent action. >This is usually due to an installation problem or to a configuration >problem. > > I get this message every time, in a weird box at the top of the screen: > >http://13o.imghost.us/NM/power_bug.png > > Any hints on how to stop that from happening? Have you tried setting up a fresh user (or temporarily moving all of your normal user config, including ~/.kde and ~/.config, elsewhere) and seeing if the problem exists there? That would allow you to tell whether it's in the existing user config or not. An educated guess is that the message is from powerdevil, the kde laptop power management app. I don't have it installed here, but at least solid (part of the kde hardware management system) apparently had some major changes for 4.11, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if the existing powerdevil power profiles no longer functioned, triggering a message such as the above depending on what your specific user config was previous to the upgrade. If it turns out to be a problem with the user config, you can try bisecting the problem with multiple rounds of move (when not running kde) about half the remaining config files back in place or away and testing, half of what remains each time, until you find the problem file, at which point you can either simply delete it and start from scratch, or dive into editing just that file, trying section by section and then line by line until you find the problem. (I usually prefer to pin the problem down to a specific line, here, just so I know what the problem was, but of course that takes a lot more patience than simply giving up and blowing the remaining files left to test away and starting from scratch with them, particularly for people who don't customize as much as I do so they don't have as much to lose by blowing more of it away, as I do.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] What is "DimDisplay" and why is KDE demanding it?
On 29/07/13 19:07, Duncan wrote: Nikos Chantziaras posted on Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:41:46 +0300 as excerpted: In KDE 4.11 (since the first beta, currently on 4.10.97), every time I login I get an error message: The profile AC tried to activate DimDisplay, a non existent action. This is usually due to an installation problem or to a configuration problem. I get this message every time, in a weird box at the top of the screen: http://13o.imghost.us/NM/power_bug.png Any hints on how to stop that from happening? Have you tried setting up a fresh user (or temporarily moving all of your normal user config, including ~/.kde and ~/.config, elsewhere) and seeing if the problem exists there? That would allow you to tell whether it's in the existing user config or not. An educated guess is that the message is from powerdevil, the kde laptop power management app. I don't have it installed here, but at least solid (part of the kde hardware management system) apparently had some major changes for 4.11, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if the existing powerdevil power profiles no longer functioned, triggering a message such as the above depending on what your specific user config was previous to the upgrade. It also happens when creating a new user, with an empty home directory. So it's not an old config issue. ___ 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] What is "DimDisplay" and why is KDE demanding it?
On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 11:15:30 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 29/07/13 19:07, Duncan wrote: > > Nikos Chantziaras posted on Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:41:46 +0300 as excerpted: > >> In KDE 4.11 (since the first beta, currently on 4.10.97), every time I > >> > >> login I get an error message: > >> The profile AC tried to activate DimDisplay, a non existent > >> action. > >> This is usually due to an installation problem or to a > >> configuration > >> problem. > >> > >> I get this message every time, in a weird box at the top of the screen: > >> http://13o.imghost.us/NM/power_bug.png > >> > >> Any hints on how to stop that from happening? > > > > Have you tried setting up a fresh user (or temporarily moving all of > > your normal user config, including ~/.kde and ~/.config, elsewhere) > > and seeing if the problem exists there? That would allow you to tell > > whether it's in the existing user config or not. > > > > An educated guess is that the message is from powerdevil, the kde > > laptop > > power management app. I don't have it installed here, but at least > > solid (part of the kde hardware management system) apparently had some > > major changes for 4.11, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if the > > existing powerdevil power profiles no longer functioned, triggering a > > message such as the above depending on what your specific user config > > was previous to the upgrade. > > It also happens when creating a new user, with an empty home directory. > So it's not an old config issue. This: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1301360 suggests: Just delete the Section [AC][DimDisplay] idleTime=24 in .kde4/share/config/powermanagementprofilesrc and its gone ___ 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] What is "DimDisplay" and why is KDE demanding it?
On 31/07/13 04:00, Jerome Yuzyk wrote: On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 11:15:30 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 29/07/13 19:07, Duncan wrote: Nikos Chantziaras posted on Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:41:46 +0300 as excerpted: In KDE 4.11 (since the first beta, currently on 4.10.97), every time I login I get an error message: The profile AC tried to activate DimDisplay, a non existent action. This is usually due to an installation problem or to a configuration problem. I get this message every time, in a weird box at the top of the screen: http://13o.imghost.us/NM/power_bug.png Any hints on how to stop that from happening? [...] This: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1301360 suggests: Just delete the Section [AC][DimDisplay] idleTime=24 in .kde4/share/config/powermanagementprofilesrc and its gone Thanks! That gets rid of the message box. Looks like a bug, so I've just reported it. In case anyone else has the same issue and wants to confirm: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323045 ___ 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] What is "DimDisplay" and why is KDE demanding it?
On 07/31/13 19:53, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 31/07/13 04:00, Jerome Yuzyk wrote: On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 11:15:30 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 29/07/13 19:07, Duncan wrote: Nikos Chantziaras posted on Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:41:46 +0300 as excerpted: In KDE 4.11 (since the first beta, currently on 4.10.97), every time I login I get an error message: The profile AC tried to activate DimDisplay, a non existent action. This is usually due to an installation problem or to a configuration problem. I get this message every time, in a weird box at the top of the screen: http://13o.imghost.us/NM/power_bug.png Any hints on how to stop that from happening? [...] This: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1301360 suggests: Just delete the Section [AC][DimDisplay] idleTime=24 in .kde4/share/config/powermanagementprofilesrc and its gone Thanks! That gets rid of the message box. Looks like a bug, so I've just reported it. In case anyone else has the same issue and wants to confirm: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323045 ___ 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. Can you change the brightness via softare (in power devil)? ___ 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] What is "DimDisplay" and why is KDE demanding it?
On 31/07/13 17:29, dE wrote: On 07/31/13 19:53, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 31/07/13 04:00, Jerome Yuzyk wrote: On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 11:15:30 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 29/07/13 19:07, Duncan wrote: Nikos Chantziaras posted on Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:41:46 +0300 as excerpted: In KDE 4.11 (since the first beta, currently on 4.10.97), every time I login I get an error message: The profile AC tried to activate DimDisplay, a non existent action. This is usually due to an installation problem or to a configuration problem. [...] Just delete the Section [AC][DimDisplay] idleTime=24 in .kde4/share/config/powermanagementprofilesrc and its gone Thanks! That gets rid of the message box. [...] Can you change the brightness via softare (in power devil)? Nope. There's no such option. I'm not using a laptop, btw. This is a desktop PC. ___ 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.
