Bug#585824: KDE no longer works

2010-06-13 Thread Gary Dale
Package: kde Version: kde-desktop Severity: grave Tags: squeeze Justification: renders package unusable After installing the latest upgrades to Squeeze, I have lost my KDE desktop. While KDE starts, I have no taskbar nor menus. The desktop does not respond to clicks or mouse moves of any kind.

Bug#585824: Acknowledgement (KDE no longer works)

2010-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/06/10 11:45 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian. This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your message has been received. Your message is being forwarded to the package maintainers and other interested parties for their

Re: Bug#585824: Acknowledgement (KDE no longer works)

2010-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/10 01:25 PM, Modestas Vainius wrote: Hello, On pirmadienis 14 Birželis 2010 16:57:57 Gary Dale wrote: This morning's updates have restored limited functionality to my KDE desktop. I now get a short menu with a right-click that allows me to run commands. However I do not get

Bug#542830: dolphin: information tray icon fails to respond after a while

2009-08-21 Thread Gary Dale
Package: dolphin Version: 4:4.2.4-1 Severity: normal After using Dolphin to copy some files, the i button in the system tray will stop functioning. I lose the ability to track the copy's progress, and to pause or cancel it. The button itself continue to appear when a copy or move starts and

Bug#379059: kde screensaver unreliable

2006-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
package: kscreensaver version: current Etch (4:3.5.3-1 according to debian package list on debian website) The KDE screensaver has been unreliable on my workstation ever since I set it up. Under Woody and Sarge I would have to restart it every couple of days. This continued when I switched

Bug#384207: Konqueror doesn't show empty directories

2006-08-22 Thread Gary Dale
Package: kde-core Version: 5:47 (3.5 Etch) * The /exact/ and /complete/ text of any error messages printed or logged. This is very important! no error messages. The directory just doesn't display. instead, when I click on an empty directory in Konqueror, I continue to see the contents

Bug#469499: kpilot: events show up on wrong days after sync

2008-03-05 Thread Gary Dale
Package: kpilot Version: 4:3.5.8-1 Severity: important I have been having this problem for a long time, through multiple versions of kpilot and Debian. It's made my IBM WorkPad C3 (a rebranded Palm Vx, I believe) almost unusable, especially since the internal battery ran down recently and I

Bug#559952: kdebase is not installable

2009-12-07 Thread Gary Dale
Package: kdebase Version: current Squeeze version Severity: important For the last few days I have been unable to install any updates to KDE because there are unmet dependencies such as libgnokii and libxklavier15 which prevent the installation from proceeding. Here's an example attempt:

Bug#721053: kontact: lost all my data when kontact upgraded

2013-08-27 Thread Gary Dale
Package: kontact Version: 4:4.10.5-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I'm running Jessie and performed my daily aptitude full-upgrade. When I rebooted

Bug#721053: kontact: lost all my data when kontact upgraded

2013-08-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 27/08/13 12:00 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Control: tag 721053 moreinfo unreproducible thanks On Tuesday 27 August 2013 11:21:17 Gary Dale wrote: Package: kontact Version: 4:4.10.5-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, *** Please

Bug#721053: kontact: lost all my data when kontact upgraded

2013-08-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 27/08/13 01:34 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Dienstag, 27. August 2013, 11:21:17 schrieb Gary Dale: Package: kontact Version: 4:4.10.5-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate

Bug#721053: kontact: lost all my data when kontact upgraded

2013-08-27 Thread Gary Dale
there is a check mark inside them, they stand out nicely but until then it's hard to say what they are. On 27/08/13 01:34 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Dienstag, 27. August 2013, 11:21:17 schrieb Gary Dale: Package: kontact Version: 4:4.10.5-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable

Bug#721053: kontact: lost all my data when kontact upgraded

2013-08-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 27/08/13 09:55 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 27 August 2013 17:00:49 Gary Dale wrote: OK, got it. There are some grey blobs beside the address books and calendars that need to be checked. For some reason the upgrade unchecked them. It's not obvious

Bug#750118: dolphin: Dolphin creates lots of zombie processes when used

2014-06-01 Thread Gary Dale
Package: dolphin Version: 4:4.12.4-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Using Dolphin for almost anything * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or

Bug#787727: kontact: events don't show up on correct date in week view

2015-06-04 Thread Gary Dale
Package: kontact Version: 4:4.14.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I have a recurring event that had one recurrance modified. I disassociated it from recurrance then edited to

Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/06/15 12:15 PM, Nick Boyce wrote: On Sunday 14 Jun 2015 11:43:37 Alex DEKKER wrote: Allow me to row back somewhat: $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep svg | wc -l 134 $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep png | wc -l 1090 Looking through /usr/share/kde4/apps/*/icons it seems that,

Re: Any idea when KDE will be working properly in Stretch?

2015-08-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/08/15 01:33 AM, Luc Castermans wrote: It is not lost. First you have to select the resize option in the menu you get right-clicking on the upper left window corner Luc I know I can still resize windows. However I can't do it directly now. Instead I have to choose to resize them

Any idea when KDE will be working properly in Stretch?

2015-08-16 Thread Gary Dale
I'm hoping that losing the ability to drag edges and corners to resize windows is temporary and that the KDE designers aren't trying to be more like Gnome.

Re: Any idea when KDE will be working properly in Stretch?

2015-08-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 19/08/15 11:38 AM, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: On Sunday 16 August 2015, Gary Dale wrote: I'm hoping that losing the ability to drag edges and corners to resize windows is temporary and that the KDE designers aren't trying to be more like Gnome. It is a Debian packaging bug in the breeze

Re: Any idea when KDE will be working properly in Stretch?

2015-08-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/08/15 08:01 AM, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Sunday 16 August 2015 14:03:47 Gary Dale wrote: I'm hoping that losing the ability to drag edges and corners to resize windows is temporary Are you unable to do that or is the mouse indicator absent or hardly visible indicating that you can

Re: plasma5 install removes kontact

2015-08-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/08/15 03:42 PM, Rob Brewer wrote: I installed kde-plasma-desktop today with synaptic on sid and plasma seemed to be working OK until I carried out a dist-upgrade which seems to have removed kontact. All my attempts to re-install kontact seem to result the error Unable to correct problems,

sddm versus kdm

2015-08-02 Thread Gary Dale
For a KDE user, what do people think are the strengths and weaknesses of the two managers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55be611e.3000...@torfree.net

Re: Install on stretch : feedback

2015-08-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 04/08/15 09:34 AM, Volker Wysk wrote: Am Dienstag, 4. August 2015, 15:40:20 schrieb Boris Pek: It looks like you have only one virtual desktop. So just add yet one or more in System Settings. I've looked in system settings, but couldn't find a setting for the number of virtual desktops. It

Re: Install on stretch : feedback

2015-08-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 04/08/15 04:50 PM, Facundo Aguilera wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 04/08/15 09:34 AM, Volker Wysk wrote: I've looked in system settings, but couldn't find a setting for the number of virtual desktops. It looks like there are much less

Re: [Plasma5] Dolphin starts slow and freeze desktop

2015-07-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 27/07/15 04:11 PM, Daniel Schröter wrote: Hello, I upgraded to plasma5. If I start dolphin it takes 25 seconds to start and the complete desktop freeze. I can just move the mouse. If I start dolphin with dbus-launch dolphin everything works fine. Does someone else have the same problem and

Re: plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/10/15 05:41 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 17:27:04 -0400 Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote: Hello Gary, I realize that KDE is going through a lot of changes right now, but can't stuff be kept out of testing until it is somewhat usable? That's not how migratio

Bug#801106: sddm still fails to start

2015-10-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/10/15 06:45 PM, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Wednesday 28 October 2015 17:13:14 Gary Dale wrote: "Failed to bring up the login screen" is as it says. The screen gets switched into graphical mode (blank) but nothing ever displays on it. I can bring up a TTY using an alt-Fkey c

Bug#801106: sddm still fails to start

2015-10-28 Thread Gary Dale
Package: sddm Version: 0.12.0-4 Followup-For: Bug #801106 Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I restarted my system this morning but it failed to bring up a login screen * What exactly did you do

Bug#758707: plasma-desktop: Once more broken

2015-10-28 Thread Gary Dale
Package: plasma-desktop Version: 4:5.4.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #758707 Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I did a full-upgrade then restarted my system. This was a disaster. There were several

plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-28 Thread Gary Dale
The latest round of Debian/Stretch updates proved to be a disaster. Sddm has stopped working as has the plasma-desktop when I used lightdm instead. Sddm never brings up a login panel (or anything else) while plasma-desktop doesn't get past bringing up the initial progress panel (showing no

Bug#801106: sddm still fails to start

2015-10-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/10/15 02:56 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: Hi! Are you using Plymouth? If so, I might have resolved this issue already (not yet uploaded to the archive). Please try applying this patch to the /lib/systemd/system/sddm.service file:

Bug#804682: dolphin: Dolphin starts on wrong virtual desktop

2015-11-10 Thread Gary Dale
Package: dolphin Version: 4:15.08.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Dolphin is one of the programs I keep open on a virtual desktop permanently. I use desktop 3 for Dolphin.

Bug#804681: konsole doesn't launch on startup

2015-11-10 Thread Gary Dale
Package: konsole Version: 4:15.08.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I keep konsole open on a virtual desktop at all times. I have 3 tabs open in Konsole in different

Re: plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/10/15 04:54 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:54:22 -0400 Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote: Hello Gary, And not wanting to rehash that old argument, the current system is clearly not working. Surely all the bright people maintaining Debian Debian is run by

Re: plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/10/15 04:49 AM, Tim Ruehsen wrote: On Friday 30 October 2015 00:09:31 Gary Dale wrote: On 29/10/15 04:54 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:54:22 -0400 Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote: Hello Gary, And not wanting to rehash that old argument, the current

Re: plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/10/15 11:10 AM, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Friday 30 October 2015 10:20:58 Gary Dale wrote: I can understand why "unstable" users may want it, but that doesn't those of us using testing are a different breed. We want to help get things ready for the next stable release. That mea

Re: dist-upgrade did not work

2015-10-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/10/15 01:59 PM, Carlos Kosloff wrote: I unheld libqt5x11extras5, did a full dist-upgrade, rebooted, lightdm did not work. Edited /etc/X11/default-display-manager and set it to kdm, lightdm started and failed. Same for sddm. Somehow some init script is set to lightdm and it will revert to

Re: Upstream Bug: Service menus don't work in KF5 dolphin 15.08 [WorkAround].

2015-10-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/10/15 08:30 PM, Zhang Jingqiang wrote: Hello, my services menus working again .. $ mkdir -p ~/.local/share/kservicetypes5/ $ cp /usr/share/kde4/servicetypes/konqpopupmenuplugin.desktop ~/.local/share/kservicetypes5/ *Note:* here, Debian Testing, dolphin works fine no crashes ... Work

Re: Can not load kde5 after upgrade in last week.

2015-08-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 25/08/15 03:15 PM, advocatux wrote: sppmg sm.sppmg at gmail.com writes: Hi all I use Debian testing up to date. So I was upgrade from kde4, it's work fine before last upgrade (hmmm,actually it's a problem let me need reboot , so lose many data on desktop of not saved. but not big problem

Re: can't start plasma desktop

2015-08-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 25/08/15 05:08 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I shut down my computer Saturday morning after installing the latest updates to Stretch. Prior to that I'd been logged in for several days. Yesterday evening I restarted the computer and tried to log in via sddm (the only dm I have installed

Re: Plasma desktop unusable in stretch

2015-09-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/09/15 11:41 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 10:21:47AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I thought testing was supposed to be where packages were mainly working and the sid and experimental where were packages were tested to make sure they actually worked. Not really

Re: Plasma desktop unusable in stretch

2015-09-03 Thread Gary Dale
On 03/09/15 03:42 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 03:03:35PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: Sorry, but before releasing a major package to "testing", shouldn't it be tested against the "testing" environment? No, we don't do this. Obviously, but the question was "shouldn't you?"

Plasma desktop unusable in stretch

2015-09-02 Thread Gary Dale
Yesterday I rebooted my computer but when it came back up and I logged in, Plasma was no longer usable. Specifically the window borders were gone, including the top bar. Since the top bar contains the close window button, if a window didn't provide a menu bar, I'd have to bring up the system

can't start plasma desktop

2015-08-25 Thread Gary Dale
I shut down my computer Saturday morning after installing the latest updates to Stretch. Prior to that I'd been logged in for several days. Yesterday evening I restarted the computer and tried to log in via sddm (the only dm I have installed). The progress bar gets to about 80 - 90% then

Any idea when plasma desktop will be working?

2015-09-17 Thread Gary Dale
It's been a couple of weeks now since it broke. I'm continuing to do upgrades daily and see some progress in other tools (e.g. aptitude is back) but the plasma desktop remains unusable. Does anyone how fixing it is progressing?

how to remove widgets from panel on plasma desktop?

2015-09-17 Thread Gary Dale
Now that I'm finally back using KDE, an old problem has become front and centre again. Namely how to remove widgets from the bottom panel? I've got some that I don't want that just take up space but there doesn't seem to be any way to remove them. And no, the widgets aren't locked. Any

Re: KDE5 upgrade loses settings

2015-09-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/09/15 12:19 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:14:21 -0400 Gary Dale<garyd...@torfree.net> wrote: Hello Gary, Is there a way to get the new Kate to import the katesession files? Many apps are now using ~/.config - Kate included. Maybe copy for session se

Re: Any idea when plasma desktop will be working? [RESOLVED]

2015-09-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/09/15 01:18 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:05:55 -0400 Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote: Hello Gary, The windows haven't had title bars, minimize/maximize and close controls, etc. for about two weeks. Yesterday I did a reinstall of KDE desktop and that didn

Re: KDE5 upgrade loses settings

2015-09-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/09/15 12:19 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:14:21 -0400 Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote: Hello Gary, Is there a way to get the new Kate to import the katesession files? Many apps are now using ~/.config - Kate included. Maybe copy for session settings there

Re: Any idea when plasma desktop will be working?

2015-09-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/09/15 12:51 PM, Mario Teijeiro Otero wrote: On Thursday 17 September 2015 11:59:43 Gary Dale wrote: It's been a couple of weeks now since it broke. I'm continuing to do upgrades daily and see some progress in other tools (e.g. aptitude is back) but the plasma desktop remains unusable

Bug#799308: akonadi-server: Akonadi service fails to start after latest full-upgrade

2015-09-17 Thread Gary Dale
Package: akonadi-server Version: 1.13.0-8 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Did an aptitude full-upgrade. Now I can't use Kontact. * What

Re: Any idea when plasma desktop will be working?

2015-09-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/09/15 12:09 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:59:43AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: It's been a couple of weeks now since it broke. I'm continuing to do upgrades daily and see some progress in other tools (e.g. aptitude is back) but the plasma desktop remains unusable

Re: how to remove widgets from panel on plasma desktop?

2015-09-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/09/15 02:46 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le 17/09/2015 20:39, Gary Dale a écrit : Now that I'm finally back using KDE, an old problem has become front and centre again. Namely how to remove widgets from the bottom panel? I've got some that I don't want that just take up space but there doesn't

Re: Good news: hplip working in systray

2015-09-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/09/15 06:08 AM, Valerio Passini wrote: Today I've found that hp-systray has shown back again in plasma 5 and that's wonderful, beside all the plasma 5 improvements I'm already appreciating. KDE is a wonderful DE since version 2 and I would like to thank Debian developers for the really

Re: Upstream Bug: Service menus don't work in KF5 dolphin 15.08.

2015-09-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 27/09/15 02:38 PM, Héctor Sales wrote: Hello, a few hours ago I have upgrade dolphin to 15.08 version in Debian Testing Kde and i have noticed that services menu dont 's works, e.g: Open terminal here. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350769 Regards. The problem I have is that

properly functioning torrent manager for KDE/Plasma 5

2016-01-06 Thread Gary Dale
KGet works but loses the torrents between reboots. This appears to be not what the developer intended because there is an advanced setting to allow downloads to resume on startup. Moreover kget seems to store a lot of data in its tmp folder in /~.kde/share/apps/kget/tmp/ relating to every

Re: Safe to upgrade?

2016-01-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/12/15 05:34 PM, Tim Folger wrote: Hi, I'm running debian testing, with kde version 4.14.2, Given some of the problems I've seen posted on this list, I've been hesitating to upgrade to Plasma 5. What's the state of plasma 5 now in testing? Is it generally safe to upgrade? Thanks for any

Re: properly functioning torrent manager for KDE/Plasma 5

2016-01-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 07/01/16 11:47 AM, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Thursday, 2016-01-07, 10:23:36, Gary Dale wrote: On 06/01/16 01:33 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Wednesday, 2016-01-06, 13:20:13, Gary Dale wrote: Unfortunately ktorrent simply does not work. I can give it the same torrent file as KGet and KGet

Re: properly functioning torrent manager for KDE/Plasma 5

2016-01-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 07/01/16 05:43 PM, Andrej Kacian wrote: On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:06:31 -0500 Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote: I'm running Stretch. Perhaps it works in Jessie? Ktorrent (4.3.1) works just fine in Stretch as well. Regards, Not on my AMD64 stretch system. I did get one torrent do

task bar missing

2016-09-05 Thread Gary Dale
This has been going on for a few weeks. I was hoping that it would get fixed but instead it's gotten worse. I'm running Debian/Testing on an AMD64 machine - with KDE obviously. When I reboot my computer, which I only do every week or so depending on on how it's behaving, the task bar is

Re: task bar missing

2016-09-06 Thread Gary Dale
By task bar I mean the bar that normally runs along the bottom of the screen that contains the Application Launcher (menu), pagers, running applications, system tray, etc.. On 06/09/16 02:50 AM, Thom Castermans wrote: 2016-09-06 6:21 GMT+02:00 Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net <mailto

Btrfs & Dolphin

2016-09-11 Thread Gary Dale
I just read an article in Linux Pro magazine (entitled "New Butter") about Btrfs. It ended rather enigmatically with a warning that "Btrfs does not integrate well with graphical file managers." This confuses me. I'd think that a file manager should operate pretty much independently of the

Re: Btrfs & Dolphin

2016-09-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/09/16 04:00 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 09/11/2016 09:42 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I've been considering switching from Ext4 for a while but don't have any compelling reasons to do so.. Why? It's still in development was the last I heard. When I build my new computer next year to use

Re: Btrfs & Dolphin

2016-09-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/09/16 07:20 AM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: Would you not say that xfs is preferred over ext4? In benchmarks and recovery exercises, it appears to come out ahead for performance and recovery. The negative aspect of deploying xfs is that once the partition size is set, you cannot add or

Kontact error since upgrading to Buster

2017-07-16 Thread Gary Dale
I'm getting periodic messages from Kontact as follows: The server failed the authenticity check (planet.kde-espana.org). The certificate has expired This has been happening since I upgraded from Stretch to Buster a couple of days ago. Any ideas on how to get rid of it? I don't even know

Does Calligra Words do mail merge yet?

2017-07-17 Thread Gary Dale
I suspect the answer is no, but I'm hoping I'm wrong. Internet searches suggest that it might but actually trying Words I can't see any way of doing it. LibreOffice handles the mail merge but it doesn't allow for conditional graphics (different graphic objects appearing depending on a

adding a Google calendar to Kontact

2017-09-12 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Buster on an amd64 system. I am trying to add another google calendar to my Korganizer/Kontact calendar. I already have one google calendar for personal affairs and have created another calendar for a group I belong to. Since it uses a different (not gmail) e-mail address,

Bug#882833: kontact fails to start - complains Akonadi service is unavailable

2017-11-26 Thread Gary Dale
Package: kontact Version: 4:16.04.3-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? been upgrading my Debian/Buster workstation each evening * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was

Bug#882833: Acknowledgement (kontact fails to start - complains Akonadi service is unavailable)

2017-11-28 Thread Gary Dale
The problem seems to be that akonadi and apparmor, which was recently added in a "full-upgrade", don't work well together. Removing apparmor and rebooting fixed the problem. On 2017-11-26 11:27 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian. You can

Re: Akonadi and apparmor problem

2017-11-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 2017-11-21 01:39 AM, anxious...@gmail.com wrote: I run unstable AMD64. Apparmor was installed on a routine update 3 days ago, preventing akonadi - and hence kmail -from starting on the next reboot. The error in akonadiselftest was: stderr: "Could not open required defaults file:

Re: Akonadi and apparmor problem

2018-01-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 2017-12-28 05:32 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: On Tuesday, 21 November 2017 07:39:41 CET anxious...@gmail.com wrote: The error in akonadiselftest was: stderr: "Could not open required defaults file: /home/USER/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf\nFatal error in defaults handling. Program

Re: adding a Google calendar to Kontact

2018-01-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 2017-09-13 01:01 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Buster on an amd64 system. I am trying to add another google calendar to my Korganizer/Kontact calendar. I already have one google calendar for personal affairs and have created another calendar for a group I belong to. Since it uses

Re: adding a Google calendar to Kontact

2018-01-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-01-06 11:21 PM, Facundo Aguilera wrote: El 5 ene. 2018 23:20, "Gary Dale" <garyd...@torfree.net <mailto:garyd...@torfree.net>> escribió: On 2017-09-13 01:01 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Buster on an amd64 system. I am trying

Re: adding a Google calendar to Kontact

2018-01-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-01-08 06:30 AM, Andy G Wood wrote: On Monday, 8 January 2018 00:24:58 GMT Gary Dale wrote: [...] I've just noticed the problem is worse than I thought. I have events on my main Google calendar that aren't showing up on Kontact and others that are showing up wrong. This makes me believe

Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade"

2018-08-05 Thread Gary Dale
Yesterday I started to do my usual evening Buster apt full-upgrade but couldn't get it to work. I was getting messages about ldconfig not being in the path. I did another apt update this evening but ran into the same problem with apt full-upgrade. I rebooted to recovery mode and ran the

Re: Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade"

2018-08-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-08-10 12:48 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Hi Gary! According to your issues I can only think in an issue with your video card. What do you have there? Another thing to try is creating another user. FWIW no one else has reported an issue like yours yet, or at least not

Re: Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade"

2018-08-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-08-06 05:05 AM, Ferdinand Thommes wrote: Gary Dale hat am 6. August 2018 um 06:38 geschrieben: Yesterday I started to do my usual evening Buster apt full-upgrade but couldn't get it to work. I was getting messages about ldconfig not being in the path. I did another apt update

Re: Plasma 5 unusuable after latest buster "upgrade"

2018-08-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-08-06 09:53 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 2018-08-06 05:05 AM, Ferdinand Thommes wrote: Gary Dale hat am 6. August 2018 um 06:38 geschrieben: Yesterday I started to do my usual evening Buster apt full-upgrade but couldn't get it to work. I was getting messages about ldconfig not being

file save dialogues broken in gtk apps

2018-09-07 Thread Gary Dale
This just started happening today after I rebooted my computer. I first noticed it in Firefox then Thunderbird when I tried to save files. In Firefox, it's files I'm trying to download from a site. In Thunderbird, it's trying to save attachments. In both cases, when I try to save, the dialogue

Re: kdeconnect doesn't

2018-10-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-27 11:59 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I keep reading wonderful things about KDEconnect but I've yet to experience them. My android phones can't see my Debian/Buster desktop and vice versa. Both devices are on the same network and I'm not running an internal firewall on my desktop. I've

kdeconnect doesn't

2018-09-27 Thread Gary Dale
I keep reading wonderful things about KDEconnect but I've yet to experience them. My android phones can't see my Debian/Buster desktop and vice versa. Both devices are on the same network and I'm not running an internal firewall on my desktop. I've been trying KDEconnect intermittently for

Re: kdeconnect doesn't

2018-09-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-27 11:59 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I keep reading wonderful things about KDEconnect but I've yet to experience them. My android phones can't see my Debian/Buster desktop and vice versa. Both devices are on the same network and I'm not running an internal firewall on my desktop. I've

Re: kdeconnect doesn't

2018-09-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-28 04:15 PM, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote: Am Freitag, 28. September 2018, 20:39:01 CEST schrieb Gary Dale: This shouldn't be an issue but I have also had 3 different routers since I first tried to use kdeconnect. It didn't work with any of them handing out IP addresses It may very

Re: kdeconnect doesn't

2018-11-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-11-22 4:54 p.m., Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: El jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2018 12:14:21 -03 Gary Dale escribió: On 2018-11-08 4:44 a.m., Michael Schuerig wrote: On Donnerstag, 1. November 2018 05:17:00 CET Gary Dale wrote: I managed to get kdeconnect to work between my

Re: kdeconnect doesn't

2018-11-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-11-08 4:44 a.m., Michael Schuerig wrote: On Donnerstag, 1. November 2018 05:17:00 CET Gary Dale wrote: I managed to get kdeconnect to work between my laptop and my phone by installing ufw and opening the kdeconnect ports in it. However the same solution doesn't work on my desktop

kompare doesn't

2019-03-30 Thread Gary Dale
Has anyone tried kompare recently? I haven't used it before but needed it to track down why google maps won't load the new version of a kml file but still loads the old one (both pass the w3schools xml validation test). I can point it to the two files I want to compare but the compare button

Debian/Bullseye screen doesn't lock

2019-08-18 Thread Gary Dale
For the last several days, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10 minutes (as I specified in the power management settings). I've tried rebooting and resetting the power management setting but it's still not locking. I'm running Debian/Bullseye on an AMD64 system. Any suggestions on

Debian/Bullseye screen doesn't lock

2019-08-19 Thread Gary Dale
For the last several days, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10 minutes (as I specified in the power management settings). I've tried rebooting and resetting the power management setting but it's still not locking. I'm running Debian/Bullseye on an AMD64 system. Any suggestions on

Re: Debian/Bullseye plasma screen doesn't lock

2019-11-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-10-30 9:07 a.m., luca.pedrielli wrote: Il 30/10/19 12:53, Gary Dale ha scritto: On 2019-10-25 10:35 a.m., Shai Berger wrote: On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:29:15 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Since mid-August, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10 minutes Any suggestions on how to fix

Re: Debian/Bullseye plasma screen doesn't lock

2019-11-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-11-04 8:29 p.m., Gary Dale wrote: On 2019-10-30 9:07 a.m., luca.pedrielli wrote: Il 30/10/19 12:53, Gary Dale ha scritto: On 2019-10-25 10:35 a.m., Shai Berger wrote: On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:29:15 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Since mid-August, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10

Re: Debian/Bullseye plasma screen doesn't lock

2019-10-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 2019-10-25 10:35 a.m., Shai Berger wrote: On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:29:15 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Since mid-August, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10 minutes Any suggestions on how to fix this? I think this may have to do with the display manager. I've been happily using lightm

Debian/Bullseye plasma screen doesn't lock

2019-10-25 Thread Gary Dale
Since mid-August, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10 minutes (as I specified in the power management settings). I've tried rebooting and resetting the power management setting but it's still not locking. This has survived several updates to the window management software. I'm

Debian/Bullseye plasma screen doesn't lock

2019-10-07 Thread Gary Dale
Since mid-August, my screen doesn't lock automatically after 10 minutes (as I specified in the power management settings). I've tried rebooting and resetting the power management setting but it's still not locking. This has survived several updates to the window management software. I'm

Bug#942273: drkonqi: I keep getting "drkonqi Closed Unexpectedly" messages every 30 seconds or so

2019-10-13 Thread Gary Dale
Package: drkonqi Version: 5.14.5-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? this has been happening for last few days. I full-updgrade every day so that probably triggered it. *

Can't set times for Kontact events

2019-12-19 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running bullseye on an AMD64 system. When I create or edit an event, I can't set or change the time. No matter what I do, it reverts to 12:00 AM after I save the event. Moreover, the Apply button stays greyed out unless I modify some other part of the event.

Re: new monitor not going into power-saving mode

2019-12-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/29/19 7:37 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Gary Dale composed on 2019-12-29 18:33 (UTC-0500): Is there something about DisplayPort that causes this behaviour or is it specific to this monitor (Samsung LU28E490DS/ZA)? I suspect the greatest likelihood is the Samsung, and least likely

new monitor not going into power-saving mode

2019-12-29 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Testing on an AMD64 system. I just replaced my Samsung HD monitor with a Samsung 4K, in the process switching from a DVI cable to DisplayPort. While power-saving was working perfectly on my old setup, it's not working with the new one. Instead the screen goes blank then

bulk change of KATE session files

2020-03-30 Thread Gary Dale
I've found it necessary to change the location of a directory that contained files from several KATE sessions. I'm looking for a way to modify the KATE configuration files to reflect the new locations rather than having to create new sessions. Two files in my .config folder contain the

Re: bulk change of KATE session files

2020-03-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 3/31/20 3:02 AM, luca.pedrielli wrote: Il 31/03/20 02:28, Gary Dale ha scritto: I've found it necessary to change the location of a directory that contained files from several KATE sessions. I'm looking for a way to modify the KATE configuration files to reflect the new locations rather

KATE & regex search/replace across multiple lines

2020-06-19 Thread Gary Dale
I love KATE and use it a lot. Unfortunately it seems to have a weird setting somewhere (associated with either a file or session) that affects regex search and replace. I have been editing multiple files recently using regex's. Usually KATE allows \n to match the end-of-line which lets me

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