Re: Task manager behavior
Hi Dave, On Monday, 23 January 2023 06:29:52 CET Dave Close wrote: > When I hover over the window entry on the task bar, a representation > of the relevant window appears just above the bar. If I then move > the mouse into that representation, all other windows on the screen > disappear. Of course, they come back when I move out of the area. > > But I find this behavior annoying and would like to turn it off. I > don't want any windows to appear or disappear unless I consciously > ask for that. However, I can't seem to find any setting that controls > this behavior. I've looked in the task manager settings and all other > system settings that seem possibly relevant. If there is a way to > disable this behavior, please tell me how. Right-click on an empty area of your task bar and click on "Configure Task Manager...". In the settings dialog, within the first tab "Appearance" there is an option "Highlight windows when hovering over task tooltips". Once you disable it, the behaviour you described above will stop. Patrick.
Re: konsole problems with utf8 characters
Hi René, On Friday, 6 January 2023 13:22:35 CET René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Friday January 06 2023 10:48:15 Patrick Nagel wrote: > > >For me Konsole also doesn't show emojis and also many other characters > > Attached the little file I use to test emoji rendering. all of which are > rendered fine in my older konsole5 version (20.11.70) built against Qt 5.9, > using the basic `cat` command to display it (but also in vim). Thanks, that's a useful test case. And actually it motivated me to dig a little deeper. It turns out it's not konsole's fault after all (at least not konsole 22.08.3 on my system): I run most terminal applications in `screen`, and when I tested with your file outside of screen everything was fine (even using color emojis, btw.), but inside it wasn't (see screenshot: https://patrick-nagel.net/temp/unicode_konsole.png ). That confused me, because I had seen Unicode working perfectly fine in screen before. Turns out the problem is how I start this particular screen session: It's a script in /etc/local.d that then uses sudo to run screen as my user (instead of root). That way, and since I didn't pass the environment from root either, screen didn't get any LANG and LC_ALL environment variables that specify a <...>.UTF-8 locale. It was an easy fix, once I knew where to look :) Cheers, Patrick.
Re: konsole problems with utf8 characters
Hi Walter, On Wednesday, 4 January 2023 02:08:12 CET Walter Cazzola wrote: > The attached screenshot showcases the issue. On the bottom you have a Konsole > instance with two panes. The upper pane shows (by using cat) a file with > the and utf-8 characters. The lower pane shows the same file by using vim. > The window on top shows the same file but using vim in its own GUI (separate > from Konsole). As you can notice vim can display it but not when launched in > Konsole. > > Both vim and KDE use DejaVu Sans family (vim uses the monospace version but > the issue is not there since once it is displayed correctly and once not). For me Konsole also doesn't show emojis and also many other characters, Chinese, are shown as question marks on a white rhombus. My bet would be on font substitution (that's the mechanism that falls back to another font if a glyph is missing from the chosen font). It just doesn't seem to be working/active in Konsole, or it's working in a very limited way. In KMail however, also a KDE application, I have the Emojis (e.g. ) and any characters (e.g. 语言, where the second character wouldn't show in Konsole) just fine, even with fixed-width font. Google doesn't bring up anything useful, or I'm using the wrong search terms, as if we were the only two people that had this issue... Maybe someone here has an idea? Patrick.
Re: Performance difference
Hi there, On Friday, 23 December 2022 01:40:18 CET Dave Close wrote: [...] > The only difference I've found thus far is that the slower one does not > have a swap partition. Any suggestions for what else I can check, and > hopefully fix, will be appreciated. [...] You could try swapping SSDs and see whether these delays still happen on the "other" hardware. I would suspect some kind of misconfiguration on the KDE system. 20 second delays could be some kind of network timeout for example. On my Kubuntu 22.04 box I don't see noticeable delays when starting applications: > $ time dolphin > > real0m0.665s > user0m0.240s > sys 0m0.077s > $ time kcalc > > real0m0.547s > user0m0.116s > sys 0m0.034s (probably 200-300ms of these "real" numbers is me reacting slowly to the window popping up and pressing ALT-F4...) Cheers, Patrick.
Re: KDE Neon and sound
Correction: > This is how I solved it: I created a file 'audio_disable_powersave.conf' *in the directory /etc/modprobe.d* > with the following single line content > options snd_hda_intel power_save=0
Re: KDE Neon and sound
Hi Dennis, On Monday, 25 April 2022 21:31:18 CEST Dennis Heuer wrote: > I use KDE Neon on a BioStar A68N-5600E and the soundboxes always bang > between youtube videos (not exclusively). The problem occurs immediately > after sound was virtually off. I found an unrelated option in the > energy management section of the KDE System Manager. When I turned it > on and off and then confirmed, the sound problem was gone. However, > beginning yesterday, the trick ain't work anymore. > > I think it's an initialization problem. Can I somehow tinker this > manually? I guess, the energy management is somewhat too quick in > decision taking!? I didn't even find a setting in KDE, so I can't tell whether there is one that doesn't work reliably. However when I bought my new computer a few months back, I had the same issue. This is how I solved it: I created a file 'audio_disable_powersave.conf' with the following single line content: options snd_hda_intel power_save=0 I think I got it from here: https://superuser.com/a/1493101[1] Hope that works for you, too. Patrick. [1] https://superuser.com/a/1493101
Re: Question about screen resolution in plasma 5 using x11 and a 4 K monitor arrangement.
Hi Stakanov, 13.03.2022 09:56:02 Stakanov : > It came to my mind that maybe the Plasma desktop cannot be resolved over the > proposed 2160x1140. > > Could you tell me if plasma has a resolution limit and maybe cannot fully > resolve 4K? This would help me very much. I'm running Plasma 5.22 (and have been running other 5.x versions) on a 4k monitor without issue. Also using X11 on Kubuntu with Nvidia GPU though. Hard to say what's causing the issue, but pretty sure it's not KDE. Have you tried booting another distribution from a USB drive, such as Ubuntu, and see whether you get the right resolutions? Patrick.
Re: May 30th 2022, Google and IMAP
Hi, On Friday, 4 March 2022 12:53:35 CET René J.V. Bertin wrote: > So it appears that on May 30th Google is going to cut off "good old" IMAP > access to GMail (as if email is such an inherently secure medium that you > really need that additional login security...). If I hadn't come to depend on > having around 15Gb of free remote email storage with (remote filtering into) > lots of folders I'd jump ship now, but I wouldn't really know where. > > I suppose KMail5 will continue to work, but not KMail4 which I still vastly > prefer. I know some of you use claws as a fallback ... what options will > there be to continue to use a traditional imap client with GMail? I guess you're referring to Google forcing OAuth instead of username/password authentication? Care to post a link to that announcement? Pretty sure there is a way to make KMail4 work as well with OAuth. Probably something like https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy should work. But then again, what's wrong with KMail5? (it can even insert emojis, see? ) Patrick.
Re: how to autohide the panel?
Hi, On Wednesday, 23 February 2022 16:47:03 CET hw wrote: > I have set the panel to autohide and it's not hiding except > sometimes :( Instead the windows go underneath the panel, > which is very annoying. Not happening for me (Plasma 5.22.5 on Kubuntu 21.10). > Is there a way to get the panel to automatically hide like it's > supposed to? How is it possible that even simple things like > this still aren't working after 25 years or so of KDE? Your post would have been more useful if you had stated the Plasma version you're using, and if you had omitted that last sentence ;) Patrick.
Re: [kde] Tell who did you PAY to include Akonadi?
Just wanted to point out trojita - a new version was released days ago (yesterday?), and contributions seem to be picking up. And then there is always Thunderbird, which is also cross-platform for those who have to use Windows or Mac OS X sometimes. With the right stuff on your server you even get synchronised contacts and calendars with your smartphone, even without Google knowing all your appointments and contacts (see http://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/389 - an article I wrote about my sync setup recently). But it's sad that we are proposing non-KDE e-mail clients on this list, I used to love kmail, a few years back. Seriously hope they can turn kdepim into something useful again at some point. (Sorry for top-posting, when I tried to write a proper e-mail with K9-Mail last time, it ended up looking totally destroyed, so I just stick with the default setting for now) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Kevin Krammer posted on Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:53:55 +0200 as excerpted: On Saturday, 2012-03-31, Duncan wrote: Chances are if there's not one yet, there might be one on the way. Hopefully there's someone working on a nice, solid, non-akonadified qt-based mail client, too. http://www.betterinbox.com/ Thanks. That's still very new and gmail-only ATM apparently, but it definitely looks to be worth watching, and I wasn't aware of it yet. So yes indeed, thanks. =:^) FWIW, there's also the still fairly new trojita. Qt4-based, but IMAP- only, unfortunately, which isn't going to help for users with POP3 (and webmail, but ugh!) providers only. As I'm in that category... But I'd be tempted if my providers did IMAP. http://trojita.flaska.net/ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. -- Sent from my phone. ___ 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.
