keyboard layout problem during migration to kde4
Hi, I've upgraded to KDE 4.2 now that it's available in Debian sid. Among the few bumps during the upgrade, the right ALT key on my keyboard (Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000) is no longer recognized as such. Going into the System Settings -> Regional & Language -> Keyboard layout, I selected Microsoft Natural Wireless Ergonomic Keyboard 7000, since it is almost identical (it's just a wireless version). In the "Advanced" tab, I checked "Alt and Meta are on Alt keys", but the right ALT key is still not recognized as such. I cannot find useful pointers on this. Another issue is that I cannot add further language layouts. I have 4 languages so far, but need a couple more, and clicking on the right pointing arrow button doesn't add the selected language layout. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Cheers, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: keyboard layout problem during migration to kde4
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:48:03 -0500, Seb wrote: > Hi, I've upgraded to KDE 4.2 now that it's available in Debian sid. > Among the few bumps during the upgrade, the right ALT key on my > keyboard (Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000) is no longer recognized as > such. Going into the System Settings -> Regional & Language -> > Keyboard layout, I selected Microsoft Natural Wireless Ergonomic > Keyboard 7000, since it is almost identical (it's just a wireless > version). In the "Advanced" tab, I checked "Alt and Meta are on Alt > keys", but the right ALT key is still not recognized as such. I > cannot find useful pointers on this. I solved this by pure chance, checking the "Reset old options" box, and now the setting above enabled the right ALT key as desired. > Another issue is that I cannot add further language layouts. I have 4 > languages so far, but need a couple more, and clicking on the right > pointing arrow button doesn't add the selected language layout. This seems like a bug. -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
compositing unavailable to KDE with Radeon HD 4650 and fglrx driver
Hi, I'm on an AMD64 Hp system (AMD Phenom(tm) 9650 Quad-Core Processor, as reported by Kinfo). I've switched to an ATI Radeon HD 4650 graphics card a few days ago. Everything is back to working conditions, except compositing in KDE. I'm using Debian sid packages for kde and fglrx (the latter built with module-assistant). System Settings says "Compositing is not supported on your system. Required X extensions (XComposite and XDamage) are not available." Switching compositing type under the "Advanced" tab results in the message: "Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values. Check your X configuration. You may also consider changing advanced options, especially changing the compositing type. My /etc/X11/xorg.conf has: ---<cut here---start--->--- Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "aticonfig Layout" Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0 Screen "amdcccle-Screen[1]-1" 1920 0 EndSection Section "Files" FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1" FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" FontPath"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "GLcore" Load "glx" Load "dri" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "on" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" Option "DPMS" "true" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "0-CRT1" Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" Option "DPMS" "true" Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024" Option "TargetRefresh" "60" Option "Position" "0 0" Option "Rotate" "normal" Option "Disable" "false" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "0-CRT2" Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver" Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" Option "DPMS" "true" Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080" Option "TargetRefresh" "60" Option "Position" "0 0" Option "Rotate" "normal" Option "Disable" "false" EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "enable" Option "Damage""true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Driver "fglrx" Option "Monitor-CRT2" "0-CRT2" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "amdcccle-Device[1]-1" Driver "fglrx" Option "Monitor-CRT1" "0-CRT1" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 1 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "amdcccle-Screen[1]-1" Device "amdcccle-Device[1]-1" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection ---<cut here---end->--- Which was produced with aticonfig and the fglrx control center for a dual-monitor setup. Any help finding a cure appreciated. Cheers, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ocfvg54l@kolob.sebmags.homelinux.org
Re: compositing unavailable to KDE with Radeon HD 4650 and fglrx driver
On Mon, 31 May 2010 15:58:50 -0500, Seb wrote: [...] Doing "awk '/Composite/' /var/log/Xorg.0.log" I see: ---<cut here---start--->--- (**) Extension "Composite" is enabled (II) fglrx(0): Sync: Separate Composite (II) fglrx(0): Composite extension is not loaded (II) fglrx(1): Composite extension is not loaded ---<cut here---end->--- which suggests the extension is being unloaded at some point, and the lines above the third line above are: ---<cut here---start--->--- (II) fglrx(0): GLESX is enabled (II) LoadModule: "amdxmm" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/amdxmm.so (II) Module amdxmm: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.7.1, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading extension AMDXVOPL (II) fglrx(0): Composite extension is not loaded ---<----cut here---end->--- Any tips? -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87typnbsf2@kolob.sebmags.homelinux.org
slow konqueror
Hi, After upgrading to kde 4.4 (forget what particular minor version, but it has been a while), switching between tabs has become painfully slow; there's a long delay after clicking on another tab until the tab is displayed. When clicking on another tab, the upper part of the screen with the icons and location bar disappears for a while until they get drawn again. Are other seeing this problem? -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87lj4gt3me@kolob.sebmags.homelinux.org
Re: slow konqueror
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:23:13 -0200, Cassiano Leal wrote: > Konqueror in KDE4 has been a pain to use since the first versions. It > got better in the latest versions, but still not even close to FF or > Chrom(e|ium). > This is my experience, anyway. Maybe other people have different > experiences with it. I find it a shame, since Konqueror has some nice > features not found in other browsers, such as pressing Control and get > keyboard shortcuts for all/most interactive page elements. I also used to be happy with it until these latest versions where this slowness crept in. The slowness seems to get worse the longer konqueror is kept running, so something very weird is going on there. It's too bad because I really like how one can go from web browser to file browser/manager in a single application. -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r5e7sjgx@kolob.sebmags.homelinux.org
Re: slow konqueror
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:18:24 +0100, Xavier Brochard wrote: [...] > It's working fine here, for months. How long do you keep it running? > I never keep it running more than 4-5 days. Just after starting konqueror, it's already slow when clicking on the button to start a new tab, and it deteriorates over hours. Regardless, it shouldn't happen no matter how long it's running (unless some extensive caching is going on). > This is what I allways do with such problems: - check myr /tmp and > /var/tmp directory: exit the session and blank all /tmp and /var/tmp > directories containing my login name. - test with a new > configuration: either on a test account or by removing (or renaming) > the .kde/share/apps/konqueror folder and the > .kde/share/config/konquerorrc file Thanks I'll give these a try. -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y68dp95f@kolob.sebmags.homelinux.org
Kmix master volume with Pulse
Hi, Last month I ran into a couple of issues with sound on my AMD 64 Debian unstable system. First, I noticed speech-dispatcher was blocking my sound card. I solved this by setting: ,-[ /etc/default/speech-dispatcher ] | # Defaults for the speech-dispatcher initscript, from speech-dispatcher | | # Set to yes to start system wide Speech Dispatcher | RUN=no `- and now I can see a single "PulseAudio Sound Server" listed under System Settings -> Multimedia (Device Preference tab), and got sounds again. Amarok wouldn't play anything with the default Gstreamer (from the multimedia.org repository; I remember some conflicts between these packages and stock Debian) backend, so I also had to select VLC as back end to make that work. The other issue is that the master volume from Kmix doesn't adjust volume at all. Using other options under "Select Master Channel" in Kmix doesn't make any difference. However, using alsamixer, I noticed that volume can actually be controlled from the "Side 3" level. This seems odd, since the Master channel in alsamixer's GUI is at max. I must admit I'm very confused about the roles of Pulse, Phonon, Alsa, and the different back ends for controlling sound in KDE, so navigating this is quite difficult. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqpcgtxk@kolob.sebmags.homelinux.org
Re: Phonon and pulseaudio
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:08:25 +0100, Frédéric Burlet wrote: > On Tuesday, February 21, 2012 10:46:47 PM Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 18:25:52 +0100, Frédéric Burlet wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I recently "dist-upgraded" my debian unstable and since then I >> don't have > sound anymore in KDE. >> > I checked what has been upgraded and I noticed that phonon and >> pulseaudio > have been updated. >> > Here is an extract of what I see in aptitude's log file. >> > [UPGRADE] libphonon4 4:4.6.0really4.5.1-1 -> 4:4.6.0.0-1 > >> [UPGRADE] libpulse-mainloop-glib0 1.1-2 -> 1.1-3 > [UPGRADE] >> libpulse0 1.1-2 -> 1.1-3 > [UPGRADE] phonon 4:4.6.0really4.5.1-1 -> >> 4:4.6.0.0-1 > [UPGRADE] phonon-backend-vlc 0.4.1-1 -> 0.5.0-1 > >> [UPGRADE] pulseaudio 1.1-2 -> 1.1-3 > [UPGRADE] >> pulseaudio-esound-compat 1.1-2 -> 1.1-3 > [UPGRADE] >> pulseaudio-module-x11 1.1-2 -> 1.1-3 > [UPGRADE] pulseaudio-utils >> 1.1-2 -> 1.1-3 >> > Amarok and the notification system do not play any sound. >> > If I use paplay (from pulseaudio), I do have sound. So, I guess the >> issue > is a "communication problem" between phonon and pulseaudio. >> > Before this upgrade, everything worked fine. >> Which backends are listed when you open the "Backend" tab in System >> Settings > Multimedia > Phonon? Which output devices are listed on >> the "Device Preference" tab? Do you hear any sound when you select >> one of the devices and press the "Test" button on the bottom right >> hand side? >> Also post the output of: >> lspci -knn | grep -iA2 audio cat /proc/asound/cards > Hi Florian, > I'm using vlc backend. I think the vlc backend is currently broken, at least in my sid system. I was also using it until I noticed that simply going to System Settings -> Multimedia -> Phonon crashed System Settings. I had to use the Gstreamer backend by editing ~/.kde/share/config/servicetype_profilerc. New vlc packages are on their way which will hopefully fix this. AFAIK, Amarok can only use the Xine backend to play *.mp3, but the phonon-backend-xine is not currently installable: The following packages have unmet dependencies: phonon: Conflicts: phonon-backend-xine but 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1 is to be installed. phonon-backend-xine: Depends: libphonon4 (= 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1) but 4:4.6.0.0-1 is installed. -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8739a2ilxp@kolob.subpolar.dyndns.org
Re: Phonon and pulseaudio
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:04:33 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi Seb, hi everyone, Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2012 schrieb Seb: >> New vlc packages are on their way which will hopefully fix this. >> AFAIK, Amarok can only use the Xine backend to play *.mp3, but the >> phonon-backend-xine is not currently installable: >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: phonon: Conflicts: >> phonon-backend-xine but 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1 is to be installed. >> phonon-backend-xine: Depends: libphonon4 (= 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1) but >> 4:4.6.0.0-1 is installed. > Xine backend is deprected and not maintained anymore upstream. > Amarok can play mpeg3 files fine with at least gstreamer and it > shouldn´t be a problem with VLC backend as well. > Here - ThinkPad T520 with some Intel HD Codec - latest GStreamer > backend from sid works. Latest VLC backend works as well. It even > appears to me that the VLC backend is a bit louder, but I am not > sure. Tested in Systemsettings and Amarok. Interesting, I found out that I had to purge remove all vlc packages from my system, apt-get --purge autoremove, and reinstall them all in order to upgrade to the latest and avoid the problem I posted earlier. I also found out I was missing the gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 for playing mpeg3. All is good now. Florian, for the volume issues try alsamixer from a shell and press "F6" to select a sound card and check the levels. Kmix doesn't show all these. -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwe2gr62@kolob.subpolar.dyndns.org
Re: Phonon and pulseaudio
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:35:28 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: [...] > Try paman (Pulse Audio Manager) - set the levels for your devices with > it, then just use KMix to control the master levels (alsamixer only > controls alsa). If you have alsa handling your devices, then paman certainly would use it, so alsamixer is just a more direct way to do the same AFAIK. -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d395r6fy@kolob.subpolar.dyndns.org
USB webcam microphone
Hi, A "Creative Live! Cam Socialize HD AF" webcam with integrated microphone works well in my sid AMD64 system. Skype can use the webcam without problems. However, the microphone is proving difficult. I can record sound from it using: arecord -f cd -c 1 -D hw:2,0 -d 5 ~/tmp/test.wav Note that '-c 1' to explicitly specify the channel was necessary or else arecord can't get the channel count. The sound in ~/tmp/test.wav has no problems whatsoever. I'm using KDE, and hence pulseaudio and phonon for handling sound, and made sure that the webcam's microphone level is high in alsamixer. However, this capture device cannot be selected as the preferred device in System Settings -> Multimedia -> Phonon. Hitting "prefer" does move it up the list, but once I get out of there (after "apply", of course) it is again shown as the second (last) option. Any ideas on what may be going on? Thanks, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hayas631@kolob.subpolar.dyndns.org
desktop effects suspended with latest nvidia packages
Hi, After upgrading to the lates nvidia packages in sid (currently 295.40-1), KDE suspends desktop effects because they are too slow (I get the notification to that effect in the taskbar). Trying to switch them back on with Alt-Shift-F12 does turn them on, for it is way too slow, and then KDE suspends them again. Is anybody experiencing that? Thanks, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d36xt7pt@kolob.subpolar.dyndns.org
Re: desktop effects suspended with latest nvidia packages
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:37:33 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > On April 24, 2012 10:28:30 AM Seb wrote: >> Hi, >> After upgrading to the lates nvidia packages in sid (currently >> 295.40-1), KDE suspends desktop effects because they are too slow (I >> get the notification to that effect in the taskbar). Trying to >> switch them back on with Alt-Shift-F12 does turn them on, for it is >> way too slow, and then KDE suspends them again. Is anybody >> experiencing that? >> Thanks, > yes, see: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2012/04/msg00028.html Thanks. Like the last post there, I did eventually solve this by switching to XRender in System Settings > Desktop Effects > Advanced. Perhaps worth submitting a bug report. Cheers, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871uncsu27@kolob.subpolar.dyndns.org
krfb/krdc limitations
Hi, Is there a way to have krfb automatically accept connection, and avoid all dialogs/questions from a particular computer? I'm trying to connect to my home krfb server from the office, but someone has to be at the home computer to accept the connection. The 1 hr limit for invitations seem way too rigid to allow for this. Any advice? Thanks, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sj26k1pz@kolob.subpolar.dyndns.org
moving konqueror's bookmarks.xml to a new system
Hi, I recently got a new computer, but kept all my /home directory in a hard drive I'm mounting on a subdirectory in my new /home within the new system. I thought my previous konqueror bookmarks.xml file could simply be placed within the new ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror directory, as my new user name is the same. Although now konqueror reads and displays my bookmarks, it refuses to save any changes I make to them, with the message: ---<---cut here---start-->--- Unable to save bookmarks in . Reported error was: Permission denied. This error message will only be shown once. The cause of the error needs to be fixed as quickly as possible, which is most likely a full hard drive. ---<---cut here---end>--- I've googled for this extensively, but no posts really describe this issue. Any pointers you may have would be appreciated. Cheers, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving konqueror's bookmarks.xml to a new system
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 10:44:42 -0400, "D. Michael McIntyre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > If you are not out of disk space on the device, then it is most likely > an ownership problem. Giving your user the same name is of little > consequence, because it is the user and group ID numbers that really > matter. It's rather like how "www.google.com" is a convenient way to > refer to "64.233.161.99." Thanks for these ideas. Indeed, this is surely a permissions problem, as there's humongous amount of free space in this new system. I seem to have dug myself deeper into this, as I got impatient and decided to completely remove ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror and ~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc. Then I did a little test by restarting konqueror, added a few bookmarks on the newly created (empty) directories above by doing Bookmarks -> Add bookmark. The bookmark does get added, but attempting to delete fails with the same error message I described. Therefore, now the problem occurs even without any association to my old bookmarks.xml file. It seems as if the wrong permissions from my previous attempt to simply copy that file into the ~/.kde directory in my new system spread beyond that! > You probably have more than one user, and you probably created the users > in a different order on the new system, or something else changed in > some subtle or not so subtle fashion to change your UID on the new > install. (Moving between distros is especially likely to cause a > shift.) For now I only have myself as user, but perhaps my UID changed from my previous system and didn't realize that because my user name and group are the same. I hadn't realized that the user name and group name do not mean that they have the same UID and GID, which is what matters. Thanks for pointing that out. [...] > So the cure for this is most likely to su to root or use sudo and > chown -R your_user:your_user /home/your_user That seems to be the way to go now without bothering with the issue I described in my second paragraph. However, I don't want to do that to the whole new /home/my_user directory, as I have some files here and there that need to retain a different ownership. Should I do this only to ~/.kde? Because it's really only a problem with KDE stuff. Cheers, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving konqueror's bookmarks.xml to a new system
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:15:12 -0400, "D. Michael McIntyre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Yes, that's just what I'd do. You can go file by file, directory by > directory, whatever you need to do. You can probably see the root of the > problem if you look hard enough. You'll usually see something like -> ls -l > total 0 -rw-r- 1 me me 0 Aug 6 12:09 bar -rw-r- 1 me me 0 Aug 6 > 12:09 blee -rw-r- 1 1002 1002 0 Aug 6 12:09 foo Yes, I should have mentioned that all my files "look" fine this way: ,-[ ls -al ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror ] | total 232 | drwx-- 4 my_user my_user 4096 2006-08-06 02:59 . | drwx-- 35 my_user my_user 4096 2006-08-06 02:44 .. | -rw--- 1 my_user my_user 101287 2006-08-06 02:58 bookmarks.xml | -rw--- 1 my_user my_user 101287 2006-08-06 02:58 bookmarks.xml.bak | -rw--- 1 my_user my_user 0 2006-08-06 02:58 bookmarks.xml.tbcache | -rw--- 1 my_user my_user 2465 2006-08-06 02:37 faviconrc | -rw--- 1 my_user my_user 2522 2006-08-06 02:59 konq_history | drwx-- 2 my_user my_user 4096 2006-08-06 02:39 kpartplugins | drwx-- 2 my_user my_user 4096 2006-08-06 02:44 profiles `- except for the the "w" permissions for group, as in your example, which begs the question: how did it generate such permissions after having deleted that entire directory? This is driving me insane. It really seems as if KDE has recorded my wrong permissions in my previous bookmarks.xml when I copied it into that directory, and I need to find where that is stored. I'm afraid I might have to completely remove the ~/.kde folder. Thanks, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving konqueror's bookmarks.xml to a new system
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 13:06:45 -0400, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Because a CD-ROM is read-only, files copied back from a CD are also > read-only. This is something to keep in mind when making/retrieving > backups and archives. Absolutely. This bit me a couple of time in the past, so was aware of that. However, this is not the case here because I kept everything in my old /home hard drive, which I'm now mounting like: ,-[ cat /etc/fstab ] | # /etc/fstab: static file system information. | # | # | proc/proc proc defaults 0 0 | /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 | /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 | /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0 | /dev/hdc/media/cdrom0 auto user,noauto 0 0 | /dev/sde1 /media/sde1auto user,noauto 0 0 | /dev/hdb1 /home/my_user/Backup-Drive ext3 defaults,user,noauto 0 2 `- so I'm keeping my old files there and am using that hard drive as a backup place for my new files. What I did was to copy ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml from my /dev/hdb1 to the corresponding directory in my current /dev/hda6. -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving konqueror's bookmarks.xml to a new system
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 15:46:15 -0400, "D. Michael McIntyre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > It's perplexing me too. Try this: > cd ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/ touch bookmarks.xml touch foo > Here's how it's supposed to look: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror$ touch bookmarks.xml > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror$ touch foo > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror$ > Basically nothing visible should happen, in other words. If you pass > this test, then this isn't where your permission problem is, or you > don't have a permission problem after all. Yes, nothing strange happening there. Konqueror kept refusing to modify add or delete bookmarks. I gave up and obliterated the ~/.kde folder, after all there was not much to lose in the freshly installed system. My problem remains though as to how to get my previous bookmarks back. I can't believe how complicated this turned out to be. Not quite sure what to do now, but will report back if I find some solution. Thanks a lot for your help so far, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving konqueror's bookmarks.xml to a new system
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 15:34:51 -0400, "D. Michael McIntyre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 07 August 2006 12:35 am, Seb wrote: >> problem remains though as to how to get my previous bookmarks back. > Well, that one's easy enough to deal with. With whatever other problem > you had magically fixed by the sledge hammer method, I'd edit the new > bookmarks.xml and import the contents of the old one into the new one. Yep, that's exactly what I did. I'm not sure what really solved the issue with permissions (or whatever it was). Unbelievably, after removing the entire ~/.kde directory and restarting, it was possible to add/remove/edit bookmarks from the menu, but the error kept coming up whenever these operations were done using the bookmark toolbar! I ended up doing this (after removal of ~/.kde and restart): 1. Remove all bookmarks* files (there are 3 of them in ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror) and restart konqueror. 2. Added a couple of bookmarks and quit konqueror. 3. Open the newly created ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmars.xml and my back-up version of that file. 4. Copy the contents of the back-up copy and paste into the new file. 5. Restart konqueror and magically all my bookmarks were back with full functionality restored. Although it's frustrating not to understand what was wrong (to avoid going through this mess again), the system is functional again. Cheers, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
https and konqueror
Hi, I'm using Debian unstable kde packages, and can't access some https website (only some, but very important) with konqueror. The message is that: An error occurred while loading https://some.site Could not connect to host some.site. The crypto section of konqueror's settings has both openssl and TLS activated, and pass the test on the openssl tab in it. It seems that some people have had this problem before, but it was very quite old konqueror versions and not with Debian. Has anybody here experienced this? Thanks for any suggestions. Cheers, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: https and konqueror
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:07:06 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks more like a issue at the other end with the webserver. Probably > their SSL virtual host configuration is improper. I actually solved it by activating all cyphers for both ssl2 and ssl3 in the crypto settings. Probably not all were really needed, but without being an expert, I activated them all, and https now is accessed fine. Thanks, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make local printer a network printer
Hi, I've recently made a 2 computer network at home, via a router. I used nfs to be able to mount parts of each computer's file system onto the other. So far so good, but now we need to be able to share the printer that's connected directly to one the computers. I'm using CUPS, and the printer is running well in the one computer. I'm having trouble finding how to make this printer available to the other computer in the network. Any pointers on how to do this in kde would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Cheers, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make local printer a network printer
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:06:21 -0400, Bob Hauck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > You need to tell CUPS on the machine with the printer to broadcast it's > services and allow access from computers on the local network. Once > that is done the client should automatically find the server within a > minute or so. In /etc/cups.conf, change the following: [...] Thanks for your suggestions. I'm using Debian unstable, and I don't have a /etc/cups.conf file, but a /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, which didn't have a 'BrowseAddress' directive in it. However, there were these interesting relevant lines in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf: ---<---cut here---start-->--- # Only listen for connections from the local machine. Listen localhost:631 Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock # Show shared printers on the local network. Browsing On BrowseOrder allow,deny BrowseAllow @LOCAL ---<---cut here---end---->--- Any further ideas would be appreciated. -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make local printer a network printer
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:05:44 -0500, Seb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > # Only listen for connections from the local machine. > Listen localhost:631 > Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock > # Show shared printers on the local network. > Browsing On > BrowseOrder allow,deny > BrowseAllow @LOCAL I should have included these directives also for : ---<---cut here---start-->--- # Restrict access to the server... Order allow,deny Allow localhost ---<---cut here---end-------->--- Thanks again, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make local printer a network printer
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:46:27 +0200, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Instead of hacking the configurations files, have you tried CUPS's built > in webinterface? > Just point your browser to http://localhost:631 Thank you, I was indeed familiar with it, but somehow missed the tickable option under Administration -> Basic Server Settings, 'Share published printers connected to this system'. That made the printer immediately show up in the other computer. Thanks. -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
root password in dialogs
Hello, I've ran into a serious problem with kde (Debian unstable packages) whereby my root password is rejected in all kde dialog boxes where I'm asked for it. For example, in control panel in the administration section if I click on "administrator mode", I'm told I've supplied the wrong password. I've checked the obvious things like caps lock and language, so no problems there. I can change to super user while in a console, so obviously my password is still working, it just doesn't work in kde. The only thing I can think of that might have caused this is I've updated the libcvsservice0 package today, which also installed kdelibs4c2a and kdelibs-data. Any ideas for a fix welcome. Thanks, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root password in dialogs
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:17:49 +0200, Wolfgang Mader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > But my root password still works. I tried in control center -> > administrator mode Mea culpa, I had updated libcvsservice0 and its dependencies from unstable, while the rest of kde's packages were still at testing. Upgrading the rest of kde to unstable solved the problem. Things to watch out for when using a testing system, mixed with some unstable packages. Can somebody please show an example of a /etc/apt/preferences file showing some pinning rules to avoid this trouble in the future. What I would like to accomplish is set all kde packages to unstable, while keeping the rest of my system at testing. I have the following: ,-[ /etc/apt/apt.conf ] | APT::Default-Release "testing"; | APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; | AcquireProxy "false"; `----- and no /etc/apt/preferences so far. -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hide backup files in konqueror?
Hi, Backup files, which in konqueror's 'file associations' settings show under application -> x-trash (file name patterns: *~, *%, and others), cannot be treated as hidden in konqueror. I've been searching for a way to hide these files when navigating through directories, but have not found an option for this. Any suggestions would be welcome. Isn't it odd that these files show under x-trash anyway? Cheers, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kaddressbook formatted name empty after import
Hi, I imported contacts into Kaddressbook, but the formatted name field in the main window is empty. However, if I double-click on the contact, I can see the "Formatted name:" area with the correct information, so I don't understand why this is not showing in the main window. Interestingly, if I click on "Edit Name..." in the contact window just mentioned, and do some action like uncheck and recheck the "Parse name automatically" box and then click "Apply", then the formatted name is shown fully. Any change that would cause the "Apply" button to be active works. Since I have more than 500 contacts, I can't do this for all of them, so any tips are welcome. This sounds like a bug to me. Cheers, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
