Fwd: Where are the KDE "Standard shortcuts" settings stored?

2015-07-24 Thread Alan Ezust
-- Forwarded message -- From: Alan Ezust Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:46 AM Subject: Re: Where are the KDE "Standard shortcuts" settings stored? To: Martin Steigerwald It appears my problem was caused by old stuff in my .config directory, rather than .local/share but

Where are the KDE "Standard shortcuts" settings stored?

2015-07-23 Thread Alan Ezust
I have a weird problem with KDE Plasma right now. I'm using kubuntu vivid. sorry if I need to post to a kubuntu form and not here. KDE programs crash or do not work properly if i use one particular login, but I can not reproduce these issues with a newly created user and KDE settings. I first cl

Re: I look forward to Baloo :)

2014-05-06 Thread Alan Ezust
It seems that Kubuntu switched to the elevator io scheduling option in the kernel. If debian sticks to cfq, then the performance problems kubuntu people are seeing won't hit the debian users, I think... See comment#57 of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331932 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: I look forward to Baloo :)

2014-04-23 Thread Alan Ezust
Baloo is really trouble, at least in its current form. It made my upgrade/restore process (and every other process that I spawned after that) take a lot longer until I figured out how to disable it. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333655 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331932

Re: I look forward to Baloo :)

2014-04-23 Thread Alan Ezust
I just tried it in Kubuntu and it keeps my drive light on CONSTANTLY, and is always eating CPU, even if I add /home to the list of ignored folders. Please, KDE developers, bring back a checkbox that lets us disable it!! On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi! > > This j

Re: Window decorations/qt theme resets to some default after a while of being logged in

2014-03-24 Thread Alan Ezust
I ran into something similar but it sounds a little different from your issue. https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-36184 But for me, it was consistent - apps using Qt5 ran with a different style from my Qt4 apps. If this is what you are experiencing, double-check that you don't have a

Re: Vermoix busted?

2013-11-15 Thread Alan Ezust
Not the answer you were looking for, but I installed kubuntu 13.10 and the problem went away. On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Rubin Abdi wrote: > Adding Veromix to a panel makes plasma-desktop barf. Any tips on making > this not be so problematic? > > -- > Rubin > ru...@starset.net > >

Re: What time zone am I in?

2013-09-10 Thread Alan Ezust
I switch back to Los Angeles time and now it's 9:57 AM like it should be. What is up with that? On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Alan Ezust wrote: > I changed from Los Angeles time zone to Vancouver time zone, and now I > can't figure out where I am. > >

Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-16 Thread Alan Ezust
I use skype and pulseaudio in Debian Wheezy. I just recently started using pulseaudio and I like it, especially since I have 2 sound cards and I like to have System and Skype sounds go through my analog output while my music going through a digital output. What I have observed, however, is that so

Re: Phonon and pulseaudio

2012-03-11 Thread Alan Ezust
Ok, you convinced me. So I am trying pulseaudio again. Before installing pulseaudio, I was able to see digital as well as analog outputs for each of my 2 sound cards, now in kmix, I see only one output device for each sound card, and it's described as "analog". And interestingly enough, it seems

Re: Phonon and pulseaudio

2012-02-27 Thread Alan Ezust
I have to say, this recent upgrade was a rather painful for similar reasons to others that posted in this thread. I have 2 sound cards, each one with digital and analog outputs. After a recent upgrade, all but 2 devices were found, and only one of them actually worked. And this was regardless of w

Re: cannot open consolekit session, kded4 crash on startup, khotkeys not working

2012-02-06 Thread Alan Ezust
Just a follow-up. I no longer get this crash, if I first start up the dbus service. For some reason dbus was not running, causing kded and other things to not start up properly. Nevermind! --alan On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Alan Ezust wrote: > I just installed a new debian KDE test

cannot open consolekit session, kded4 crash on startup, khotkeys not working

2012-02-05 Thread Alan Ezust
I just installed a new debian KDE testing (wheezy) weekly snapshot about 2 weeks ago (January 2012) Whenever I login, I see the dialog: "Cannot Open ConsoleKit Session" - Failed to execute /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper When I am logged in, there is no kded4 running. I try to start i

Re: KDE window decorations around Java modal dialogs incorrectly show "minimize" button.

2011-07-14 Thread Alan Ezust
I tried plastik, qtcurve, tabstrip and oxygen. Same result. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Thursday, 2011-07-14, Alan Ezust wrote: > > Just wondering, i am using jEdit with debian KDE 4.6.3 (and confirmed in > > 4.6.5 also w/ kubuntu) that > > wh

KDE window decorations around Java modal dialogs incorrectly show "minimize" button.

2011-07-14 Thread Alan Ezust
Just wondering, i am using jEdit with debian KDE 4.6.3 (and confirmed in 4.6.5 also w/ kubuntu) that when jEdit lets desktop draw the window borders (make sure under global options - appearance that the two checkboxes "draw using swing look and feel" are un-checked). then you can pop up the global

using amarok 2.2 with alsa on kde 4 w/ digital soundcard and other apps using it at the same time

2010-02-03 Thread Alan Ezust
I was just wondering, I notice that some of pre-kde4 apps like kaffeine can play audio through ALSA, which means that multiple apps can share my sound card (the sound goes simultaneously through digital and analog outputs which I also like). However, when amarok uses the KDE4 system directly, it t

kdmgreet: no greeter widget plugin loaded: check the configuration

2009-05-30 Thread Alan Ezust
Has anyone seen this after upgrading from kde3 to kde4 in debian testing? I can't see the login screen. What configuration should I be checking? If I accidentally wiped out my /etc/kde4, how do I tell apt to re-create the default settings files again? (I thought it would be dpkg-reconfigure kdebas

kmail disconnected imap: moving messages to subfolders and sync'ing afterwards.

2008-06-12 Thread Alan Ezust
If I have a disconnected imap account with subfolders, and I have filters or perform actions that move messages from one folder to the other, what is the proper order to synchronize? Is there a single atomic operation I can perform that synchronizes the subfolders along with their parent folder? It

k3b: find: /dev/.static: Permission denied

2007-07-03 Thread Alan Ezust
Recently I tried burning a CD for the first time in a while. K3B doesn't seem to work at the moment. Nothing is shown in the GUI, it gets stuck at 0%, but the stderr shows me this: find: /dev/.static: Permission denied QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key QGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null ke

using KDE file chooser from Swing apps?

2007-04-29 Thread Alan Ezust
I was just wondering, I'm using this wonderful LD_PRELOAD hack known as "kgtk-wrapper", for GTK apps that lets me use KDE file chooser from firefox, gimp, and dia, and even eclipse, because SWT uses GTK in Linux. Does anyone know how to do something similar for Swing apps? That would be a dream c

konqueror: icon in taskbar window button keeps changing to the page's favicon.ico

2006-10-27 Thread Alan Ezust
I often look down at the taskbar window and I'd like to be able to see a recognizable icon that I can click on that will always bring up Konqueror. Unfortunately, the icon in the button keeps changing, depending on what page I am viewing - it grabs the favicon.ico, which at first I thought was a c

vlc on 2nd screen?

2006-10-02 Thread Alan Ezust
Hi - I'm running a kanotix debian unstable with 2 screens in twinview mode, nvidia fx5500. Works great with Kaffeine, I can go into full screen mode on either of my two screens. When I run VLC, however, a GTK app running inside KDE, it only seems to know about my left screen when it goes into ful

gtk apps lost antialiasing settings after upgrade

2006-07-09 Thread Alan Ezust
I am using debian unstable (kanotix) and I just did a dist-upgrade. Now all my gtk apps (like firefox) have crappy font settings again. It's as if the gtk2-engines-gtk-qt is no longer working properly. With firefox, it's more than just the fonts though - the layout of text is all strange, and lot

Re: how to instal libgtk2.0-dev without upgrading to xorg7?

2006-04-30 Thread Alan Ezust
I thought I'd answer my own question about the matrox card. http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?t=19691&; Has anyone gotten the latest xorg7 working with dual head matrox drivers? Still wondering about how to get the older -dev packages, because it would be nice to know how to do it, b

how to instal libgtk2.0-dev without upgrading to xorg7?

2006-04-30 Thread Alan Ezust
hi - i got a brand-new install of kanotix and a matrox G550. I got the driver installed and running fine with the version of xorg that came with kanotix 2005-04, but now I want to install libgtk2.0-dev, and my attempt to do this is causing apt to want to upgrade xorg7. I tried it once, and broke

Re: Data Organizing Program? [OT?]

2006-02-04 Thread Alan Ezust
I just started playing around with a program called "kdissert" which might be exactly what you are looking for. apt-get install kdissert There is also kjots, which isn't quite as graphical. On 2/3/06, John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 04:12 pm, Johannes Graumann wrote

Re: matrox G550 driver doesn't support xserver 6.9.0

2006-01-29 Thread Alan Ezust
just reported "the driver is up to date". I tried installing the latest one I found on the website (4.3.0) and it said "the drivers do not support the current version of your X server". On 1/29/06, HeWe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 18:01

matrox G550 driver doesn't support xserver 6.9.0

2006-01-29 Thread Alan Ezust
So I just did an apt-get upgrade, and now I'm running xserver 6.9.0. Alas, the latest version of the matrox linux drivers only support 6.8.2. Which means I don't have X11 anymore. Just a little blinking cursor on a black screen. Is it possible to downgrade to an older version of xserver until I ca

Re: k3b and k3blibs missing dependencies on Sid?

2006-01-21 Thread Alan Ezust
I will second that - I did the exact same thing (dist-upgrade, let it uninstall, and then reinstall it myself), and now i have kde3.5 + k3b and it's beautiful! Great work, debian - KDE developers!! On 1/19/06, Ken Wahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kapke and Isaac, > > Thank you, your suggestions

Re: How to report bugs for 3.5.0 packages?

2005-12-17 Thread Alan Ezust
bugs.kde.org has a field where you report what version you are using, and what source of packages they came from. Try using the "report bug" feature of the actual KDE application, then it will include all that version information in the bug report for you :-)

Re: kdelibs4-dev on sid?

2005-11-25 Thread Alan Ezust
let me qualify that - now that I've removed kdebase and I still can't install it. The following packages have unmet dependencies: kdelibs4-dev: Depends: libarts1-dev (>= 1.4.2) but it is not going to be installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get install libarts1-dev kdelibs4-dev Reading package lists..

kdelibs4-dev on sid?

2005-11-25 Thread Alan Ezust
I'm having a terrible difficulty installing kdelibs4-dev in sid - is it a broken package?

lock screen command?

2005-11-02 Thread Alan Ezust
When I select the "K" menu, one of my choices is "lock screen". It's one of the few menu choices which I am unable to find in kmenuedit. Is there a command one can run from the command line which does the same thing as "lock screen" from the k menu?

Re: KDE menu applications gone

2005-08-31 Thread Alan Ezust
did that. I still get this message: kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/ And no items in the KControl menu. Any other ideas? On 8/28/05, Josh Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes - the important package is kdelibs-data:> > > dpkg -i

Re: KDE menu applications gone

2005-08-28 Thread Alan Ezust
o the KDE menu though - it was related to the kcontrol menu groups. Any other suggestions on how to get kcontrol items back after a downgrade? On 8/23/05, garaged <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/23/05, Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Alan Ezust wrote:>> > Sorry, c

Re: KDE menu applications gone

2005-08-22 Thread Alan Ezust
Sorry, could you elaborate on how you did an apt-get of an older version of the .deb file? I am in exactly the same boat - I just downgraded to testing, and kcontrol shows up with no icons at all. On 8/18/05, Tim Ruehsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ;-) that happened to me this morning as well (m

Re: For sid users: An overview of the KDE C++ ABI transition

2005-08-22 Thread Alan Ezust
I just tried to install a package which caused the removal of all my KDE packages. I thought it would be possible to get KDE back again, but it seems I am unable to install kdebase anymore. So then I tried to install kde from source using konstruct. make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ezust/worksp

Re: gmail in kmail

2005-08-13 Thread Alan Ezust
Many ISPs block outgoing SMTP from sending out messages not containing a From: or Reply-To: with ISP's address. Which means you should be able to use gmail's smtp for sending messages with a FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you should also be able to use your ISP's provider for sending out e-mails tha

Re: ooo in kde

2005-07-09 Thread Alan Ezust
me too. here is the backtracke... (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found) `system-supplied DSO at 0xe000' has disappeared; keeping its symbols. (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging

/etc/apt/preferences for kde 3.4

2005-06-18 Thread Alan Ezust
So I found the source for kde 3.4 debian packages (alioth), added it to my sources.list. Tried a dist-upgrade and it kept all my kde apps back. Then I tried apt-get -t experimental dist-upgrade and it found the 3.4 KDE packages but also tried to upgrade to experimental versions of other pack