[gentoo-user] KDE5 & Disabling search and recent documents & thoughts

[Daniel Frey]

OK

We're in 2016 now. And KDE *still* doesn't make it easy to disable their
damn indexer. I've never wanted to search through my menu, I've never
wanted it to remember every damn file I've opened. It's a personal
preference.

WHY can't we have a single checkbox to disable all this crap? I found
one and it didn't work (search in system settings.) Then when I was
searching around online I found out it will reenable itself magically
randomly anyway!

I also tried balooctl and it didn't work either.

So I got very pissed off at this point and did the following:

$ chmod 444 ~/.kde4/share/apps/RecentDocuments/
$ rm /usr/bin/*baloo*

Rebooted

$ rm -rf ~/.config/baloo*
$ rm -rf ~/.local/share/baloo

Rebooted again

...and FINALLY it stopped indexing and remembering stuff that I told it
not to. It still remembers the last application used, but I don't really
care about that. I've put those commands in a script in /etc/local.d too.

Just figured others might want the info. A note, searching for files
through Dolphin can be affected by this. I never do that myself, I
always use a shell (konsole, etc.)

I've been using and tweaking for a couple hours now and haven't seen any
ill side-effects from my "nuclear" option.

One other gripe on KDE5: it's 2016, why can't we use the meta key to pop
up the menu? Really...

Other than that, things are a bit different. I'm not sure I like the
flat look yet. After the upgrade for some reason the K menu was
invisible, but when I set the theme to Oxygen it was visible again? I
thought that was odd, did anyone else experience that?

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Add hyperlinks to PDF?

[Daniel Frey]

On 04/09/2016 10:28 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 11:36:44 -0700 Daniel Frey wrote:
>> Is there any open source tool to add hyperlinks to a PDF? I've scanned a
>> manual of mine to put on my tablet and used pdftk to assemble all the
>> individual PDFs and generate bookmarks, but it doesn't seem to be able
>> to add links.
> 
> I use xelatex to create PDF documents (pdflatex can also be used),
> it has nice hyperref package which allows to manage PDF hyperlinks.
> 
> Best regards,
> Andrew Savchenko
> 

Thanks for the tip, I'll check that out later today. I'm trying to do
the update to plasma now, hitting some bumps.

Dan

[gentoo-user] x11-misc/sddm does not source my locale

[Mick]

Hi All,

I noticed that sddm comes up with a US keyboard layout and there is no other 
choice on the dropdown list.  Shouldn't it pick up my env somehow?  How can I 
change this, short of using my own xinit or .xsession?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

[J. Roeleveld]

On Sunday, April 10, 2016 08:09:28 AM Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 09 Apr 2016 23:08:13 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 22:41:01 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > > > I'd use the KDE profile. The packages you install are still the ones
> > > > you want but the profile means the USE flags are already as you need,
> > > > and you can always tweak any you want different anyway.
> > > 
> > > Reading eselect news I thought that the KDE profile and kde USE flag is
> > > due to be withdrawn with Plasma 5 going stable, did I get this wrong?
> > 
> > Sorry, I meant the plasma profile.
> 
> I just noticed, one box is set at:
> 
> [11]  default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib *
> 
> Is this a reinstall exercise?

Usually yes, but there is a work-around:

Create a temporary chroot with a non-no-multilib installation.
Use that to create binary packages. 
Then change the profile of the main installation to a non-no-multilib profile
Using the packages created in the chroot, do an "emerge -e @world"

That worked for me. (Found this in a blogposting somewhere)

--
Joost

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[gentoo-user] KDE Help Center in Plasma 5, "help:" protocol Unknown

[»Q«]

I get a message like the one below instead of any help content
whenever I try to use the KDE Help Center
(kde-plasma/khelpcenter-5.5.5).  ISTM there must be something I don't
have installed but need to, but I can't figure out what it is.  any
ideas?


The requested operation could not be completed
Cannot Initiate the help Protocol
Technical Reason: Unable to Launch Process

Details of the Request:
   URL: help:/khelpcenter/help-system-handbook.html
   Protocol: help
   Date and Time: Saturday, April 9, 2016 11:37:12 PM CDT
   Additional Information: Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said:
   Unknown protocol 'help'. Description:

The program on your computer which provides access to the help protocol
could not be started. This is usually due to technical reasons.

Possible Causes: 
  The program which provides compatibility with this
  protocol may not have been updated with your last update of KDE. This
  can cause the program to be incompatible with the current version and
  thus not start. 
  You may have encountered a bug in the program.

Possible Solutions: 
  Update your software to the latest version. Your
  distribution should provide tools to update your software.
  Contactt your appropriate computer support system, whether the system
  administrator, or technical support group for further assistance.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

[Mick]

On Saturday 09 Apr 2016 23:08:13 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 22:41:01 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > > I'd use the KDE profile. The packages you install are still the ones
> > > you want but the profile means the USE flags are already as you need,
> > > and you can always tweak any you want different anyway.
> > 
> > Reading eselect news I thought that the KDE profile and kde USE flag is
> > due to be withdrawn with Plasma 5 going stable, did I get this wrong?
> 
> Sorry, I meant the plasma profile.

I just noticed, one box is set at:

[11]  default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib *

Is this a reinstall exercise?

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Mick

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[gentoo-user] Re: plasma 5 virtual desktops with different backgrounds and widgets

[»Q«]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 13:38:12 -0500
»Q«  wrote:

[ plasma 5 ]
> AIUI now, the closest thing that can be done to get something like
> distinct virtual desktops involves setting up different activities and
> using the Activity Pager widget to switch between them.  Ideally, I
> need a simple set of instructions on how to do that, written for the
> user (me) to whom activities are a complete mystery.  I've searched,
> but can't find anything close to that.  Does anybody know of a good
> resource to help me?

Never mind about this.  I decided to just dig in and play around, since
in case I really messed up too badly I could just wipe out all my
settings and start over.  It's not hard to set up multiple activities,
but switching between them and moving windows between them can't be
made as convenient as things were with KDE 4.