Re: downgrade to KDEP5?

2024-03-13 Thread Duncan
;d hope I'd keep better backups to do so! =:^] Well either that or I'd be aiming for something a bit more stable than the live-git stuff I run... Or maybe both more stable and more backup updates! > We’ll try KDEP6 when FreeBSD UNIX, Slackware & Kubuntu LTS GNU/Linuxes > up

Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-02 Thread Duncan
t work" (after a reboot or otherwise ensuring the new envar setting is in the environment as kde/plasma sees it, of course =:^) . The big caveat here is of course the assumption that you can set and export XDG_DATA_DIRS deployment-wide as appropriate for your site/policy, but given the sce

Re: DPMS disabled after upgrade to kubuntu 22.04

2023-04-17 Thread Duncan
ilarly, I read that kwin_wayland can be run in windowed mode on X, tho I've never done it.) There are of course other ways to check... wmctrl -lG (ell for list, not one, if there's a bunch of X apps listed including plasmashell, you're likely on X, none or just a couple legacy a

Re: How to get KDE virtual keyboard on Debian

2023-03-30 Thread Duncan
view the git commit logs and had seen hints of some of these from those backports where appropriate, but I have a /much/ better high-level view of the "why" behind some of those commits as well as some of the changes only going into 6, now. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML ms

Re: How to get KDE virtual keyboard on Debian

2023-03-27 Thread Duncan
s to be configured as a user service as well (started by the systemd user instance)? Whatever the case, I'm curious on the resolution, so I'll be following this thread with interest 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

Re: KDE applications (and others) opening google-chrome instead of the default firefox

2021-09-20 Thread Duncan
ew browser. I'll change it in the one place and be done. =:^) (Actually, I have a second one, wbn, that opens the link in a new window instead of a new tab in an existing window, as well. But mostly I just type that one into krunner.) Of course this one's more for people comfortable enough at the commandline to do that sort of thing... -- 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

Re: Default proxy settings

2017-04-25 Thread Duncan
for has been frameworks5 updated or is still legacy kde4. Which is more or less what I posted, and what the kde docs say 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

Re: Default proxy settings

2017-04-07 Thread Duncan
kim all three pages under filesystem, plus the environmental vars page under desktop session. Of course if you're like me, you'll end up reading much more than that just because it's interesting how it all fits together, but that should pretty well cover this case and others like

Re: KDE hang? (not computer, not X11?)

2017-03-07 Thread Duncan
dle of 4.x, and with 4.x -> 5.x, while at least they 4.x apps continue to run in 5.x, they're now talking about pulling kdelibs4 off life support sometime in 2018, so what's not ported by then is basically dead. And something like superkaramba that depends quite a bit on sysguard'

Re: KDE hang? (not computer, not X11?)

2017-03-05 Thread Duncan
gure out which one, at least then you know which app to kill. Of course, with my problem, it didn't happen to work that way, since I was emitting the triggers artificially, and the app that would then initiate the drag-lock would thus /appear/ to be random. Meanwhile, one (typically Duncan

Re: Messages Keep Coming Back

2017-03-02 Thread Duncan
else who comes along that might use them and be able to answer.) Also, for those for whom Debian Sid says nothing, assuming it's kmail you're talking about, what version of kmail? The kmail 5.2.3 / kde 5.28.0 that I see in your user agent header? -- Duncan - List replies preferred.

Re: cache is big space waster

2016-12-06 Thread Duncan
taking noticeably longer to startup in cold-cache mode than they did with a kde/x restart, so I assume it would on plasma5 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

Re: [kde-linux] libqdeclarative, Debian dist-upgrade

2016-06-21 Thread Duncan
pstream module, with qtdeclarative named libs) go but kept qtdeclarative (the gentoo package and upstream module, with qtquick named libs) as a current dep, while it seems on debian you must do the reverse in terms of package names, since on debian they appear to match the lib names not the upstrea

Re: [kde-linux] Where is the KDE Trash Can?

2016-06-09 Thread Duncan
is latter case is the situation kde4 was in for a number of the specs, making kde5 the first full adoption of several of them.) -- 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 Stallm

Re: [kde-linux] Wayland!

2016-06-08 Thread Duncan
the shell(s) and Qt implement it, so also not > something that KWrite developers would have to spend resources on. As always, thanks, Kevin. I enjoy your clear explanations. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if yo

Re: [kde-linux] Wayland!

2016-06-06 Thread Duncan
apps (like superkaramba, unfortunately one of my personal favorites) aren't being ported to k5. (Superkaramba only remains available in its k4 form and has been dropped from further development, so will eventually break and fail to build any more with modern tools and against modern libs.) -- Dunca

Re: [kde-linux] KF5 TimeZone problem

2016-04-05 Thread Duncan
led, they may be able to give you more kdepim-specific detail, but I found it real interesting that you posted this today, when I only saw that in the commit logs from yesterday's update, and that the previously forced UTC behavior matched so perfectly to what your dialog, from an entirely d

Re: [kde-linux] how to get kde applications version with commandline

2016-02-28 Thread Duncan
teppisti-xpla posted on Sun, 28 Feb 2016 09:47:02 +0100 as excerpted: > On 27/02/16 19:29, Kevin Krammer wrote: >> On Saturday, 2016-02-27, 18:53:59, yahoo-pier_andreit wrote: >> >>> many thanks duncan, :-) , sorry, but I intend KDE application as one >>>

Re: [kde-linux] how to get kde applications version with commandline

2016-02-26 Thread Duncan
theme: $ equery belongs kapplymousetheme * Searching for kapplymousetheme ... kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.5.4 (/usr/bin/kapplymousetheme) So in that case the package and version is plasma-desktop 5.5.4. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord

Re: [kde-linux] SDDM alternatives

2016-02-11 Thread Duncan
CLI and doesn't need X. And it's much harder to break a CLI login than a *DM of any sort. =:^) -- 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 _

Re: [kde-linux] KDEwallet?

2016-02-08 Thread Duncan
. If you're not using any of those, or if for instance you use konqueror but don't have any site logins stored on it, then kwallet is pretty well useless, since that's what it does, store credentials for such mostly online accounts. If you start using a kde-based app that in turn

Re: [kde-linux] Desktop widgets

2016-01-03 Thread Duncan
correct me, but it would surprise me. Meanwhile, even if kde screen savers /have/ disappeared, X's screensaver mechanism should still work, and generic X screen savers should still work, tho as they aren't kde specific packages I wouldn't expect them to show up in kde system setti

Re: [kde-linux] Dist-upgrade or not??

2015-12-02 Thread Duncan
lty coming up with, so I've continued to put off the upgrade. Luckily gentoo is continuing to carry both kde4 and plasma5 for the time being, and it's a rolling distro, so the rest of the system continues to upgrade as normal, even tho the plasma5 upgrade /is/ on hold. -- Duncan - List

Re: [kde-linux] How to silence the device notifier in a multi seat environment

2015-11-11 Thread Duncan
Juan Ignacio Saitua posted on Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:40:28 + as excerpted: > On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 9:24 AM, Duncan wrote: >> Removing udisks is likely to do it. > I tried and it works. Now the notifier does nothing when a usb storage > is connected. But now I can

Re: [kde-linux] How to silence the device notifier in a multi seat environment

2015-11-11 Thread Duncan
or I haven't figured out how to fully kill polkit in plasma5 yet, so it's installed for that, ATM. -- 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 __

Re: [kde-linux] 4.14.3 issues #1 Folder Widget

2015-10-18 Thread Duncan
ore the current one even really works to a level either you or I would define as "well". Oh, well. As they say, "such is life!" =:^\ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is

[kde-linux] plasma5 was: ME/CFS

2015-09-08 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Tue, 08 Sep 2015 04:13:57 + as excerpted: > I'll post back when I see whether I can actually run plasma5, now, and > then, presuming you're either switched or attempting to switch as well, > we can compare notes on the kde-frameworks/plasma5 side. Well,

Re: [kde-linux] ME/CFS

2015-09-07 Thread Duncan
I can actually run plasma5, now, and then, presuming you're either switched or attempting to switch as well, we can compare notes on the kde-frameworks/plasma5 side. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the p

Re: [kde-linux] baloo_file_extractor - huge disk usage?

2015-08-13 Thread Duncan
be a hassle to replace and suitably configure the replacement, but the plasma upgrade would be about the same for that one, and replacing the other two should it be necessary shouldn't be anything like as difficult as what I've already replaced during the life of kde4. -- Duncan

Re: [kde-linux] baloo_file_extractor - huge disk usage?

2015-08-13 Thread Duncan
e away or have only been replaced with other deps. I did have to keep strigi as some kde packages (kdelibs and kde's systemsettings are the two I have installed that still dep on it) apparently link to its headers without a disable option, but with all its backends turned off, it couldn&#

Re: [kde-linux] Persistent Passwords in Kmail?

2015-08-05 Thread Duncan
from MS and OE, kmail and the then sylpheed-claws, were the two at the top of my short list. If I'd have chosen sylpheed-claws back then, I'd have never suffered the disruption of a change, as sylpheed-claws later became the claws-mail I eventually switched to. Oh, well... -- D

Re: [kde-linux] KDE 5 KWalletmanager

2015-08-03 Thread Duncan
y, or a qt5 app, or neither, since it only uses a handful of libs from either and they're shipped as individual components? -- 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

Re: [kde-linux] How to permanently disable a KDE startup service? It keeps restarting even after disabled.

2015-07-23 Thread Duncan
Ralf Mardorf posted on Thu, 23 Jul 2015 06:49:13 +0200 as excerpted: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 04:01:35 + (UTC), Duncan wrote: >>Dmt Ops posted on Wed, 22 Jul 2015 08:19:36 -0700 as excerpted: >> >>> I need to permanently disable a KDE startup service, the "Input >

Re: [kde-linux] How to permanently disable a KDE startup service? It keeps restarting even after disabled.

2015-07-22 Thread Duncan
Dmt Ops posted on Wed, 22 Jul 2015 08:19:36 -0700 as excerpted: > I need to permanently disable a KDE startup service, the "Input Actions > daemon". Replied on the kde-general list... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a

Re: [kde-linux] Latest ktorrent

2015-06-15 Thread Duncan
ionally for tracking down what package might provide a particular file I don't have installed, for instance, or more often, for cases such as this. Seems rpmfind.net has srpms (Fedora Secondary Rawhide Sources) for libktorrent back to 1.2, but for binary rpms unless you're on some exot

Re: [kde-linux] Latest ktorrent

2015-06-13 Thread Duncan
d more general instructions for setting up a kde development environment, etc, if that is your wish, along with links to various projects, etc. The kde sysadmin documentation, which I've found useful many times over the years, is linked from there as well. -- Duncan - List replies prefe

Re: [kde-linux] Desktop switching when Virtualbox is full screen

2015-06-08 Thread Duncan
he problem, and finding a key that the VMs don't swallow to fake, that you can setup in kde to do the actual switch, and in sxhkd to be faked using xdotool when you hit the real hotkey. As for finding such unused keys to fake, check /usr/share/X11/xkb

Re: [kde-linux] kde-linux Digest, Vol 142, Issue 3 How do I disable the popup which appears when I change workspaces

2015-04-07 Thread Duncan
#x27;s layout. More below... > Duncan, > > Your tip to try kcmshell was a great help to me. It's helped me become > aware that there are many modules are available for customizing the kde > desktop environment. Yes. Here's the (somewhat extended...) back-story. In kde3 (and II

Re: [kde-linux] How do I disable the popup which appears when I change workspaces?

2015-04-04 Thread Duncan
Mun Johl posted on Fri, 03 Apr 2015 09:36:06 -0700 as excerpted: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 07:40 PM PDT, Duncan wrote: > D> Mun Johl posted on Thu, 02 Apr 2015 17:46:41 -0700 as excerpted: > D> > D> > My Platform: > D> >CentOS release 6.4 (Final) > D> &g

Re: [kde-linux] How do I disable the popup which appears when I change workspaces?

2015-04-02 Thread Duncan
. When you get the settings you want, you can exit from that applet, either by selecting another to work with, or by closing kde system settings entirely, as the settings will have already been applied and tested. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfre

Re: [kde-linux] ChatCam webcam

2015-03-05 Thread Duncan
njoy looking at what people consider interesting enough to post to their websites, including blogs and galleries, and for that reason, if you can update it and keep it updated so it's not a cracking invitation, please do so, as it'd be a shame for the gallery to fall off the web. =:^(

Re: [kde-linux] A question of middle button cut/paste with fedora 20 kde

2015-01-23 Thread Duncan
the right direction, at least. With a bit of luck it'll be enough to let you fix it yourself. If not, let it be a guide to posting additional information about which of the two methods (or both) you were talking about, whether klipper is running or not, and if running, what its configurat

Re: [kde-linux] Wrong Desktop layout in Kubuntu 14.04

2015-01-03 Thread Duncan
ace appearance and behavior. That's what I see here on gentoo, tho for all I know kubuntu may have only appearance. If you have the split as I do, it's should be the workspace category, not under common. But after that it is as he said, under workspace behavior, workspace. Once ther

Re: [kde-linux] Problem with libreoffice

2014-12-02 Thread Duncan
ot;disown -a", disowning all jobs so they don't respond to the SIGHUP when bash closes. NOW you should be able to exit the bash shell and thus konsole, without killing the command started from it. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every non

Re: [kde-linux] Gwenview Questions

2014-11-03 Thread Duncan
kwin's generic desktop zoom effect on them instead, same as I use it for all my other zooming needs. =:^) --- [1] Meta key: FWIW, what kde refers to as meta is also variously known as the super or hyper or windows key, and I set various combinations of windows key shortcuts to control al

Re: [kde-linux] KDE-4.14.0 doesn't work

2014-09-12 Thread Duncan
to be unmasked to ~arch as all known package issues with the new gcc have been addressed and the maintainer is putting out a last-call for developer testers before ~arch gets it, which is the stage at which I finally upgraded to gcc 4.8.x. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. &quo

Re: [kde-linux] Problem Installing Older Distro

2014-09-12 Thread Duncan
here you click in the window determining which side of the window moves. "Alt" being the standard X modifier key for this. Here, I've set it to the "window" key instead, the window key being the modifier I use for all my window-manipulation actions. But if you've not set it

Re: [kde-linux] KDE-4.14.0 doesn't work

2014-09-12 Thread Duncan
James Tyrer posted on Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:41:54 -0700 as excerpted: > On 09/11/2014 01:27 PM, Duncan wrote: >> James Tyrer posted on Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:26:15 -0700 as excerpted: >> >>> I mentioned problems with KDE-4.14.0. At start up, Plasma-Desktop >>> immedia

Re: [kde-linux] KDE-4.14.0 doesn't work

2014-09-12 Thread Duncan
; Forwarded Message > > On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 20:27 +, Duncan wrote: >> uname -m: >> >> x86_64 > > That doesn't show that your CPU is an AMD CPU ;). It shows amd64 aka x86_64 arch/instruction-set. However: grep -i amd /proc/cpuinfo gives me six

Re: [kde-linux] KDE-4.14.0 doesn't work

2014-09-11 Thread Duncan
.) Anyway, qt-4.8.6 is definitely runnable on amd64 as I'm doing it, but that's not saying whether there's patches applied that are allowing it, or that it would or wouldn't break without them. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.

Re: [kde-linux] konsole won't move/resize - how do I just set everything back to default?

2014-09-10 Thread Duncan
ng ones to backfill, and as long as you change the count appropriately when you're done, you should be fine. That's the way I'd handle it here. So for instance I have 42 rule sections. If I deleted two of them manually, I'd renumber sections 41 and 42 to whatever two I delete

Re: [kde-linux] konsole won't move/resize - how do I just set everything back to default?

2014-09-10 Thread Duncan
t, or working with the file either from some other DE or from a text console. Since ensuring konsole isn't running is a bit easier, I'd suggest testing that one first. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use t

Re: [kde-linux] Default desktop settings

2014-08-30 Thread Duncan
kde has really had to come into better xdg compliance, and they're taking 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." Richard Stallman

Re: [kde-linux] Rebuilding widgets and runners for 64bit installation

2014-07-17 Thread Duncan
. (Of course for native-code plasmoids and runners. The qml and js coded ones shouldn't need rebuild as they're not native code in the first place.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --

Re: [kde-linux] Virtualbox start icon missing

2014-03-21 Thread Duncan
k, try grepping /usr/share/applications/ instead, just to make sure it's getting the directory. (But do be prepared for rather more output!) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your mast

Re: [kde-linux] Downgrade KDE SC Version 4.12.2

2014-02-23 Thread Duncan
Ralf Mardorf posted on Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:29:47 +0100 as excerpted: > On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 15:57 +0000, Duncan wrote: >> In fact, it appears to be a missing library simple triggering a crash, >> as trying to (re-)start plasma-desktop results in a complaint about >> same.

Re: [kde-linux] Downgrade KDE SC Version 4.12.2

2014-02-23 Thread Duncan
ars to be a missing library simple triggering a crash, as trying to (re-)start plasma-desktop results in a complaint about same. -- 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 S

Re: [kde-linux] Multiple konsoles side-by-side please?

2014-01-25 Thread Duncan
tely useful for people using multiple konsole windows often enough. =:^) -- 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 __

Re: [kde-linux] Multiple konsoles side-by-side please?

2014-01-24 Thread Duncan
ppearance and Fixes tab (checked/active only, just one setting): Active Opacity: Force: 85% My default active window opacity is 99%, but I like just a bit more transparency for the konsole window. 85% opacity is the best compromise I've found so far, between the beauty of transparency and

Re: [kde-linux] Hard Disk issues

2014-01-23 Thread Duncan
d, if your rpmfind krunner shortcut is activated: rpmfind:gnome-disk Which ends up here: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=gnome-disk Looks like no fedora listed. Perhaps they call it something else. But there's opensuse and mandriva packages listed. -- Duncan - L

Re: [kde-linux] Hard Disk issues

2014-01-23 Thread Duncan
James Tyrer posted on Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:11:43 -0700 as excerpted: > On 01/22/2014 10:29 PM, Duncan wrote: >> James Tyrer posted on Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:24:06 -0700 as excerpted: >> >>> The fist strange issue is that KInfoCenter doesn't find my Hard Disk. >> &

Re: [kde-linux] Hard Disk issues

2014-01-22 Thread Duncan
r as a superkaramba theme (my current theme can be seen filling the top monitor-screen of three, in the screenshot here: http://wstaw.org/m/2013/05/11/duncan-fullscreen.png ) or yasp-scripted config (I used that before setting up superkaramba, it's available in kde- look), or using someth

Re: [kde-linux] Polkit configuration and KDE integration

2013-12-26 Thread Duncan
the GUI user screwing with system time either), so that wasn't a big deal for me in the first place, but I do understand why a lot of folks wouldn't be particularly comfortable with such a solution. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lo

Re: [kde-linux] Polkit configuration and KDE integration

2013-12-26 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Thu, 26 Dec 2013 18:37:48 + as excerpted: > The package does remain available in gentoo, but it's hard-masked, so > anyone wishing to install it must deliberately unmask it first, and as > usual when running hard-masked packages, "if it breaks, you get t

Re: [kde-linux] Polkit configuration and KDE integration

2013-12-26 Thread Duncan
the package installed by default, and on distros without a masking mechanism similar to gentoo's it likely won't be shipped at all, for kde4 anyway. It may appear in hopefully more mature form for kde frameworks 5, or not; it's really a bit early to say at this point. -- D

Re: [kde-linux] High dpi screen

2013-12-19 Thread Duncan
he graphical effects dropdown. However, while I remember discovering at least one thing it does affect at some point (I believe after someone hinted at it in a post here), I don't remember what it was, and the effect is subtle enough it was hard for me to figure out what difference it made

Re: [kde-linux] Remove file association for many file types

2013-11-27 Thread Duncan
unrelated-config fileopens, and see what files remain. Then check them and see what it actually does when you change an open-with priority, so you can do the same thing via direct text-file edit. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a ma

Re: [kde-linux] KDE sessions problem - Firefox

2013-11-19 Thread Duncan
e workaround idea here is that before you close kde and firefox, you save your tabs as bookmarks. Then when you restart kde and with it firefox, you can open the bookmarks menu and subfolder you created the bookmarks in, then use the open all in tabs option to open everything back up. Presum

Re: [kde-linux] stop empty floppy drive announcement

2013-11-13 Thread Duncan
Felix Miata posted on Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:36:30 -0500 as excerpted: > On 2013-11-13 12:08 (GMT) Duncan composed: > >>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318061 > >> The root problem is one of legacy hardware (lack of) features. Floppy >> drives are old en

Re: [kde-linux] stop empty floppy drive announcement

2013-11-13 Thread Duncan
't make sense either. I just don't see the case where either USB thumbdrives, or CD/DVD read/ writers (of comparable cost to floppy devices, possibly even cheaper since the antique-hardware tax that applies to floppy devices isn't as steep for CD/DVD writers yet), or worst-case

Re: [kde-linux] stop empty floppy drive announcement

2013-11-12 Thread Duncan
e unusual use for them, floppies /are/ obsolete, and I'd simply disable it in the BIOS, as in fact I had done for several years with the floppy on my old machine before I upgraded. Then the system doesn't see the floppy even if it's still physically installed, and you've nice

Re: [kde-linux] Missing plasmoid "folder view"

2013-09-29 Thread Duncan
nt kde, some not. Here's the one that gentoo makes available in its package repository ATM. (There's a link in the description to the older version from which it forked after the older version sort of broke with the panel resizing feature of kde 4.5, and you can always search kdelook f

Re: [kde-linux] mass copying

2013-08-16 Thread Duncan
d it won't work, then suddenly you post about it and it works! Surely, the simple act of posting a question sometimes mysteriously fix the problem, because it sure SEEMS it works that way! =:^\ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a

Re: [kde-linux] mass copying

2013-08-15 Thread Duncan
or not.) Coupled with a selective-display feature such as dolphin's filters, this works well for selecting all of a particular type of file. Once the desired multi-selection is done, Kevin's copy/move instructions should work just fine. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HT

Re: [kde-linux] grub and grub2

2013-08-14 Thread Duncan
rub2 documentation: https://www.google.com/search?q=grub2+documentation&ie=UTF-8 As I said, if you want to try the advanced direct grub.cfg edit method and have questions about it after reading the various documentation (I certainly did, said documentation was frustratingly imprecise in sp

Re: [kde-linux] "The name org.kde.kded was not provided by any .service files"

2013-08-02 Thread Duncan
Kevin Krammer posted on Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:37:46 +0200 as excerpted: > On Friday, 2013-08-02, Duncan wrote: >> James Tyrer posted on Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:12:11 -0700 as excerpted: >> > I have looked at this and have reached the conclusion that the file: >> >

Re: [kde-linux] "The name org.kde.kded was not provided by any .service files"

2013-08-01 Thread Duncan
simply don't have whatever components installed that require it, and kded continues to work without it if those components aren't used. -- 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.

Re: [kde-linux] "The name org.kde.kded was not provided by any .service files"

2013-08-01 Thread Duncan
y 4.11 install, so the dependency has definitely been dropped from whatever I have currently installed on my main machine running 4.11-branch. Meanwhile, both 4.9 and 4.11 kdelibs packages have a dbus-1/interfaces/ subdir, but NOT a dbus-1/services subdir, so if that has changed, it's a cha

Re: [kde-linux] kprinter Where are property settings saved?

2013-07-27 Thread Duncan
le is, you should be able to open it in a text editor and see the content, thus seeing whether it's suitable to copy to other machines. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master

Re: [kde-linux] CUPS help PLEASE!

2013-07-17 Thread Duncan
so, /then/ upgrade, after everything has hopefully settled down and works once again. -- 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

Re: [kde-linux] Nepomuk database cleanup?

2013-07-05 Thread Duncan
antic-desktop with 4.11 (tho it's still run-time disablable), taking away the previous choice to not even install the (for me) junk in the first place. Thus my thread on the gentoo-desktop list asking if anyone else is interested in helping me maintain the patches I'm already using with

Re: [kde-linux] Display of network activity quit working.

2013-06-27 Thread Duncan
James Tyrer posted on Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:31:10 -0700 as excerpted: > On 06/26/2013 01:52 AM, Duncan wrote: >> James Tyrer posted on Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:22:44 -0700 as excerpted: >> >>> I am just finishing up with updating to 4.10.3 if that matters. >>> Somewhe

Re: [kde-linux] Display of network activity quit working.

2013-06-26 Thread Duncan
em, will hopefully do the trick. Alternatively, a patch shouldn't be /too/ difficult to hack up if indeed the only problem is a name-pattern filter as I suspect is likely. I'd guess/hope they've done that already for 4.11, but meanwhile... -- Duncan - List replies preferre

Re: [kde-linux] Old Firefox Data

2013-06-20 Thread Duncan
nd/or I don't run low on space, no harm letting it sit there for awhile... until a year or two or five down the road, when I DO actually come across it for some reason, at which point the .remove extension is a clue. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs

Re: [kde-linux] Build failure: kde-workspace-4.10.3

2013-06-18 Thread Duncan
sable the option entirely... which is probably why I've not run into that issue here, since I never had it enabled in the first place. If you'd like, I can track down more specifics about the option... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program

Re: [kde-linux] Printing shortcut problem

2013-06-13 Thread Duncan
e kde major version as well, since they ship or for a period shipped both kde3 and kde4 and kept the configs separate, thus ~/.kde4 , which would make the path ~/.kde4/share/config/ krusaderrc .) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --

Re: [kde-linux] Shutdown on KDE+ terminal : questions

2013-05-23 Thread Duncan
ced enough, there's an even more advanced app called wmiface, that's more suited to programmers and others used to using X's C/C++ interfaces, who want a way to script them from the command line as well. But while I use wmctrl for this or that occasionally and I tried wmiface, I found it

Re: [kde-linux] KDESU doesn't work again with 4.10

2013-05-23 Thread Duncan
makes more sense to me now that when I read about it back then (I think I was missing the fact that the executable bits would be reset by default, so I couldn't see what would stop it from running, or how simply checking the executable bit on the file before allowing it to run could possibl

Re: [kde-linux] adding icon

2013-05-23 Thread Duncan
efault executable location directories may be somewhat different. -- 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 ___ Th

Re: [kde-linux] KMail2, more

2013-05-21 Thread Duncan
David Baron posted on Tue, 21 May 2013 17:22:08 +0300 as excerpted: > The Akonadi Kmail Mail folder resource is quite flakey, go "off line," > redded out very frequently requiring restarting kde. > > Removing this resource (cannot be done from kmail itself) and placing a > local kmail maildir giv

Re: [kde-linux] KDE - What is 'Meta'?

2013-05-11 Thread Duncan
Pablo Sanchez posted on Thu, 09 May 2013 09:52:56 -0400 as excerpted: > [ Comments below, in-line ] > > On 05/09/2013 09:50 AM, Duncan wrote: >> Duncan posted on Thu, 09 May 2013 06:06:12 + as excerpted: >> >>> Now I just have to permanently mount the hardware,

Re: [kde-linux] KDE - What is 'Meta'?

2013-05-09 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Thu, 09 May 2013 06:06:12 + as excerpted: > Now I just have to permanently mount the hardware, and reconfigure > plasma and superkaramba and all my kwin hard-positioning rules... which > will take some time and patience, but shouldn't be too terrible. I

Re: [kde-linux] KDE - What is 'Meta'?

2013-05-08 Thread Duncan
Mark Knecht posted on Wed, 08 May 2013 08:51:05 -0700 as excerpted: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> >> OK, found meta-ctrl-F1 and meta-ctrl-F2 were free, and assigned them >> under kcontrol, common appearance and behav

Re: [kde-linux] KDE - What is 'Meta'?

2013-05-08 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Mon, 06 May 2013 04:52:34 + as excerpted: > I will often deliberately move the mouse to the screen I want the window > on then launch, if launching with hotkeys, or will click a link in my > feed or list reader then immediately move the mouse to the screen where >

Re: [kde-linux] KDE - What is 'Meta'?

2013-05-05 Thread Duncan
en searching around >>> on the web I see people doing it with Meta+F1, Meta+F2, etc., but >>> somehow I am not discovering what Meta is. >>> >>> What's 'Meta'? > Tom, Pable & Duncan, >Thanks for the responses. They make sense and

Re: [kde-linux] KDE - What is 'Meta'?

2013-05-05 Thread Duncan
bined size of my monitors, with panning...) I now know how to get plasma to behave itself better in that case than it seems to otherwise, and I can setup appropriate window rules for kwin, to deal with it. Thus my experiment was a success and I now know what the effect is on both kwin and plasma

Re: [kde-linux] Kget "My Downloads" [Is this MS Windows?]

2013-04-24 Thread Duncan
ather obscure for a FLOSS project, these days, so because it's not used much and some users wouldn't worry about such a trivial thing as a name or even /like/ such MS-esque names, few people are reporting the bug, and those that are haven't caught the attention of the authors, s

Re: [kde-linux] KDESU doesn't work again with 4.10

2013-04-24 Thread Duncan
ever be entirely happy with that, or we'd not be running gentoo and LFS to begin with. Dale... I'll let him speak for himself, but there's other reasons to run gentoo, so maybe he's content to do the generic gentoo/kde policykit permissions, and for him they're &

Re: [kde-linux] Kget "My Downloads" [Is this MS Windows?]

2013-04-23 Thread Duncan
in as I (emotionally, tho logically I know it isn't really so) sort of think that I've never been in a major fire or other disaster because I try to be prepared for them... could be seen as further support for why the kde- frameworks upgrade will be rather smooth (at least for me)... bec

Re: [kde-linux] Kget "My Downloads" [Is this MS Windows?]

2013-04-22 Thread Duncan
s they should be doing pretty early on in the new concept if they're planning on doing it at all in ordered to avoid getting locked in again, then I'll have big reason for continued optimism. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. &q

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