[kde] Touchpad (ksynaptics) is driving me crazy

Hi there! Is there a possibility to deactivate the touchpad on a laptop while typing on the keyboard? It happens over and over again that I come too near to the pad causing clicks somewhere, marking and deleting/replacing text anywhere. This is becoming really a PITA (Happened at least 10 times

[kde] Handling recently opened files

Hi there, I'm using autofs and automount for accessing the various home directories, e.g. desktop, notebook, server, etc. Specifically, I have /home/desktop/alex --> my home directory on the desktop /home/notebook/alex --> my home directory on the notebook /home is a autofs mount point, an

[kde] virtuoso-t memory consumption

Hi there, How much memory is virtuoso supposed to use? If I got it right, it shall use no more than the setting in System Settings/Desktop Search/Extended Settings/Memory usage, which is in my case 128MB. Now look at the real memory consumtion (from htop) PID USER PRI NI VIRT RES

Re: [kde] [SPAM] Re: virtuoso-t memory consumption

. Mai 2013, 10:18:25 Duncan wrote: > Alexander Puchmayr posted on Sat, 04 May 2013 14:24:58 +0200 as excerpted: > > Hi there, > > > > How much memory is virtuoso supposed to use? If I got it right, it shall > > use no more than the setting in System Settings/Desktop Sea

Dolphin: how to dereference soft links?

Hi there, When using drag&drop to copy a softlink to another directory, a new link to the original file is created. This is not always a useful behaviour, especially when the target directory is for example an usb stick and the file should be transferred to another computer who cannot dereferen

Plasma & NFS

Hi there! My Linux box has its home directories on a local SSD, and occasionally I need to mount the home directories of other machines (server, laptop(s), etc). When I do this and forget to unmount them, plasma gets stuck and is no longer responsive. Kwin seems to work, but switching activiti

Kde/Plasma localization settings

Hi there, I recently wanted to change the GUI-language for a new account to German, but failed. Regional Settings/Language contains only German language, but the result is a half translated system. Even Systemsettings itself showed only the left menu in German, the context elements where Englis

Plasma

Hi there, When clicking on the pager to minimize all windows, under some circumstances the windows can never be restored. You can click on the minimized windows, but they do not appear anymore. Only closing the window and reopening it helps. The problem is absolutely not reproducible, it happe

Dolphin replace/remove invalid chars in filename when copying to NTFS?

Hi, I just wanted to copy a bunch of files containing various characters like '?' and ':' in their names to an NTFS drive with dolphin, and got lots of errors because of that names. Dolphin does not remove those characters (or offer to do so), the only option you have is abort. Of course, one

Re: Dolphin replace/remove invalid chars in filename when copying to NTFS?

Am Donnerstag, 5. Jänner 2023, 12:38:50 CET schrieb René J.V. Bertin: > On Thursday January 05 2023 09:29:43 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I just wanted to copy a bunch of files containing various characters like > >'?' and ':' in their na