[kde] Re: How do I remove the new activity item from the desktop? [OT]
Override is commonly necessary for those with imperfect vision and/or above average device density. Some X implementations are so closely tied to EDID that escape therefrom can be difficult if not impossible, e.g. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692293 -- The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. I had great fun with this aspect as well. It seems that distro's rely on EDID monitors that also have the correct lead and don't concern themselves with people who want to change things or have older monitors. Opensuse dumped me it 800x600. Real fun sorting that out using the machine like that and there is also the nouveau driver problem when installing prop. drivers. It usually has to be removed and replaced with something else 1st. The std vesa driver would be a good option. I will post the following link as it may help others with xorg.conf problems and this area does in a way relate to kde. http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/458632-installing-nvidia-driver-easiest-i-have-found-date.html The important aspects are the edid disables. Also the 2 power save over rides if like me you want your monitor to remain on what ever. I use the power switch. I also wish there was a desktop switch to enable and disable system power save modes at will. As things stand I have to install noacpi or it drives me up the wall. One other aspect is that xorg.conf can disappear and be replaced by separate files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ . No signs of this happening but it would appear that it's just a case of moving the xorg.conf sections into individual files. A meaningless change really as is often the case. John ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: How do I remove the new activity item from the desktop? [OT]
On 2011/06/01 02:29 (GMT-0700) John Woodhouse composed: The important aspects are the edid disables. Also the 2 power save over rides if like me you want your monitor to remain on what ever. I use the power switch. I also wish there was a desktop switch to enable and disable system power save modes at will. As things stand I have to install noacpi or it drives me up the wall. 'Option DPMS off' isn't good enough for you? One other aspect is that xorg.conf can disappear and be replaced by separate files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ . No signs of this happening but it would appear that it's just a case of moving the xorg.conf sections into individual files. A meaningless change really as is often the case. Maybe https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32430 is what you're thinking of? Individual files was implemented to facilitate minor customizations that are difficult for individual users to figure out how to make in xorg.conf, which requires a certain system of serverlayout, identifiers, screen(s) device(s) to get to actually work. Using the separate files one can implement as little as one line to implement desired customization. -- The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: [kdepim-users] Re: KMail keeps losing the wallet
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 15:00 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 09:36:11 -0400 John Aldrich jmaldr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello John, Ok, I had that checked... apparently that's the default. Who's brilliant idea was THAT? I suppose there may be reasons for that, but Security; It's safer to close the wallet after a period of inactivity. Particularly in an environment where there are several people that could use the computer. it seems silly To some, certainly. hi , If you open wallet - settings - configure wallet you have options like closes when unused etc check this out -- Sérgio M. B. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: How do I remove the new activity item from the desktop? [OT]
- Original Message From: Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net To: kde@mail.kde.org Sent: Wed, 1 June, 2011 14:55:03 Subject: [kde] Re: How do I remove the new activity item from the desktop? [OT] Felix Miata posted on Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:43:09 -0400 as excerpted: On 2011/06/01 02:29 (GMT-0700) John Woodhouse composed: The important aspects are the edid disables. Also the 2 power save over rides if like me you want your monitor to remain on what ever. I use the power switch. I also wish there was a desktop switch to enable and disable system power save modes at will. As things stand I have to install noacpi or it drives me up the wall. 'Option DPMS off' isn't good enough for you? If you check his link, that's what he's referring to with power save over rides. It seems pretty basic to me, nothing worth commenting about as it's ordinary xorg.conf functionality that was there long before it was even xorg.conf (while it was still xf86config), but then, I've been handling manual X configs since I was forced to do so back in late 2001 to get my (then) triple-head setup working in Linux as I switched from MS Windows 98 instead of upgrading to eXPrivacy. But I imagine it might be worth commenting on for someone who has just discovered the manual config method after struggling with an uncooperative GUI for awhile... -- 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 ___ I never go down there or even into the shell unless I need to. Suse and then Opensuse were rather good on this aspect but the install has worsened with time and the desktop system utility is no longer supported so has been dropped. ;-) I posted that lot just to show that there are other ways than those suggested by the many shell bashers. The other problem on opensuse is that there are many many sets of out of date instructions and one click installs about in all areas that are sure to mess the system up. Anyway as I found web doc abounds but not really that helpful as there are zero examples I'm aware of or could find I posted it as it might help some. The reads have grown enormously since last time I looked. There are many very helpful people on that forum but most have their way of doing things and wont even consider other ways. By the way 2 dpms's in my case worked. 1 didn't. I suspect this is down to some newer graphics cards. Not sure. John ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: Running dolphin from a shell script and opening it in a specific directory.
John Woodhouse asks: Just how do I do this? I have already tried just typing dolphin in the console and it comes up with loads and loads of soprano errors preceded by dolphin (6667) but does launch. I need it to open pointing at a specific directory from a bash script at the point just before it exits. Here I don't get any messages at all. Strange. And when I give directories as arguments, they are opened, in tabs if there are more than one. With the --select option, you can also specify files, those will be selected. Also be interested in any example type web pages on this subject and more info on the general aspects of scripting KDE. I'm also interested about examples of scripting KDE. You can do many cool things via dbus, but I don't know yet how. This script must run from the bash shell. One aspect of that is how to stop the shell flashing up briefly? Don't know what you mean by that. Wonko ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: Running dolphin from a shell script and opening it in a specific directory.
Alex Schuster wrote, On 06/01/2011 05:03 PM:
John Woodhouse asks:
I have already tried just typing dolphin in the console and it comes up
with loads and loads of soprano errors preceded by dolphin (6667) but
does launch. I need it to open pointing at a specific directory from a
bash script at the point just before it exits.
loads of warning/info/error messages is normal, and i've tried global
disable with kdebugdialog [x] disable all debug output to no avail.
Also be interested in any example type web pages on this subject and more
info on the general aspects of scripting KDE.
I'm also interested about examples of scripting KDE. You can do many cool
things via dbus, but I don't know yet how.
qdbus or qdbusviewer to get the callable interfaces...
something like:
#!/bin/sh
# Title: remote-control-dolphin.sh
url=${1:-/My Documents}
# XXX presumes MainWindow0, could be many named different things, would
# XXX have to search the output and find the one you want to use
if [ qdbus org.kde.dolphin 2/dev/null ]; then
qdbus org.kde.dolphin /dolphin/MainWindow0
org.kde.dolphin.MainWindow.changeUrl ${url}
# XXX this doesn't do what i think it should do (raise the window) oh well.
qdbus org.kde.dolphin /dolphin/Dolphin_1 com.trolltech.Qt.QWidget.raise
else
dolphin ${url}
fi
This script must run from
the bash shell. One aspect of that is how to stop the shell flashing up
briefly?
Don't know what you mean by that.
Same here??
Wonko
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[kde] Re: [kde3] 11.4 - KControl is empty
Felix Miata posted on Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:54:38 -0400 as excerpted: On 2011/06/01 22:37 (GMT+0400) Ilya composed: I asked before I knew that a package (kdebase3-SUSE) that apparently should have been installed as a dependency of what I specifically asked zypper to install was required but not installed. kdebase3-SUSE includes SUSE-specific settings. I don't expect SUSE-specific settings to be prerequisite to KDE function. Should not KControl always be populated with something, regardless whether any SUSE-specifics are installed or not? kcontrol was broken in a SUSE-specific package desktop-data-openSUSE. Looks to me more like KControl was broken by depending on desktop-data-openSUSE, since the latter was not installed and KControl had nothing populating the selection pane. Where does the data to populate KControl come from in pure, unadulterated KDE3? My knowledge of kde3 is getting rusty, but I had this happen to me once and it's kinda hard to forget the general bits, at least... The kde3 kcontrol modules are all found as *.desktop files with a hidden attribute (IDR the specific name) as one line of the *.desktop file. IDR whether the *.desktop files themselves are hidden (that is, the name starts with a dot) or if it's just the attribute line within the file, but I *DO* remember something about them being in a specific directory, as well. The way I happened to get the bug was that I rearranged the menu, and this specific kcontrol directory was suddenly empty, if it existed at all. The individual *.desktop files still had their kcontrol-hidden or whatever it was attributes, but they weren't in the place kcontrol3 was looking for them, so kcontrol itself was suddenly empty. The way that relates to OpenSuSE is that SuSE is known[1] to significantly cook kcontrol, adding their own modules, renaming others, etc, so it's no longer kcontrol as shipped by upstream, but much more the kde4 style systemsettings, since it has far more REAL SYSTEM SETTINGS in it in OpenSuSE, NOT just the usual primarily user-specific kde-only settings that kde itself ships with. Since OpenSuSE cooks kcontrol to such a degree, it doesn't surprise me at all to find it dependent on some OpenSuSE specific package, without which kcontrol finds itself looking in the wrong place for OpenSuSE, and finding no modules there with which to populate its lists. --- [1] Keeping in mind that I've never actually run SuSE, open or not, personally. But from various comments I've seen over the years describing SuSE-specific kcontrol/systemsettings modules that don't appear in kcontrol, either the kde3 version or the system-settings-that-as-shipped- by-upstream-aren't-for-the-most-part-systemsettings kde4 version. IOW, the kde4 name, systemsettings, is actually semi-accurate on OpenSuSE, more so anyway than elsewhere, in both kde3 and kde4. But that's NOT kde as shipped; it's the OpenSuSE customized kde. -- 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 mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
