Re: [kde] Klipper default actions: URLs and Files
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Stephen Dowdy sdo...@ucar.edu wrote: I use CTRLALTR to manually invoke my user actions on clipboard content. This works independently of Enable Clipboard Actions. It offers ALL your user actions, not just those that regex match the selection buffer, as the context popup does. Thanks. I've mapped that to something easier to type. The result is that I can get the timestamp info when I need it, without the annoying side effect of every highlighted URL causing a popup. I still haven't figured out why klipper will hang for 10 seconds on selection (esp a URL) and not respond to paste or the klipper systray popup sometimes. This happened in Debian Squeeze (KDE 4.4.5) and Wheezy (4.8.4) I don't think i have any funky regex in my actions causing this :-( (i wonder if the Sync clip/sel option is doing this, and there's some lock in play that has an alarm/timeout...) I cannot reproduce that, even after trying to replicate your setup. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] @ Dotan: As requested (back in March, sorry): Hotkey launcher scripts
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: OK, this is *MUCH* later, but I still had this marked unread in ordered to deal with later, and I'm finally getting the appropriately rounded tuit. =:^) There are two executable scripts and one kmap file, placed in a system location, and as many user menu files as desired. One menu file is invoked first, but invocation is nestable, so it's possible for the first one to invoke the scripts again, thus invoking an additional layer of menus. ...snip a ton... Duncan, I just found this email! For some reason some of your emails addressed to me did not get the Gmail Star that I use to identify mail addressed to me or replies to my mails. I see that there are quite a few, some dating back years! I'll go through these treasures in due time. You are extremely thorough and it will take me some time to go it all. Thank you very much! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Klipper default actions: URLs and Files
I started using the Klipper actions to tell me the human-readable date/time when highlighting Unix timestamps. This feature is great, but I cannot figure out how to disable to automatic actions which pop up a menu any time one highlights a URL or a File path. In addition to the Klippe GUI configuration, where I could not find anything relevant, I looked in the following files (Kubuntu Linux): /home/dotancohen/.kde/share/config/klipperrc /usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde4-profile/default/share/config/klipperrc The feature is not configured there, either. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Kwin shortcuts not working
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Alt-F4 (close window) and Alt-F2 are no longer working on a Kubuntu 12.10 install. No KDE configuration settings had been changed around the time that the shortcuts broke, and I can see that Alt-F4 is still configured as the close window shortcut in System Settings. Furthermore, some custom shortcuts such as show analogue clock widget (calandar) on Alt-Space still do work. What might be the issue, or how should I start troubleshooting? I found the problem. On the computer affected, I use a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 400 keyboard, which has a F Lock function for overriding the Function keys with Copy / Paste / ten other shortcuts. The F Lock function was activated, so no F-key keycode was sent. Turning off the F Lock function resolved the issue. I know know what the F in F Lock stands for. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Kwin shortcuts not working
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Marcelo Magno T. Sales mmtsa...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry I can't help you troubleshoot your problem, I have no idea what might be the issue. However, I'm also running Kubuntu 12.10 and all my shortcuts are working as they should, including ALT-F4 and ALT-F2, so it is not a general problem with Kubuntu 12.10. Thank you Marcelo. In fact the keyboard shortcuts had worked for two months before they stopped working, and my home Kubuntu 12.10 system is unaffected. I know that it is not a general Kubuntu 12.10 problem. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Kwin shortcuts not working
) that may not be running on my work system (where they do not). Have a great week! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Wrap Firefox in KDE app?
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Dotan Cohen posted on Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:47:32 +0200 as excerpted: I would like to use different icons for each Firefox profile. Firefox does not seem to support this, but all KDE applications support by default the --icon flag. Is there a simple way to wrap a launcher to a specific Firefox profile in a KDE application so that it might be possible to change the icon? Very interesting question! I don't know the answer for sure, but your question triggered a memory of a kde executable I'd seen, which looks quite promising. Please try the below and see if it does what you need, then report back, as you have me curious too, now. =:^) kstart [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] command Of course it has the usual kde-app --help, --help-kde --help-qt --help- all options, which you'd need to look at to see if it can do what you need. As I said a quick look looks promising, but you'll have to look closer than I did and probably actually try it, to be sure. Thank you Duncan. Here is what I have found: This starts Firefox with the regular Firefox icon: $ kstart --icon /home/dotancohen/icon.png /usr/bin/firefox -profilemanager -no-remote This starts Dolphin with the regular Dolphin icon: $ kstart --icon /home/dotancohen/icon.png dolphin However, this does start Dolphin with the requested icon: $ dolphin --icon /home/dotancohen/icon.png This starts Konqueror with the regular Konqueror icon: $ kstart --icon /home/dotancohen/icon.png konqueror Alas, this starts Konqueror with the regular Konqueror icon: $ konqueror --icon /home/dotancohen/icon.png I then tried Konqueror again both ways with the preloaded option disabled, after killing all the running instances that ps showed. Same result: Konqueror even when not preloaded refuses to use any other icon in the task bar. That is actually what I expected considering the fact that the following Konqueror bug has remained unresolved: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154415 So it seems that --icon is only a suggestion and that the application can freely ignore it. Even worse, it seems that kstart does not support the --icon flag anyway. The other alternative, which should work anywhere a *.desktop-based file is the basis for launching (including the kickoff apps menu and many icon- based launchers), /is/ a *.desktop file (or menu entry based on one). This has the advantage of being a freedesktop.org standard, so should work in DEs other than kde, as well, but won't work where *.desktop file isn't used. The key here would be to use firefox's -P profile option as the command, not simply firefox, and to set a custom icon as desired. You'd then clone that launcher item multiple times, changing the profile and icon for each one. Thanks. This does in fact change the icon of the launcher, but the application launched still has the regular Firefox icon in the taskbar! I'd guess one or the other of these solutions should work. Maybe both, in which case you can take your pick. =:^) No, neither worked but I did learn a bit! Thanks, though. I do appreciate the detailed missive, even if it took me a few days to get around to it. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Wrap Firefox in KDE app?
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:06 PM, dE . de.tec...@gmail.com wrote: If I understand your question correctly, a custum .desktop file should do. You can make that in a graphical way using kmenuedit. Thanks. I just tried as per Duncan's suggestion. In fact, only the launcher icon changes, not the taskbar icon. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Wrap Firefox in KDE app?
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: My guess for the latter is that kstart --icon refers to the icon kstart itself would use (kstart most likely being a KDE application, hence the option shared with other KDE apps). Since kstart exits very quickly, its icon is never visible. Sounds reasonable. Is there any way to wrap firefox in a KDE application that will show an icon of the user's choosing? KDE 3's taskbar would let the user set a custom icon per application, but we don't have that in KDE4. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Wrap Firefox in KDE app?
I would like to use different icons for each Firefox profile. Firefox does not seem to support this, but all KDE applications support by default the --icon flag. Is there a simple way to wrap a launcher to a specific Firefox profile in a KDE application so that it might be possible to change the icon? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Cursing on Planet KDE
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: http://www.kde.org/code-of-conduct/ Cheers, Kevin Thanks. Have a great week. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Cursing on Planet KDE
Where are the guidelines for proper behaviour for blogs in Planet KDE? I would like to review them to see how they handle off-topic and vulgar posts. I don't see a link to any guidelines or code of conduct from the http://planetkde.org/ website. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Add a keyboard, loose Sticky Keys
I often switch between two keyboards on my desktop computer: a regular mechanical keyboard that always stays connected, and a low-force split keyboard that I disconnect when not in use. Both are attached via USB, the always-connected one on a non-powered hug along with the mouse, and the sometimes-connected one directly to the USB port on the motherboard. Whenever I connect the secondary keyboard, my Sticky Keys feature stops working. I have to open System Settings, disable Sticky Keys, click Apply, reenable Sticky Keys, then click OK. Why might this be happening, and how might I prevent it? This is on Kubuntu 11.10. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Add a keyboard, loose Sticky Keys
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: I don't use that feature and can't say why it's not sticking when you switch keyboards, but I do have one suggestion: There is a hotkey configuration for it, that you can use to turn it on and off, so you /shouldn't/ have to go into kde settings to change it, just remember the hotkey to toggle it, and do that instead. Since you're having to do it repeatedly, that should save you at least /some/ trouble. Hi Duncan! I should have mentioned: the hotkey is Shift five times. However, this hotkey does not activate Sticky Keys when I am in this situation, only disabling then reenabling via System Settings does. This bug is completely reproducible, I will file an issue. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Hotkey to move windows to predetermined location and geometry?
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 21:41, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/12 18:30, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have two applications that I often use in tandem, each with a specific geometry and position on the screen. Is there a hotkey that one could set up to move these windows to my preferred location and sizes? One of them is a KDE app (Konsole), the other is a Qt app (Anki). Thanks. KWin rules will ensure that they go there whenever you open them. You might like to read the tutorial starting at http://userbase.kde.org/KWin_Rules Anne Thanks Anne. I actually do need to move already-open windows, not new windows. The reason is that I _usually_ need the two windows horizontally-aligned, but sometimes I need vertically-aligned. So a quick way to swap between these two states is what I am after. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] KDE panel showing above some fullscreen applications
the two-half-maxed windows thing on the bottom/working monitor, while playing a video in a window on the top monitor, if I'm multitasking. But of course there's some apps that work even better when spread out to two monitors. This is the problem I was having, originally, and the reason that I was using killall plasma-desktop. But I'm using the next solution for this sort of thing most of the time now, so don't use the killall plasma-desktop workaround NEARLY as much as I used to. 5) With the now reliable OpenGL based zoom effect (configured in desktop effects, middle tab), I've switched to using this a lot more, these days, tho it was too buggy thru early 4.5 or so, and only became reliable enough to use it as much as I do with late 4.5. Of course, the suitability of this alternative depends on the otherwise full-screen task you're doing, but for many tasks, simply running them windowed at a lower resolution, then zooming in using the zoom effect, works very well, at least on semi-decent hardware/driver combinations like my Radeon hd4650 with the freedomware kernel-drm/kernel-mode-setting(kms)/mesa/xf86-video- ati drivers. This zoom effect is the reason for the past-tense in the killall plasma- desktop instructions above, as zoom works as well or better for the use- case I was using it for most, anyway. I DID tweak the zoom-step to a reasonably fine 5%, but since I've configured good hotkeys that auto-repeat if I hold them down, thus giving me a quite smooth continuous zoom, the fine zoom-step still works great. (FWIW, the hotkeys I use for that are ctrl-meta-arrow, where arrow is down to zoom out, up to zoom in, and left to reset to normal/100% zoom. Meta is of course the winkey on most current x86 keyboards.) Between the dual-monitor, full-screen-to-one, alternative, and the zoom- effect alternative, depending on what I'm using it for, I really don't use the killall plasma-desktop workaround much at all, any more. Still, it's there when I do need it, and at times cycling plasma using a killall and relaunch is handy for forcing it to save settings, etc, without exiting kde entirely, as well. =:^) My God, Duncan, have you not thought of everything? However, for my particular workflow each solution has more problems than it solves. I just need the blessed panels to stop showing above full-screen apps! If it happens again (and it will) I'll grab a screenshot and file a bug, Thank you. Have a great week! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] KDE panel showing above some fullscreen applications
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 13:53, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: What about a workaround: Start a 2nd desktop session with a lightweight window manager. Run VirtualBox there, and switch with Ctrl-Alt-F7/8. Thanks Wonko, but then I cannot cut and paste between the VM and the real OS. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Switching Activities via keyboard shortcuts.
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 07:31, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Dotan Cohen posted on Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:45:35 +0200 as excerpted: On my 4.7 system, Next Activity goes to the next ordinal Activity, and Previous Activity goes to the precious ordinal Activity. Therefore two separate keyboard shortcuts are necessary to swap between two Activities. This does differ from the behaviour of Previous Desktop and Previous Window which function similarly to Walk Through, ... So no wrap-around. As I might have said, I haven't actually used activities since early 4.7 or possibly early 4.6. They don't really provide much of anything I don't already have as a power user via other, generally more mature and stable means, so I've had no use for them. Tho I really should backup my plasma config files and do some experimenting again, one of these days, to see what has changed. If activities control panels now, not just the desktop, then I might have a reason to use them. Anyway, because I've not used them in anything like even close to the 4.8 timeframe, I've no idea if they've fixed that and the previous/next activities hotkeys wrap around now, or not. Thanks. When I upgrade the OS in two months I'll see what the situation is and I'll file issues. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] KDE panel showing above some fullscreen applications
KDE panel showing above some fullscreen applications, namely Virtual Box in full-screen mode. I therefore set the panel as Windows Can Cover but this quickly becomes annoying with other applications. I therefore tried giving Virtual Box full-screen capability from the KDE Configure Window Behaviour... options, but that for some reason makes Virtual Box the size of my screen, but it is displayed offset on the screen to make room for the vertical KDE panel, and thus I am missing the KDE panel's width from Virtual Box on the opposite side as it is off-screen! Are there any other fixes for the KDE panel intermittently appearing over a full-screen Virtual Box? This is KDE 4.7 on Kubuntu 11.10, however I have had this issue with earlier KDE versions as well. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] KDE panel showing above some fullscreen applications
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 18:10, Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at wrote: Try always stay on top instead. Thank you Kevin. In KDE 4.7 that seems to be called Keep above others and it does in fact place the window above the panel. I actually use this feature for entering information into Anki from Firefox, but I never noticed that it put the window above the panel. Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Switching Activities via keyboard shortcuts.
1) There is no way to flip between two Activities on a single keyboard shortcut, as one can flip between two windows with Alt-Tab (called Walk Through Windows in System Settings). One can likewise set Walk Through Desktops, but not Walk Through Activities. There is, Meta-Tab. Which is Windows-Key-Tab here, I'm not sure if this is generally the case. Look at Systemsettings - Shortcuts and Gestures - Global Shortcuts - Plasma Desktop. I'm using KDE 4.8, but I'm pretty sure this was already like that in 4.7. Thank you. I already have Meta-Tab reassigned to something else. What is Meta-Tab assigned to for you, id est, what is the name of Walk Through Activities on your system? 3) There is no quick way to send a window to a different Activity, such as one can move a window to a different Desktop from the Task Bar's context menu - Move To Desktop. Open the application's window menu, there are two similar entries, To Desktop and Activity. Interestingly, it appears in the window chrome context menu but not in the Task Bar context menu. But that is good enough for me. Thanks! There you can select on which desktops and activities the window should be. I just noticed this myself, I have shortcuts to send a window to any desktop (I set them to Meta-Shift-Fn to send to desktop n, and Meta-Shift-Esc to show it on all desktops), so I never use the menu. Maybe someone should raise a feature request to make shortcuts possible for activities, too. It's not exactly what you asked for, because in order to move a window to another activity/desktop you have to check the destination activity/dektop, and then repeat and uncheck the current one. Indeed in KDE 4.7 the options to move the window to any particular Activity exist, but there is a bug and they all move to All Activities no matter which was selected. Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Switching Activities via keyboard shortcuts.
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 06:00, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Dotan Cohen posted on Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:10:40 +0200 as excerpted: Thank you. I already have Meta-Tab reassigned to something else. What is Meta-Tab assigned to for you, id est, what is the name of Walk Through Activities on your system? FWIW, here on 4.8.0, it's under shortcuts and gestures, global keyboard shortcuts, kde component: plasma desktop shell, next activity, and previous activity. So you can walk backward or forward thru them. (With just two it wouldn't matter, with three it wouldn't matter much, but get beyond about four activities and having a backward hotkey too begins to matter rather more!) Thanks, Duncan, that is what I was afraid to hear. On my 4.7 system, Next Activity goes to the next ordinal Activity, and Previous Activity goes to the precious ordinal Activity. Therefore two separate keyboard shortcuts are necessary to swap between two Activities. This does differ from the behaviour of Previous Desktop and Previous Window which function similarly to Walk Through, -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Kwin: Invert only a single window
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 19:55, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Someone else that appreciates reverse color schemes, light text/ foreground on dark backgrounds. =:^) FWIW, here, not only do I use a reverse color-scheme in kde, but I have a privoxy filterset that does a quite reasonable job of giving me a reverse color-scheme in the browser as well... as long as the page isn't ssl, at least. But unfortunately for this use case at least (tho good for privacy, which I'm also concerned about, so I can't really disagree with the trend), more pages are going ssl these days. Since I recently switched to firefox, I've been thinking about converting most of my privoxy filter-scripts to greasemonkey (the firefox extension that allows user rewriting of pages, etc) scripts, thus doing the rewrite in firefox itself, eliminating the ssl issue. But I only recently installed greasemonkey and haven't really read up on it and thus don't really understand whether it's as flexible (or even more so) than privoxy, and how much work it'd be to convert, etc. Meanwhile, there's three smaller solutions, two in the browser, and the one you mention, single-window-invert. Have you heard of bookmarklets? That's what one browser solution is, a bookmarklet that inverts the browser page color... without touching images tho, which can be good for pictures but not so good for image based backgrounds. (My privoxy filters eliminate background images entirely, thereby eliminating /that/ problem... where they work.) Bookmarklets are simply java-scripted generally one-liners designed to be invoked as a bookmark. There's a site with a whole bunch of them, including the invert-color bookmarklet I mentioned, here: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ Another browser-based solution is enforced user-selected cascading-style- sheet (CSS) based color-schemes. This solution uses the !important CSS modifier to override page-native colors. Such CSS samples are easy to find on the web and some browsers even ship with one as an accessibility option. This is a fairly dumb and static solution, however, basically forcing static colors regardless of what the page originally had. (The reason I prefer my privoxy-based filters is that I've taken some time to work with the original page colors, so a bright red background is rewritten to a darker red, but still red, for instance, and dark blue text ends up as a much lighter blue. So if the page is an instruction page using colors to denote warnings, etc, the colors stay basically the same, only darker backgrounds and lighter text, and I can still distinguish the warnings.) Finally, the individual window invert shortcut is configurable in the same place as the invert-screen shortcut. Both can be configured in two locations, either under the invert effect on the all-effects tab of desktop effects (in kde settings, workspace...), or under shortcuts and gestures (in kde settings, common...), global..., kwin component, toggle invert effect and toggle invert effect on window. That gives you lots of ways to accomplish what you are after. Take your pick! =:^) Thanks, Duncan. We have too much in common, one day I'm going to find you and buy you a beer! The Invert Lightness bookmarklet is terrific, as it only inverts the HTML colours but not the JPG images, so the page is still normal. If you want to hack this into Firefox than you might want to know about Stylish in addition to Greasemonkey: http://userstyles.org/styles/2187/myfavolours-global-custom-color-scheme Thank you! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Konqueror's Places menu insisting on showing all entries
That's it, I'm going to bed! I forgot the link, here it is: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289000 That is a nice round number! But not as round as this lucky catch: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20 -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Konqueror's Places menu insisting on showing all entries
Every time I open Konqueror the Places Show all Entries checkmark is checked. I uncheck it, close Konqueror (from either the X in the window chrome or the File - Quit menu item), then reopen it to find the checkmark checked again (and all the unwanted entries showing). I tried to disable preloaded instances because I figured that it might be interfering with the setting being saved, alas it did not help. In Dolphin the Places menu works as expected: unchecking Show all Entries persists. The problem only manifests in Konqueror. Oddity: The Show all Entries checkmark returns to the unchecked state as soon as I move to a different folder! That means that I open Konqueror, and all the entries are shown. I then click on any folder (either in the Places menu or in the main window) and as Konqueror moves to the new folder, the unwanted Places items disappear! So obviously Konqueror is checking this setting whenever it enters a folder, but it is not performing this check when first starting the application. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Change Plasma language
KDE applications let the user change the application language right from the Help menu. This is a terrific feature. How can one change the Plasma language in a similar fashion, without changing whole KDE language? Specifically, I would like to change the language of the Fuzzy Clock plasmoid. Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Remove Send to entries from Ksnapshot
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 14:53, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Do note that these are plugins. If you don't use the plugins, you can simply uninstall the plugins and still use the package that can make use of them just fine. The main gwenview/digikam functionality won't be affected at all, you just won't have all those export actions, etc. The functionality provided by the plugins would be gone but ONLY that functionality, everything else would continue to work normally. If you /do/ use the plugins, tho... Well, you could check the list of what's actually installed by that package against the ones you use, and delete the ones you don't use. That should help to some degree, and I can't imagine you using /all/ those sites, for instance, so perhaps all but one of the export-to-site plugins could be removed. Either way, tho, the plugin scan really should be cached, so that RFE is a good idea. Thanks for the feedback. The RFE is here if you would like to comment: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287663 Have a great week! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Konsole fonts: just a jump o the left
I had changed my Konsole font size, and now the cursor is half-covering the preceding letter. Playing with the font size I cannot get the cursor to go back to where it should be. See screen shot (attached). Has anyone else ever encountered this? What must I do? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com attachment: hello.png___ 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] Remove Send to entries from Ksnapshot
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 00:25, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Dotan Cohen posted on Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:47:29 +0200 as excerpted: How does one remove entries from the Ksnapshot Send to feature? I only ever send to Kolourpaint, and I must have over 20 entries in there. That makes it difficult to find Kolourpaint, and the dialogue takes almost 4 seconds to open. This is KDE 4.7 on Kubuntu. Thanks. Based on the list I have here, with a similar number of entries and taking a similar time... There appear to be two classes of entries in ksnapshot's sendto menu: 1) Applications associated with images. (jpeg, png, etc, I didn't investigate that far, but this set is the same list that appears in the open with list for various images.) Here, this list is relatively short, and based on the open-with behavior, can't be what's delaying the menu, which is good, since this set is where kolourpaint appears. 2) All the kipi-plugins based entries. kipi-plugins is normally an optional package consisting of various image-targeted utilities, feature enhancements, and integrated site-posting options. When installed, it adds its set of options to several kde image-targeted apps, including digikam, gwenview, IIRC krita, and, it would appear, ksnapshot. This definitely adds a huge number of entries to the list, and is probably what's taking the time to load, since the plugin design is modular run-time linking to avoid build-time linking that would force a hard dependency for any apps built against it. The tradeoff for making it run-time optional, however, is that the whole list is scanned and added at load-time. Here, gwenview is about the only app I use kipi-plugins in. I don't have digikam installed, only exceedingly rarely use ksnapshot, and while I needed an image utility with alpha-channel handling and thus had krita installed for awhile, I finally gave up on it as EXTREMELY unintuitive and lacking the necessary documentation to work around that, in favor of the gimp, which is both MUCH more intuitive (you read complaints about it, but krita was MUCH worse for me, for sure) AND actually has quite a bit of reasonably good documentation, as well. Even in gwenview, tho, I generally only use one kipi-plugin, the OpenGL image viewer plugin. All those export/upload to some-site options are generally useless without an account on said site, and said account is more or less useless unless you have a digital camera of some sort and/or are an image-artist, generating your own content. I don't even have a cellphone, the most common digital camera these days, and am not an image- artist, so... In gwenview, tho, while the initial kipi-plugin load takes some time when it's first triggered by opening the plugins menu, gwenview apparently caches the results, and subsequent usage of that menu is as real-time as one normally expects of a menu. Unfortunately, it appears ksnapshot doesn't implement this sort of caching, as a second click of the sendto menu results in the same sort of wait as the first one did! OUCH! Anyway, take a look at the gwenview plugins menu, and any other places you might use kipi-plugins in kde-based image apps, and see if you actually use any of them. Since the kipi-plugins package is normally optional (I've no idea what kubuntu does with it, tho) and because the set is all extra functionality, you will very possibly find that you don't use any of it, and can safely uninstall the entire package. Meanwhile, here on Gentoo there's what's called install-mask. If I really decided I didn't want the various individual plugins installed, I could easily mask them, leaving only the one I actually use, the opengl image viewer, to install. However, that wouldn't lessen the build-time as the whole package would still be built, just parts of it wouldn't be actually installed, due to the mask. If I wanted to avoid the build as well, I could probably customize the ebuild to build just the plugins I wanted, and the ebuild already makes some of them (generally the stuff with other external dependencies) optional and I have many of those already turned off, but customizing the ebuild sounds like more work than simply letting the system over-build and just masking what's installed. Hope it helps. I expect that if you do uninstall kipiplugins, you'll not only lighten that menu quite a bit, but make it much faster as well, since kde's normal sycoca (system config cache) infrastructure caches file associations, etc, so populating the menu from that only should be MUCH faster. Alternatively, simply don't use the sendto menu. Instead, use either copy, open kolourpaint and paste, or use save-as, and then either open (if kolourpaint is your top app priority for that imagetype) or open-with on the saved file and select kolourpaint. I think I've used both of those options, but don't believe I've ever used the sendto menu (or if I did
[kde] Remove Send to entries from Ksnapshot
How does one remove entries from the Ksnapshot Send to feature? I only ever send to Kolourpaint, and I must have over 20 entries in there. That makes it difficult to find Kolourpaint, and the dialogue takes almost 4 seconds to open. This is KDE 4.7 on Kubuntu. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] What is hijacking Konsole?
after I posted did I even think to check of Ctrl-F's behaviour in other apps! For me it is a given that Ctrl-F is Find,so ingrained that I wouldn't even need to check it universally. I was naive and young then! Normally a global shortcut would apply everywhere and you'd get an xterm instead in those cases as well, but it's also possible to confine an otherwise global shortcut to only a specific app/window. KDE custom shortcuts (under kde settings common appearance and behavior, shortcuts and gestures, custom shortcuts), for instance, can be set to only trigger if a particular window is active, thus allowing them to be used as macro triggers (a shortcut to insert a boilerplate fileheader in source files, for instance, but that will only trigger if you're running your customary source editor). If the trigger only works in konsole, perhaps it's something like this. 6) As you obviously have xterm installed... it might be worth seeing if ctrl-f is doing strange things in it, as well. #5 covers this to some degree already, but it's an easy test that will give you another datapoint, so... 7) This should have been covered under the assumptions above, but just in case... What happens if you run whatever app in a text-mode VT instead of a terminal emulator under X? The assumption would be that ctrl-f works fine in that case, but it's worth checking, if you haven't. 8) If all else fails, try the bisect method. Of course the first step is checking with a different user or with all the config files normally found in ~/ temporarily moved out of the way for testing. If it's happening in an all-defaults user, you /really/ have a head-scratcher... I'd post to the distro list in that case, but if a clean user config kills the strange behavior as well, then you at least know it's for sure in your user config, and can bisect it down from there. Hopefully these will help you find the culprit. As the above makes clear, evidence points to it NOT being konsole or even kde related, at least as a default setting, but that doesn't mean I can't try to help. Please post a followup with the culprit, once you find it, as you've gotten me curious as well, now. =:^) The truth is, I would have never found it if Zorael had not mentioned it. I had set up and used xbindkeys so long ago and stopped using it in my previous install. For some reason (I think that I know why, actually) it got reenabled in the new install but with this default config that had never popped up before. I would have never located that. Thank you for the insightful troubleshooting methodology! We have similar style, but you are without a doubt more thorough and careful! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] What is hijacking Konsole?
2011/10/31 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com: Dotan: Methinks you give that person way too much credit when you call him a genius. :( If I were to sit down and think of the _one_ keyboard shortcut that would frustrate _everybody_, that would have to be it. Or maybe Ctrl-Z. Or maybe simply Space! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] What is hijacking Konsole?
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 06:17, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Wow, you're right! Who is the genius who thought to hijack Ctrl-F, which is Find in almost every application!?! So I was correct with the global-grab and non-kde theories! =:^) But I was somewhat thrown off by the assumption that someone would have tested that keystroke in other apps, before posting a question about it that blamed the problem on konsole. Testing in other apps would have been the obvious next step.I have no excuse for not even doing that. Still, while specific window global- level-grabs (perhaps specific-window X-level is a better description here, since the grabs aren't really global, tho the would be if not limited to a specific window) are indeed possible, since they're less common, I was forced to assume that either that testing had NOT taken place, or a rather less common grab mode was being used, and my proposed tests reflected the fact that I wasn't sure of that assumption. So it threw me off only slightly, and the test results would have confirmed the fallacy of that assumption, bringing us right back on course toward a trace-down. As for hijacking Ctrl-f, while modern x86 keyboards generally have a meta/super/hyper/windows/linux key that due to its relatively recent invention, doesn't show up on so many app-level key-bindings, so it's a relatively safe key to use for global bindings, apps that don't assume it exists (or is configured correctly), as xbindkeys apparently doesn't, don't have the luxury of using that key for global bindings and thus avoiding the standard, often already bound, control/alt/shift modifier combos. As a result there's bound to be conflicts when such bindings are global- grabbed, and the author was forced to either ship with few if any global- grabs active by default, or to assume that a user advanced enough to go looking for and installing a global-grab hotkey app, would also be advanced enough to look over the default grabs and deactivate or modify the ones that didn't suit his purposes. It seems both his assumption, that anyone advanced enough to go looking for and install such an app would immediately check the config and modify it to their own purposes, and mine, that anyone trying to trace strange key behavior would test it in more than one app before posting, blaming it on a single app, were both incorrect. Oh, well... At least the problem was traced and corrected, tho. That's the important bit! =:^) I'm not actually interested in placing blame, but rather finding the cause. Which has been found! Thanks, Zorael and Duncan! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] What is hijacking Konsole?
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 22:56, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: I agree and would likely use Ctrl-F here too, but imagine the frustration of 5-10 levels of replies... before it's discovered that the two sides aren't even talking about the same shortcut! After a few years of list and (news)group based troubleshooting one tends to learn to play spot the assumption and enumerate them to the degree possible in the first couple levels of replies. Often the logic tree branches so heavily that the first reply or two are either very long (my tendency), artificially stubbed (I'll do this too, but generally only with what I judge to be the lower likelihood candidates), or short, but full of unproven assumptions that must all match up or it's simply multi- hundred-possibility scattershot. I see! Jaded, are we? :) What's the most frustrating, tho, are posts that simply don't contain enough data to even begin to attack the problem. If it's going to be three levels in before the problem domain can even begin to be defined... Fortunately, those aren't so common, but they do appear. I'm thinking of one guy, a medical Doctor IIRC, who might have been quite skilled indeed in the medical domain, but who just did /not/ understand what I'd consider even quite basic computer domain material. What made it worse was that this guy, clearly out of his depth, was running Gentoo, and would come back time after time to the Gentoo lists with various questions. After about the fifth time of 20+ level deep discussions before the problem is resolved, 10+ level deep before it's even reasonably defined, one really begins to wonder how in the world they ended up on a power user distro like gentoo in the first place. But at the same time, I had to give the guy major points for persistence. I can only hope if I ever come down with some rare disease that I get a doctor so doggedly persistent! But, we generally did resolve whatever issue he was posting about... eventually. Yes, I would actually venture to say that _most_ of the people that I have seen get in over their heads with Linux or some other software are the people who are _very_ successful at something else, usually with degrees. It is probably part of the attack-all-problems attitude that they are used to success. It is reasonable to assume that their first few months in their own field were no less difficult than the first few months with Linux. Then they succeed! Meanwhile, I appreciate your Hebrew touch (and the fact that it just works here, too, no unknown-glyph squares, etc, that it even works is still a marvel to me). =:^) Yeah, I don't know why I did that, just being silly! Unless you are using mutt I would actually expect it to Just Work (tm) nowadays. That is one that I did not think to check. Thanks. Chalk that suggestion up to specific experience. That's why I was so specific with the LO/OOo example, as someone posted a problem not long ago that turned out to be exactly that, a broken LO/OOo association and the rather strange and unexpected behavior that resulted! As I don't have it installed that would have been pretty far down my list of possibilities and it was fortunate coincidence that connection was found. But once found, it definitely got put on my list of possibilities to check for, as this clearly demonstrates. =:^) Are you referring to the Rekonq crasher? Ahh, those personal assumptions so deeply embedded that one is entirely blind to even their very existence! Spotting and challenging that specific sort of assumption blindness seems to be a particular strength of newsgroups/mailinglists, a fact that probably goes quite some way toward explaining why I'm so addicted to 'em, given the rare chance they offer to look into that otherwise hidden to me, but transparent to others, side of myself, and to watch the same process of self-discovery as it happens to others as well. =:^) Proud parent? Even if a bit jaded ?!? :) The truth is, I would have never found it if Zorael had not mentioned it. I had set up and used xbindkeys so long ago and stopped using it in my previous install. For some reason (I think that I know why, actually) it got reenabled in the new install but with this default config that had never popped up before. I would have never located that. That's another strength of newsgroups/mailinglists. Get a few people together on a list/group, and it's astonishing just how many strange corner-cases are covered between the lot of 'em! =:^) Definitely, I have seen that a lot. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman Actually, that is true for the free programs too! Could _I_ ever replace Aaron Siego if he were to just disappear some day? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ This message is from the kde mailing
[kde] What is hijacking Konsole?
When I press Ctrl-F in Konsole, an xterm window opens. VIM users will notice that this could be very frustrating. What could be hijacking this keyboard shortcut? I have gone through all the Konsole shortcuts, and I see neither Ctrl-F defined nor anything related to xterm. Where should I check next? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Non-transparent KDE theme
I have gone through all of kde-look.org and I cannot find a non-transparent KDE theme. Do any exist? This bug is the reason that I need a non-transparent theme: Panel transparency control regardless of theme https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165795 And no, disabling composting is _not_ the solution that I need. I have already disabled the transparency plugin as well. Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] VIM mode in Kate: why not use native VIM?
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 02:38, Jacky Alcine jacky.alc...@thesii.org wrote: It would; last thing we need to do is unneedingly re-invent the wheel. Wheels are comparatively easy to reinvent once you've sen one! VIM, on the other hand, could probably never be reinvented unless the guy working on VIM-mode were to use actual VIM code. I'll file a suggestion on BKO. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] VIM mode in Kate: why not use native VIM?
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 02:38, Jacky Alcine jacky.alc...@thesii.org wrote: It would; last thing we need to do is unneedingly re-invent the wheel. Please comment here, Jacky: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284609 Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Setting KP_Home as a separate key from Home.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 04:12, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: It's an interesting coincidence that you posted this today, as it was only last nite that I had the following update here on Gentoo, which looks to me to be potentially relevant. 14 Oct 2011; Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chithanh@(mydistro).org -xkeyboard-config-2.4.1.ebuild, +xkeyboard-config-2.4.1-r1.ebuild, +files/xkeyboard-config-2.4.1-extended-function-keys.patch: Add upstream patch to unbreak extended function keys, bug #386561. The -r1 indicates a gentoo revision of an upstream version, so they've apparently not released a fixed version upstream yet. (The patch deals with more than function keys tho, with a bunch of KP_* changes too.) The referenced bug is here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386561 The patch is unfortunately not posted to the bug, but here's the info included from git in the patch itself: From 1d1338afa6aa555c5f6c83d07fceec43a4d87f0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey V. Udaltsov s...@gnome.org Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:26:26 + Subject: Levels 2-4 for CTRL+ALT are propagated from level 1 Googling that commit ID results in this, which looks right: http://www.google.com/search?q=1d1338afa6aa555c5f6c83d07fceec43a4d87f0d The upstream commit on github appears as the first hit ATM, with a couple archlinux bugs listed as well. (There's a few more if you hit the link for them, all arch-linux for whatever reason; maybe because they're about the only ones that update that fast, other than gentoo, which probably has the google crawler blocked on its bugzilla for performance reasons.) It's the October 5 entry on the github link, but that builds on version 2.4.1, released Oct. 4. You may be best simply grabbing the git HEAD tarball from github and building it yourself. Of course on most distros that'll mean resolving the dependencies manually. Of course, that may not be your problem at all, at least not if you're on a distro shipping an older 2.4 version of that package. But looking at the actual patch, it sure looks like it could be related, whether it actually is or not. Interesting, thanks. I don't know if it is related, and Kubunu is giving me a hard time about figuring out exactly which version of xkeyboard-config is installed (aptitude tells me that it is not a real package, and I cannot figure out what it belongs to / what belongs to it). I do have some older *buntu CDs lying around but I don't think that the feature could be tested in a virtual machine. I don't see mention of KP_Home in the patch: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/commit/?id=1d1338afa6aa555c5f6c83d07fceec43a4d87f0d Furthermore, I do think that this is a KDE issue as xev clearly reports that KP_Home is being sent instead of Home. If it were an xkeyboard issue then both keys would be Home, or KP_Home would not register at all (as seems to be the case with F13-F24, Ctrl-Delete, and Ctrl-Backspace in the bug you mentioned). I'll file an issue with KDE to separate KP_Home from Home in the keyboard shortcuts config. Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Setting KP_Home as a separate key from Home.
Bug posted here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284617 -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Setting KP_Home as a separate key from Home.
I would like to set the numpad keys as macros and media keys when NumLock is disabled. For instance, I would like 7, 8, and 9 to be VolumeDown, VolumeUp, and Mute respectively. In System Settings - Shortcuts and Gestures - Global Keyboard Shortcuts - Kmix I disable NumLock and press the 7 key on the keypad, but KDE complains that Home is used in many applications and thus cannot be set. I use Home very often: Home in the IHPU/DEPD block (above the arrow keys), but never on the non-NumLock keypad. They each send unique keycodes (110 for Home and 79 for KP_Home), so why can they not be set independently? Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Kate sometimes folding two functions into one.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 01:15, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: I somewhat irregularly read the kde commit digests (which appear in kde's The Dot feed, to which I'm subscribed) and can confirm folding fix commits from that. So it's definitely a known issue, with at least some fixes slated for kde 4.8 at the latest (IDK whether they're backported to 4.7 branch or not). ׂGreat, thanks. By googleing I did find that the visual appearance of the folding would change, but I did not see that the algorithm or behaviour would change. Have a great day! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Kate sometimes folding two functions into one.
It seems that when I fold some functions in Kate that the function
following it is also folded. For instance, in PHP:
function doSomething ($beer) {
drink($beer);
}
function somethingElse () {
echo Something else!;
}
Now when I click the arrow to fold doSomething(), both doSomething()
and somethingElse() are folded, and I have no indication at all that
somethingElse() exists. Is this a known issue? Is there a fix? I'm on
KDE 4.7 on Kubuntu.
Thanks.
--
Dotan Cohen
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Re: [kde] Constant Konqueror icon
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 09:25, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: OK, the followup. Once I point it out, you'll very likely be saying to yourself Of course! *NOW* it's obvious! =:^) FWIW I know this works as I've disabled the hotspot here. I have two monitors and a trackball set to 13/5 accel to cover it in a single stroke if I want to, and thus rely on the edges and corners to stop me, so they can't be triggering things or I get frustrated! So I use the hotkey trigger only, no edge or corner triggers at all (save for a very small auto-hide panel at the bottom left, containing just two menu icon plasmoids, kickoff, and classic set to bookmarks-only). OK, to configure hotspots, both edges and corners, kde settings, workspace appearance and behavior, workspace behavior, screen edges. Click on a corner or edge button in the screen representation, and set your choice, top left button, no action, in this case. =:^) I agree: the Workspace Behaviour bit should have jumped out at me. It didn't. I /told/ you you'd be saying Screen edges! Of course! *NOW* it's obvious! =:^) FWIW2, pretty much all my kwin-related hotkeys are winkey-something combos. In this case, it's win-g, for desktop grid. WAY easier to remember win-g for desktop/window grid, than whatever the default is, for sure! So it's easy enough to activate, but unlike the hotcorner, /this/ trigger only activates when I want it to, not accidentally, when I'm trying to fiddle with something in the systray, which I have configured to an always-visible panel in the top-left corner. Yes, I also prefer my DE shortcuts to be on the Tux key. With the obvious exception of the System clipboard being Ctrl-XCV. Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Constant Konqueror icon
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 05:56, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: I don't believe I've ever seen or read about such an option, so your mention is news to me. =:^/ Oh. I might be confusing it with something else then. Maybe Zim. Not that I'd be likely to use it anyway. But I guess you have a user for whom the changing icon is confusing? That user is me! I just converted to Konqueror from Dolphin but the changing icon means that I can never find Konqueror on the taskbar. My taskbar shows only icons, no text. You're talking about the application menu icon, in the titlebar, right? That'd ultimately be up to the window manager to set/enforce. I am referring to the taskbar icon. I do not recall having ever seen an icon in the titlebar. FWIW, there's the --icon general-kde command-line option, but I believe that sets the original icon, the app can still change it, as konqueror does. Not that I've really used it to know, however, so you might /try/ it. Thanks. Launching Konqueror as konqueror --icon someIcon.png has no effect, but in Okular the effect is to show a blank taskbar icon instead of Okular's regular icon. It still does not show the designated icon. I'll play around a bit, maybe it doesn't like pngs. There's also the various window decorations (under workspace appearance and behavior, workspace appearance). Some of those appear not to even have an app/menu button in the titlebar, and as most titlebar buttons, the app/menu button can be removed or placed elsewhere via button customization for at least most of the others. It's possible some decorations might have one, but (optionally?) not allow it to be changed after it's first set. Thanks. I'll look around for similar taskbar options. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] Constant Konqueror icon
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 15:36, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Second, all my carefully configured keyboard shortcuts disappear, and the lost productivity is like I'm trying to remote-control a mars rover or something. http://marsandme.blogspot.com/ I'm /guessing/ that the option you're referring to might be related to grouping, since if all the konqueror task icons are grouped into one in taskman, that one icon can hardly show the individual icons for all of what might be fifty different konqueror windows, so in that case using the app icon would make the most sense. Given that, it may be that there's an option to use it when there's only one app window open, too. Of course that's all dim memory and supposition, since I don't use taskman in normal usage, but I /think/ that's more or less how at least one of the task grouping options works, in general. No, I hate grouping. Even though I'm no mousemaid, I like to see what applications I have open in the taskbar. I just tried the Present Windows function that I think you refer to when you mention Expose, I like it but cannot figure out how to disable the upper-left corner hotspot. My clock is there and I do take the mouse pointer over there to access my calendar. It is not in the Desktop Effects settings, not in the Keyboard settings, not in Shortcuts and Gestures settings... where else should I look? Thanks, Duncan. I've filed an issue for the Konqueror icon: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280713 -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Constant Konqueror icon
How does one configure Konqueror to always use it's own icon, and not to use the favicon or .desktop icon of the location to which it is browsing? I've looked through all the options but cannot find it. I remember this issue coming up once before, but I cannot find reference to it. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] I just noticed: no more crashes! Thanks, KDE team!
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 14:15, Anne Wilson Dolphin has the separate process option too, it's just in Konqueror. From what I understand enabling this option in Konqueror enables it for Dolphin as well, because the Konqueror file manager in KDE 4 is just an embedded Dolphin part. I can't crash Dolphin to check, but I can tell you that keeping Konqueror preloaded makes Dolphin start up much faster as well. Where is this option please? Anne Settings - Configure Konqueror - Performance - Preloading Set is to 2, and check both of the options below. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] I just noticed: no more crashes! Thanks, KDE team!
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 17:34, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: FWIW, there's also an at least theoretical security aspect here, particularly for browsing mode. That's part of why the use with care warning is there. If you use konqueror for online banking, etc, ensuring that minimize memory either never, or for file browsing only, is selected, and always use a separate window for online banking, so it's always a different process and should be more difficult to exploit a vuln in from a different site open in another window, as opposed to another tab in the same window, or in another window with shared processes. If you are referring to XSS, then I think that would only apply if each process were to each have it's own cookie store, which I do not believe is the case here. Having separate profiles would help in that case. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] I just noticed: no more crashes! Thanks, KDE team!
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 20:15, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: If you are referring to XSS, then I think that would only apply if each process were to each have it's own cookie store, which I do not believe is the case here. Having separate profiles would help in that case. That's probably a more practical worry, but what I had in mind was more the stick data (say disguised as an image, thus binary data) somewhere and exploit a vuln to run it as native code, type thing. Since all memory in a single process is accessible, in theory, one can then read all the data in all other browser sessions in the same process, without resorting to opening files or anything. That would have to be a Konqueror-specific attack. The nice thing about using a web browser with 1% market share is that nobody will write a browser-specific attack unless they are attacking a specific target that they assume uses that browser. Of course, the way Linux machines are commonly setup, with all user data readable by whatever apps a user runs as long as it's not run setuid (and that creates other problems for apps that would typically write config and state to a user dir), once one is running native code, it's not difficult to grab whatever info from the disk, etc, except that for automated attacks one must anticipate the layout, etc, which can be harder to do (especially cross-platform) than simply reading all the data already available in the same process. Meanwhile, still talking about security, but no longer about konqueror or browsers specifically, did you know that everything a user types into an X session, including root passwords, etc, AND everything entered in that root session as long as it's running in the same X session, can be sniffed by ANY other process in that X session? Even if said other process is running as SETUID nobody or the like? (Actually, there is apparently one way to capture input exclusively, but it's very seldom used because it's visually disruptive and effectively blocks everything else until its done. Think the MS Windows BSOD, or Red AV warning screens, or whatever, that's the type of exclusive mode and the disruption it causes that we're talking -- IOW, they faced some of the same physical hardware and design issues.) I did not know that. I'd like to know what attacks exploit this, and if there are any relevant bugs filed. That's the way X was designed. Think about that the next time you're entering your root password or GPG passphrase into an X-based dialog box! That's one of the reasons I'm following qubes, which uses walled off xen sessions, with some interest. (SELinux and nested X can do some of the same stuff as well, but leaves a rather larger attack surface.) For further reading -- I did the suggested experiment (second link) and suggest that you try it too. If the results don't change the way you work in X at least a bit, either you already know all about it, you keep absolutely all private stuff either off the system entirely or in another account you don't access from your play account, or you're simply too drugged out to care! The third link explains the Qubes-OS VM partitioning concepts and has a couple diagrams for per-VM network connectivity and data flow between the VMs. http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2011/04/why_your_linux_desktop_is_inse.php http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/04/linux-security-circus-on-gui-isolation.html http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/03/partitioning-my-digital-life-into.html Thanks, Duncan. That is good to know! I'll keep this in mind when the Ubuntards start bashing Microsoft security around, too! Have a great week. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
Re: [kde] I just noticed: no more crashes! Thanks, KDE team!
Is that what we're supposed to take away from this, that plasma stability in the face of all those binary plasmoids of unknown stability wasn't a design goal? Because that's what it looks like, given the argument used. I filed an issue about this two years ago: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199754 -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] I just noticed: no more crashes! Thanks, KDE team!
I was going through some old bookmarks when I found this post: http://gkiagia.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/installing-debug-symbol-packages-from-drkonqi/ I then realized that I don't remember seeing any KDE applications crash in KDE 4.6 or now in 4.7. In fact, it's been so long since I remember seeing Dr. Konki that KDE 4.5 probably didn't crash anything, either. So the time to express appreciation for the KDe and Plasma devs. You guys are doing tremendous work and I thank you for that! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Enabling key clicks
In the Input - Keyboard tab of System Settings, one can enable sounds when keys are pressed. I cannot get this feature to work, in fact the Help page specifically mentions that this feature will not work on all computers. Why won't it work, and how can I get it to work? Sound on this machine otherwise works fine. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: Dolphin: quickly switch panes?
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 09:26, Sven ssmail1398-maill...@yahoo.com wrote: This is on the kde wish list. You can add your vote https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171743 Thanks, Sven. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: Dolphin: quickly switch panes?
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 22:14, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: I'm not an avid Dolphin user (preferring mc in konsole, for most things), but for what I can see, the split-view feature is designed pretty much for mouse-interaction only. If I want a second view I can keyboard-switch to, and I AM using dolphin, I open a second dolphin window. I have been doing that, but there are certain advantages to using a second pane, especially when swapping between applications. Another alternative I've never even had installed but I've read about as a reasonable dual-pane kde file manager, is krusader. If I used kde's file management more than trivially, I'd definitely be trying that, but mc's what I use for major file management, or gwenview for image management, so dolphin only gets trivial usage, in which a single pane browser along with the tree view and places, is quite enough. And in kde3 it was konqueror filling the same trivial role. So I've never bothered to try krusader. Maybe someday... I have used Krusader in the past, I'll look at it again. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Konsole: split view show the same screen twice
In Konsole one can split the view. On KDE 4.5 and 4.6 spliting the view shows the same view twice, one cannot have two separate terminal windows in split view. Or am I doing it wrong? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: Konsole: split view show the same screen twice
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:53, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 10:17:47 Dotan Cohen wrote: In Konsole one can split the view. On KDE 4.5 and 4.6 spliting the view shows the same view twice, one cannot have two separate terminal windows in split view. Or am I doing it wrong? When you open the split it defaults to the window you were viewing, but nothing stops you from viewing any other directory. However, the terminal displayed should open in the directory of the pane that is active at the time - so yes, you can have two separate terminals, but you can only view one at a time. It sounds to me that you are referring to tabs, Anne, not to split. Take a look at View - Split View. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: Konsole: split view show the same screen twice
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 14:01, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: It sounds to me that you are referring to tabs, Anne, not to split. Take a look at View - Split View. No, I'm not. I don't use this facility myself, it was explained to me as I describe. The terminal linked to dolphin displays a terminal rooted at the directory in the active pane. Have you tried that? Thanks, but I am not referring to the terminal in Dolphin. I use it, but right now I'm referring to the terminal in Konsole. In Konsole, one can split the view but both views show the same thing. If one performs cd on one side, then the other side does the same. This seems completely useless, I need to split to show different terminals, just as in Dolphin one can split the view to show different directories. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Krita on Windows: which server?
The KDE Windows installer let the user choose the server to download from. I could only find one server from the list that had packages at all, and it did not have Krita. From which servers can one download Krita? It seems to be available: http://dot.kde.org/2009/02/09/krita-20-host-new-features Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Dolphin: quickly switch panes?
I often use the split-view in Dolphin. Is there a quick way to switch between the active pane in the split view with the keyboard? I have trouble using the mouse and so far as I can see the only way to switch with the keyboard is with 6 or 7 tabs. A simple something-Tab (like Ctrl-Tab to switch tabs) would help. I searched in the keyboard shortcuts config but did not find anything relevant. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: No Krunner (Alt-F2) on fresh install of Kubuntu 11.04 (KDE 4.6.3)
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 00:39, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: If you're trying to configure different models of physical keyboard, that's accomplished thru xorg.conf(.d) hotplugging configuration, these days (since xorg-server-1.8). You can even plug multiple keyboards in at once and have them each IDed and assigned the appropriate variants as necessary. =:^) Thanks, but I am in fact working with one physical keyboard. I currently use the US, Hebrew, and Russian layouts. The wife uses only the first two. I need to add this Noah layout (my own design) to ease the burden on some weak fingers. There are tons of resources online for creating custom layouts, but nothing addresses the modifier keys or Caps. I'm pretty certain if we can swap Caps_Lock and B then I can figure the rest out. If instead you're wanting different settings for the same device, perhaps for different users, that's a bit different. xmodmap can be used there, at runtime, either set to run when a user logs in, or setup using several scripts that can be invoked as needed to switch settings. However, I should mention that I've never actually used xmodmap myself, only read about it. There's a manpage for it, tho... Yes, and the examples are pretty good. I was able to get the Caps_Lock key to function as a perfect B, and B to function as a broken Caps_Lock, by swapping the scancodes for the two keys and adding some statements at the end: ..snip.. keycode 56 = b B b B // was 66 ..snip.. keycode 66 = Caps_Lock NoSymbol Caps_Lock // was 56 ..snip.. remove Lock = Caps_Lock keysym b = Caps_Lock keysym B = Caps_Lock add Lock = Caps_Lock However, although the B key now engages Caps_Lock, pressing the key again does not disengage it! Nor does pressing the Caps_Lock key (which now is B). How can we overcome this? There's also an app (referred to in the see also section of the xmodmap manpage) called setxkbmap, but I don't have it or its manpage installed and have never used it, so... Yes, that is how I'm loading the keymap that I was referring to above. I enable standard US layout like this: ✈demios:~$ setxkbmap -layout us Then export it to a file: ✈demios:~$ xmodmap -pke noah Then do the mods that I mentioned above: ✈demios:~$ vi noah Then load the file: ✈demios:~$ xmodmap noah Thanks for your insight, Duncan. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: No Krunner (Alt-F2) on fresh install of Kubuntu 11.04 (KDE 4.6.3)
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:42, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Dotan Cohen posted on Tue, 10 May 2011 00:58:57 +0300 as excerpted: On a fresh install of Kubuntu 11.04 (KDE 4.6.3) I cannot access Krunner or any other Alt-F* shortcuts. What might be the cause of this? The keyboard works fine, tested on another computer, and I tried a second keyboard here as well. It may be that for some reason it's using a keyboard mapping your not used to, and for instance, alt and ctrl are reversed, or one alt key is mapped to something other than alt. Try running xev from a konsole window, then hitting keys to see how they are registered. (Keypresses and mouse movement and keys will be output to the konsole window.) If they're showing up there as expected (see the keysym parenthetical in the middle of the third line of each key event, to see what X is interpreting it as), the next question is what is kde doing with them? In kcontrol (systemsettings that aren't systemsettings, they're user- specific kde specific settings!), common appearance and behavior, global keyboard shortcuts, select run command interface from the dropdown, and click on run command, to see its settings. You can also try changing them. Hit the button beside the custom radio- button and enter the key you want to use. If you hit a modifier like alt, it'll show up with a plus beside it, indicating that you need to hit a non- modifier key as well. In this way you can both test to be sure that kde is actually seeing the various keys and see what they show up as, AND remap to some other shortcut, if necessary. You can similarly remap the other alt-F* shortcuts, if necessary. Hopefully you'll be able to take it from there, or at least report results, if not. The big questions are (1) is X seeing the keys and what is it reporting them as, assuming it does see them, and (2) what is kde doing with these keys? These procedures are what I first turn to, to diagnose such problems. Fixing them... well, let's see what the diagnosis shows, first. Duncan, it turns out to actually be in fact problem with the keyboard layout! I wrote my own, but Alt (and some other keys) are broken: http://dotancohen.com/eng/noah_ergonomic_keyboard_layout.html If anyone knows how to configure meta keys in xkb I'd love to hear from you on- or off-list (it's not a KDE problem). Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] No Krunner (Alt-F2) on fresh install of Kubuntu 11.04 (KDE 4.6.3)
On a fresh install of Kubuntu 11.04 (KDE 4.6.3) I cannot access Krunner or any other Alt-F* shortcuts. What might be the cause of this? The keyboard works fine, tested on another computer, and I tried a second keyboard here as well. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 17:59, Charles Polisher cpol...@surewest.net wrote: Would this be a workable approach for the OP - wrap the app launch in a generalized mechanism, let's call the mechanism Larry (as I abhor the imprecision that comes with it, and have no better name). Larry handles each attempted application launch for the seniors. Here's what I envision happening: Larry looks at the proposed app, and if that app has one or more running instances, display a dialog, with a suitably large font, with a clickable list that distinguishes each running instance of the app. At one end of the list, distinguished visually in some way from other items in the list, is a nope, none of these, start a fresh new instance list item. Clicking a list item or using the arrow keys and the enter-key would switch to that instance or launch a new instance of the app. Larry should have a way to back-out of any action at all - cancel. And a Help button that has both an icon (I favor a question mark) and a (largish) text label to go with it. Larry could be assembled using bash, kdialog, and some tools such as xmumble and grep, right? (Mumble is a place-holder for an actual executable name. This isn't a fully worked example). #!/bin/bash itemlist=`xmumble | grep mumble | sort | ...` myitem=$(kdialog --menu Click what you want $itemlist) # activate the selection or launch new app /usr/bin/mumble myitem ... Charles, the only problem is brining the active window to the foreground. xdotool will bring to the foreground a window from the taskbar, but won't open a Skype window if Skype is running in the system tray. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?
I have two separate cases where seniors using KDE like to open many instances of the same application rather than use the already-open application. This is a user problem, not a KDE problem, but I wonder if there is technical solution. These users click the application's menu item to start using the application, even if there is already an open instance in the Taskbar or in the System Tray. Examples include Firefox, Skype, Solitaire (Windows executable running in Wine), and some others. Therefore, I'd like to write a wrapper script for each of these apps to check if there exists a running instance. If not, then open the application. If yes, then bring the running application to the foreground. Can this be done? I could probably grep ps aux for the application and to get it's pid, but how to bring it to the foreground? Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: How to use Plasmoid shortcuts
at one point but I'm not really sure how they got lost. I distro-hop sometimes, I'm sure that has something to do with it. I should probably dig them out of some backup. g Well, as I said, I was sick... and bored... so my usually /quite/ detailed replies became /very/ detailed indeed! =:^O But it solved the boredom issue... and I've enough experience with my posting style by now to know that often, way more people than simply the original poster find my long replies at least moderately useful and informative (even when the original poster doesn't), so ... I guess it's all good (even if I also realize it drives certain others to absolute distraction... but then that's what kill filters are for if they find it /that/ terrible to deal with shrug). !!! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 16:43, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Switching to Gnome, maybe? I think there the default behaviour is to not allow multiple instances of the same application. Thanks. I'll look into that. These users are unsavy enough to not care about their environment. You could use xlsclients -al to get the list of running applications and their window IDs, and then xdotool windowactivate windowid to bring it to the foreground. Thank you! This is going to be a pain as the windowid is not on the same line as the application name, but at least now I have the critical tools that I need. Thank you Alex! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 15:51, phanisvara das listm...@phanisvara.com wrote: doesn't this depend on the application, not the DE? in many cases app.s can be configured via 'settings' or conf. files, what they'll do when they are called while an instance is running already (konqueror, per ex.). in some cases you can add a command line argument to force a certain behavior, like re-use of an existing instance (firefox). Yes, but not all applications support this. with skype i couldn't figure out how to make it re-use it's existing instance, unfortunately. That is one of the main offenders. They will have over 10 Skype instances running! You could use xlsclients -al to get the list of running applications and their window IDs, and then xdotool windowactivate windowid to bring it to the foreground. gave this a short try, but didn't get anything useful. didn't try very much though; quite possibly this may work if one really tries... I did manage to locate and bring to foreground a Dolphin window with this. It is doable so long as a window is open, I need to check for applications such as Skype that may be running as a service. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: How to use Plasmoid shortcuts
to take me a full week to digest! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: Showing keyboard layout flag and label
Thanks, Duncan. I know the difference between a radiobox and a checkbox! I prefer to word my questions as what am I missing rather than the devs made a bad decision just in case the problem really is at my end. I did file a bug, here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267376 Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] Showing keyboard layout flag and label
In KDE 4.0 - 4.4 one could show the keyboard label over the keyboard flag. This is great for users who have multiple keyboard layouts in each language. For instance, I have a Hebrew layout and two English layouts: US and Dvorak. How can I add the label to be superimposed over the flag, as was possible in KDE 4.0 - 4.4? Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] How to use Plasmoid shortcuts
I have the Quick Launch plasmoid in a panel. I have set it a keyboard shortcut, but pressing that shortcut does not focus the plasmoid. How are these shortcuts to be used? Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: Cannot configure processor speed in KDE 4.6
systems at least, newer kdes /were/ a significantly better user experience than older ones. However, with the maturity of 4.5 and now 4.6, that's becoming less of an issue than it was, so users already at about the 4.5.3 level or higher can more easily wait for their distribution refresh, without suffering the still relatively broken kde that ~4.5.3 was. Agreed. KDE 4.4, even, was completely usable. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: Cannot configure processor speed in KDE 4.6
Thanks, Duncan, I've certainly bisected ~/.kde enough times to know that the setting is most likely in ~/.kde/share/config. I've even narrowed it down to powerdevilprofilesrc I think. But I want to be sure that there is in fact no way to configure this the right way before I start surgery. I support quite a few users and I've learned that solving an issue the right way the first time makes me appear much more professional the next time. In any case, since when is KDE for users? Ever since KDE 4.0 was released the attitude is that KDE is not intended for uusers so I don't understand what this sudden outburst of remove an option in the user's interest is, especially as it leaves users stuck. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: Have KDE send URL to default browser, not tmp file
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 19:59, Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at wrote: The program associated with text/html or set as web browser is probably missing the %u or %U parameter in its command. Without knowing if the target application can handle URLs by itself, KDE assumes a safe fallback and passes the fetched content as a file. By default the text/html is set to Konqueror with the following command: kfmclient openURL %u text/html Cheers, Kevin Thanks, Kevin. The problem is solved, but I fear that it is tenuous. I added the %u argument, then kde-open would complain that it could not find the path to my script (a wrapper for Firefox). So I removed the %u and now the pages open as I had wanted: with the URL, not a tmp file. Strange. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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: Have KDE send URL to default browser, not tmp file
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 20:37, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: This is a known bug (see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245525), which seems to be fixed for me in KDE 4.5.3. Are you running an earlier version of KDE? This is with the 4.6 betas, but to be honest I have suffered this for as long as I remember. I think even KDE 3 suffered from this issue. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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] File transfer stuck
Often I notice that file transfers between machines get stuck when transfering with Dolphin. This is nothing new, I've noticed this since the KDE 3 days, on many different machines. For instance, at this moment I have two large (1GB each) folders that I am transfering over the LAN to another computer. They both were transfering fine, but suddenly one has it's speed stuck on 0 KiB/s for quite some time. Both threads are transfering from the same local computer to the same remote computer on the LAN. There are no out-of-disk error or the like. What could be the cause of this, and other than stopping and restarting the transfer, what can I do? This is Kubuntu 10.10 with KDE 4.6, but I've experienced this issue on Fedora as well, and on every version for the past few years. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.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.
