Re: [kde] Change background
Kevin Krammer posted on Thu, 07 Jul 2016 13:08:56 +0200 as excerpted: > On Thursday, 2016-07-07, 10:43:54, Christoph Pleger wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Duncan wrote: >> >> in KDE 5, is it possible to change the background image which is >> >> shown during the login animation and after activation of the >> >> screensaver? >> > >> > Yes, but there's actually three places to change the two different >> > elements, depending on exactly what you want to change. All three >> > are in kde system settings. >> >> Thank you very much, I managed to make the desired changes. >> >> Is it also possible to change the settings for all users at once? > > If you find the files that were changed you should be able to replicate > that in the respective file in a more systemwide location. Yes. Kde5 looks in a number of places for its settings, including both user and system locations. The user locations are probably going to be in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, which (from memory, mine is customized and I don't want to look it up ATM) defaults to ~/.config/share/. The system location(s) normally default to XDG_CONFIG_SYSTEM (again, from memory, something close tho), which in turn defaults to /usr/share/. Some distros change these defaults, however. See the freedesktop.org common desktop specifications for more. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] Change location of user cache in KDE 5
Rex Dieter posted on Thu, 07 Jul 2016 19:57:47 -0500 as excerpted:
> Christoph Pleger wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Kevin Kummer wrote:
>>
in KDE 4, the location of the user cache can be changed by setting
KDEVARTMP in startkde. How can this be done in KDE 5?
>>
>>> My guess would be XDG_CACHE_HOME
>>
>> Unfortunately, no. I logged out, deleted /var/tmp/kdecache-${USER}, set
>> XDG_CACHE_HOME in /usr/bin/startkde and logged in again - a new
>> /var/tmp/kdecache-${HOME} had been created.
>
> XDG_CACHE_HOME is respected only by qt5/kf5 applications and libraries.
>
> kde4 runtime libraries still works the same as before (so you may want
> to set both KDEVARTMP and XDG_CACHE_HOME to achieve what you want).
And also... just /setting/ the var likely won't do it. You will likely
have to /export/ the var (which may have been done, but the post said
set, without specifying export, so...).
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Re: [kde] Disable the option to create a new session
Kevin Krammer posted on Thu, 07 Jul 2016 09:34:03 +0200 as excerpted: > On Thursday, 2016-07-07, 05:53:22, Duncan wrote: >> Christoph Pleger posted on Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:27:54 +0200 as >> excerpted: >> > Hello, >> > >> > in KDE 5, after the screensaver was started, an option to start a new >> > session is shown. Is it possible to disable the possibility to start >> > a new session, maybe also to not show the option? >> >> I don't know how to set this one, but I know what you're asking must be >> possible, because I don't have the new session option here. =:^/ > > It might require some support/cooperation from the login manager. > E.g. if you run without login manager or of the login manager doesn't > provide the necessary D-Bus (?) interface, then the option might be > missing. Good point. I'm on gentoo, and I have USE flags (that control dependencies at build-time, etc) off, unless I know I need them on for some reason. I do run systemd, but I have policy-kit turned off and not installed, along with another USE flag IDR on some plasma5 package IDR ATM, that IIRC /was/ documented as being required for session switching, etc. So it might not be a normal user option, but rather, it could be an option that shows up if you've built the appropriate plasma5 component against the appropriate dependencies, as most binary-based distributions would, that doesn't show up if you haven't, thus explaining my lack of that option, here. -- 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.
Re: [kde] Change location of user cache in KDE 5
Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Kevin Kummer wrote:
>
>>> in KDE 4, the location of the user cache can be changed by setting
>>> KDEVARTMP in startkde. How can this be done in KDE 5?
>
>> My guess would be XDG_CACHE_HOME
>
> Unfortunately, no. I logged out, deleted /var/tmp/kdecache-${USER}, set
> XDG_CACHE_HOME in /usr/bin/startkde and logged in again - a new
> /var/tmp/kdecache-${HOME} had been created.
XDG_CACHE_HOME is respected only by qt5/kf5 applications and libraries.
kde4 runtime libraries still works the same as before (so you may want to
set both KDEVARTMP and XDG_CACHE_HOME to achieve what you want).
-- Rex
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Re: [kde] Change location of user cache in KDE 5
On Thursday, 2016-07-07, 14:06:55, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
> >> Unfortunately, no. I logged out, deleted /var/tmp/kdecache-${USER}, set
> >> XDG_CACHE_HOME in /usr/bin/startkde and logged in again - a new
> >> /var/tmp/kdecache-${HOME} had been created.
> >
> > And setting KDEVARTMP doesn't work either?
>
> Oops. Yes, it does, Surprised, because I read here
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356850 that KDEVARTMP does not change
> the location of the kdecache directory anymore. So, I did not even try
> before now.
You might have a mix of Qt4 based and Qt5 based KDE programs and one of the
Qt4 based ones creates the dir according to the variable of that stack.
Cheers,
Kevin
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[kde] Reloading previous session type of a user in KDE 5
Hello,
with kdm, when a user logged in after choosing a session type, the
selected type was saved in ${HOME}/.dmrc. At the next login, the saved
type was loaded from ${HOME}/.dmrc, so that a user always had the same
session type, as long as he did not select something else.
That does not work with sddm. For the root user, is it possible to
re-introduce that feature?
Regards
Christoph
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Re: [kde] Disable the option to create a new session
Hello, Kevin Krammer wrote: >> in KDE 5, after the screensaver was started, an option to start a new >> session is shown. Is it possible to disable the possibility to start a new >> session, maybe also to not show the option? > Could be possible through applying an action restriction. > action/switch_user according to this > https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/enterprise/2016-May/08.html Thank you, that works. Regards Christoph ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] Change location of user cache in KDE 5
Hello,
Kevin Krammer wrote:
>> Unfortunately, no. I logged out, deleted /var/tmp/kdecache-${USER}, set
>> XDG_CACHE_HOME in /usr/bin/startkde and logged in again - a new
>> /var/tmp/kdecache-${HOME} had been created.
> And setting KDEVARTMP doesn't work either?
Oops. Yes, it does, Surprised, because I read here
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356850 that KDEVARTMP does not change
the location of the kdecache directory anymore. So, I did not even try
before now.
Regards
Christoph
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Re: [kde] Change location of user cache in KDE 5
Hello,
Kevin Kummer wrote:
>> in KDE 4, the location of the user cache can be changed by setting
>> KDEVARTMP in startkde. How can this be done in KDE 5?
> My guess would be XDG_CACHE_HOME
Unfortunately, no. I logged out, deleted /var/tmp/kdecache-${USER}, set
XDG_CACHE_HOME in /usr/bin/startkde and logged in again - a new
/var/tmp/kdecache-${HOME} had been created.
Regards
Christoph
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Re: [kde] Change background
On Wednesday July 06 2016 14:03:18 Christoph Pleger wrote: >in KDE 5, is it possible to change the background image which is shown >during the login animation This used to be trivial with kdm, which in its traditional, unthemed version also looked much better than (fugly, fugly) sddm. But it seems to have gone MIA, sadly. R ___ 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.
Re: [kde] Disable the option to create a new session
On Thursday, 2016-07-07, 05:53:22, Duncan wrote: > Christoph Pleger posted on Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:27:54 +0200 as excerpted: > > Hello, > > > > in KDE 5, after the screensaver was started, an option to start a new > > session is shown. Is it possible to disable the possibility to start a > > new session, maybe also to not show the option? > > I don't know how to set this one, but I know what you're asking must be > possible, because I don't have the new session option here. =:^/ It might require some support/cooperation from the login manager. E.g. if you run without login manager or of the login manager doesn't provide the necessary D-Bus (?) interface, then the option might be missing. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ 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.
Re: [kde] Disable the option to create a new session
On Wednesday, 2016-07-06, 14:27:54, Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > in KDE 5, after the screensaver was started, an option to start a new > session is shown. Is it possible to disable the possibility to start a new > session, maybe also to not show the option? Could be possible through applying an action restriction. action/switch_user according to this https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/enterprise/2016-May/08.html Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ 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.
