Re: network managed applet not seeing connections after suspend
On 20/08/2023 10:58, Dietz Proepper wrote: Am Sonntag, 20. August 2023, 10:44:19 CEST schrieb Marc Haber: The nm applet seems to reconnect and shows the available connections, but clicking on one immediately yields a toast "Connection (name) deactivated" without even trying to conect. I didn't know that behavior before. Anything interesting in /var/log/syslog? The other thing I'd try first is to play a little with nmctl so you can narrow down who might be the culprit. Or 'journalctl -f' whilst attempting...things. alexd
Re: Okular locked up my system and left no evidence
On 10/02/2023 06:46, Borden wrote: There's a grave problem with how Okular processes PDF forms. Simple, short-answer text entry has ballooned a simple 1 MB file into a 1.2 GB file. This would explain (but not excuse) the excessive CPU and hard-drive usage. It probably also maxed out the RAM and caused the system to freeze. Workaround: avoid using Okular to complete PDF forms at all costs!!! I'm sure a sample PDF attached to the bug report would be appreciated. alexd
Re: Changing file associations
On 26/07/2022 00:46, Borden wrote: 25 Jul 2022, 10:59 byb...@ale.cx: Me neither, but the OP did say "all supported filetypes" not "all filetypes". alexd Since it's too much to ask software to self-report what files it supports, is there a way to find out, quickly, which file types have KOrganizer as its primary handler and then I can probably script a way to change it to Kate? I think you meant to reply to the list, not to me. Anyway, there's probably an xdg-* command that does this "properly", but grep korganiz |/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache| seems to return a plausible-looking list. alexd
Re: Changing file associations
On 23/07/2022 18:22, local10 wrote: For some Windows programs, there's a way to tell Windows to make it the default program for all supported file types. Does something similar exist for KDE? You could try adding "*.*" as a pattern (without quotes) to one of the known file types and see how well it works. Personally I'm not sure there's a lot of sense opening, say, mp3 files with kwrite. :) Me neither, but the OP did say "all supported filetypes" not "all filetypes". alexd
Re: Plasma 5.24 coming to unstable
On 28/02/2022 13:50, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote: The question is: Why is APT not smart enough to see that the proposed upgrade will fail? It always starts to install packages and at some point fails because some package needs another package with a specific version. Why does it not detect these cases after starting upgrading packages? It knows the versions available for every package so it should prevent these problems. Is it a bug or a missing APT feature? I have never seen this behaviour in 20+ years of using Debian [15 of them with SID]. Closest thing I have seen is something about "broken packages" but that is before it starts to do any actual work. What is the message you getting when this happens? alexd
Re: Illegal instruction when running in kvm?
On 14/02/2022 08:43, Libor Klepáč wrote: But it seems to be interesting, that some HW fingerprint is embeded in KDE config. Well...it's going to be the Qt libraries that use whatever these functions are, probably not KDE itself. But I never had this issue when using same KDE profile shared to different machines with NFS. So I don't really know what the cause is here. alexd
Re: Illegal instruction when running in kvm?
On 11/02/2022 09:22, Libor Klepáč wrote: I'm migrating from current Dell T1700SFF with i7 CPU to Dell R420 with xeon processor. and dmesg says [ 248.820494] traps: QSGRenderThread[2145] trap invalid opcode ip:7fd5842f6027 sp:7fd5858a0820 error:0 I think this is much more likely to be a KVM issue than a KDE one, but what exactly, I cannot say. Something like, new CPU is missing some instructions that old CPU had? alexd
Re: KDE Stops opening new programs
On 16/08/2020 17:46, luca.pedrielli wrote: maybe this way you can find the culprit: $ lsof -U +c 15 | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -3 -- Best, Luca Pedrielli I had this exact issue with ksnip using up all the unix sockets. Restarting ksnip fixed it, bug filed. alexd
Re: issues with konsole's session restore
On 22/07/2020 22:40, Gary Dale wrote: My only complaint/wishlist is that after a reboot, the tabs no longer have independent command histories. That's down to the shell, not konsole. konsole doesn't keep a history of your commands. As an aside, I use $PROMPT_COMMAND to log bash history to one file per day in ~/.Bashlogs like so: PROMPT_COMMAND=if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then echo "$(date "+%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S") $(pwd) $(history 1)" >> ~/.BashLogs/bash-history-$(date "+%Y-%m-%d").log; fi Being able to grep though these logs and know when I did something and what directory I was in can be a livesaver at times. There is a long list of other approaches here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1288/preserve-bash-history-in-multiple-terminal-windows alexd
Re: after latest updates dolphin->share->send via bluetooth stops working
On 18/10/2019 17:11, luca pedrielli wrote: file:///usr/share/purpose/bluetoothplugin_config.qml:20:1: module "QtQuick.Controls" version 2.5 is not installed Any output from: dpkg -l | grep quick-controls ? alexd
Re: Middle click functionality as paste in KDE
On 12/10/2019 02:09, aprekates wrote: mysystem : Debian 10 plasmashell 5.14.5 KDE Frameworks: 5.54.0 Does anyone know how can i make middle click workas paste? It works for me, always has, and I've never had to do anything to enable it. So unfortunately I don't know what you need to do to enable it. Does the middle mouse button work? You can test it with 'xev'. alexd
Re: Change of behaviour for Konsole in Bullseye
On 22/08/2019 19:57, Erwan David wrote: Hi, I use bullseye, and I found that konsole has changed behaviour regarding Views and tabd. Something else tab-related that seems to have changed, the text colour on the tab no longer changes to indicate un-seen activity in the tab. Is this intentional? Has it become optional? alexd
Re: Change of behaviour for Konsole in Bullseye
On 22/08/2019 19:57, Erwan David wrote: I use bullseye, and I found that konsole has changed behaviour regarding Views and tabd. The old behaviour when you asked for a plit view was to have a second frame with the tabs of the window in each frame. Now, when I split the view, current tab is kep on left, other tabs are hidden, a new terminal is started in right frame. I can confirm this. It is as if "Split View" has become "Split Tab", because that's what it does. alexd
Re: Debian Buster, KDE, Amarok and zombies of ThreadWeaver::T
I tried to install qmmp and it seems to be great player (I was user of old winamp some 20 years ago and qmmp brings back memories :) Another vote for Qmmp here. It's "just enough" player for me. I especially like the tabbed playlists. alexd
Re: Hanging plasmashell
On 13/06/18 15:55, Jiri Kanicky wrote: Any mounted system which looses connection will completely hang plasmashell. For example I mount NFS, close lid and take laptop to work and when I open it plasmashell is hanged. I haven't had this setup for a while but when I had an NFS export mounted on /home/alex/alex_on_server/ I found a fix for the hanging was to mount it one step away from ~/, ie /home/alex/server/alex/ which meant I was less likely to trip over this problem. alexd
Re: Latest and Greatest: Dropbox Disappears
On 27/08/16 21:14, David Baron wrote: Running up-to-date Sid. Plasma desktop come up, the Dropbox icon (actually NOT, but a folder icon) appears on the system bar. After a while, it is gone. The daemon is still running. Does it reappear if you run xembedsniproxy? alexd
Re: KDE standard browser
On 11/07/16 15:01, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Debian/Sid and have all packages more or less up-to-date. Thanks > to the Debian KDE team for their hard work in keeping KDE on Debian up-to-date > and to several volunteers on this list (Martin and others) for providing many > useful information! At the moment I'm quite satisfied with the quality of my > KDE system. > > I use two Internet browsers: One browser for doing quick tasks like asking > Google, browsing some repositories News sites. And of course Firefox as > fallback if the web site does complicated things. I don't want to use > Firefox as default browser because it's too heavy and takes a 2-3 seconds > to start up even if the system activity calmed down (8GB RAM, Sandy Bridge, > SSD). > > My favourite browser was konqueror. It worked quite well with the WebKit > rendering engine. But the qualitiy did not improve and lately I experienced > hangs under regular conditions. Looking for a new lightweight browser on KDE > I stumbled over QupZilla. AFAIK it uses WebKit and works pretty well. Ditto to all of the above. > There > are some tiny issues, for example when using QupZilla as standard browser > and clicking on a URL in another application, the new URL is always opened > as new Tab of an existing browser instance -- not what I want. I think this is already covered. From --help: -nt or --new-tabopen new tab -nw or --new-window open new window ... -ct=URL or --current-tab=URLopen URL in current tab -ow=URL or --open-window=URLopen URL in new window > I wonder if there are other suggestions for a lightweight browser on KDE. I've > seen that konqueror has got some updates but there is no active maintainer. Rekonq - seems to be going the same way as Konqueror. Arora - IMO a bit /too/ basic for daily use. alexd
Re: Icons and screensavers
On 17/03/16 14:43, Carlos Kosloff wrote: My icons for iceweasel and networks disappeared in a dist-upgrade for the testing branch. I know that this is a general thing. Iceweasel has been renamed Firefox here - I assume this is related. Also, the ability to set a screensaver in the power options disappeared. Will these issues be solved in a future dist-upgrade? Don't know about this one I'm afraid. alexd
Re: Icons and screensavers
On 17/03/16 17:26, Carlos Kosloff wrote: Thanks for answer but I don't see that it is possible to launch iceweasel with a firefox icon, there is no firefox in the repo. Please elaborate. On my system the package is called firefox-esr. Iceweasel is now a transitional package. When I click on the Firefox icon [ahem, I'm using razor-qt, not KDE] I get Firefox not Iceweasel. alexd
Re: Monitoring Baloo activity
On 15/01/16 14:29, newbee...@nativobject.net wrote: At each session launch, baloo_file_extractor eat lots cpu and memory and after hours, I kill it to get some memory back (around of 1,5Gb !)... ... Is it possible to monitor the activity of baloo ? Not sure if this is what you had in mind, but Monit can send you an email based on some conditions: https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#RESOURCE-TESTING and probably kill the process for you too. alexd
Re: So I have a Plasma 5 desktop!
On 19/07/15 10:00, Dominique Dumont wrote: I've also tried plasma 5. Unfortunately, this messed up iceweasel: Everything was twice as big as usual (although my laptop has no retine display..). Menus. tabs, fonts were too large. I could play with font size to reduce the font to a reasonable value, but the menus and tabs stayed way too large. As a quick workaround you can set GTK2_RC_FILES variable [in a wrapper script for Iceweasel] to point at a gtkrc to override whatever KDE is setting. I do this with Java apps [eg NetXMS client] that don't like the Oxygen GTK theme [that otherwise works great for everything else]. alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55ab7237.70...@ale.cx
Re: Konqueror still usable?
On 18/06/15 17:26, Frank Mehnert wrote: Does it still make sense to use Konqueror in certain situations, are there some hints for improving the configuration or should I just uninstall it? I use it with Javascript, Java, cookies and images disabled; obviously this isn't going to work for a great many websites but for my purposes it's great. The Load Images button is there [apart from when the HTML Toolbar disappears, which is far too often] for when a page has an image of interest on it. Sometimes a page won't render well and switching the view mode to Webkit fixes that. I use Firefox [well, Iceweasel] for things that need a login but 90% of my browsing is in Konqueror. I suspect that puts me in the 1% of the 1%. One recent annoyance is that Google won't accept search queries from Konqueror without Javascript enabled [puts you in an endless reload loop, eventually you have to fill in a captcha]; luckily Konqueror has domain-specific policies that let you fix that. Another fix that worked was pretending to be IE on Windows 2000. Someone on IRC told me elinks had the same problem, but I've just checked now and Google seem to have reverted this change. Something in Konqueror that broke years ago was search queries from the search box, but I don't miss it. alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55832bf0.7060...@ale.cx
Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?
On 16/06/15 19:03, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 June 2015 11:43:37 Alex DEKKER wrote: Looking through /usr/share/kde4/apps/*/icons it seems that, er, perhaps PNG is the dominant icon format after all. Obviously the number of PNG files on disk is more than SVG because there are renderings for each size: Actually no, those are built from SVGs. The idea here is to speed up the drawing process (If I am guessing properly). It would certainly make sense to me to ship vector icons in the package and render them to a raster format at install or first-run time, but every icon in /usr/share/kde4/apps/ is owned by a package according to dpkg -S so I think they're just distributed as PNG. alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55808bc8.2010...@ale.cx
Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?
On 15/06/15 17:15, Nick Boyce wrote: I wonder whether this may have anything to do with the lack of a special-purpose SVG-oriented icon editor. Inkscape is probably the best Free vector drawing programme going, and it has an icon preview mode... At one SVG icon-set page I found : http://svgicons.sourceforge.net/ the author comments All icons in BlueSphere theme are designed using SVG format. I have used Sodipodi vector-drawing program, ...and Sodipodi is the ancestor of Inkscape, as it were. and partially hand-crafted (!) SVG (XML) files using KWrite - (my exclamation marks). All part of the beauty of the format! Nobody goes to the trouble of hand-crafting JPEGs, but text-based files allow you do to that. [As an aside, I'm faintly horrified to find this standard 128px x 128px SVG icon http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxygen480-status-dialog-information.svg occupies a file size of 120Kb ! looking at the source recalls the old joke XML is like violence - if it doesn't work, use more] There's a bit of fat in the XML that could be removed, methinks, and it gzips down to 16kB [the KDE icons, when they're SVG, seem to be shipped as .sgvz]. Furthermore, I ran it through Scour [http://codedread.com/scour/] and got it down to 17kB. Gzipping /that/ got me a file of 4344 bytes! I wonder what changed people's minds. The kids don't use desktops any more, it's all about phones and tablets. alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/557f3c8c.3090...@ale.cx
Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?
On 14/06/15 03:53, Nick Boyce wrote: On Saturday 13 Jun 2015 21:32:36 Alex DEKKER wrote: Inkscape? AIUI, KDE icons are SVG [and have been for some time] so a vector editor would be the order of the day. Wow ... thanks, I had no idea. That change has completely passed me by. Allow me to row back somewhat: $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep svg | wc -l 134 $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep png | wc -l 1090 Looking through /usr/share/kde4/apps/*/icons it seems that, er, perhaps PNG is the dominant icon format after all. Obviously the number of PNG files on disk is more than SVG because there are renderings for each size: konqueror/icons/oxygen/48x48/actions/google.png konqueror/icons/oxygen/64x64/actions/google.png konqueror/icons/oxygen/32x32/actions/google.png konqueror/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/google.png konqueror/icons/oxygen/16x16/actions/google.png but eg from akonadi/ braindump/ and calligra/, there is precisely one SVG icon. So it seems things are bit more nuanced than I had thought. I guess this is all in aid of a more luscious pixel-sharp desktop so it must be a good thing :) Yes, in a time where there is more diversity of screen resolutions than before, vector graphics make more sense. Besides Inkscape (which I last used an aeon ago on Windows), do you believe I could use Karbon (a vector drawing application ... support for ODG, SVG, PNG, PDF, WMF) ? That would surely be the KDE way I'll try it. Haven't done any of this for years. Just had a play with Karbon and Inkscape. Karbon is more basic than Inkscape, in particular the View Icon Preview feature is relevant here. alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/557d5ad9.90...@ale.cx
Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?
On 13/06/15 19:04, Nick Boyce wrote: All this leaves me wondering what tool KDE developers on Debian use to create their packages' icons can anyone give me a clue ? Inkscape? AIUI, KDE icons are SVG [and have been for some time] so a vector editor would be the order of the day. alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/557c9364.6060...@ale.cx
Re: Authenticity check failures in konqueror
On 26/10/14 12:39, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I tried Qupzilla as Konqueror seems to have more and more issues with websites Looks OK but it would need two things to make me switch from Konqueror: middle click to paste URL and a 'load images' button. alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54500166.8080...@ale.cx
Re: Howto Get kde desktop to run ?
On 15/06/14 02:30, Barry wrote: I installed debian 7.5 on this m/c but it could not install gnome apparently because of some video problem. If your graphics drivers don't work, KDE is not going to help. In stead it installed the desktop light facility apparently successfully.. I used synaptic to install the kde enviroment but I cannot find how to start it up. Can someone advise on this please ? How far are you getting? If you're in failsafe [an xterm with nothing else] then 'startkde' will do the trick. The usual way to start a DE is to choose it from the display manager, and installing KDE may have pulled in KDM. The display manager is what gives you the login prompt. alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/539d638d.2060...@ale.cx
Re: Video playback
On 15/06/14 21:58, Brad Alexander wrote: (or even where to look to diagnose these video problems? mplayer has a range of video output modes. You can list these with 'mplayer -vo help'. I suggest you test a few of the likely-looking modes [eg 'md5sum' output mode probably isn't going to help you here], see what works and what doesn't, and armed with that information, you may get closer to a solution to your problem. Good luck! alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/539e0d08.7010...@ale.cx
Re: Window decorations/qt theme resets to some default after a while of being logged in
On 24/03/14 19:59, Rubin Abdi wrote: No ~/.kde4 directory. I do however have a .kderc which seems to be doing a whole lot of nothing so I've removed it to see if it helps at all. Run the program with strace -eopen and it will dump a list of all the files it attempts to open. This may help you find the culprit. alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5331bf8a.3050...@ale.cx
Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?
On 18/02/14 04:24, Nick Boyce wrote: won't X's ability to carry display traffic from one machine to another be sorely missed by some people ? I won't - I use x2go for this. It's so much better than raw X, I've never bothered with raw X since discovering it. Whether or not future KDE versions work in x2go sessions is another matter... alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5303a52c.40...@ale.cx
Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?
On 18/02/14 19:08, Erwan David wrote: Le 18/02/2014 19:23, Alex DEKKER a écrit : Whether or not future KDE versions work in x2go sessions is another matter... It's not a matter of KDE or other desktop environment It is a matter on individual programs. I am not certain about that. Surely KDE reaches X through Qt? As such I don't think it's down to KDE, but I don't know. alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5303b90f.8080...@ale.cx
Re: How to clean up Kontact calendar mess?
On 27/01/14 23:22, john Culleton wrote: In general if there is an alternative to a KDE program to do a task I use the alternative. The main fault with KDE ops is that they are overly integrated. That is pretty much the point of KDE - code reuse and integration. Are you aware that you're posting to the Debian KDE list, not just a general Debian list? alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52e820df.7050...@ale.cx
Re: Font anti-aliasing looking weird in Firefox?
On 25/09/13 18:31, Rubin Abdi wrote: If I have anti-aliasing enabled with sub-pixel rendering in KDE, whenever lines of text are drawn they sometimes randomly show up bolder/heavier than they should be. If I highlight them with my mouse or scroll, they'll go away or reappear. Yes, I've had this, but I think it's been quite a while since I've seen it. I'll keep an eye out for it. alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52443905.8040...@ale.cx
Re: Trinity
On Thursday 12 Jul 2012 08:44:47 Andrej Kacian wrote: it is perfectly possible to use KDE4 without all the social, semantic, and/or cloudy crap that's being pushed to Linux desktop in recent years. It just takes bit of tweaking. That's prety much how I use KDE4. alexd
Re: Good music player suggestion
On Friday 11 May 2012 10:49:10 Andrej Kacian wrote: What are everyone's favourite players? Qmmp works for me and would probably fit the bill for you as it's small and light and doesn't try to do too much. alexd
Switch desktop on one screen at a time
Using dual monitors, how do I switch the desktop on only one screen at a time? I like the two monitors to be independent. Currently I am working around this by making every window on the secondary monitor set to All Desktops, and disabling the change-desktop animation. There don't seem to be any options relating to this in Pager Settings, so I'm guessing it may not be possible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/375e980bb38d578fc17d38c7bd944...@ale.cx
Re: Where does Kontact save contacts?
On 21/06/10 18:22, Michael Schuerig wrote: So, the interesting question remains: where are my contacts? You could use rsync -aP before and after using Kontact to see what files are changed. If you really don't know where the files are then you will have to rsync all of ~ to somewhere else in order to pick the changes up. Narrowing it down to a few directories [eg ~/.kde and ~/.local] would speed it up. -- alexd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hvolb2$5f...@dough.gmane.org
