local10 - 08.09.18, 04:42: > Anyway, here are the questions I still would like to find the answers > to: > > 1. KDE > Power / Session menu does not have Suspend or Hibernate > options. How can I get them back, if possible? I currently don't have > sddm installed but when I did it did not seem to help. Can suspend > the PC by using "systemctl suspend" from the terminal.
I bet you may be lacking Plasma power management support packages that interface with Systemd (or whatever else on a non Systemd system). % dpkg -l | grep powerdevil | cut -c1-72 ii libpowerdevilcore2 4:5.13.4-1 ii libpowerdevilui5 4:5.13.4-1 ii powerdevil 4:5.13.4-1 ii powerdevil-data 4:5.13.4-1 Install just the "powerdevil" package might do the trick. When those are installed you also have a systemsettings module to configure power management. Then there may still be other pieces not working as intended. So if you really like to make sure you have a complete kde-standard set of packages, I think I´d remove kde-standard package and reinstall it with *recommends*. And then you can still carefully remove selected packages that you are sure you do not need. Of course you can also go the other way around and install necessary packages as you find functionality missing. But depending on what else I like to do I may not always hint you at what packages those might be, at least not in a timely manner. I am already starting to get a bit tired to do the package searching for you. If above packages are installed for you, I do not know off-hand what may still be missing. In case you use "systemctl suspend" you´d need to make sure to lock the desktop first, cause I think it does not lock Plasma desktop. As Powerdevil was broken in Unstable at some time, I just used "sleep 5 ; systemctl suspend" and then locked the desktop before the sleep was over. But there are also some DBUS calls to lock the desktop. I really think: In case you still like to go without recommends by default, its better you really make yourself a bit more familiar of the different components of Plasma, KDE Frameworks and KDE Applications and how their respective Debian packages are named, or make yourself at least more familiar with how to search for them. None of the packages I recommended to you to install where difficult to find in my opinion. I went without recommends for a long time, especially on servers, but with the current policy regarding recommends I install recommends by default and use --no-install-recommends with apt in case I do not like what it would install, in that case carefully checking the recommended packages and install what I think I need. I am actually quite fine with the policy, cause it helps casual users to get their system running with in usual configurations while *still* allowing me to remove things I do not like to have installed. If recommends in Plasma dependency chain would all be depends I´d not have this choice anymore. > 3. Device Notifier widget shows Floppy Disk device even though my PC > does not have a floppy disk. Is there a way to remove it? Floppy disk drives have been connected with ancient interfaces, even in the last modern PCs that still had them – interfaces that required polling for the presence of hardware. AFAIK the Linux kernel floppy driver can not, or at least not always, timely know whether there is one or there is not one. I´d just blacklist the kernel module "floppy" via a file in /etc/modprobe.d. Thanks, -- Martin
