Re: [off-topic] Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2023-06-09 at 20:59 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > God doesn't exist, > Prove it. Hi, it's not worth the effort to refute every conceivable definition of God in writing here and now, although it is indeed possible, it's just as useful as refuting rainbow-puking unicorns or trying to convi

Re: [off-topic] Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: "The American Lottery - all you need is a dollar and a dream. We will take the dollar, but you can keep the dream." - https://www.shlomifish.org/humour.html Doesn't that describe the desires related to FLOSS as well as anything else we need to know better? "If God exists and is the ego-mania

Re: [off-topic] Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2023-06-08 at 15:45 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > you can fork FOSS whose devs you dislike Hi, only when 2 things come together 1. you must have the skills 2. you must have the time A third point, hardware, completely disregarded. I don't mean the driver problem, but the variety of hardw

[off-topic] Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-06-03 at 06:25 +, Duncan wrote: > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman The software market has changed significantly. In reality, some companies have recognized the gap in the market and are therefore ad

Re: Kate scrollbars hidden

2019-12-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 17:25:30 +0100, Wolfgang Mueller wrote: >Unfortunately, the scrollbars (more than one?) are hidden, and there >is no explanation how to display them. Hi, just a guess, since I don't have KDE and Kate installed: A horizontal scroll bar might show up assuming the text from le

Re: Cannot get the Login Screen sddm to work

2016-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 17:41:45 -0400, Dick Barmann wrote: >What did you tell me to use in an earlier post to setup/install Grub? About GRUB in regards to what? Is GRUB now broken, too? What has got GRUB to do with this thread? What has got GRUB to do with KDE? Open a new thread for another issue an

Re: Cannot get the Login Screen sddm to work

2016-08-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 02:24:05 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >I don't know why they explain how to use chroot instead of simply using >systemd-nspawn. Perhaps because old Ubuntu releases without systemd are still available and maybe it's even not part of the Ubuntu live media that us

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

2016-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 11:25:41 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: >On Saturday, 2016-06-11, 09:09:47, Wolfgang Mueller wrote: >> My method is keeping the name of a file to be deleted and then >> performing 'find ~ -name '. > >How does your method distinguish between files with the same name from >di

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

2016-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 22:23:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:42 +0200, Wolfgang Mueller wrote: >>>/home/$USER/.local/share/Trash/files > >Not necessarily for something that is mounted by a different file >system. > >Regards, >Ralf >

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

2016-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 01:03:41 +0200, Wolfgang Mueller wrote: >Obviously, the developers give their best for hiding the trash in >such a way that it can't be retrieved any more. The freedesktop standards and the virtual file system approach provide some advantages, unfortunately developers of the b

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

2016-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
>On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:42 +0200, Wolfgang Mueller wrote: >>/home/$USER/.local/share/Trash/files Not necessarily for something that is mounted by a different file system. Regards, Ralf OT: FWIW "/home/$USER/" usually is referred to as "$HOME" or tilde. $ echo ~ /home/weremouse $ echo $HOME

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

2016-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I don't have KDE installed, but usually DEs move items to a sub-directory in ~/.local/share/Trash/. If you delete something on a "special" partition, there might be a hidden folder /mount/point/.Trash-$(id -u) or similar. I didn't read the freedesktop link myself, however, likely it provides detai

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

2015-10-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 01:22:52 -0700, James Tyrer wrote: >On 10/19/2015 01:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Why should a gifted autodidact have less abilities than an academic? >> >A self taught person can learn the same things that they would learn >in academia. The proble

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

2015-10-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 19:10:54 -0700, James Tyrer wrote: >That is the problem with self taught hackers and why they are not >software engineers. They need a designer and engineer to work under, >but they are unable to do so. Why should a gifted autodidact have less abilities than an academic? Are

Re: [kde-linux] Recompiling for KDE5

2015-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:16:54 +0300, David Baron wrote: >How does one recompile older (KDE4/QT4) widgets and runners so that >they will run on KDE5? You should mention the used distro and if it's a release model distro, the distro's release. I can't help, but I send a similar request to a list of o

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

2015-07-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 08:29:06 + (UTC), Duncan wrote: >http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.general/27893 Thank you. ___ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Arch

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

2015-07-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: I forgot to mention that the archive of this mailing list is accessible for everybody. https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-linux/2015-July/date.html ___ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mail

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

2015-07-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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 >> Actions daemon". > >Replied on the kde-general list... Thank you, so nobody subscribed to this list, were

Re: [kde-linux] When the KDE can be robust and stable enough for enterprise users?

2015-04-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:14:09 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: >On Monday, 2015-04-13, 17:18:44, Franklin Wang wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> what's your opinion? > >You mean Plasma 5? Will window layering implementation [1] get fixed some day, so that all professional software could be used with KDE? Regar

Re: [kde-linux] Problem with libreoffice

2014-12-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 12:35:56 +0100 Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Tuesday, 2014-12-02, 12:26:39, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 12:10:40 +0100 > > > > Kevin Krammer wrote: > > > You are trying to run libreoffice as root? > > > > The OP run

Re: [kde-linux] Problem with libreoffice

2014-12-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 12:10:40 +0100 Kevin Krammer wrote: > You are trying to run libreoffice as root? The OP runs it as root for testing purpose, since it doesn't start for the OP's user account. ___ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list.

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

2014-09-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-09-13 at 05:54 +, Duncan wrote: > James Tyrer posted on Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:21:04 -0700 as excerpted: > > > I usually go ahead and update GCC because if there is a building problem > > with anything on the LFS/BLFS sites, there is a fix for it. > > > > Now I see that GCC 4.9.1 ha

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

2014-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
This mail [1] didn't came through the list. JFTR I'm using 64-bit architecture too, but I guess the OP was talking about AMD CPUs and not about the used software architecture. [1] Forwarded Message ---- From: Ralf Mardorf To: kde-linux@kde.org Subject: Re: [kde-linux]

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

2014-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 12:26 -0700, James Tyrer wrote: > Some research indicates that Qt-4.8.6 will not run on AMD-64 bit > processors. Perhaps it's an issue related to *buntu and/or KDE. This version of Qt doesn't cause issues on Arch Linux, not using KDE. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Q qt

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

2014-02-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 15:57 +, 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. What library is missing? Maybe just a $ sudo ldconfig is missing? Regarding to the updater's lev

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

2014-02-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 12:56 +0700, Kanjana wrote: > I am on Linux Mint 13 KDE 64-bit. Interesting, people often claim that Mint is a good distro and when they run into trouble, they ask for help on Debian and *buntu mailing list and now on KDE mailing list too. That's ok, but please at least expla

[kde-linux] HDD does spin down and up again and again

2013-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) I'm new to this list. Some days ago I started testing KDE, being a long time Linux user, running Xfce for the last years. KDE does touch without any reason my "green" HDD, so 193 Load_Cycle_Count does increase for nothing. When I experienced the same issue with other DEs I removed gvfs,