kwin: no way to remember window geometry?

Yo! For some time (sorry, don't remember which version exactly), there is no 'remember window size' in the window menu in kwin. All windows always come up in their default size. Especially for my 236 konqueror windows, this is very annoying :-) pointers? thanks in advance! -- vbi -- A progr

Re: kwin: no way to remember window geometry?

On Monday 10 January 2005 16.41, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Montag, 10. Januar 2005 16:27 schrieb Adrian von Bidder: > > For some time (sorry, don't remember which version exactly), there is > > no 'remember window size' in the window menu in kwin. All windows >

Re: KDE Update

On Thursday 13 January 2005 18.11, tomas pospisek wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Richard Ibbotson wrote: > > The following packages have been kept back: > > amor ark artsbuilder atlantik atlantikdesigner bug-buddy capplets > you can explicitly tell apt to update those held-back > packages: > > #

Bug#531754: ITP: webkitkde -- WebKit plug-in for Konqueror

Package: wnpp Owner: "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-kde@lists.debian.org * Package name: webkitkde (like upstream svn dir; binary: konq-plugin-webkit like konq-plugins) Version : svn snapshots Upstream Author : Various, see source

Question about pkg-kde-tools

Hi, I am slowly trying to improve webkitkde packaging and was now integrating the variables.mk snippet to use $(DEB_CMAKE_KDE4_FLAGS). Is it normal that I still need to specify -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr? If I do not, webkitkde's cmake stuff will install everything in /usr/local. I was expe

Akonadi in KDE 4.3?

Heyho! Is it a known problem or just local misconfiguration that akonadi stuff doesn't work with the current experimental packages? ("protocol version of the Akonadi server is incompatible", for instance when I want to add an email address to the addressbook from kmail.) (Thanks for providing

Roadmap until the spring?

Heyho! [please cc: me on replies, I'm not on the mailing lists. Thank you.] I'm using the webkit kpart as default browser for my (limited, I'm not that much of a lives-in-the-web-mostly person) web browsing and don't have many problems. With the freeze for Debian squeeze (currently testing) c

Re: Customizing KDE4

Heyho! [People on debian-kde: I'm trying to get a pre-configured desktop running, ideally in a way that will override whatever KDE3 config is already in the users' ~/.kde. No success so far :-( ] On Monday 14 December 2009 20.28:06 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On December 14, 200

4.4: Akonadi crash

Heyho! Akonadi crashes quite frequently; crash dump below. This one was immediately after log-in (where kaddressbook, korganizer and kmail are automatically started, so it's hard to guess what exactly may have caused it.) akonadi-server etc. 1.3.1-2 libakonadi-* 4:4.4.1-0rc1 kmail and other kd

Re: Links to kde debian stable are 404s

On Thursday 25 March 2010 03.56:02 Matthew Tedder wrote: > I really wish I could find a distro with kde 4.x that can establish > wireless connections.. KNetworkManager doesn't work on either of my > computers no matter how I try to use it. Works for me on one laptop, doesn't on the other, and I c

4.4.2: Akonadi crash

Heyho! First, of course: you rock! Once more I can tell my boss that Debian is not the "very old versions" distro :-) Unfortunately, akonadi tends to crash rather a lot. Is this known? (afaict everything is up to date to 4.4.2-rc1, most other stuff is from sid but there may be some squeeze

API documentation?

Heyho! As you may have read, I occasionaly tinker with code while commuting, so I'm a bit constrained in terms of net access - therefore: is it a license or issue that the KDE API docs are not packaged anymore? I see kdelibs4-doc, but nothing like that for KDE 4. (Yes, I've seen that it's tri

Re: API documentation?

On Wednesday 31 March 2010 08.19:37 Sune Vuorela wrote: [packaging kde api docs] > Patches will be considered JFTR: Since the API docs is easily downloadable (in contrast to the docs for some Python based software, which is only online but not as zip/tar), I'm happy with the status quo and won't

Re: Howto get kwooty build for debian?

Heyho! On Sunday 04 April 2010 16.52:01 Magnus Pedersen wrote: > What is the proper way to wish for a program (kwooty) to be included in > debian? > http://sourceforge.net/projects/kwooty/ There is no official way for it to get included, but there are several ways to work on it. The easiest yo

Attach gdb to program?

Heyho! Given a Debian package (kmail, in this case, with installed kdepim-dbg package) and an extracted source package: how do I properly start gdb (or ddd or ...) so that it finds both the debugging symbols and the source code? Just gdb -p /usr/bin/kmail doesn't work :-( (I've only ever used

pinentry window?

Heyho! ... and, sending the last mail: is it a Debian specific issue, or some local feature of my KDE profile, or a KDE bug: recently (4.3 to 4.4, but I'm not sure exactly which updates triggered it), the pinentry window always comes up behind the kmail windows when I sign email. Confused me a

Re: pinentry window?

On Thursday 08 April 2010 12.02:26 Frank Störzer wrote: > Hi Boris, > > Am Donnerstag, 8. April 2010 11:44:41 schrieb Boris Bobrov: > > Hm. I have another problem - I can't sign any email, I get "Bad > > Passphrase" every time I try to sign it. Pinentry window doesn't > > appear. > > > > The solu

Re: Attach gdb to program?

On Thursday 08 April 2010 16.04:39 Carsten Pfeiffer wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 8. April 2010 schrieb Adrian von Bidder: > > Given a Debian package (kmail, in this case, with installed kdepim-dbg > > package) and an extracted source package: how do I properly start gdb > > (or d

Re: Attach gdb to program?

On Thursday 08 April 2010 07.21:59 Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Just gdb -p /usr/bin/kmail doesn't work :-( Arrgh! As it turns out, gdb 7.0 (squeeze) doesn't really work with binarries from sid (or experimental), at least onn 32bit x86. gdb 7.1 (sid) works fine. cheers -- vbi --

Re: EOL of KDE SC 4.4.2 in qt-kde.debian.net

On Saturday 10 April 2010 16.04:02 Modestas Vainius wrote: > Hello, > > On šeštadienis 10 Balandis 2010 16:38:38 Michael Schuerig wrote: > > However, doing the same with -t experimental updates the entire system > > to experimental, which is presumably not what most people want. Is > > there a way

Re: EOL of KDE SC 4.4.2 in qt-kde.debian.net

On Sunday 11 April 2010 18.41:06 Modestas Vainius wrote: > Hello, > > On sekmadienis 11 Balandis 2010 19:09:08 Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > On Saturday 10 April 2010 16.04:02 Modestas Vainius wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > On šeštadienis 10 Bal

Re: Dragon Player bad AVI audio

On Thursday 15 April 2010 07.29:54 Glen Reesor wrote: > It has a lot of noise / hiss over top of the regular audio This often means clipping happens (the wave form hits the digital ceiling, so your nice sine-esque wave becomes a rectangle wave form.) Try fiddling with the mixers. Does the hiss

Re: KDE Issues under "Squeeze"

Hi, On Sunday 25 April 2010 05.49:44 lrhorer wrote: > KDE is much more stable, but still has problems. Hmm. Using KDE 4 for months now; currently 4.4 from experimental. If that's what'll end up in squeeze I wouldn't say "it has problems" in general. KDE certainly is far from bug-free, but it

Re: KDE menu wierdness

Heyho! On Tuesday 04 May 2010 04.44:48 B. Alexander wrote: > [ KDE Menu chaos ] > Anyone got a fix for it? Have you tried creating a new account and looking if it's there as well? The menu is basically system wide, but users may customize it (and I absolutely don't understand how system wide a

Re: KDE 4.4.3 in unstable

On Wednesday 05 May 2010 23.21:15 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In 4.4, kmail depends on mysql-server in order to send mail. (kmail -> > Akonadi -> mysql-server). Note that mysql recently split their server package into a "server" and a "core" package, so you get a minimal mysql installation w

Is it just me or is this a Debian list?

Heyho! Yes, KDE 4 is not was KDE 3 was. It is different. This can be discussed and there probably is no "right" answer. But my impression is that this list is about packaging KDE for Debian and not about developing Debian. There are KDE mailing lists for discussions about KDE. I'm mostly l

Re: Is it just me or is this a Debian list?

On Friday 07 May 2010 20.39:19 Adrian von Bidder wrote: > But my impression is that this list is about packaging KDE for Debian > and not about developing Debian. ... KDE. Obviously. Grr. -- featured product: Signify v1.14 - http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Thi

Re: Is it just me or is this a Debian list?

Heyho! On Friday 07 May 2010 21.55:40 Modestas Vainius wrote: > No, this list is for support of Debian KDE users. Ok, my mistake. What's on-topic and off-topic obviously changes then. ... > The idea was not wrong by itself, > but whether the discussion ended up to be constructive is another > q

Re: KDE in Debian, a personal POV

On Friday 07 May 2010 21.52:09 Mike Bird wrote: > Debian already has done all the work and maintains all > the infrastructure. It's vastly less work for Debian > to rebuild KDE 3.5 when a library changes rather than > force users to try to create a new build infrastructure. Nobody said you'd have

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

On Sunday 09 May 2010 18.18:05 Mike Bird wrote: > A lot of people care about > not making Debian worse, and are thereafter taking the time and > making the effort to present the case for not deleting KDE 3.5 > from Debian. Excuse me, but while I agree that this discussion is on-topic, it has also

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

On Monday 10 May 2010 12.57:18 Mike Bird wrote: > Please don't interfere with discussions about rescuing KDE 3.5. So far most of the "discussion" has been whining about where KDE 4 is perceived to be worse than KDE 3.5 and whining that "somebody should please do something". If the discussion st

Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?

Dotan, On Monday 10 May 2010 18.12:46 Dotan Cohen wrote: > I started 4.4 on a new ~/.kde > folder, can you try in a new user profile and report back? I hate it when this shows up. Yes, it's probably easier to debug, but often bugs *do* show up that don't happen anymore when I remove my ~/.kde

Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?

On Monday 10 May 2010 16.08:40 Dotan Cohen wrote: > Please tell us what problems, bugs, or issues KDE 4 that make it > difficult to use. Nepomuk / Strigi need to improve a *lot*. * Strigi sucks up all disk bandwidth and, given enough time, all memory to the point where the oom kill kills my sess

Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?

On Tuesday 11 May 2010 21.10:18 Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 11 May 2010 09:15, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > On Monday 10 May 2010 16.08:40 Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Please tell us what problems, bugs, or issues KDE 4 that make it > >> difficult to use. > > > >

KWebkitPart dependency

Heyho! Short note to the KDE packagers since kdenetwork now depends on libkwebkitpart-dev: don't hesitate to NMU (even with zero delay) if it helps to get KDE into squeeze faster. (In any case, and if no bug reports come in, I'll just wait with the next upload until kwebkitpart is in testing.)

Re: broken kde notifications

On Monday 07 June 2010 00.29:34 Modestas Vainius wrote: [GNOME and KDE fighting over notifications] > There is nothing for us to fix. Maintainers are not responsible for the > messed up configuration of your system. I think this is a bit a narrow minded view. There may be nothing wrong at the

Re: KMail: heavy disk reading for a long time.

Heyho! On Tuesday 06 July 2010 21.15:03 Michael Schuerig wrote: > I'm looking astonished at iotop right now. KMail (1.13.3, KDE 4.4.4) > reads from the disk on the order of 8 to 12 MByte/s. [...] After about 90 > minutes of frantic activity, it has stopped. I've wondered about this, too. I'm not

Re: packaging qt apps for debian

Heyho! On Sunday 03 October 2010 13.54:16 Rustom Mody wrote: > My question was around the fact that debian generally prefers > autoconf; configure; make sequence but qt apps use qmake instead of > configure. Debian "prefers" more or less standard build systems to arcane handwritten ones, but OTO

Re: packaging qt apps for debian

On Monday 04 October 2010 06.39:03 Rustom Mody wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:36 AM, George Kiagiadakis < > > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > So then there was a discussion about whether to use debhelper or cdbs > > > and I was suggested to ask here > > > > Adrian al

Re: simple question

Heyho! On Tuesday 12 October 2010 17.00:52 Kai Xin wrote: [... Linux as a desktop ...] I use Linux and Debian almost exclusively (server + desktop) for years now with very good success. Since the current "stable" Debian is a bit dated (especially for desktop use, KDE and OpenOffice versions ar

Phonon gstreamer backend: no video?

Heyho! Trying to play a video file that plays fine with dragon and the phonon xine backend, with the gstreamer backend dragon only shows a black screan and: dragonplayer(12447) Dragon::VideoWindow::load: detected mimetype: "video/x- msvideo" dragonplayer(12447) Dragon::MainWindow::engineMediaCh

Re: kdeinit bug

Hi, On Sunday 23 January 2011 19.33:38 Saiph Rigel wrote: > start_kdeinit (1746): /proc/1748/oom_adj is deprecated, please use > /proc/1748/oom_score_adj instead > > I'm using KDE 4.5.3 from experimental-snapshots repository. And? This shouldn't have any negative effect besides this warning.

Re: replacement for amarok 1.4. in squeeze?

do. Sorry if this may not be the answer you're looking for. greetings Adrian von Bidder -- Focusing on encryption is like sticking a tall stake in the ground and hoping the enemy runs right into it, instead of building a wide wall. -- Bruce Schneier signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: kpanel in Squeeze not coming up reliably

On Sunday 06 February 2011 18.34:14 Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I checked, /var/log/kdm.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log, The first place I always check is ~/.xsession-errors, which is stdout/stderr of most things that are started via the X session. OTOH it's quit hard to check since it's spammed by too m

networkmanagement widget: doesn't update list of connections

Hi, Not reporting to bugs.d.o since I'm using 0.1~svn1175124-1+kde45 (against nm 0.8.1-6 from squeeze/wheezy), but maybe a workaround is known. OTOH it's only an optical problem so far, networking is working. Anyway: although I get a (wireless, automatic) connection and "nmcli con status" corr

compile 4.6: soprano fails

Hi, Is it currently possible to compile latest KDE from source? However I try, I currently fail when I want to compile soprano (redland backend): +++ [ 43%] Building CXX object backends/redland/CMakeFiles/soprano_redlandcore.dir/redlandworld.cpp.o

Re: patch to kdepim: build 4.6 git snapshot

On Thursday 24 February 2011 11.46:30 Bjoern Ricks wrote: > On Thursday 24 February 2011 11:12:11 Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > I've also decided not to package the mobile stuff. Probably it could > > be disabled alltogether by the right option to cmake, haven't looked. &g

Re: 4.6 status?

Hi, On Thursday 03 March 2011 16.31:10 Brad Alexander wrote: > Is there a target date for the kde 4.6 release in sid? March was mentioned, so it should be quite soon. I had a poke in the git repositories of the packages recently and have seen that there is quite a bit of work going on, so that

Re: digikam 1.9.0

Hi, On Saturday 19 March 2011 21.10:04 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I built digikam 1.9.0 for i386 - quick and dirty, but for people with KDE > 4.5 from qt-kde.debian.net it should work. I'd be happy to try it (although since I'm on amd64, I'd just need the source package.) current digikam was b0

Re: kde 4.6

Heyho! On Monday 28 March 2011 16.47:39 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On 2011-03-27 07:48:45 Kees de Jong wrote: > >This question is quite valid > >if you ask me. > We didn't. Come on, can you please let this die or turn into something constructive? Igor asked this FAQ in a quite civil manner

Re: KDE Software Compilation 4.6.1 has been uploaded to qt-kde.debian.net

On Saturday 02 April 2011 16.47:00 Michael Schuerig wrote: > Also, I took the opportunity to switch Konqueror to using WebKit instead > of KHTML[*]. Over the past year, with KHTML I've felt more and more left Note that kpart-webkit is not very update at the moment; I'll try to do an upload soon

nepomuk crash

Hi, (Thanks for 4.6 - runs fine) nepomuk crashes at startup; I can confirm that [1] solves this problem (haven't tested any features that use nepomuk, but it doesn't crash.) Other than that, no obvious problems. I can confirm that the "Presentation" profile in the power settings were removed,

nepomuk / strigi in KDE 4.6

Heyho! I tried once more to enable nepomuk + strigi. It's now quite nice load-wise, but it leaks memory. After ca. 10h, I've got "nepomukservicestub" processes taking up all my memory, with the machine swapping like mad. I also had to wipe .kde/share/apps/nepomuk/ before virtuoso would run (se

Re: kde 3.* in sid will it ever happen?

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 15:26, Matt Reynolds wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 15:55, David Pashley wrote: > > KDE 3.0.3 is packaged and apart from a KDE 3.0.4 release, the KDE 3.0.x > > branch is pretty much finished packaging wise. calc and others are now > > working on KDE 3.1 packaging. > > > > KD

Re: ugly x background when starting kdm

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:57, Bastiaan Naber wrote: > Every time I start my computer I am anoyed with this problem but > have not been able to get rid of it. So please help me. > > When kdm starts I first get this very ugle black and white dots as > a background after which the login box comes up

Re: Pinentry

On Monday 08 September 2003 14:57, Amit Shah wrote: > On Monday 08 Sep 2003 17:59, Tom Badran wrote: > > Is it me or are the pinentry (specifically gtk) programs not in debian > > sid? Does this mean its impossible to set up a working kmail with > > gpg/mime just using unstable packages? > > I'm us

Re: Pinentry [plus kmail problem]

On Monday 08 September 2003 15:11, Gurke wrote: > btw: has anybody else got this problem: > if kmail crashes (or the xserver crashes and takes kmail down), my messages > in the in/outbox, sentmail and trash all have an unknown subject, an > unknown sender/destination adress and a date of 1970-01-0

Re: 3.1.5 still to come?

On Monday 09 February 2004 02.22, Nick Boyce wrote: > On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 11:49 pm, Andreas Goesele wrote: > > Is 3.1.5 still to come or are we supposed to go directly to 3.2? > > > Me too ! :-) > > > I'd be quite interested in that answer. Huh!? A quick 'apt-cache policy ' shows that 3.1.5

kmail in ccheney 3.1.95 debs (space-reading)

Yo! A little thing in kmail: space-reading doesn't work for me - the space bar scrolls down to the end of the message, but then doesn't jump to the next unread message - or, if it does (it varies, I'm not sure how to trigger which behaviour), it does so only until the last unread message in the

Re: x-session-manager

On Friday 20 February 2004 13.26, Martin Orr wrote: > Why do none of the KDE packages (either 3.1 or 3.2) provide alternatives > for x-window-manager or x-session-manager? The woody version of kdebase > provides x-session-manager. > > This means that I have to have a .xsession script containing "e

Re: kde 3.3.x

On Saturday 11 December 2004 21.58, Christopher Martin wrote: [3.3.2] > we would upload to a temporary repository (which would no doubt be > announced on these lists). experimental? -- vbi -- Beware of the FUD - know your enemies. This week * Patent Law, and how it is currently abused. * h

Re: Newest kmail: mails not displayed in preview pane

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 10.51, Timo Springmann wrote: > upgraded a few days(?) ago to kmail 3.3.1-3 and the problem is still > there... confirmed. All of kdepim, kmail, kdepim-kfile-plugins and kdepim-kio-plugins are at 3.3.1-3. greetings -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg

Re: Newest kmail: mails not displayed in preview pane

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 14.12, Adeodato Simó wrote: > also, to clear things up: if we're talking about debian bug #281705, > the referenced kde bug there is #90967. I can't find any debian bug > containing a reference for #88511. I'm not clear about it - could somebody please confirm?

KDE and MIDI: Is it possible at all?????

Yo! Status quo: KDE from unstable (mostly - some bits from testing might be surviving). Sound playback (mp3/ogg/...) is working (ALSA on a EMU 10k1 a.k.a SB Live!). kmid crashes ("Couldn't allocate queueCouldn't allocate queueCouldn't allocate queueCouldn't allocate queueCouldn't allocate que

Re: KDE and MIDI: Is it possible at all?????

On Friday 18 March 2005 23.37, MatÃas Costa wrote: > El Jueves 17 Marzo 2005 17:18, Adrian von Bidder escribiÃ: > > Yo! > > > > Status quo: KDE from unstable (mostly - some bits from testing might be > > surviving). Sound playback (mp3/ogg/...) is working (ALSA on a

Re: KDE and MIDI: Is it possible at all?????

On Monday 21 March 2005 10.00, Tomas Nykung wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 04:57:40PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > On Friday 18 March 2005 23.37, Matías Costa wrote: > > > El Jueves 17 Marzo 2005 17:18, Adrian von Bidder escribió: > > > > Yo! > > >

kmail (KDE 3.4): 'ignore thread' weirdness

Hi, Is this truly a KDE issue? The new kmail (installed from alioth) doesn't allow me to 'ignore thread' on a single message. As soon as it really is a thread, it works, but on single messages, hitting 'i' jumps to the next folder with a name starting with 'i'. (And in the menu, the 'ignore

Re: kmail (KDE 3.4): 'ignore thread' weirdness

On Wednesday 23 March 2005 10.08, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Hi, > > Is this truly a KDE issue? The new kmail (installed from alioth) doesn't > allow me to 'ignore thread' on a single message. As soon as it really is > a thread, it works, but on single messages,

kmail (KDE 3.4): 'ignore thread' weirdness

On Thursday 24 March 2005 09.05, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2005 10.08, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is this truly a KDE issue? The new kmail (installed from alioth) > > doesn't allow me to 'ignore thread' on a sing

building kdepim

Hi, I'm currently rebuilding kdepim from the 4:3.4.0-0pre1 packages with the fix for . Some notes: - libtool: needs to build-depend on a version providing usr/share/libtool/libtool.m4 (For some reason I still had the woody version on my system.) - missing build-d

netscape plugins

They work. They don't. They work. They don't. Arrgh! Anybody has an idea where the blame usually lies? I guess it's some too lose dependencies between konqueror and all the libraries that are needed to load flash (the only netscape plugin I use.) With a constant flashplugin version (since

Re: kmail - marking a message 'watched'?

On Saturday 07 May 2005 11.56, Jan De Luyck wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm currently using the alioth pre-packages for kde. Works like a charm. > Only, a little usability question which has been bothering me like hell: > is there any way to mark one message 'watched'? The option only becomes > availa

Re: Slow System / Kubuntu 5.04?

On Saturday 07 May 2005 23.44, Robert Tilley wrote: > I recently installed Kubuntu 5.04 to enjoy KDE 3.4.0 and have noticed > that my system now exibits a "lag" or slowdown that is almost > intolerable. It's almost enough to make me install Gentoo! Please go to

Konqueror and ACLs: difference between SuSE and Debian, between 3.5.x versions?

Yodel! [cc:s appreciated] We're facing a problem here with konquerors acl behaviour: changing from SuSE's 3.4.something to Debian backport 3.5.0 or also http://deb.stosberg.net/'s 3.5.3 backports, acl behaviour on file copying has annoyingly changed to also copy the acl. Old (and "correct" -