Re: About pagers in kde

2011-10-11 Thread Mirosław Zalewski 
On 11/10/2011 at 02:56, Harry Putnam  wrote:

> You must not be talking about the grid setting at right click/desktop
> settings - right?

No, I am talking about System Settings → Desktop Effects → All effects → 
Desktop 
Grid.

Default keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+F8 (or something like that).
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How to back out desktop type experiments

2011-10-11 Thread Harry Putnam 
Running wheezy

I'm New to modern kde.

I seem to have altered the desktop in a way I don't really like.

At right click/Desktop settings/ layout tab

Starting from the default, I tried all those listed there, and saw
nothing that seemed like something I cared about so went back to the
default. 

But now it seems that some of the autostart things I use think that they
are running from ~/Documents

For example:  On kde startup I have 2 emacs daemon started.  They run in
the background and I can attach to them with emacsclient commands.

Prior to fooling around with the different style desktops those daemon
were running on ~/, so if I asked emacs to show me the directory it was
running from with C-x d it would show ~/.  Or if I wanted to edit a file
in ~ I would say C-x C-f ~/file. 

But now it shows ~/Documents

Its something of an annoyance and requires me to rehome the frame when
ever I use a emacslient cmd if I want to find files or whatever in ~/
instead of ~/Documents/

I also notice a new small panel in upper right vertical screen boundary
that says `New Activity'.  There seems to be no way to get rid of it.
Far as I know it was not there before I monkeyed around with desktop
styles.

Is there someway to back out to the default setup one sees on first
logging into new kde desktop?


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Re: How to back out desktop type experiments

2011-10-11 Thread Facundo Aguilera 
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Harry Putnam  wrote:
> Running wheezy
>
> I'm New to modern kde.
>
> I seem to have altered the desktop in a way I don't really like.
>
> At right click/Desktop settings/ layout tab
>
> Starting from the default, I tried all those listed there, and saw
> nothing that seemed like something I cared about so went back to the
> default.
>
> But now it seems that some of the autostart things I use think that they
> are running from ~/Documents
>
> For example:  On kde startup I have 2 emacs daemon started.  They run in
> the background and I can attach to them with emacsclient commands.
>
> Prior to fooling around with the different style desktops those daemon
> were running on ~/, so if I asked emacs to show me the directory it was
> running from with C-x d it would show ~/.  Or if I wanted to edit a file
> in ~ I would say C-x C-f ~/file.
>
> But now it shows ~/Documents
>


Try with systemsettings -> Account Details -> Paths -> Documents Path .

Facu


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Re: How to back out desktop type experiments

2011-10-11 Thread Mirosław Zalewski 
On 11/10/2011 at 16:49, Harry Putnam  wrote:

> But now it seems that some of the autostart things I use think that they
> are running from ~/Documents

I have had similar problem (all my Konsoles started in ~/Documents or 
somewhere instead of ~). I have changed path in System Settings → Account 
Details → Paths.

Perhaps there is better way, but this is the best I had found.

> I also notice a new small panel in upper right vertical screen boundary
> that says `New Activity'.  There seems to be no way to get rid of it.
> Far as I know it was not there before I monkeyed around with desktop
> styles.

Do you mean the (in)famous cashew logo? In upper right corner on this 
screenshot:


It is there by default. I think that there are some ways to remove it, but I 
have never really cared that much to try.

If not, could you provide screenshot showing what do you mean?

> Is there someway to back out to the default setup one sees on first
> logging into new kde desktop?

All configuration is in ~/.kde/, especially ~/.kde/share/config/
Removing (renaming) that directory will make KDE create new with default 
values on startup. But please note, that there are also configuration files for 
other KDE-related apps, like Kmail or Konqueror. You may wish to delete only 
specific files (or delete all but some specific files).
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Re: How to back out desktop type experiments

2011-10-11 Thread Harry Putnam 
Mirosław Zalewski  writes:

> On 11/10/2011 at 16:49, Harry Putnam  wrote:
>
>> But now it seems that some of the autostart things I use think that they
>> are running from ~/Documents

Thanks.. that looks like a good way to fix it.

[...]

> Do you mean the (in)famous cashew logo? In upper right corner on this 
> screenshot:
> 
>
> It is there by default. I think that there are some ways to remove it, but I 
> have never really cared that much to try.

Yup... I must have just not noticed it before... I thought it had
appeared from my tinkering.  So like you say, its not that big a deal.

[...]

> All configuration is in ~/.kde/, especially ~/.kde/share/config/
> Removing (renaming) that directory will make KDE create new with default 
> values on startup. But please note, that there are also configuration files 
> for 
> other KDE-related apps, like Kmail or Konqueror. You may wish to delete only 
> specific files (or delete all but some specific files).

Yeah I thought about renaming the existing .kde but it seems a little
more drastic than necessary to fix my small gripes

Thanks again. 


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Re: How to back out desktop type experiments

2011-10-11 Thread Harry Putnam 
Facundo Aguilera  writes:

> Try with systemsettings -> Account Details -> Paths -> Documents Path .

Thanks, yup that straightened it out


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Re: about authentication in kde system setup tool

2011-10-11 Thread Harry Putnam 
Harry Putnam  writes:

> Running wheezy
>
> On a recently installed kde desktop environment, I'm getting confused
> about being prompted when attempting to make certain changes.
>
> I get a prompt that is about authentication.  A drop down list says 
> `Select user', however my user that I'm logged in as is not there, nor
> is root.  And yet I cannot continue without making a selection.
>
> I don't understand what is expected of me there.  Surely I would not
> want to select another user to have permission to alter my desktop.
>
> Here is a sequence:
>
,
| >>From main menu/system settings/ Login screen/
| > In the font selector use `choose' button to change font and size/
| > Say `OK' then press `apply', at that point an authentication dialog 
| > pops up:
| >
| > Administrator authorization is 
| > required to change the login
| > Manager settings.
| >
| > An application is attempting to perform an
| > action that requires privileges
| > Authentication is required to perform this
| > action
| >
| > ----   ---=---   -   
| >
| > Then a dropdown list that says `select user' when I drop the list
| > down none of them are my user, nor root.
| >
| > How is that supposed to work?
`

Since this thread seems to have died, I'd lick to ask if any experienced
user here can say whether what I described in OP is in fact a bug, or if
it does not happen on their installation.

To summarize:


1) Following the recipe quoted above. (inside the boxquote some 12 to 20
lines above this one.) 

On the dialog described their, the dropdown list only shows other users.
Not me and not root.

Am I completely misunderstanding what this is supposed to do or is it a
small bug and my user and root should be on that list?


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Re: about authentication in kde system setup tool

2011-10-11 Thread Diederik de Haas 
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 01:23:12 Harry Putnam wrote:
> On the dialog described their, the dropdown list only shows other users.
> Not me and not root.
> 
> Am I completely misunderstanding what this is supposed to do or is it a
> small bug and my user and root should be on that list?

I wouldn't be surprised if it has sth to do with sudo.
When installing Debian using the debian-installer, you have the option to 
create a root account. If 
you do that, sudo won't be installed/setup. When you don't I guess it does 
setup sudo (I always 
create root account, so I'm not sure). And afaik it disables the root account.

If I try to do sth that requires superuser/root rights, I get presented a 
dialog which allows me to 
specify the root password and then the requested action gets performed.
Since you seem to be using sudo, I guess you need to modify the sudoers file 
(again, not sure since I 
have never used sudo).

I don't know how to fix your issue, but maybe this helps diagnose the issue.


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