kwin-wayland using all my CPU cycles.

2025-03-15 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. For the past day my desktop is slowed to a crawl. It started yesterday and continues today even after the massive updating of over 300 packages. Top reports that kwin-wayland is using over 2,000% of my CPU time while plasmashell is using another 20

Re: Remembering Konsole sessions

2025-03-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 2025-02-22 12:34, Shai Berger wrote: Answering my own question: On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 09:58:21 +0200 Shai Berger wrote: [On KF5, under X11, if you logged out and back in, Konsole used to restore the number of tabs you had, and the working directory in each tab. With KF6/Wayland, when session

Re: sddm hangs in Debian/Trixie [resolved]

2025-02-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 2025-02-01 14:05, Gary Dale wrote: On 2025-02-01 12:52, Gary Dale wrote: On 2025-01-29 15:11, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: Le lundi 27 janvier 2025, 16:22:18 UTC+1 Gary Dale a écrit : On 2025-01-17 19:54, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: But not for me. After a reboot, it still hangs. Have you tried

Re: sddm hangs in Debian/Trixie

2025-02-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 2025-02-01 12:52, Gary Dale wrote: On 2025-01-29 15:11, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: Le lundi 27 janvier 2025, 16:22:18 UTC+1 Gary Dale a écrit : On 2025-01-17 19:54, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: But not for me. After a reboot, it still hangs. Have you tried removing its configuration? It works for

Re: sddm hangs in Debian/Trixie

2025-02-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 2025-01-29 15:11, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: Le lundi 27 janvier 2025, 16:22:18 UTC+1 Gary Dale a écrit : On 2025-01-17 19:54, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: But not for me. After a reboot, it still hangs. Have you tried removing its configuration? It works for me so it can't be completely b

Re: sddm hangs in Debian/Trixie

2025-01-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2025-01-17 19:54, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: But not for me. After a reboot, it still hangs. Have you tried removing its configuration? It works for me so it can't be completely broken. Here's the journalctl output for the latest attempt to start sddm - this time with the truncated line include

Re: sddm hangs in Debian/Trixie

2025-01-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2025-01-17 19:54, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: But not for me. After a reboot, it still hangs. Have you tried removing its configuration? It works for me so it can't be completely broken. Here's the journalctl output for the latest attempt to start sddm: Jan 27 09:49:49 transponder systemd[1]: S

Re: Kontact no longer works

2025-01-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 2025-01-24 17:24, Patrick Franz wrote: Hej, Am Freitag, 24. Januar 2025, 22:34:39 MEZ schrieb Soren Stoutner: On Friday, January 24, 2025 1:09:14 PM MST Gary Dale wrote: Jan 24 14:33:10 transponder kontact[3207]: org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: mysqld not found. Please verify your ins tallation

Re: KATE crashes frequently when doing regex find/replace

2025-01-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 2025-01-25 11:23, StealthMode Hu wrote: Maybe you shouldn't let KATE operate things if she is crashing them. Not Debian kernel compile/build related. Go to KATEs devs with your issue. 1. The Debian-KDE list is, by definition, not kernel related. 2. Saying don't use a buggy program is sil

Re: KATE crashes frequently when doing regex find/replace

2025-01-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 2025-01-02 16:26, StealthMode Hu wrote: Why thank you. Your Ego speaks volumes to us. I was commenting on THIS list is for bug reporting. And someone wants their EGO . SHADOW soothed by making all of us use some secondary " upstream " email. Just to make the same bug reports. Which is why

Re: sddm hangs in Debian/Trixie

2025-01-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 2025-01-17 19:54, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: But not for me. After a reboot, it still hangs. Have you tried removing its configuration? It works for me so it can't be completely broken. I did an apt purge sddm, followed by a reboot. This ended up at the command line because there was no displa

Kontact no longer works

2025-01-24 Thread Gary Dale
For the past two or three weeks, Kontact refuses to work. I get the message "A required background service is not operational" along with a "Details..." button that also doesn't work. I note that a previous full-upgrade seems to have removed Kontact, but the re-install worked - there were no e

Re: sddm hangs in Debian/Trixie

2025-01-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-12-31 10:18, yaros wrote: Dnia 31 grudnia 2024 15:54:46 CET, Gary Dale napisał/a: On 2024-12-30 02:47, yaros wrote: Dnia niedziela, 29 grudnia 2024 15:40:16 CET Gary Dale pisze: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. After doing a full-upgrade

Re: sddm hangs in Debian/Trixie

2024-12-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-12-30 02:47, yaros wrote: Dnia niedziela, 29 grudnia 2024 15:40:16 CET Gary Dale pisze: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. After doing a full-upgrade this morning, I rebooted my system. It gets to the sddm service being started then goes no further. It hangs and i

KATE crashes frequently when doing regex find/replace

2024-12-29 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I use regex find/replace a lot. Today KATE crashes almost every time I use one. Fortunately, it is able to recover the modified file I was working on after the crash, so I am able to work.

sddm hangs in Debian/Trixie

2024-12-29 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. After doing a full-upgrade this morning, I rebooted my system. It gets to the sddm service being started then goes no further. It hangs and is not responsive to the keyboard. I had to install lightdm and make it my default desktop manager to get ba

Re: When will KDE work properly again?

2024-12-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-12-14 13:30, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: Le 14 décembre 2024 15:59:16 GMT+01:00, Gary Dale a écrit : […] Also, I note that gkrellm and FileZilla are being restored to desktop 1 instead of the ones they were open on. And FileZilla is being restored twice, so I have to close one instance

Re: When will KDE work properly again?

2024-12-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-11-17 09:43, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-10-30 10:58, M G Berberich wrote: Hello, Am Dienstag, den 29. Oktober schrieb Johannes Zarl-Zierl: Am Dienstag, 29. Oktober 2024, 09:36:58 CET schrieb M G Berberich: Am Montag, den 28. Oktober schrieb Johannes Zarl-Zierl: I *think* restoring the

Re: Latest upgrades destroyed my desktop

2024-12-03 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-12-03 12:57, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: Dear Gary, Le 3 décembre 2024 18:41:01 GMT+01:00, Gary Dale a écrit : […] Is there an easy way to get the application menu back? Please have a look at <https://wiki.debian.org/Plasma%206> which seems to describe ways of fixing your p

Latest upgrades destroyed my desktop

2024-12-03 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. After doing my usual apt update, apt full-upgrade, apt autoremove this morning. my desktop has been largely destroyed. When I tried to reboot after doing the upgrade and remove, the system refused to shutdown. Instead the disk activity light was m

Re: When will KDE work properly again?

2024-11-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-10-30 10:58, M G Berberich wrote: Hello, Am Dienstag, den 29. Oktober schrieb Johannes Zarl-Zierl: Am Dienstag, 29. Oktober 2024, 09:36:58 CET schrieb M G Berberich: Am Montag, den 28. Oktober schrieb Johannes Zarl-Zierl: I *think* restoring the position can't be done on wayland, but

Re: When will KDE work properly again?

2024-10-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-10-29 17:12, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote: Hi bmg, Am Dienstag, 29. Oktober 2024, 09:36:58 CET schrieb M G Berberich: Am Montag, den 28. Oktober schrieb Johannes Zarl-Zierl: I *think* restoring the position can't be done on wayland, but maybe I'm mistaken about that. Restoring window size

When will KDE work properly again?

2024-10-28 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently did a fresh install of Bookworm followed by a full-upgrade to Trixie, and it didn't fix anything. BTW: this is with a fresh user home as well. I've been trying both X and Wayland and they both show similar failings: 1. despite having the

Re: hoe do I use spectacle screen recording?

2024-05-30 Thread Gary Dale
.  :( On 2024-05-26 18:08, Gary Dale wrote: Spectacle is supposed to be able to do it. It's been a feature for about a year now. I thought it should "just work" but apparently not. I'm not looking for other solutions right now, but thanks for the suggestion. On 2024-05-

Re: hoe do I use spectacle screen recording?

2024-05-26 Thread Gary Dale
you want to install simplescreenrecorder. I've never knew spectacle to be able to do that. Il giorno dom 26 mag 2024 alle ore 23:18 Gary Dale ha scritto: I've just switched into a Plasma/Wayland session on my Debian/Trixie AMD64 system so I could try out screen recording with Spectacle. How

hoe do I use spectacle screen recording?

2024-05-26 Thread Gary Dale
I've just switched into a Plasma/Wayland session on my Debian/Trixie AMD64 system so I could try out screen recording with Spectacle. However I can't figure out how to get it to work. I switch to the "recording: tab, and select the video format, but then what? I can select "workspace", "selecte

Why is the unlock screen showing media processes?

2022-11-25 Thread Gary Dale
And how can I stop this behaviour? I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. For the last while, I've noticed that when I go to unlock my screen, below the password box I get something showing a thumbnail and partial title of a video that either I was watching or which may have been watc

Re: KDE Connect started working

2022-10-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-10-10 02:42, Borden wrote: 10 Oct 2022, 00:13 by g...@extremeground.com: I've had the kdeconnect app on my desktop and on my Samsung phone for at least a couple of years without ever having them able to see each other. Yesterday evening I was looking at the notices on my phone and saw

KDE Connect started working

2022-10-09 Thread Gary Dale
I've had the kdeconnect app on my desktop and on my Samsung phone for at least a couple of years without ever having them able to see each other. Yesterday evening I was looking at the notices on my phone and saw that kdeconnect had found my desktop computer! It couldn't connect to it, but when

Re: Kontact/KOrganizer calendars not synching

2022-06-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-03-01 20:29, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. Some time back something apparently happened to my desktop calendars. They stopped showing anything. They used to sync with 2 different Google calendars that I update through my android phone. The e

Re: Kontact/KOrganizer calendars not synching

2022-05-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-05-02 10:42, Herbert-Schwarzer wrote: Google sync's broken for everyone. Something about Google changing the API or something. I don't believe there's a timeline to fix. It's been fixed for a couple of weeks now! For me running Debian 11Bullseye it ist not fixed. Debian/Bookworm I confi

Re: Kontact/KOrganizer calendars not synching

2022-05-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-03-02 18:26, Borden wrote: 1 Mar 2022, 20:29 by g...@extremeground.com: I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. Some time back something apparently happened to my desktop calendars. They stopped showing anything. They used to sync with 2 different Google calendars that I upda

KATE regular expression "Replace All"s don't work properly

2022-05-01 Thread Gary Dale
I have a table copied from a  Word document and pasted into KATE that I'm trying to convert into an XML file. The table is simple - some tabs, a position title, some more tabs, the incumbent's name then the EOL. My regex to grab the information is:         ^\s*([^\t]*)\s*(.*)$ When I Find All

Kontact/KOrganizer calendars not synching

2022-03-01 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. Some time back something apparently happened to my desktop calendars. They stopped showing anything. They used to sync with 2 different Google calendars that I update through my android phone. The events show on my phone but not on my desktop.

Re: Dolphin stopped displaying hidden folders in the Folders pane

2022-01-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-01-21 16:57, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: Dear Gary, Le jeudi 20 janvier 2022, 19:29:35 CET Gary Dale a écrit : I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 machine. For a few weeks now, Dolphin hasn't been showing hidden folders in the Folders pane. I've set the view to show h

Re: Dolphin stopped displaying hidden folders in the Folders pane

2022-01-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-01-21 04:18, Shai Berger wrote: Hi Gary, On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:29:35 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 machine. For a few weeks now, Dolphin hasn't been showing hidden folders in the Folders pane. I've set the view to show hidden file

Dolphin stopped displaying hidden folders in the Folders pane

2022-01-20 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 machine. For a few weeks now, Dolphin hasn't been showing hidden folders in the Folders pane. I've set the view to show hidden files and have been seeing hidden folders in the Folders pane since Dolphin was first introduced. I have to assume that this

Re: [OT] Dolphin, tags and ratings, user experience?

2021-08-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 2021-08-23 16:07, Marco Möller wrote: Hello, Dolphin shows functions to add ratings and tags to files and folders. I am interested to read about your experience using them, especially: (1) Where are they (tags and stars) stored for the directories and the files? (2) Are they (tags and stars)

Plasma 5 still not remembering which virtual desktop applications are on

2020-11-19 Thread Gary Dale
Running Debian/Testing on an AMD64 system. I just rebooted my computer to run the latest kernel that apt full-upgrade installed and noted that when I logged in again, all the applications that were running when I shut down came back up on the first virtual desktop. For the most part it's not

Re: Upgrade partially some packages (Plasma 5.19. 5 - 3) on testing broke plasma.

2020-11-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-11-12 23:45, Borden Rhodes wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 23:32, Norbert Preining wrote: Nothing related to plasma can make your system unbootable, that is FUD. You can change the desktop session to any other and run it. Does my computer power on and POST? Yes. Do the kernel and systemd

Re: Upgrade partially some packages (Plasma 5.19. 5 - 3) on testing broke plasma.

2020-11-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-11-12 15:58, Borden Rhodes wrote: Confirmed I can use my computer again. Thank you. Back to my earlier question, though, have we learnt anything in this experience that can help us avoid unbootable KDE problems in the future? A previous time when this happened, I suggested marking the d

Re: Upgrade partially some packages (Plasma 5.19. 5 - 3) on testing broke plasma.

2020-11-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-11-12 08:38, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-11-09 01:37, Héctor Sales Llamas wrote: Hello, today some plasma  5.19.5-3 packages have entered testing . After reboot and logging into the system, plasma is partially broken.  I suspect it has to do with the partial plasma upgrade 5.19.x. How

Re: Upgrade partially some packages (Plasma 5.19. 5 - 3) on testing broke plasma.

2020-11-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-11-12 08:38, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-11-09 01:37, Héctor Sales Llamas wrote: Hello, today some plasma  5.19.5-3 packages have entered testing . After reboot and logging into the system, plasma is partially broken.  I suspect it has to do with the partial plasma upgrade 5.19.x. How

Re: Upgrade partially some packages (Plasma 5.19. 5 - 3) on testing broke plasma.

2020-11-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-11-09 01:37, Héctor Sales Llamas wrote: Hello, today some plasma 5.19.5-3 packages have entered testing . After reboot and logging into the system, plasma is partially broken.  I suspect it has to do with the partial plasma upgrade 5.19.x. How can i fix this ?.  Why did these packages

Re: Upgrade partially some packages (Plasma 5.19. 5 - 3) on testing broke plasma.

2020-11-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-11-09 4:04 a.m., Andy G Wood wrote: I had the same problem this morning with testing. My fix was to simply to back out the new libkdecorations2-5v5 : debsnap -d . --binary -a amd64 libkdecorations2-5v5 4:5.17.5-2 sudo dpkg -i libkdecorations2-5v5_5.17.5-2_amd64.deb dpkg --get-selections

Re: Okular no longer follows PDF links - resolved (with apologies)

2020-07-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-07-22 17:37, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Testing (Bullseye) on an AMD64 machine. Up until a few days ago, a PDF I created with Scribus worked perfectly with Okular. I could click on a link in the table of contents and jump to that page. I have a lot of other internal lin

Re: issues with konsole's session restore

2020-07-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-07-11 10:55, inkbottle wrote: 1- At session restore time, konsole is showing a pop-up saying: "There are two actions (Add Bookmark, Edit Bookmarks...) that want to use the same shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+B). This is most probably a bug. Please report it in bugs.kde.org" It started a few weeks

Okular no longer follows PDF links

2020-07-22 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Testing (Bullseye) on an AMD64 machine. Up until a few days ago, a PDF I created with Scribus worked perfectly with Okular. I could click on a link in the table of contents and jump to that page. I have a lot of other internal links in the document as well, such as a table o

Re: KATE & regex search/replace across multiple lines

2020-06-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-06-19 13:32, Borden Rhodes wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 13:10, Gary Dale wrote: I've opened another (previously saved) session and tried it there and KATE recognizes the \n properly so it's not the version of KATE that's at fault. I've tried switching the End-

Re: KATE & regex search/replace across multiple lines

2020-06-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-06-19 12:44, Gary Dale wrote: I love KATE and use it a lot. Unfortunately it seems to have a weird setting somewhere (associated with either a file or session) that affects regex search and replace. I have been editing multiple files recently using regex's. Usually KATE allows

KATE & regex search/replace across multiple lines

2020-06-19 Thread Gary Dale
I love KATE and use it a lot. Unfortunately it seems to have a weird setting somewhere (associated with either a file or session) that affects regex search and replace. I have been editing multiple files recently using regex's. Usually KATE allows \n to match the end-of-line which lets me cont

Re: bulk change of KATE session files

2020-03-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 3/31/20 3:02 AM, luca.pedrielli wrote: Il 31/03/20 02:28, Gary Dale ha scritto: I've found it necessary to change the location of a directory that contained files from several KATE sessions. I'm looking for a way to modify the KATE configuration files to reflect the new locatio

bulk change of KATE session files

2020-03-30 Thread Gary Dale
I've found it necessary to change the location of a directory that contained files from several KATE sessions. I'm looking for a way to modify the KATE configuration files to reflect the new locations rather than having to create new sessions. Two files in my .config folder contain the directo

Re: new monitor not going into power-saving mode

2019-12-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/29/19 7:37 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Gary Dale composed on 2019-12-29 18:33 (UTC-0500): Is there something about DisplayPort that causes this behaviour or is it specific to this monitor (Samsung LU28E490DS/ZA)? I suspect the greatest likelihood is the Samsung, and least likely the

new monitor not going into power-saving mode

2019-12-29 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Testing on an AMD64 system. I just replaced my Samsung HD monitor with a Samsung 4K, in the process switching from a DVI cable to DisplayPort. While power-saving was working perfectly on my old setup, it's not working with the new one. Instead the screen goes blank then seem

Can't set times for Kontact events

2019-12-19 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running bullseye on an AMD64 system. When I create or edit an event, I can't set or change the time. No matter what I do, it reverts to 12:00 AM after I save the event. Moreover, the Apply button stays greyed out unless I modify some other part of the event.

Re: Debian/Bullseye plasma screen doesn't lock

2019-11-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-11-04 8:29 p.m., Gary Dale wrote: On 2019-10-30 9:07 a.m., luca.pedrielli wrote: Il 30/10/19 12:53, Gary Dale ha scritto: On 2019-10-25 10:35 a.m., Shai Berger wrote: On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:29:15 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Since mid-August, my screen doesn't lock automatically aft

Re: Debian/Bullseye plasma screen doesn't lock

2019-11-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-10-30 9:07 a.m., luca.pedrielli wrote: Il 30/10/19 12:53, Gary Dale ha scritto: On 2019-10-25 10:35 a.m., Shai Berger wrote: On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:29:15 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Since mid-August, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10 minutes Any suggestions on how t

Re: Debian/Bullseye plasma screen doesn't lock

2019-10-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-10-25 10:35 a.m., Shai Berger wrote: On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:29:15 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Since mid-August, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10 minutes Any suggestions on how to fix this? I think this may have to do with the display manager. I've been happily us

Debian/Bullseye plasma screen doesn't lock

2019-10-25 Thread Gary Dale
Since mid-August, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10 minutes (as I specified in the power management settings). I've tried rebooting and resetting the power management setting but it's still not locking. This has survived several updates to the window management software. I'm runnin

Debian/Bullseye plasma screen doesn't lock

2019-10-07 Thread Gary Dale
Since mid-August, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10 minutes (as I specified in the power management settings). I've tried rebooting and resetting the power management setting but it's still not locking. This has survived several updates to the window management software. I'm runnin

Debian/Bullseye screen doesn't lock

2019-08-19 Thread Gary Dale
For the last several days, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10 minutes (as I specified in the power management settings). I've tried rebooting and resetting the power management setting but it's still not locking. I'm running Debian/Bullseye on an AMD64 system. Any suggestions on ho

Debian/Bullseye screen doesn't lock

2019-08-18 Thread Gary Dale
For the last several days, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10 minutes (as I specified in the power management settings). I've tried rebooting and resetting the power management setting but it's still not locking. I'm running Debian/Bullseye on an AMD64 system. Any suggestions on ho

kompare doesn't

2019-03-30 Thread Gary Dale
Has anyone tried kompare recently? I haven't used it before but needed it to track down why google maps won't load the new version of a kml file but still loads the old one (both pass the w3schools xml validation test). I can point it to the two files I want to compare but the compare button

Re: kdeconnect doesn't

2018-11-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-11-22 4:54 p.m., Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: El jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2018 12:14:21 -03 Gary Dale escribió: On 2018-11-08 4:44 a.m., Michael Schuerig wrote: On Donnerstag, 1. November 2018 05:17:00 CET Gary Dale wrote: I managed to get kdeconnect to work between my

Re: kdeconnect doesn't

2018-11-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-11-08 4:44 a.m., Michael Schuerig wrote: On Donnerstag, 1. November 2018 05:17:00 CET Gary Dale wrote: I managed to get kdeconnect to work between my laptop and my phone by installing ufw and opening the kdeconnect ports in it. However the same solution doesn't work on my de

Re: kdeconnect doesn't

2018-10-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-27 11:59 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I keep reading wonderful things about KDEconnect but I've yet to experience them. My android phones can't see my Debian/Buster desktop and vice versa. Both devices are on the same network and I'm not running an internal firewall on my

Re: kdeconnect doesn't

2018-09-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-28 04:15 PM, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote: Am Freitag, 28. September 2018, 20:39:01 CEST schrieb Gary Dale: This shouldn't be an issue but I have also had 3 different routers since I first tried to use kdeconnect. It didn't work with any of them handing out IP addresses I

Re: kdeconnect doesn't

2018-09-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-27 11:59 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I keep reading wonderful things about KDEconnect but I've yet to experience them. My android phones can't see my Debian/Buster desktop and vice versa. Both devices are on the same network and I'm not running an internal firewall on my

kdeconnect doesn't

2018-09-27 Thread Gary Dale
I keep reading wonderful things about KDEconnect but I've yet to experience them. My android phones can't see my Debian/Buster desktop and vice versa. Both devices are on the same network and I'm not running an internal firewall on my desktop. I've been trying KDEconnect intermittently for man

file save dialogues broken in gtk apps

2018-09-07 Thread Gary Dale
This just started happening today after I rebooted my computer. I first noticed it in Firefox then Thunderbird when I tried to save files. In Firefox, it's files I'm trying to download from a site. In Thunderbird, it's trying to save attachments. In both cases, when I try to save, the dialogue

Re: Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade"

2018-08-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-08-10 12:48 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Hi Gary! According to your issues I can only think in an issue with your video card. What do you have there? Another thing to try is creating another user. FWIW no one else has reported an issue like yours yet, or at least not t

Re: Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade"

2018-08-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-08-06 09:53 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 2018-08-06 05:05 AM, Ferdinand Thommes wrote: Gary Dale hat am 6. August 2018 um 06:38 geschrieben: Yesterday I started to do my usual evening Buster apt full-upgrade but couldn't get it to work. I was getting messages about ldconfig not

Re: Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade"

2018-08-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-08-06 05:05 AM, Ferdinand Thommes wrote: Gary Dale hat am 6. August 2018 um 06:38 geschrieben: Yesterday I started to do my usual evening Buster apt full-upgrade but couldn't get it to work. I was getting messages about ldconfig not being in the path. I did another apt update

Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade"

2018-08-05 Thread Gary Dale
Yesterday I started to do my usual evening Buster apt full-upgrade but couldn't get it to work. I was getting messages about ldconfig not being in the path. I did another apt update this evening but ran into the same problem with apt full-upgrade. I rebooted to recovery mode and ran the upgr

Re: adding a Google calendar to Kontact

2018-01-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-01-08 06:30 AM, Andy G Wood wrote: On Monday, 8 January 2018 00:24:58 GMT Gary Dale wrote: [...] I've just noticed the problem is worse than I thought. I have events on my main Google calendar that aren't showing up on Kontact and others that are showing up wrong. This makes

Re: adding a Google calendar to Kontact

2018-01-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-01-06 11:21 PM, Facundo Aguilera wrote: El 5 ene. 2018 23:20, "Gary Dale" <mailto:garyd...@torfree.net>> escribió: On 2017-09-13 01:01 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Buster on an amd64 system. I am trying to add anoth

Re: Akonadi and apparmor problem

2018-01-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 2017-12-28 05:32 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: On Tuesday, 21 November 2017 07:39:41 CET anxious...@gmail.com wrote: The error in akonadiselftest was: stderr: "Could not open required defaults file: /home/USER/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf\nFatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted\n"

Re: adding a Google calendar to Kontact

2018-01-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 2017-09-13 01:01 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Buster on an amd64 system. I am trying to add another google calendar to my Korganizer/Kontact calendar. I already have one google calendar for personal affairs and have created another calendar for a group I belong to. Since it

Re: Akonadi and apparmor problem

2017-11-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 2017-11-21 01:39 AM, anxious...@gmail.com wrote: I run unstable AMD64. Apparmor was installed on a routine update 3 days ago, preventing akonadi - and hence kmail -from starting on the next reboot. The error in akonadiselftest was: stderr: "Could not open required defaults file: /home/USER/

adding a Google calendar to Kontact

2017-09-12 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Buster on an amd64 system. I am trying to add another google calendar to my Korganizer/Kontact calendar. I already have one google calendar for personal affairs and have created another calendar for a group I belong to. Since it uses a different (not gmail) e-mail address, I

Does Calligra Words do mail merge yet?

2017-07-17 Thread Gary Dale
I suspect the answer is no, but I'm hoping I'm wrong. Internet searches suggest that it might but actually trying Words I can't see any way of doing it. LibreOffice handles the mail merge but it doesn't allow for conditional graphics (different graphic objects appearing depending on a database

Kontact error since upgrading to Buster

2017-07-16 Thread Gary Dale
I'm getting periodic messages from Kontact as follows: The server failed the authenticity check (planet.kde-espana.org). The certificate has expired This has been happening since I upgraded from Stretch to Buster a couple of days ago. Any ideas on how to get rid of it? I don't even know why

Re: Btrfs & Dolphin

2016-09-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/09/16 07:20 AM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: Would you not say that xfs is preferred over ext4? In benchmarks and recovery exercises, it appears to come out ahead for performance and recovery. The negative aspect of deploying xfs is that once the partition size is set, you cannot add or

Re: Btrfs & Dolphin

2016-09-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/09/16 04:00 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 09/11/2016 09:42 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I've been considering switching from Ext4 for a while but don't have any compelling reasons to do so.. Why? It's still in development was the last I heard. When I build my new computer next

Btrfs & Dolphin

2016-09-11 Thread Gary Dale
I just read an article in Linux Pro magazine (entitled "New Butter") about Btrfs. It ended rather enigmatically with a warning that "Btrfs does not integrate well with graphical file managers." This confuses me. I'd think that a file manager should operate pretty much independently of the file

Re: task bar missing

2016-09-06 Thread Gary Dale
By task bar I mean the bar that normally runs along the bottom of the screen that contains the Application Launcher (menu), pagers, running applications, system tray, etc.. On 06/09/16 02:50 AM, Thom Castermans wrote: 2016-09-06 6:21 GMT+02:00 Gary Dale <mailto:garyd...@torfree.

task bar missing

2016-09-05 Thread Gary Dale
This has been going on for a few weeks. I was hoping that it would get fixed but instead it's gotten worse. I'm running Debian/Testing on an AMD64 machine - with KDE obviously. When I reboot my computer, which I only do every week or so depending on on how it's behaving, the task bar is missin

Re: properly functioning torrent manager for KDE/Plasma 5

2016-01-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 07/01/16 05:43 PM, Andrej Kacian wrote: On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:06:31 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Stretch. Perhaps it works in Jessie? Ktorrent (4.3.1) works just fine in Stretch as well. Regards, Not on my AMD64 stretch system. I did get one torrent download a bit then it &qu

Re: properly functioning torrent manager for KDE/Plasma 5

2016-01-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 07/01/16 11:47 AM, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Thursday, 2016-01-07, 10:23:36, Gary Dale wrote: On 06/01/16 01:33 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Wednesday, 2016-01-06, 13:20:13, Gary Dale wrote: Unfortunately ktorrent simply does not work. I can give it the same torrent file as KGet and KGet will

properly functioning torrent manager for KDE/Plasma 5

2016-01-06 Thread Gary Dale
KGet works but loses the torrents between reboots. This appears to be not what the developer intended because there is an advanced setting to allow downloads to resume on startup. Moreover kget seems to store a lot of data in its tmp folder in /~.kde/share/apps/kget/tmp/ relating to every torre

Re: Safe to upgrade?

2016-01-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/12/15 05:34 PM, Tim Folger wrote: Hi, I'm running debian testing, with kde version 4.14.2, Given some of the problems I've seen posted on this list, I've been hesitating to upgrade to Plasma 5. What's the state of plasma 5 now in testing? Is it generally safe to upgrade? Thanks for any in

Re: dist-upgrade did not work

2015-10-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/10/15 01:59 PM, Carlos Kosloff wrote: I unheld libqt5x11extras5, did a full dist-upgrade, rebooted, lightdm did not work. Edited /etc/X11/default-display-manager and set it to kdm, lightdm started and failed. Same for sddm. Somehow some init script is set to lightdm and it will revert to

Re: plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/10/15 11:10 AM, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Friday 30 October 2015 10:20:58 Gary Dale wrote: I can understand why "unstable" users may want it, but that doesn't those of us using testing are a different breed. We want to help get things ready for the next stable release. Tha

Re: plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/10/15 04:49 AM, Tim Ruehsen wrote: On Friday 30 October 2015 00:09:31 Gary Dale wrote: On 29/10/15 04:54 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:54:22 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Hello Gary, And not wanting to rehash that old argument, the current system is clearly not working

Re: plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/10/15 04:54 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:54:22 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Hello Gary, And not wanting to rehash that old argument, the current system is clearly not working. Surely all the bright people maintaining Debian Debian is run by humans. Humans, being humans

Re: plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/10/15 04:21 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: On Thursday 29 October 2015 16:04:31 Gary Dale wrote: [snip] Non the less if you have good ideas to help the bright people to improve the system believe me we are eager to know them :) [snip] If a new version of a dependency

Re: plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/10/15 05:41 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 17:27:04 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Hello Gary, I realize that KDE is going through a lot of changes right now, but can't stuff be kept out of testing until it is somewhat usable? That's not how migration from sid works. A

plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-28 Thread Gary Dale
The latest round of Debian/Stretch updates proved to be a disaster. Sddm has stopped working as has the plasma-desktop when I used lightdm instead. Sddm never brings up a login panel (or anything else) while plasma-desktop doesn't get past bringing up the initial progress panel (showing no prog

Re: Upstream Bug: Service menus don't work in KF5 dolphin 15.08 [WorkAround].

2015-10-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/10/15 08:30 PM, Zhang Jingqiang wrote: Hello, my services menus working again .. $ mkdir -p ~/.local/share/kservicetypes5/ $ cp /usr/share/kde4/servicetypes/konqpopupmenuplugin.desktop ~/.local/share/kservicetypes5/ *Note:* here, Debian Testing, dolphin works fine no crashes ... Work f

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