Re: Odd problem with KDE (on sid)

2010-10-14 Thread B. Alexander
I actually had something similar to this happen. I would be typing, say, an email, and all of a sudden, the caps lock would be on, except it was for all keys and what not. I found that somehow, gestures.and stickykeys had been turned on. It still does it on rare occasion, and I was wondering how it

Odd occurrence with keyboard control keys

2010-05-31 Thread B. Alexander
Hey, I'm having a wierd occurrence with my keyboard keys. First, I'm running sid with kde 4.4.3-2 with Compiz 0.8.3. I've been running this configuration (kde + compiz) for a couple of years. Lately, call it the last month or so, I get strange keyboard behavior. I can be composing an email here i

Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?

2010-05-18 Thread B. Alexander
this is to go into a terminal window and restart kdm or reboot. I hope this report helps a bit. --b On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:56 PM, B. Alexander wrote: > I just upgraded my workstation to 4.4.3, and I ran into a problem where > right clicking on the desktop and clicking Desktop Ac

Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?

2010-05-12 Thread B. Alexander
Sorry...My panel... On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Frederik Schwarzer wrote: > [B. Alexander - Mittwoch 12 Mai 2010 00:56:43] > > > clicking Desktop Activity Settings causes my to disappear > > your what? (did it disappear from this email as well?) Spooky :) > &g

Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?

2010-05-11 Thread B. Alexander
I just upgraded my workstation to 4.4.3, and I ran into a problem where right clicking on the desktop and clicking Desktop Activity Settings causes my to disappear. I tried it three times and all three, it happened (please see Einstein's definition of insanity...) I am running compiz on top of KDE

KDE menu wierdness

2010-05-03 Thread B. Alexander
On my sid box at home, I had an issue which turned my KDE menu topsy turvy. Note that I am running 32 bit sid on this box. On my 64-bit machine at work, I haven't seen this behavior. Originally, the top-level menu categories were similar to the ones on kde 3.5: Debian, Development, Edutainment, G

4.4.1 in sid

2010-03-27 Thread B. Alexander
Any idea when 4.4.1 will make it into sid? (I'm assuming "when it's ready" is the accepted answer)

Re: Sound broken after upgrade

2010-02-21 Thread B. Alexander
Interesting...I don't have alsaconf. According to apt-file, it should be in alsa-utils, but I even did a reinstall of the package, and it still isn't there. According to packages.debian.org, it doesn't exist in the alsa-utils package either. --b 2010/2/21 Juan Manuel Márquez > Hello. > > I've h

Sound broken after upgrade

2010-02-20 Thread B. Alexander
Need a little help here. If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it. I last upgraded this box on 18 February, and ever since, I have no sound. I have an SB Live 5.1 in the box, and things worked fine before the upgrade. However, when I log in to KDE (4.3.4), I get

Re: Managing music library with amaroK

2010-01-09 Thread B. Alexander
;show under various artists" creates multiple entries in the database for the album, all containing duplicate tracks? Thanks, --b On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Valentin Pavlyuchenko wrote: > 2010/1/6 B. Alexander : > > Ever since I upgraded to amaroK 2.x, I have had a problem with

Managing music library with amaroK

2010-01-05 Thread B. Alexander
Ever since I upgraded to amaroK 2.x, I have had a problem with the collection manager not seeing various media files, but it is only on one machine, but not on another that is almost identically configured. It appears that a good percentage of them are albums I bought off of Amazon. As I said, this

KDE + Compiz question

2009-11-28 Thread B. Alexander
I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this question, but here goes... I just built a brand new sid box at my new job. On that box, I am running KDE 4.3.2 and using Compiz as a window manager. I know KDE4 has its own compositing engine, but to be honest, last time I tried the internal composi

KDE + Compiz question

2009-11-25 Thread B. Alexander
I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this question, but here goes... I just built a brand new sid box at my new job. On that box, I am running KDE 4.3.2 and using Compiz as a window manager. I know KDE4 has its own compositing engine, but to be honest, last time I tried the internal composi

Re: KDE Support in Debian

2009-11-10 Thread B. Alexander
On 11/10/09, Scott wrote: > Hi, > > I have been contemplating the idea of switching from Ubuntu to Debian. > Even though I like KDE better I use Gnome on Ubuntu. The reason why I > use Ubuntu (With Gnome) and not Kubuntu (With KDE) is that I don't like > how it is more difficult to find h

Re: automatic mounting of an encrypted harddrive

2009-10-22 Thread B. Alexander
So it sees the drive. Is it listed in /etc/crypttab? That is what should cause it to prompt you for the passphrase. On 10/22/09, Tobias Schula wrote: > Am Donnerstag 22 Oktober 2009 08:02:48 schrieb Ritesh Raj Sarraf: >> B. Alexander wrote: >> > I haven't tried it, but

Re: automatic mounting of an encrypted harddrive

2009-10-21 Thread B. Alexander
I haven't tried it, but take a look at Krypt at http://krypt.berlios.de/. As for decrypting the drive, I would think if you put the drive into /etc/crypttab, it should remove the need to run the cryptsetup command. I should (hopefully, time permitting) be able to look at this this weekend, as I ha

Re: Jobs in Notifications and Jobs never complete

2009-10-09 Thread B. Alexander
stopped copying within the first 2 hrs or so, and I successfully rsynced it in the meantime...Twice. I will look around, and if I don't find anything, open a bug. --b On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Diederik de Haas wrote: > On Friday 09 October 2009 16:45:30 B. Alexander wrote: > &g

Jobs in Notifications and Jobs never complete

2009-10-08 Thread B. Alexander
I have noticed that larger jobs that I run in KDE, never seem to complete. I'm not really sure how to explain it, so let me give an example... I opened Konqueror and did the two pane thing and fish://'ed to a remote machine. I dragged a large directory over to be copied. Not only did the copy not

amaroK album art broken?

2009-09-19 Thread B. Alexander
One last question about my amaroK installation. I have several albums that appear not to have album art. So I right click on the album and select "Fetch cover". amaroK immediately responds with a pop-up saying Amazon Locale: You have see nall the covers Amazon returned using the query below I hav

Music players/sound not working

2009-09-18 Thread B. Alexander
I'm having an issue with audio playback on kde 4.3. Amarok and JuK say they are playing, but no sound comes out. I tried audacious, and the audio plays, but it is very scratchy and plays too fast. mplayer/smplayer/gmplayer play normally. Any ideas? --b

disk mounter plasmoid just stops working

2009-08-23 Thread B. Alexander
Hey all, I'm seeing an issue with the disk mounter plasmoid. It seems to at some point, usually after the machine has been up and logged in for days, to quit working, or more specifically the plasmoid continues to work, but it no longer detects that devices are being plugged in. I'm not sure what

Oddness with kopete after 4.3 upgrade

2009-08-17 Thread B. Alexander
Since upgrading to 4.3.0, I have noticed that when I run Kopete, uses a huge amount of CPU: 21695 storm 20 0 151m 46m 30m R 65 1.1 26:58.02 kopete 24811 storm 20 0 27320 24m 624 R 18 0.6 87:45.15 dbus-daemon 24897 storm 20 0 512m 272m 10m S 17 6.7 70:13.97 lanc