[kde] Re: plasma-desktop (KDE factory) acting up?

2010-11-01 Thread Duncan
log work like tail --follow=name? That is, when > the file gets renamed due to log rotation, does it show the new file? My > plasmoid shows metalog's /var/log/everything/current, but once per day > this file gets renamed and an empty one is created, which the plasmoid > does not show the

[kde] Re: Scrollbar uses button background colour. Can the user override this (by editing a config file by hand)?

2010-11-01 Thread Duncan
ppearance, app appearance. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___ This message is from the kde maili

[kde] Re: image caching in Konqueror 4.4.5

2010-11-01 Thread Duncan
one is supposed to force an update even if the headers say the item isn't changed) button or keyboard shortcut get you an updated image? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if yo

[kde] Re: How Do I Launch KDE Desktop Environment from the Terminal/Command Line of a Regular User?

2010-11-01 Thread Duncan
s to the appropriate session file in /etc/X11/Sessions. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___ This message is fro

[kde] Re: Scrollbar uses button background colour. Can the user override this (by editing a config file by hand)?

2010-11-02 Thread Duncan
Dotan Cohen posted on Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:26:18 +0200 as excerpted: > Duncan, thank you! I have no doubt that you shall fell 19 Sardukar before > your time is up! =:^) > Although the Oxygen style does let one configure the scrollbar to have a > hover effect, the rest of the theme (

[kde] Re: How Do I Launch KDE Desktop Environment from the Terminal/Command Line of a Regular User?

2010-11-03 Thread Duncan
lpful to read), it would be without the -- , since startkde lists clients, not servers, to start. So if he's correct: startx -- /usr/bin/startkde If I'm correct: startx /usr/bin/startkde But as I said (and as you ACKed, so you at least saw it, but apparently haven't had a chance

[kde] Re: Minimized apps dissapear

2010-11-06 Thread Duncan
ould perhaps put the app off-screen (if you have a 1920x1080 monitor with top-left at 0,0, and the window rule forces it to position top left at say 0, 1200...). Hopefully one of those suggestions will help... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a

[kde] Re: Minimized apps dissapear

2010-11-06 Thread Duncan
address, with your password and other account management information. OR: 3: Check the list-unsubscribe header in every mail sent by the list. OR: 4: Simply go to the kde website and follow the links to the lists and list account management web interface that you presumably used to sign up in the

[kde] Re: Minimized apps dissapear - more info at end of post

2010-11-08 Thread Duncan
$KDEHOME/ share, because that's where kde keeps almost all its config and settings, thus already eliminating the cycles testing the entire home dir, and starting with a quick verify that it's in $KDEHOME. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program

[kde] Re: Minimized apps dissapear - more info at end of post

2010-11-10 Thread Duncan
a new (clean and thus default) user not having it. So it fits the available evidence... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman __

[kde] Re: constant icon corruption on panel

2010-11-12 Thread Duncan
t might affect your display bug tho), direct rendering enabled, vsync disabled (doesn't seem to matter, here, the option's apparently enabled somewhere else I don't know about, maybe default for the Radeon driver in kms mode), and the xrender smoothscaling option unchecked b

[kde] Re: plasma-desktop (KDE factory) acting up?

2010-11-14 Thread Duncan
Alex Schuster posted on Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:57:41 +0100 as excerpted: > Duncan wrote: > >> Alex Schuster posted on Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:51:12 +0100 as excerpted: > >>>> I still have dual monitors in stacked config, [total of] 1920x2160. >> My current setup uses

[kde] Re: constant icon corruption on panel

2010-11-14 Thread Duncan
phanisvara das posted on Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:49:15 +0530 as excerpted: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:48:28 +0530, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> Of course, after >> toggling the clock option to force the redraw, I immediately toggle it >> again, to my prefe

[kde] Re: plasma-desktop crashes but "strace plasma-desktop" works

2010-11-19 Thread Duncan
dy seem to have tried the most obvious stuff, user config (.kde4), and the details of it working with amd64 but not x86 on the same repo are very intriguing. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if yo

[kde] Re: desktop panel and dock files fix

2010-11-19 Thread Duncan
ribution you are running kde on or if you compiled it yourself direct from kde's released source tarballs, which matters because some distributions make changes and so are quite different from what kde itself releases. Hope you get an fix! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No H

[kde] Re: How can I force default monitor to show newly created windows?

2010-12-04 Thread Duncan
from the kernel command line, not just kde's desktop effects) or not. That's slightly strange and can present issues if you're debugging acceleration problems and thus switching from OpenGL accelerated xorg to unaccelerated and back, but shouldn't be an issue as long as your

[kde] Re: How can I force default monitor to show newly created windows?

2010-12-04 Thread Duncan
Thomas Olsen posted on Sat, 04 Dec 2010 15:56:40 +0100 as excerpted: > On Saturday 04 December 2010 15:19:02 Duncan wrote: >> wrongly aka system settings, wrongly, because > > You give a lot of very good replies here but it would make them much > more easy to read if you wo

[kde] Re: File transfer stuck

2010-12-07 Thread Duncan
C had a bad component that worked fine when it was hot, but terrible, otherwise. If I kept the room at 85F/30C plus, it worked just fine! It was just this sort of issues that I'd see as it cooled down! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord

[kde] Re: Konqueror/Dolphin file managers very unstable

2010-12-07 Thread Duncan
by building everything against a common reference and then not upgrading it incompatibly, or upgrading everything else built against it when they do (the reason you need to get packages for your specific binary distribution version, a package for a different version or a different distribution might

[kde] Re: Konqueror/Dolphin file managers very unstable

2010-12-07 Thread Duncan
le, that's the problem. I've done that a number of times myself. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _

[kde] Re: Dolphin service menu help: preserve file timestamp

2010-12-17 Thread Duncan
d pain/pride of the realization that one is now officially an "old fart" as a result of having those feelings, knowing it's progress, but somehow wishing it didn't have to happen that way at the same time. =:^( OK, so that wandered "just a bit" OT... =:^) >> If

[kde] Re: How to get rid of sleep/hibernate?

2010-12-21 Thread Duncan
r that hal is deprecated and kde is moving off of it, IIRC with kde 4.6. It's thus reasonably likely that you'll need to modify your workaround somewhat when you upgrade to that. However, it should be easier to figure out what they've changed, having done it once already, and it&#

[kde] Re: favicons in Konqueror

2010-12-22 Thread Duncan
they'd set a rather strict security policy for it than for local-only apps. Rekonq is possibly new enough that it doesn't have such a security policy set for it, yet. But I've never gotten into SELinux or the like, so you'll have to go elsewhere for help in any detail on it.

[kde] Re: new annoying behaviour of taskbar

2010-12-23 Thread Duncan
the memory of the early kde4 recedes a bit further, as it's certainly so for me, but I'd certainly be interested in such a list in theory now, and could find myself a regular in practice, along about 4.7 or 4.8 beta time, provided 4.6 and 4.7 continue the trend of improvement we'

[kde] Re: favicons in Konqueror

2010-12-23 Thread Duncan
then check bugzilla for related bugs, too. As I said, I'm running 4.5.4 here too, on Gentoo, and haven't noticed the issue, so it doesn't appear to be hitting everyone. Hopefully it's something in your local user config and you can resolve it there. -- Duncan - List replies

[kde] Re: corrupted minute/hour hands on any analog clock

2010-12-30 Thread Duncan
e- setting. KDE version is 4.5.4. However, the problem has been around for awhile, since at least kde 4.4 and possibly the entire kde4 series, so it's not a recent regression. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree pro

[kde] Re: corrupted minute/hour hands on any analog clock

2010-12-30 Thread Duncan
Jerome Yuzyk posted on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:37:23 -0700 as excerpted: > On Thursday, December 30, 2010 04:08:49 pm Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> > wrote: >> Jerome Yuzyk posted on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:11:37 -0700 as excerpted: >> > Kde 3.5.3 on Fedora 13 >> > &g

[kde] Re: SMART errors on kde starting

2011-01-11 Thread Duncan
workstation, I don't use my netbook so much and it's running an older kde4, with laptop-mode-tools installed and controlling all that, configured via text file, not kde), so can't give you much help in terms of where and what to configure to turn off its attempts to do that. But th

[kde] Re: inotifywait -m -e close --format %f

2011-01-17 Thread Duncan
be what you're after, and of course the answer likely to remain valid going forward may well apply only to the still pre-release kmail2. Of course if you're flexible and will take an answer for any of them... =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Ev

[kde] Re: KDE4 global hotkeys working no more

2011-01-18 Thread Duncan
You can then focus on only the user config or only the system, depending on the results of that. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _

[kde] Re: KDE4 global hotkeys working no more

2011-01-20 Thread Duncan
stracing (or whatever fbsd uses in its place) kglobalaccel's file accesses... I've used that method to find the files something's looking for, as well. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the prog

[kde] Re: Disabling plasma desktop background

2011-01-20 Thread Duncan
limited use here. But I'm guessing it could be used as a plasma-desktop/plasma-netbook alternative, invoked on demand like you would a screensaver (hotcorner/hotkey launched, etc). (FWIW, I used bash tab-completion on plasm... to generate a listing of commands, then investigated the ones t

[kde] Re: Cursor blink time

2011-01-23 Thread Duncan
settings, configure profiles, edit profile, advanced tab, for kde 4.5 at least). You can set the cursor to blink or not, and to block, I-beam or underline, as well as setting the color. But it doesn't have a blink-rate setting there, either, only blink or solid. -- Duncan - List replies pr

[kde] Re: KMail crashes

2011-01-23 Thread Duncan
mat for 4.6 and never released except for testing a 4.5 kdepim). Good luck! With something that old, you're likely to need it! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Ric

[kde] Re: kde-4.5.5: partially lost fn keys on a wireless keyboard, right click only works on workspace 1

2011-01-23 Thread Duncan
on is the traditional context menu, so that's what you'll probably want to assign to the (unmodified) right button. AFAIK that's /supposed/ to be the default, but with 4.5, there's a bug and the default only gets assigned to the first one. You have to assign it to the other

[kde] Re: Cursor blink time

2011-01-23 Thread Duncan
Nikos Chantziaras posted on Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:07:15 +0200 as excerpted: > OK, found it: It seems it's only possible through the qtconfig utility > (it should be installed by default when the Qt library is installed.) > KDE doesn't provide a setting for this. Thanks! =:^)

[kde] Re: kde-4.5.5: partially lost fn keys on a wireless keyboard, right click only works on workspace 1

2011-01-23 Thread Duncan
user" trial, too. Hopefully the other one ends up similarly easy to fix. =:^/ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___

[kde] Re: Problems with Screen Resolution

2011-01-31 Thread Duncan
hat related here anyway, both because krandr only recently started working correctly at all for many people with dual monitors, so kde users /had/ to use xrandr or the like, and because it still doesn't allow adding modes as you did above, so kde users /still/ have to use xrandr or the like t

[kde] Re: Datetimes on files from my phone are off by three hours

2011-02-07 Thread Duncan
ou use, or try toggling the hardware clock to the other time, UTC or local, and changing the appropriate Linux timezone settings, and see if that helps. Or devise a workaround. Here, I might just setup a script, preferrably hooked into the sync itself if possible, or called manually before/af

[kde] Re: How to set the KDE path?

2011-02-07 Thread Duncan
nately, that won't work for more than a single bindir's worth, without finding and editing the config for that setting to include more dirs, in which case you can point it to them directly and don't need the symlinks. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every

[kde] Re: knode says "Can't post to " when trying to post to comp.std.c and comp.lang.c

2011-02-07 Thread Duncan
most folks know, so I wouldn't recommend exploring the option unless you consider yourself quite technically inclined. (IOW, people afraid of the command prompt or hand-editing text-based config files are best forgetting this option entirely, as it's clearly beyond their current and near-te

[kde] Re: Datetimes on files from my phone are off by three hours

2011-02-10 Thread Duncan
Dotan Cohen posted on Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:28:29 +0200 as excerpted: > Thanks, Duncan. I'm not syncing, just transferring the files with the > USB Mass Storage driver that the phone supports. I'll see what I can > come up with, and like you said, at worst case I can write a scr

[kde] Re: Sound HDA Intel (Analog Devices AD1981) doesn't work with phonon anymore?

2011-02-10 Thread Duncan
kde versions 4.5 and 4.6. The kdepim 4.5 and to-date 4.6 versions are officially beta, with 4.4.10 being the latest in the 4.4 series, the one you'd be expected to use with kde 4.6 in general, unless you /want/ to try the beta kdepim. kdepim includes kmail, knode, akregator, kontact, e

[kde] Re: Cannot configure processor speed in KDE 4.6

2011-02-11 Thread Duncan
t stracing has a reasonable chance of getting you a result, and if not, bisecting has a near 100% chance. Either way, you'll probably learn enough in the process to make the next time you need to find such a config option much easier to deal with. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferr

[kde] Re: Cannot configure processor speed in KDE 4.6

2011-02-11 Thread Duncan
Dotan Cohen posted on Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:34:21 +0200 as excerpted: > Thanks, Duncan, I've certainly "bisected" ~/.kde enough times to know > that the setting is most likely in ~/.kde/share/config. I've even > narrowed it down to powerdevilprofilesrc I think. But I wa

[kde] Re: Cannot configure processor speed in KDE 4.6

2011-02-13 Thread Duncan
ntoo/ gnome dev's blog for ~arch/testing. (Yes, I know gnome3 is out, but don't have it installed nor will I, thus the still-speculative tone of the above.) I'll comment on the topic bit of the thread in another post. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every

[kde] Re: Cannot configure processor speed in KDE 4.6

2011-02-13 Thread Duncan
leaned. Perhaps the CPU heatsink is clogged with dust, the CPU is throttling to prevent overheating, and the timing just happened to line up with your kde 4.6 install. That's certainly not unheard of. (Tech sites occasionally run features where they post horror story photos of system

[kde] Re: Sound HDA Intel (Analog Devices AD1981) doesn't work with phonon anymore? SOLVED

2011-02-14 Thread Duncan
Torinthiel posted on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:51:42 +0100 as excerpted: > phonon-vlc works for me without problems right now. Of course installing > it triggered a whole lot new devices, but now everything seems to be > working. Thanks for advice. Thanks for the solution report. =:^) -

[kde] Re: Kmix KDE4.6 Pulseaudio

2011-02-15 Thread Duncan
g to read them, or perhaps as part of the logout process. (I HAVE done this sort of thing, before, actually somewhat frequently, as because the technique simply runs a script, it's as flexible as the commands I can run from a script. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No

[kde] Fun with kde 4.6 zoom effects =:^)

2011-02-18 Thread Duncan
ative resolution desktops I'm going to be experimenting with as described above, and I expect the effect would be /mouth/ /watering/ impressive. =:^) But meanwhile, back here on earth, I have rather more long work days than I'd like to think about before I'll be able to afford those

[kde] Re: How do I restart KDM?

2011-02-18 Thread Duncan
it out if I actually took a few hours to investigate; it has simply never gotten to be sufficiently irritating to raise the priority high enough to get those few hours. Maybe if I'm lucky, the above hints will be enough for you to do the actual investigative work and I'll get th

[kde] Re: Control C in KMail

2011-02-18 Thread Duncan
implications. If that's the case, kmail is going so internally HTML formatted that it's making up HTML code formatting even for plain-text display where there isn't any, a trick I'd find more likely from the likes of MS, and I'll be looking for a new mail client the

[kde] Re: How do I restart KDM?

2011-02-18 Thread Duncan
7;d have looked in the keyboard shortcuts options, not under hardware, input-devs, keyboard. Now that I actually went and looked, tho, hopefully I'll remember that it's counter-intuitively under hardware. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Ever

[kde] Re: How do I restart KDM?

2011-02-18 Thread Duncan
Felix Miata posted on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:55:36 -0500 as excerpted: > On 2011/02/18 16:00 (GMT) Duncan composed: > >> I still miss the simple C-A-KB+/KB- resolution switching from before >> RandR! > > Not everyone need miss this. It's one of the prices one pays for

[kde] Re: Control C in KMail

2011-02-18 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:30:54 + as excerpted: > For those viewing in HTML... well... what can I say... except to > strongly encourage them to change their viewing prefs to plain text. > It's certainly safer, and would appear to solve the problem posed by the >

[kde] Re: right mouse click simulation with tabletpc

2011-02-22 Thread Duncan
fig files directly than many, and you may well get a reply with more direct information than I have in any case. In case you don't, however, the above should at least point you in the right direction. --- [1] TTBOMK: To the best of my knowledge. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTM

[kde] Re: How to use Plasmoid shortcuts

2011-02-23 Thread Duncan
r even if the functionality was implemented. So... if you're looking for a plasmoid (or other tool) to take focus and allow keyboard interactive launching... use something other than quicklaunch... and without active keyboard navigation implemented in quicklaunch, "make-visible"

[kde] Re: How to use Plasmoid shortcuts

2011-02-23 Thread Duncan
Dotan Cohen posted on Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:08:07 +0200 as excerpted: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 20:14, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> Dotan Cohen posted on Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:00:00 +0200 as excerpted: >> >>> I have the Quick Launch plasmoid in a p

[kde] Re: Showing keyboard layout flag and label

2011-02-28 Thread Duncan
the hoods welded shut, which is what closed source (or even source available but without a license to change it) servantware amounts to. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master.&quo

[kde] Re: Showing keyboard layout flag and label

2011-03-01 Thread Duncan
Dotan Cohen posted on Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:40:55 +0200 as excerpted: > Thanks, Duncan. I know the difference between a radiobox and a checkbox! =:^) Sometimes you never know, on the net. Better to be safe... and all that. Plus someone else might come by who didn't know and sudde

[kde] Re: Can KDM run multiple instances of itself?

2011-03-02 Thread Duncan
16 of the enlightenment window manager (WM), not some sort of virtual machine (VM). So as I said above, one or the other (maybe both?) of us has an incorrect understanding. If it's me, please do try to point out the error so it can be corrected, as I tr

[kde] Re: "Copy" in KMail picks up HTML formatting

2011-03-02 Thread Duncan
theory, but it matches the evidence available. But as I said, you're not the first to report it, so you're not alone in seeing the problem. Check earlier threads here and on the kde-linux list (the two kde lists I subscribe to so where I'd have seen them), if you're intereste

[kde] Re: Mounting flash disks with custom umask

2011-03-02 Thread Duncan
t get if you wait until it's actually shipped as part of a release, where everything's reasonably well tested together and should be close to the same age. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, h

[kde] Re: Qt4.7 repo needed for Kde:/Distro:/Factory?

2011-03-03 Thread Duncan
normal repos simply hadn't had time to fully package, test and release yet the new upstream version, and that it'll hit the regular repos given time. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you

[kde] Re: How to use Plasmoid shortcuts

2011-03-03 Thread Duncan
Dotan Cohen posted on Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:28:19 +0200 as excerpted: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 06:37, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >>> Like you, I prefer to launch with a keyboard launcher. >> I believe part of the issue may be that krunner checks more tha

[kde] konsole (started around 4.5, IIRC) suspends processing shortly after the displays go into sleep mode.

2011-03-05 Thread Duncan
shouldn't be having in the first place, and didn't used to have. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___

[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-05 Thread Duncan
og is a bit quirky (reminds me of the MS Windows 2 era), resulting in several successive single-purpose popup windows instead of the more typical multi- purpose dialog window, but it does get the job done, allowing you to present a UI with which to select or type things in, if that's needed. -

[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-06 Thread Duncan
kde posted on Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:31:16 + as excerpted: > On Saturday 05 March 2011 17:57:10 Duncan wrote: >> Dotan Cohen posted on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:07:56 +0200 as excerpted: >> > I have two separate cases where seniors using KDE like to open many >> > instan

[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-06 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:57:10 + as excerpted: > Dotan Cohen posted on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:07:56 +0200 as excerpted: > >> I have two separate cases where seniors using KDE like to open many >> instances of the same application rather than use the already-open &g

[kde] Re: List moderation?

2011-03-07 Thread Duncan
of 2010, with posts several times a month thru January. There's no listed posts for February, but one from Sunday (yesterday) on kde-4.6.1 (no replies, yet) and then this one, today. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord,

[kde] Re: kde-4.6.1

2011-03-07 Thread Duncan
ms/groups/lists/channels/whatever, eventually. (FWIW, I'm a Gentooer, here.) But after work tonite I took a second look and decided I might be able to help, after all, if I ignored the request for a tutorial that isn't likely to exist and broke down the rest of it into smaller, easie

[kde] Re: kde-4.6.1

2011-03-07 Thread Duncan
nitely buggy, but for whatever reason, it's still the default phonon backend in many distributions. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[kde] Re: kde-4.6.1

2011-03-08 Thread Duncan
I use that to > notify kmail when there is a new incoming mail in /var/spool/mail. That one I haven't a /clue/ on. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your

[kde] Re: 2 kmail questions

2011-03-09 Thread Duncan
on, the 4.5 and 4.6 kdepim betas should be available. Of course, I'd recommend upgrading to the latest kde 4.6.1, if you're going to do that, as 4.5.1 is after all six months old now, and a lot of bugs will have been fixed in that time as well as new features added for the kde 4.6 se

[kde] Re: KDE on lenovo R61

2011-03-27 Thread Duncan
itions will allow you to test other distributions for the issue, without disturbing your existing data on the hard drive. LiveEditions, customized for the purpose at hand, are an option the proprietary folks don't generally have. It's nice to live in freedomware land, where the limit

[kde] Re: .xsession-errors grows too big

2011-03-30 Thread Duncan
ual number of serious regressions. Presumably your distribution will either get the 4.6.2 update itself or get selected cherry-picked 4.6.2 updates as they believe useful. Either way, 4.6.2 should be out in a week or so (I'm not tracking the specific schedule), and it'll hopefully fix som

[kde] Re: kde-open, raise window and switch to desktop

2011-04-01 Thread Duncan
a window and raising it. As may be expected, after installing the package, both the wmctrl (1) manpage and wmctrl --help at the command line offer details on commandline usage and options. What it sounds like you may be wanting, therefore, would be a call to kde- open, likely followed by a call t

[kde] Re: kde-open, raise window and switch to desktop

2011-04-01 Thread Duncan
exity to a manageable level once again, rather than generic catch-all solutions. When the assumptions change, the hard-coded scripts can then change as well. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a

[kde] Re: Sounds works in Dragon Player but not Kaffeine

2011-04-02 Thread Duncan
se kaffeine, so phonon will release its device locks, thus allowing kaffeine access to them. (Obviously, I'd set kaffeine to run thru phonon if possible, as arranging for only one audio app to access the sound hardware at once is a hugely inconvenient hack... tho one many people have been forc

[kde] Re: SSH Forward KDE applications

2011-04-02 Thread Duncan
e like, so I can't really help, except simply to say yes, the post made it and is visible, so hopefully someone else will be able to help. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use th

[kde] Re: kded4 - high cpu usage

2011-04-07 Thread Duncan
seen it happen, that the system kde config is screwed up. Depending on where kde is placed on the system, this will be in /usr/share/config or something similar (/opt/share/config? /usr/local/share/config?). If it's a problem there, it's likely due to a packaging or upgrade issue, tho

[kde] Re: Desktop folder ?

2011-04-07 Thread Duncan
but instead can have several folderviews, pointed at different directories, and/or can mix other plasmoids in with the folderviews. e) Do go take a look at the available plasmoids at kde-look.org. There's a good chance you'll find at least one that'll become extremely useful to

[kde] Re: Kmail and address books and old mail

2011-04-07 Thread Duncan
hich I had to manually recreate from the flat directory structure that kmail gave me when it lost the tree info. I think that's where kmail stores read/important/etc status as well, so if you screwup and don't have your backups in order, you may well have that to restore manually, a

[kde] Re: Firefox going awol for a while

2011-04-07 Thread Duncan
value my freedom more than the temporary convenience such software might be, so I wouldn't install it even if those legal issues didn't exist. Since flash is well known for both security and stability issues, my browsing sessions should be less troublesome due to that, as well. --

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-07 Thread Duncan
r the output to highlight it. > > mc seems to be slowly self destructing too. > > I may yet have to re-install on a different drive. :-( Given the indications, that may well be a good idea! Good luck! It sounds like you might need a bit, right now! -- Duncan - List replies p

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 shutdown

2011-04-07 Thread Duncan
licykit settings in kcontrol, near the top of my list. Gentoo users will want to ensure they have the policykit USE flag turned on. Etc. That probably won't be a lot of help but hopefully it'll be a hint toward which direction to check, anyway. =:^\ -- Dunca

[kde] Re: plasma-desktop crash when put new plasmoid

2011-04-08 Thread Duncan
rite English when it's clearly not your first language. Unfortunately, it's often quite difficult to understand your posts, and while I do try to help, sometimes I wonder if there's somehow an easier way, some way to connect you with someone who speaks your own language that know

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-08 Thread Duncan
gene heskett posted on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:33:30 -0400 as excerpted: > On Friday, April 08, 2011 02:08:02 AM Duncan did opine: > >> gene heskett posted on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:09:52 -0400 as excerpted: >> > Wandering around in ~/.kde4, I found a bunch of what look like jun

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-08 Thread Duncan
gene heskett posted on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:50:36 -0400 as excerpted: > On Friday, April 08, 2011 06:23:40 AM Duncan did opine: > > I will do that, and reboot in a few minutes. Because I have /var on its > own partition, this always involves a tap of the reset button as the > s

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-08 Thread Duncan
ry that may or may not also be corrupted. You may wish to move them out of the way for testing, too, or simply delete them, if you're not so heavily customized that recustomizing from the defaults is something you prefer to avoid if at all possible. -- Duncan - List replies preferred.

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-09 Thread Duncan
to be changed at compile-time as well. So $KDEHOME is simply a shortcut for saying "~/.kde4 (unless you or your distribution has changed it to something else, either at compile time, or using the $KDEHOME variable)." -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfre

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-09 Thread Duncan
doesn't... try moving the other plasma* files in the same dir elsewhere as well. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-09 Thread Duncan
gene heskett posted on Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:06:47 -0400 as excerpted: > On Saturday, April 09, 2011 09:56:58 AM Duncan did opine: > >> gene heskett posted on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:57:21 -0400 as excerpted: >> >> The specific problem file for me was >> >>

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-09 Thread Duncan
gene heskett posted on Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:04:24 -0400 as excerpted: > On Saturday, April 09, 2011 01:44:30 PM Duncan did opine: > >> gene heskett posted on Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:06:47 -0400 as excerpted: >> > On Saturday, April 09, 2011 09:56:58 AM Duncan did opine: > &g

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-10 Thread Duncan
lem is that if you delete the wrong thing, you could trigger even more duplicating... Luckily, at least here, it was all invalid section deletions. I didn't have to figure out individual invalid lines, or what would make them valid. If it had gotten to that point I probably would have gi

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-10 Thread Duncan
gene heskett posted on Sun, 10 Apr 2011 10:03:32 -0400 as excerpted: > On Sunday, April 10, 2011 08:45:58 AM Duncan did opine: > >> gene heskett posted on Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:56:17 -0400 as excerpted: >> If you're seeing actual code in that file (plasma-desktop-apple

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-10 Thread Duncan
advanced beginner if not intermediate, with knowing about pgrep for that detection is probably intermediate, while advanced beginner level would use ps piped to grep. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if yo

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-10 Thread Duncan
I was referring to when I suggested psgrep! =:^P -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___ This message is

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-11 Thread Duncan
: Always succeeds. So what that until block you have there does is: "Execute a loop until an always successful null-command succeeds." IOW, the loop is never run... You effectively commented out your loop! =:^) If it was a while instead of until, you'd have an endless loop, wh

[kde] Re: 4.6.2 early report

2011-04-11 Thread Duncan
previously. While I've certainly spent several hours replying in this thread, by now, both the above have been true. I know more about both pidof and pgrep as I've examined them based on your provocation, and I've learned about inotify-tools, something I was entirely unaware of before,

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