Re: Can KWin prevent windows from raising themselves from their v.desktop to the current v.desktop?

2023-01-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 07:56:11AM -0500 schrieb rhkra...@gmail.com: > On Thursday, December 15, 2022 11:20:50 PM Duncan wrote: > > Options: > > > > * Bring (existing) window to current virtual desktop > > > > IIRC this is the new default, and seems to be the behavior you're > > describing as

Re: konsole problems with utf8 characters

2023-01-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 09:11:05PM +0100 schrieb Patrick Nagel: > Hi René, > > > >For me Konsole also doesn't show emojis and also many other characters > > > > Attached the little file I use to test emoji rendering. all of which are > > rendered fine in my older konsole5 version (20.11.70)

Re: Fwd: Your account has been deactivated

2022-11-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 02:09:08PM -0400 schrieb clarjon1: > I'm unsure about older versions, but for KeepassXC 2.7.x: Thank you for the hint about Keepass, I didn’t know that. I just got the email myself, giving me only two days. I’ve been using KeePassXC anyway, so I set it up there within ten

Re: Black screen on Kubuntu 22 LXD container

2022-08-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 02:41:17AM - schrieb Duncan: > Meanwhile, just saying kubuntu 22.04 doesn't really tell non-(k)ubuntu- > users what plasma and frameworks versions you're running. Is there no kinfocenter? -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Rather a fly in the china shop than a

Re: Lost keyboard shortcut to KDE button

2022-05-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 02:11:21PM + schrieb Peter Humphrey: > Hello list, > > While playing with task bars etc. I've managed to lose the Left Windows key > shortcut to open the task manager. > > How can I get it back? I can’t promise it will remedy your problem, but since it works on all

Re: Resized kontact/calendar pane. Now can't get it back

2022-04-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 10:43:02AM -0400 schrieb Mike Diehl: > I was able to get back on my wife's machine and confirm that there are no > handles to grab. I just noticed that the handles are not visible with the Breeze style. They are, however, with my settings of qtcurve. See the attached

Re: Resized kontact/calendar pane. Now can't get it back

2022-03-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 05:11:03PM -0500 schrieb Mike Diehl: > Hi all, > > I was using kontact's calendar module and managed to make the date navigator > and calendar manager disappear by resizing the panel. How can I reset the > screen layout? There should be a vertical grip handle right

Re: New task manager

2021-10-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 12:19:21PM +0200 schrieb René J.V. Bertin: > >Generally, I approve of new and improved systems, but I have some > > I hear you, but have some doubts about the meaning of the concept > "improved" where the GUI is concerned. The Plasma5 desktop seems to be > following the

Re: New task manager

2021-10-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 04:56:21PM -0700 schrieb Dave Close: > I just installed a new system and discovered I now have KDE 5.22. > Generally, I approve of new and improved systems, but I have some > questions and the web has not helped me find answers. I just upgraded to 5.23, but it is very

Clean up stray filetype association to Okular

2021-03-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Dear list, I am having a little problem here. Okular seems to be associated with every single file type in my KDE setup. When I browse through file associations, it is mentioned in practically all of them, for many of the exotic ones it is even the only one. When I uninstall Okular, those

Re: Menu background colour

2021-02-26 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:42:44PM + schrieb Ianseeks: > Hi > > With the Plasma latest update to 5.21, any menu is now a dark grey colour. > Is there anyway to change this, its not the best for my eyesight? I'm using > Breeze for everything. Hi, I also had a colour issue, although in my

Re: Kleopatra program

2021-02-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 12:05:33PM -0500 schrieb Jessica Pearce: > My computer crashed with my pgp key on it. I only have the fingerprint ID > but I don’t know how to import it into the program on my new computer using > only the fingerprint. I am a noob and don’t understand much about pgp keys >

Re: Black line between panel and wallpaper

2021-01-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 12:16:40PM + schrieb Ianseeks: > Hi > > This has been like this for a while, is there any reason for a black line ot > exists between the panel and wallpaper/. When you logout, the panel > disappears and the wallpaper extends to the bottom of the screen so it looks

Re: Dolphin

2020-11-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 05:45:16PM + schrieb Andreas Wahlen: > Hi, I can't find the Dolphin download for Linux Mint 20. > I donated EUR 20.-. > Can you help me? > Greetings and thanks. Andreas Wahlen, Spain. I never used Mint myself, but deep down, it is Debian based. Thus, what is the output

Re: Years later, kmail still is not a viable email client?

2020-10-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 05:22:59PM -0500, Draciron Smith wrote: > First on principle. The integrated PIM is mostly obsolete. Phones today > have the CPU horsepower desktops had back when KDE 3 was embarked upon. A > phone is a natural place to do contact management. So it uses just another kind

Re: Konqueror for mac

2020-06-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 11:17:10AM +0200, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Tuesday June 16 2020 05:09:58 Draciron Smith wrote: > > >> >Unison is not meant for automatic jobs, at least not the versions I know. > ... > >> Rysnch works when I'm not botching the command. I'm just looking for a 1 > >way

Re: Font DPI and screen scaling

2020-06-11 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 12:24:25AM +0200, test wrote: > On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 22:39 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > [...] > > In your valued experience/opinion, what is the appropriate way of > > ensuring > > that a 10 pt font has the same physical size on all s

Font DPI and screen scaling

2020-06-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hey ho fellows, recently, when I was reading up on current Plasma developments on reddit and pointieststick.com, I found a blog post with the following statement (from memory, I can’t find the actual source anymore): “People usually scale their UI by forcing a DPI value in font settings.

Re: Falkon

2019-10-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 05:48:46PM +0100, Mateusz Tomaszewicz wrote: > Will Falkon get an update? Because so far it is on version 3.1 and the > QT engine on version 5.12 and the current version of the engine is > already on version 5.13. Please feedback. Hi, I would assume that the Falkon

Re: Kmail message storage folders

2018-04-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 02:36:07PM -0300, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > El 14 abr. 2018, a la(s) 11:01, cr escribió: > > > > One possible snag I can see is that kmail has created, in each folder such > > as 'cars', subfolders called 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp'. Typically 'tmp' is > >

Disable popup when changing volume or keyboard layout?

2018-03-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi list, is there a way to disable said info popups? For the layout there is the indicator in the panel. Vor the volume, well, I can use the volume icon as a guess-o-meter. I would like to do away with them but haven’t found out where. Can you give me a hint? I’d be much obliged. My rationale:

Re: [kde] Mounting storage media via plasma applet: no permission

2016-07-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:00:29AM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > I have a teensy weensy problem with mounting removable storage media. > > In short form: > > [...] > > B) > > - insert media > > - use the appearing popup to display contents in Dolp

Re: [kde] Mounting storage media via plasma applet: no permission

2016-07-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 06:56:02PM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Hello fellows, > > a week or so ago I did the upgrade from 4.14 to 5.7.0. Once I got around all > package-manager-related complications, the system is stable and works as > expected for the most parts. I've n

Re: [kde] Mounting storage media via plasma applet: no permission

2016-07-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 09:57:24AM +0200, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > >So the degree to which I can be of help is rather limited. However, the > >problem reads to me like a missing polkit invocation in the failing path. > >I'd dig around to find the commandline used in both paths, and > > To me

[kde] Mounting storage media via plasma applet: no permission

2016-07-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello fellows, a week or so ago I did the upgrade from 4.14 to 5.7.0. Once I got around all package-manager-related complications, the system is stable and works as expected for the most parts. I've not had a single crash yet. :) I have a teensy weensy problem with mounting removable storage

[kde] Clean up Akregator Archive files

2016-02-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello list could you please enlighten me as to how I could clean up deleted items from Akregator archive files? I noticed that the file of one of the feeds I follow has accumulated 16 Megs in size even though I managed to bring the item count down to < 1000 by deleting stuff that I don't need

[kde] Storage media applet not updating on media mount

2014-12-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi fellows I’ve been having a small problem with my KDE 4.14.2 on Gentoo for a little while now. It may have come with the last update from 4.14.0, but I can’t say for sure. When I insert a storage medium, such as a USB drive or Audio CD, the storage media applet pops up and offers me its

Re: [kde] Pressing Ctrl+Space in Konsole

2014-11-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 02:16:09PM +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Saturday, 2014-11-15, 02:43:37, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Dear list perhaps you can take the tomatoes from my eyes. I have two machines. When I run midnight commander in Konsole and press Ctrl+Space, then on one machine

[kde] Pressing Ctrl+Space in Konsole

2014-11-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Dear list perhaps you can take the tomatoes from my eyes. I have two machines. When I run midnight commander in Konsole and press Ctrl+Space, then on one machine the appropriate action triggers, and on the other one it doesn’t. It must be Konsole eating the shortcut, because if I ssh onto the

[kde] Defining environment variables

2014-10-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Fellow users I am trying to get UIM working, so I can enter various character sets such as Japanese. I did what most tutorials said: go into ~/.bashrc and add: export GTK_IM_MODULE='uim' export QT_IM_MODULE='uim' export XMODIFIERS='@im=uim' That only did the trick for GTK, such as in firefox. In

Re: [kde] Defining environment variables

2014-10-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 02:57:58PM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Fellow users I am trying to get UIM working, so I can enter various character sets such as Japanese. I did what most tutorials said: go into ~/.bashrc and add: [...] Thanks for any hints. Don't bother. As often, I found

Re: [kde] Bad Gwenview

2014-08-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 03:20:51AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: 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. :-( FWIW, you can of course rearrange your toolbar

Re: [kde] Restoring a KMail folder from a generic backup

2014-07-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 03:10:48PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: Thanks Frank, unfortunately things have changed recently. I checked both ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail and ~/.local/share/local-mail, and came up empty. I have previously restored the plain text files when I made this type of

Re: [kde] Restoring a KMail folder from a generic backup

2014-07-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 01:04:57PM -0400, John M Cavallo wrote: I am using KMail 4.10.5 on a Linux system and have a regular backup of my entire home directory. I was manually cleaning up my KMail folders using 'Archive Folder...' with the 'Delete folder and subfolders after completion'

Re: [kde] Dolphin does not show extract here menu

2014-05-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 01:26:31PM -0400, Carlos Luna wrote: hello everybody! I have the next trouble: Into dolphin I quit of having the extract here menu, and even thoug I`ve read a lot about it and re installed zip, unzip, p7zip, ark etc. I keep whitout the extract here menu, Some clue

Re: [kde] How to get a bigger icon in the application switcher

2014-05-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 02:44:41AM +, Duncan wrote: Frank Steinmetzger posted on Thu, 01 May 2014 13:53:21 +0200 as excerpted: […] But I did experiment a bit with the large-icons switcher, and have a large aurora icon here. (I have the bindist flag on so get the generic aurora name

Re: [kde] How to get a bigger icon in the application switcher

2014-05-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 03:11:50AM +, Duncan wrote: Frank Steinmetzger posted on Thu, 01 May 2014 13:53:21 +0200 as excerpted: Well as I said, I compared the package contents and the arch [firefox] package just installed more icons (not only until 128×128, as Gentoo does these days

Re: [kde] How to get a bigger icon in the application switcher

2014-05-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 05:39:28AM +, Duncan wrote: Frank Steinmetzger posted on Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:17:06 +0200 as excerpted: I’m having a slight issue with my KDE on Gentoo. I enabled the application switcher theme with larger icons, as I dislike the default one ever since

[kde] How to get a bigger icon in the application switcher

2014-04-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi group I’m having a slight issue with my KDE on Gentoo. I enabled the application switcher theme with larger icons, as I dislike the default one ever since it started showing all non-selected icons in greyscale. Some applications still appear with a small icon (i.e. 48×48 Pixel) in it. One of

[kde] FTP with different timezone on the server

2014-03-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi list Does anyone know of a way to tell the FTP KIO that the FTP server has a different timezone in place? My problem is with a webhoster’s FTP server which runs on UTC, so everytime I upload a file, it “ages” by one or two hours, depending on DST (I’m on GMT+1). For that reason I can’t use

Re: [kde] virtuoso-t constantly segfaulting

2014-02-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 12:39:16PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: It would not surprise me to learn that neither nepomuk, soprano, nor virtuoso-t, can deal with a 30gig database on a 32bit PAE system. They have all been segfaulters from the gitgo here. So I am intermittently looking for an

Re: [kde] {OT} Cross-compiling the kernel

2014-02-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 07:58:22AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 12:39:16PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: It would not surprise me to learn that neither nepomuk, soprano, nor virtuoso-t, can deal with a 30gig database on a 32bit PAE system. They have all been

Re: [kde] KMail: repeated lockups

2014-01-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:50:47AM +0200, Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan wrote: Hello, I've experienced the same thing, So I did a bit of debugging. The problems seems to be with Nepomuk, getting stuck in a Mutex. The solution: Wait it out. Nepomuk will soon be replaced by Milou. I tried observing

[kde] KMail: repeated lockups

2014-01-26 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hey list I was hoping you could shed some light on this. While my main mailer is mutt, I occasionally open KMail to use some of my IMAP accounts. Whenever I'm using it (reading mail, composing text), there are regular lockups in the GUI. I get a CPU core loaded with a background service (the bar

Re: [kde] kcalc decimal separator

2014-01-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 10:05:17AM +0100, Bernhard R. Fischer wrote: In the recent versions, kcalc only accepts the decimal separator as set in the locale settings. This is annoying since I'm used to use '.' as separator because all programming languages do so but my locale uses ','.

Re: [kde] Why do you prefer KDE?

2013-12-22 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 06:45:13PM -0800, Bruce Byfield wrote: As you may have heard, KDE recently topped the Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Awards. That got me thinking. Why do people prefer KDE? Back in the days of KDE 3, when I started using Linux (2006), I liked it because of the

Re: [kde] Device Auto Mounter - Can not mount the following device:

2013-11-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 12:33:03PM +, adrelanos wrote: When running the command sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom0 beforehand, KDE's device auto mounter will be able to mount it, dolphin will open and everything is fine. So it seems to me, that for some reason KDE's device auto mounter is unable

Re: [kde] Spelling style on MLs (was: KDE's rough edges... what are your experiences?)

2013-11-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 03:59:00PM +0100, Michael wrote: That's composition. ;-) Spelling is their/there/they're. Oops, then either the dictionary / wordbook used (dict.leo.org) is somewhat inaccurate or I use the german word Schreibstil wrong. :) I had English advanced classes in Grammar

Re: [kde] KDE's rough edges... what are your experiences?

2013-10-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 06:48:40AM +0100, Michael wrote: Hi peops, […] 3.) Widgets, plasmoids, generel KDE features: Yeah well, really nice design (mostly), but from a usability standpoint? Often a mess. Plasma is a constant source of annoyance for me. I never really understood

Re: [kde] KDE's rough edges... what are your experiences?

2013-10-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 01:17:34PM +, Duncan wrote: Frank Steinmetzger posted on Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:36:02 +0100 as excerpted: I thought of not sending this, as it is more like a collection of bug whining, but after having spent lots of time on composing, it would be a waste

Re: [kde] KDE's rough edges... what are your experiences?

2013-10-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 07:54:09AM +0100, Michael wrote: Hi peops, […] 3.) Widgets, plasmoids, generel KDE features: Yeah well, really nice design (mostly), but from a usability standpoint? Often a mess. Plasma is a constant source of annoyance for me. I never really understood the need for a

Re: [kde] Bizarre window snap at screen borders

2013-10-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2013, 09:27:08 schrieb Duncan: Roberto Ragusa posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:53:04 +0200 as excerpted: On 10/23/2013 09:23 PM, Wes Hardin wrote: It is an intended behavior. It was introduced (with many bugs) in 4.11… Unbelievable. I do not mind crazy defaults as

Re: [kde] Bizarre window snap at screen borders

2013-10-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 05:37:41PM +, Duncan wrote: Frank Steinmetzger posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:34:58 +0200 as excerpted: See how tastes differ. *I* found this a bad idea and it was among the things I always disable right after installation, because I wanted the window's [X

Re: [kde] Akonadi acting up (again)

2013-09-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 04:07:26PM +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: Ah, being a regular user, I didn't know of the job tracker yet. :) It shows thousands of Akonadi::CollectionFetchJob being entries being created and processed. I recently came across a code review request that fixes a bug

Re: [kde] An illustration to explain KDE Plasma Workspaces

2013-09-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 03:45:03PM +0100, ScotX wrote: Hi people, I created this picture here [1] and with following captions: en: The graphical user interface muss be designed conforming to the characteristics of the peripherals. KDE Plasma Workspaces is intended to enable the design

[kde] KWallet: what are local passwords?

2013-09-25 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hey list I am sorting out my KDE wallets. I want to create one wallet with a general collection of all my sensitive stuff, and another which all KDE programs can spam into. In the wallet configuration dialogue, below the option to select a default wallet, there is another option: [ ] Different

Re: [kde] Akonadi acting up (again)

2013-09-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:38:40AM +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: Hi Frank, On Monday, 2013-09-16, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On another machine I had the same symptoms at first, but then it behaved again. But that was a 32 bit system. On my current main 64 bit machine, it just isn't