Re: Another way to change resolution on a Plasma 5 desktop?

2024-09-12 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 11/09/2024 22:40, Rongrong wrote: On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 14:54 -0600, g...@extremeground.com wrote: I'm running a Debian/Trixie AMD64 workstation with Plasma 5 over X. I'm connection remotely to it from my Debian/Bookworm AMD64 laptop using Remina/VNC over ssh. The connection is unworkable so

Re: network managed applet not seeing connections after suspend

2023-08-20 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 20/08/2023 10:58, Dietz Proepper wrote: Am Sonntag, 20. August 2023, 10:44:19 CEST schrieb Marc Haber: The nm applet seems to reconnect and shows the available connections, but clicking on one immediately yields a toast "Connection (name) deactivated" without even trying to conect. I didn't

Re: Okular locked up my system and left no evidence

2023-02-10 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 10/02/2023 06:46, Borden wrote: There's a grave problem with how Okular processes PDF forms. Simple, short-answer text entry has ballooned a simple 1 MB file into a 1.2 GB file. This would explain (but not excuse) the excessive CPU and hard-drive usage. It probably also maxed out the RAM a

Re: Changing file associations

2022-07-26 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 26/07/2022 00:46, Borden wrote: 25 Jul 2022, 10:59 byb...@ale.cx: Me neither, but the OP did say "all supported filetypes" not "all filetypes". alexd Since it's too much to ask software to self-report what files it supports, is there a way to find out, quickly, which file types have KOr

Re: Changing file associations

2022-07-25 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 23/07/2022 18:22, local10 wrote: For some Windows programs, there's a way to tell Windows to make it the default program for all supported file types. Does something similar exist for KDE? You could try adding "*.*" as a pattern (without quotes) to one of the known file types and see how

Re: Plasma 5.24 coming to unstable

2022-02-28 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 28/02/2022 13:50, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: The question is: Why is APT not smart enough to see that the proposed upgrade will fail? It always starts to install packages and at some point fails because some package needs another package with a specific version. Why does it not detect these ca

Re: Illegal instruction when running in kvm?

2022-02-14 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 14/02/2022 08:43, Libor Klepáč wrote: But it seems to be interesting, that some HW fingerprint is embeded in KDE config. Well...it's going to be the Qt libraries that use whatever these functions are, probably not KDE itself. But I never had this issue when using same KDE profile shared t

Re: Illegal instruction when running in kvm?

2022-02-11 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 11/02/2022 09:22, Libor Klepáč wrote: I'm migrating from current Dell T1700SFF with i7 CPU to Dell R420 with xeon processor. and dmesg says [ 248.820494] traps: QSGRenderThread[2145] trap invalid opcode ip:7fd5842f6027 sp:7fd5858a0820 error:0 I think this is much more likely to be a KVM

Re: KDE Stops opening new programs

2020-08-16 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 16/08/2020 17:46, luca.pedrielli wrote: maybe this way you can find the culprit: $ lsof -U +c 15 | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -3 -- Best, Luca Pedrielli I had this exact issue with ksnip using up all the unix sockets. Restarting ksnip fixed it, bug filed. alexd

Re: issues with konsole's session restore

2020-07-22 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 22/07/2020 22:40, Gary Dale wrote: My only complaint/wishlist is that after a reboot, the tabs no longer have independent command histories. That's down to the shell, not konsole. konsole doesn't keep a history of your commands. As an aside, I use $PROMPT_COMMAND to log bash history to o

Re: after latest updates dolphin->share->send via bluetooth stops working

2019-10-18 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 18/10/2019 17:11, luca pedrielli wrote: file:///usr/share/purpose/bluetoothplugin_config.qml:20:1: module "QtQuick.Controls" version 2.5 is not installed Any output from: dpkg -l | grep quick-controls ? alexd

Re: Middle click functionality as paste in KDE

2019-10-12 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 12/10/2019 02:09, aprekates wrote: mysystem : Debian 10 plasmashell 5.14.5 KDE Frameworks: 5.54.0 Does anyone know how can i make middle click workas paste? It works for me, always has, and I've never had to do anything to enable it. So unfortunately I don't know what you need to do to enab

Re: Change of behaviour for Konsole in Bullseye

2019-09-09 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 22/08/2019 19:57, Erwan David wrote: Hi, I use bullseye, and I found that konsole has changed behaviour regarding Views and tabd. Something else tab-related that seems to have changed, the text colour on the tab no longer changes to indicate un-seen activity in the tab. Is this intentiona

Re: Change of behaviour for Konsole in Bullseye

2019-08-22 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 22/08/2019 19:57, Erwan David wrote: I use bullseye, and I found that konsole has changed behaviour regarding Views and tabd. The old behaviour when you asked for a plit view was to have a second frame with the tabs of the window in each frame. Now, when I split the view, current tab is kep o

Re: Debian Buster, KDE, Amarok and zombies of ThreadWeaver::T

2019-02-21 Thread Alex DEKKER
I tried to install qmmp and it seems to be great player (I was user of old winamp some 20 years ago and qmmp brings back memories :) Another vote for Qmmp here. It's "just enough" player for me. I especially like the tabbed playlists. alexd

Re: Hanging plasmashell

2018-06-14 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 13/06/18 15:55, Jiri Kanicky wrote: Any mounted system which looses connection will completely hang plasmashell. For example I mount NFS, close lid and take laptop to work and when I open it plasmashell is hanged. I haven't had this setup for a while but when I had an NFS export mounted

Re: Latest and Greatest: Dropbox Disappears

2016-08-27 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 27/08/16 21:14, David Baron wrote: Running up-to-date Sid. Plasma desktop come up, the Dropbox icon (actually NOT, but a folder icon) appears on the system bar. After a while, it is gone. The daemon is still running. Does it reappear if you run xembedsniproxy? alexd

Re: KDE standard browser

2016-07-11 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 11/07/16 15:01, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Debian/Sid and have all packages more or less up-to-date. Thanks > to the Debian KDE team for their hard work in keeping KDE on Debian up-to-date > and to several volunteers on this list (Martin and others) for providing many > useful

Re: Dassault Users

2016-04-13 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 13/04/16 12:25, Keian Rao Eng Haau wrote: Miss Sophia, It is strange that you are offering to share marketing information to a mailing list primarily of tech support. I feat that replying to a spammer is stranger still... alexd

Re: Icons and screensavers

2016-03-19 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 17/03/16 17:26, Carlos Kosloff wrote: Thanks for answer but I don't see that it is possible to launch iceweasel with a firefox icon, there is no firefox in the repo. Please elaborate. On my system the package is called firefox-esr. Iceweasel is now a transitional package. When I click on th

Re: Icons and screensavers

2016-03-19 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 17/03/16 14:43, Carlos Kosloff wrote: My icons for iceweasel and networks disappeared in a dist-upgrade for the testing branch. I know that this is a general thing. Iceweasel has been renamed Firefox here - I assume this is related. Also, the ability to set a screensaver in the power opti

Re: Icons and screensavers

2016-03-18 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 17/03/16 17:26, Carlos Kosloff wrote: Thanks for answer but I don't see that it is possible to launch iceweasel with a firefox icon, there is no firefox in the repo. Please elaborate. On my system the package is called firefox-esr. Iceweasel is now a transitional package. When I click on th

Re: Monitoring Baloo activity

2016-01-15 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 15/01/16 14:29, newbee...@nativobject.net wrote: At each session launch, baloo_file_extractor eat lots cpu and memory and after hours, I kill it to get some memory back (around of 1,5Gb !)... ... Is it possible to monitor the activity of baloo ? Not sure if this is what you had in mind,

Re: So I have a Plasma 5 desktop!

2015-07-19 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 19/07/15 10:00, Dominique Dumont wrote: I've also tried plasma 5. Unfortunately, this messed up iceweasel: Everything was twice as big as usual (although my laptop has no retine display..). Menus. tabs, fonts were too large. I could play with font size to reduce the font to a reasonable value,

Re: Konqueror still usable?

2015-06-18 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 18/06/15 17:26, Frank Mehnert wrote: Does it still make sense to use Konqueror in certain situations, are there some hints for improving the configuration or should I just uninstall it? I use it with Javascript, Java, cookies and images disabled; obviously this isn't going to work for a gre

Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-16 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 16/06/15 19:03, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 June 2015 11:43:37 Alex DEKKER wrote: Looking through /usr/share/kde4/apps/*/icons it seems that, er, perhaps PNG is the dominant icon format after all. Obviously the number of PNG files on disk is more than SVG because

Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-15 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 15/06/15 17:15, Nick Boyce wrote: I wonder whether this may have anything to do with the lack of a special-purpose SVG-oriented icon editor. Inkscape is probably the best Free vector drawing programme going, and it has an icon preview mode... At one SVG icon-set page I found : http://s

Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-14 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 14/06/15 03:53, Nick Boyce wrote: On Saturday 13 Jun 2015 21:32:36 Alex DEKKER wrote: Inkscape? AIUI, KDE icons are SVG [and have been for some time] so a vector editor would be the order of the day. Wow ... thanks, I had no idea. That change has completely passed me by. Allow me to row

Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-13 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 13/06/15 19:04, Nick Boyce wrote: All this leaves me wondering what tool KDE developers on Debian use to create their packages' icons can anyone give me a clue ? Inkscape? AIUI, KDE icons are SVG [and have been for some time] so a vector editor would be the order of the day. alexd

Re: Systray: barely visible, monochrome icons

2015-04-16 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 12/04/15 22:00, Michael Schuerig wrote: On Sunday 12 April 2015 22:18:24 Martin Steigerwald wrote: The new monochrome ones are default for systray status icons and I think will also be default for toolbars in Plasma 5. This is a upstream design decision. I see, thanks. At least I know now th

Re: Authenticity check failures in konqueror

2014-10-28 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 26/10/14 12:39, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I tried Qupzilla as Konqueror seems to have more and more issues with websites Looks OK but it would need two things to make me switch from Konqueror: middle click to paste URL and a 'load images' button. alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-k

Re: Video playback

2014-06-15 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 15/06/14 21:58, Brad Alexander wrote: (or even where to look to diagnose these video problems? mplayer has a range of video output modes. You can list these with 'mplayer -vo help'. I suggest you test a few of the likely-looking modes [eg 'md5sum' output mode probably isn't going to help y

Re: Howto Get kde desktop to run ?

2014-06-15 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 15/06/14 02:30, Barry wrote: I installed debian 7.5 on this m/c but it could not install gnome apparently because of some video problem. If your graphics drivers don't work, KDE is not going to help. In stead it installed the desktop light facility apparently successfully.. I used synapt

Re: Window decorations/qt theme resets to some default after a while of being logged in

2014-03-25 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 24/03/14 19:59, Rubin Abdi wrote: No ~/.kde4 directory. I do however have a .kderc which seems to be doing a whole lot of nothing so I've removed it to see if it helps at all. Run the program with strace -eopen and it will dump a list of all the files it attempts to open. This may help y

Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

2014-02-18 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 18/02/14 19:08, Erwan David wrote: Le 18/02/2014 19:23, Alex DEKKER a écrit : Whether or not future KDE versions work in x2go sessions is another matter... It's not a matter of KDE or other desktop environment It is a matter on individual programs. I am not certain about that. Surel

Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

2014-02-18 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 18/02/14 04:24, Nick Boyce wrote: won't X's ability to carry display traffic from one machine to another be sorely missed by some people ? I won't - I use x2go for this. It's so much better than raw X, I've never bothered with raw X since discovering it. Whether or not future KDE versions

Re: How to clean up Kontact calendar mess?

2014-01-28 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 27/01/14 23:22, john Culleton wrote: In general if there is an alternative to a KDE program to do a task I use the alternative. The main fault with KDE ops is that they are overly integrated. That is pretty much the point of KDE - code reuse and integration. Are you aware that you're postin

Re: Font anti-aliasing looking weird in Firefox?

2013-09-26 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 25/09/13 18:31, Rubin Abdi wrote: If I have anti-aliasing enabled with sub-pixel rendering in KDE, whenever lines of text are drawn they sometimes randomly show up bolder/heavier than they should be. If I highlight them with my mouse or scroll, they'll go away or reappear. Yes, I've had this

Re: Trinity

2012-07-12 Thread Alex DEKKER
On Thursday 12 Jul 2012 08:44:47 Andrej Kacian wrote: > it is perfectly possible to use KDE4 without all the > social, semantic, and/or cloudy crap that's being pushed to Linux > desktop in recent years. It just takes bit of tweaking. That's prety much how I use KDE4. alexd

Re: Good music player suggestion

2012-05-11 Thread Alex Dekker
On Friday 11 May 2012 10:49:10 Andrej Kacian wrote: > What are everyone's favourite players? Qmmp works for me and would probably fit the bill for you as it's small and light and doesn't try to do too much. alexd

Switch desktop on one screen at a time

2010-12-17 Thread Alex DEKKER
Using dual monitors, how do I switch the desktop on only one screen at a time? I like the two monitors to be independent. Currently I am working around this by making every window on the secondary monitor set to All Desktops, and disabling the change-desktop animation. There don't seem to be any

Re: Where does Kontact save contacts?

2010-06-22 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 21/06/10 18:22, Michael Schuerig wrote: So, the interesting question remains: where are my contacts? You could use rsync -aP before and after using Kontact to see what files are changed. If you really don't know where the files are then you will have to rsync all of ~ to somewhere else in