[kde-freebsd] KDM problem with 4.3.1

2009-10-13 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, I'm having a weird problem with kdm on 4.3.1. I'm running 8.0-RC1 i386, and when I start KDM it doesn't show my list of users. All that's there is a login entry box and a password entry box. On my 4.3.1 system running on 7.2-RELEASE, I see the user list. I've compared the two kdmrc

[kde-freebsd] Password-less login with KDM

2009-10-13 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi, I can't seem to get password-less logins working, despite creating the proper config file for kdm-np. I found an e-mail by Mikhail T. back in Feb. about the issue, (http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2009-February/004681.html) but I couldn't find any followup. Any ideas? Cheers,

[kde-freebsd] KDE 4.3.2?

2009-10-19 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi guys, I know how busy the team is, but I am kinda curious: Are we going to have a FreeBSD port of 4.3.2, or are we skipping it? As 4.3.1 works pretty darn near perfect for me, I'm ok either way, but I am a bit curious. Cheers, DMK ___ kde-freebsd

Re: [kde-freebsd] KDE 4.3.2?

2009-10-19 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On 19/10/2009, Dwayne MacKinnon d...@ncf.ca wrote: Hi guys, I know how busy the team is, but I am kinda curious: Are we going to have a FreeBSD port of 4.3.2, or are we skipping it? As 4.3.1 works pretty darn near perfect for me, I'm ok either way, but I am a bit curious. Cheers

[kde-freebsd] KDE 4.3.3

2009-11-30 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi guys, Just wanted to say a big thank-you! to the porting team for getting 4.3.3 into the ports tree so quickly after the big 8.0-RELEASE. I am absolutely loving 4.3.3... it fixes my last annoyance with KDE4, namely a problem where Juk was skipping tracks. (Yes, some of us have yet to

Re: [kde-freebsd] KDE 4.3.3

2009-11-30 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Thanks Andy. Just sent him off a thank-you note. Cheers, DMK On November 30, 2009 12:50:41 pm Andy Fawcett wrote: On Monday 30 November 2009 18:56:06 Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Hi guys, Just wanted to say a big thank-you! to the porting team for getting 4.3.3 into the ports tree so

Re: [kde-freebsd] KDE4: All settings lost after kde upgrade with portupgrade

2009-11-30 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On November 30, 2009 02:40:16 pm Yuri wrote: Rusty Nejdl wrote: Yuri, Portupgrade wouldn't change any of your settings since those are stored in your home directory. The only 2 ideas I have at present is that you somehow lost your .kde4 directory or you logged in as a different user.

Re: [kde-freebsd] system hang up

2009-12-02 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On December 2, 2009 09:37:55 am Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: On Wednesday 02 December 2009 08:28:22 PeterPieczora wrote: Which would be the correct mailing-list to post the message to? Probably freebsd-questions, I think. Maybe the freebsd-stable list as well, but I'm not sure about the

Re: [kde-freebsd] After upgrading to kde-4.4.3 screen goes black after the kde4 splash screen

2010-05-24 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi Yuri, This won't be of much help, I know, but KDE 4.4.3 is working perfectly for me. It scrambled my desktop panel settings a bit, but that was easily remedied. Cheers, DMK On May 24, 2010 04:54:00 am Yuri wrote: I found that renaming ~/.kde4 makes things better and kde4 boots like for

Re: [kde-freebsd] misc/148708: x11/kde4 should include a dependency for ispell

2010-07-17 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Just to mention: I'm running 4.4.4 on FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. I do not have ispell installed, just aspell and iw-hspell. The automatic spellchecking in kmail is definitely working, as I'm looking at several red underlines right now. Cheers, DMK On July 17, 2010 05:32:44 pm Christof Schulze

[kde-freebsd] LANG setting of UTF-16 causes automoc to crash

2010-09-09 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, I ran into this while trying to upgrade to 4.5.1: Generating moc_FakeBackend.cpp ��/ automoc4: process for

[kde-freebsd] pkg-plist problems with kdebase4-workspace?

2010-09-09 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, After completing my upgrade I was attempting to update my packages (to use in updating other computers) when I ran into the following errors: tar: lib/kde4/plasma_engine_akonadi.so: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: lib/kde4/plasma_engine_calendar.so: Cannot stat: No such file

Re: [kde-freebsd] pkg-plist problems with kdebase4-workspace?

2010-09-09 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
:22 -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Hi all, After completing my upgrade I was attempting to update my packages (to use in updating other computers) when I ran into the following errors: tar: lib/kde4/plasma_engine_akonadi.so: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: lib/kde4

Re: [kde-freebsd] Klipper Version v0.9.7 missing shortcut key

2010-09-13 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On September 10, 2010 08:07:01 pm Jerry wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:44:58 -0300 Raphael Kubo da Costa kub...@gmail.com articulated: On Friday 10 September 2010 18:10:41 Jerry wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:30:13 -0300 Raphael Kubo da Costa kub...@gmail.com articulated: On

Re: [kde-freebsd] [RFC] fix defaults on kcontrol/kdm

2010-09-14 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On September 14, 2010 12:58:04 pm David Naylor wrote: Hi, Attached is a patch that fixes the defaults for shutdown and reboot commands. This only affects the kcontrol module. The implicit defaults for the config file are correct. I've filed a bug report

[kde-freebsd] Folder view regression in KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-15 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone else was having problems with file previews in Folder View for 4.5.1. My wife has Folder View for her whole desktop (replicating the Windows XP experience) and all the photos now show up as icons instead of previews. I've noticed the same behaviour in my

Re: [kde-freebsd] Folder view regression in KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-15 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On September 15, 2010 05:21:48 pm Alberto Villa wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2010 23:01:28 Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: I was wondering if anyone else was having problems with file previews in Folder View for 4.5.1. My wife has Folder View for her whole desktop (replicating

Re: [kde-freebsd] Folder view regression in KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-19 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251692 Is there a mailing list I should mention this on? Cheers, DMK On September 16, 2010 02:04:49 am Alberto Villa wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Dwayne MacKinnon d...@ncf.ca wrote: Think we should pass this on to the main KDE lists? I have

Re: [kde-freebsd] Menu Updating Tool

2010-09-19 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
I got curious about this, so I did some digging. According to the following link: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-develm=126902874614160w=2 The developers at kde.org decided to remove the KAppFinder application from kdebase and move it into KDE Extra Gear which isn't a package by itself but

[kde-freebsd] 4.5.2 behaviour

2010-10-17 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, Noticed two odd things with 4.5.2 1) Dolphin freezes up on me. A lot. After a minute or so it unfreezes. 2) kwin goes nuts when I play video of any kind. It basically takes over one of my CPU cores completely. Anyone else seeing this sort of thing? Cheers, DMK

[kde-freebsd] Re: 4.5.2 behaviour

2010-10-18 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On October 18, 2010 06:15:36 am Jason E. Hale wrote: On Sunday, October 17, 2010 22:18:39 Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Hi all, Noticed two odd things with 4.5.2 1) Dolphin freezes up on me. A lot. After a minute or so it unfreezes. I have noticed this as well. Dolphin will freeze

[kde-freebsd] Dolphin crash, kde 4.5.2

2010-10-22 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi, Attached is the crash report I got from a Dolphin crash last night. I'm running 4.5.2 on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. Cheers, DMK Application: Dolphin (kdeinit4), signal: Segmentation fault: 11 [Switching to Thread 32353ac0 (LWP 100409)] [Current thread is 10 (Thread 32353ac0 (LWP 100409))] Thread

[kde-freebsd] Re: __glXDRIbindTexImage: Failed to register texture offset override

2010-11-05 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi, Just wanted to report that I'm not seeing any of the these errors. I'm on 8.1- RELEASE (32bit) using the latest xorg and nvidia proprietary drivers. (I did a grep -i dri on my xorg logs. Nothing out of hte ordinary.) Cheers, DMK On November 5, 2010 08:37:46 am Andriy Gapon wrote: on

[kde-freebsd] Annoying Dolphin/HAL problem

2010-11-30 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, I'm using KDE 4.5.3 on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. Lately, when I use Dolphin to mount removable media (cdrom, USB drive, etc.) I can't unmount the media without closing all instances of Dolphin first. Unless I do, HAL reports that the unmount failed as the device was busy.

[kde-freebsd] Problem with fullscreen video in KDE 4.5.5

2011-01-14 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, Since upgrading to KDE 4.5.5 (I'm on 8.1-RELEASE with fully up-to-date ports) none of my video players can go fullscreen. I've tried mplayer, vlc and dragonplayer. If I use TWM, I can go fullscreen. Has anyone else seen similar behavior? If I turn off compsiting (I use nvidia-driver)

[kde-freebsd] Re: kompmgr broken... what to do?

2011-03-03 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi Marc, You're probably on your own here. k...@freebsd.org stopped supporting kde3 a long time ago. The ports were left as a courtesy to those who wanted to stick with kde3. You might want to consider trying kde 4.6.1 when it hits the ports in a week or so. I've been quite impressed with

[kde-freebsd] Re: kde@ updating... well, everything

2011-03-26 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
It's quite likely he was bit by the libofa update bug, like I was. I would update the ports tree again and re-try. Cheers, DMK On March 26, 2011 10:46:47 AM Alberto Villa wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Franci Nabalanci lum...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you but when I check computer in

[kde-freebsd] Re: Unable to update to KDE-4.6.1

2011-03-27 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Looking through your post of the kdelibs-4.6.1 output, I see the problems start after this line: /usr/local/include/qt4/QtCore/qatomic_arch.h:92:4: error: #error Qt has not been ported to this architecture Could you post the output of uname -a, and also a pkg_info command? I'm no expert, but

[kde-freebsd] Odd 4.6.2 behaviour

2011-04-09 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, I'm on 8.2-RELEASE i386 running KDE 4.6.2 from ports. I've noticed some odd performance things: 1) Nepomukuser will occasionally get extremely greedy, grabbing most (if not all) of one of my cores before settling down. 2) Today I had kopete go absolutely beserk on me, and had to shut

[kde-freebsd] gstreamer-plugins-flac not installed by default

2011-07-15 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, Today I tried to play a .flac file in juk. While the interface showed the file, it wouldn't play. Google searching suggested I look at my gstreamer plugins. Sure enough, the gstreamer-plugins-flac port was not installed (although a *lot* of other gstreamer plugin ports were). I'm

[kde-freebsd] KDE 4.7 plans

2011-08-11 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, This is just me being curious... it is *not* a complaint. I value the hard work you people put into keeping KDE available on FreeBSD. I'm just wondering what the plans are for 4.7. Will it be committed to the ports tree or are we going to wait for 4.7.1 (which I believe is due later

[kde-freebsd] Problem with KDE 4.7.2 upgrade

2011-10-18 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, I've been attempting to upgrade to 4.7.2. However, I cannot seem to get around this problem. It occurs while trying to compile kde4- runtime, kate, kolourpaint and others. As a result, the compile stops at the config stage. I've reinstalled kdelibs4 at least twice. Still no dice.

Re: [kde-freebsd] Problem with KDE 4.7.2 upgrade

2011-10-18 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On October 18, 2011 10:50:15 AM you wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Alberto Villa avi...@freebsd.org wrote: Can you paste (http://pastebin.com) the *full* build log of kate and kolourpaint, please? Oh, and please, try building with DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS=yes in /etc/make.conf. The

Re: [kde-freebsd] KDE upgrade to 4.7.2 fails

2011-10-18 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
I ran into this one. You've got to make sure that x11-toolkits/shared-desktop- ontologies is up to date, and then re-install kdelibs4. Cheers, DMK On October 18, 2011 09:09:32 PM Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hi, I followed the instructions in UPDATING, but the upgrade of KDE fails because

Re: [kde-freebsd] KDE upgrade to 4.7.2 fails

2011-10-19 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On October 19, 2011 01:04:25 AM Alberto Villa wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Dwayne MacKinnon d...@ncf.ca wrote: I ran into this one. You've got to make sure that x11-toolkits/shared-desktop- ontologies is up to date, and then re-install kdelibs4. What kind of tool are you

Re: [kde-freebsd] Problem with KDE 4.7.2 upgrade

2011-10-19 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On October 19, 2011 03:30:03 AM Alberto Villa wrote: /usr/local/kde4/share/apps/cmake/modules/KDELibs4LibraryTargets- release.cma ke Here you go. Looks like a likely culprit. Cheers, DMK # # Generated CMake target import file for

Re: [kde-freebsd] Problem with KDE 4.7.2 upgrade

2011-10-19 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On October 19, 2011 02:00:31 PM Alberto Villa wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Dwayne MacKinnon d...@ncf.ca wrote: I rm'ed /usr/local/kde4 and started from scratch. kde4-runtime has successfully installed; I have no reason to believe there will be any further trouble. For your

Re: [kde-freebsd] Konsole minor wierdness opening new tabs

2011-10-22 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On October 22, 2011 01:47:36 PM Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: David Southwell ad...@vizion2000.net writes: This is of no great consequence but just seems weird. Konsole will open new tabs by using new tab icon (bottom left) but not from File menu? What do you mean? If you use File -

[kde-freebsd] Problems with marble-4.7.2

2011-10-22 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi folks, Anyone else having trouble with marble? On 3 different kde-4.7.2 installs, I can't get it to work. THe window appears, it's blank, clicking in it opens up more blank stuff, and when I close the window, a crash is generated. Maybe I should recompile with -DWITH_DEBUG, find out more...

Re: [kde-freebsd] KDE SC 4.7.2

2011-10-24 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On October 24, 2011 10:33:40 AM Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: N V va...@yandex.ru writes: Hi. Does it mean that if I want to have compositing and effects, I have to stay at 4.6.5 until mesa/xorg is updated? Probably. This isn't really my area, but from the commit log KWin will simply

Re: [kde-freebsd] KDE SC 4.7.2

2011-10-24 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
I'm not Raphael, but I can field this one. Newer Intel chipsets have integrated GPUs. These GPUs use Kernel Mode Switching, which FreeBSD does not support (yet; work is being done on it.) A lot of newer laptops use the Intel integrated GPUs, apparently KDE has made support of them a priority.

Re: [kde-freebsd] KDE SC 4.7.2

2011-10-24 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On October 24, 2011 02:48:26 PM Alberto Villa wrote: KMS is an Intel and AMD thing. Intel is being worked on, AMD not yet, NVIDIA has no such problems. Interestingly enough, my Optiplex390 (which has a brand new RADEON card that requires KMS) where xvinfo tells me you got nothing has full

Re: [kde-freebsd] kde4 complains during startup: The Audio playback device default does not work, falling back to default

2011-10-28 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On October 28, 2011 03:53:04 PM Alberto Villa wrote: On Friday 28 October 2011 21:47:42 Yuri wrote: Such message flows up every time after kde4 is started on my 8.2 STABLE. Audio actually works fine after this. Yes, this started appearing to me one day ago... It's very annoying. I'll

Re: [kde-freebsd] kdegames4-4.7.3 problems

2011-11-19 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
I ran into this last month with marble. ( http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde- freebsd/2011-October/011934.html ) Max's suggestion of setting kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed to 1 allows Marble to work with Raster graphics (although I'll admit to not using it extensively to see if there are any side

Re: [kde-freebsd] kde 4.7.4

2012-01-25 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hey Alberto, Thought I'd take the opportunity to say thanks once again. As always, I'm very grateful that there is a kde-freebsd team in place helping me have access to my preferred desktop. About to start upgrading to 4.7.4 and looking forward to seeing what 4.8 will be like. Out of

Re: [kde-freebsd] Weird build failure with kdenetwork-4.7.4 amd64

2012-01-31 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
I disabled ccache and attempted a compile. Same error message. Cheers, DMK On January 30, 2012 10:43:07 PM Chuck Burns wrote: On 01/27/2012 11:30 AM, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Hi, My kdenetwork4 ports build failed on amd64. On i386, it built fine. The error message (found

Re: [kde-freebsd] Some programs make xorg consume 100% CPU under kde4

2012-02-22 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
What versions of xorg, kde calibre are you running? I'm a bit behind the curve (waiting for a fix to the icedtea firefox10 program before upgrading to 9.0-RELEASE kde-4.7.4). I'm running xorg-7.5.1, kde-4.7.3 and calibre-0.8.26 on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE i386 and I do not see that behaviour.

Re: [kde-freebsd] self missconfiguration of Use slow keys

2012-02-29 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
I believe it's possible to activate slow keys just by holding some keys for longer then normal. A dialog box will ask to confirm, but depending on how you're typing, I can easily see someone hitting enter and accepting it without realizing. Cheers, DMK On February 29, 2012 01:23:17 AM

Re: [kde-freebsd] self missconfiguration of Use slow keys

2012-03-04 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On March 4, 2012 03:26:02 AM Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, February 29, 2012 a las 09:30:50AM -0500, Dwayne MacKinnon escribió: I believe it's possible to activate slow keys just by holding some keys for longer then normal. A dialog box will ask to confirm, but depending on how

Re: [kde-freebsd] Weird build failure with kdenetwork-4.7.4 amd64

2012-03-12 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
:30:04 Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: My kdenetwork4 ports build failed on amd64. On i386, it built fine. The error message (found with a -DMAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE) follows: Thanks for the report, we had just become aware of this. A fix will follow. ___ kde-freebsd

Re: [kde-freebsd] Plasma widget: Pager - Not appearing in panel

2012-03-15 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Look for Virtual Desktops in the System Settings. If you don't have more then one desktop configured (one is the default) the pager is invisible. Cheers, DMK On March 15, 2012 04:14:28 PM tza...@it.teithe.gr wrote: Hello, I have a FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE amd64 system that runs KDE 4.7.4 and I

Re: [kde-freebsd] ports/165977: [exp-run] for Qt 4.8.0, PyQt 4.9.1 and KDE SC 4.8.1

2012-05-14 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Yay! Congrats to the team! Looking forward to trying out 4.8.3. Cheers, DMK On May 12, 2012 11:01:14 PM Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: Max Brazhnikov m...@freebsd.org writes: I've updated patches: http://people.freebsd.org/~makc/patches/kde-4.8.3-20120513.diff

Re: [kde-freebsd] Kmail 4.8.3 problem

2012-05-29 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On May 29, 2012 02:27:00 PM Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: Dwayne MacKinnon d...@ncf.ca writes: I configured kmail with my IMAP account, and here's where I ran into problems. Although everything appears fine with the account, it doesn't show up in the Folder panel. All that's

Re: [kde-freebsd] Akonadi/mysqld problems

2012-05-30 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Done some further digging: It appears that something is going on with the db connections between mysqld and akonadi. The net_read_timeout value is being invoked, somehow. Basically, under the default value, 30, 30 seconds after you start up akonadi mysqld kills all the connections. Akonadi

Re: [kde-freebsd] Akonadi/mysqld problems

2012-06-12 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On June 13, 2012 03:51:03 AM Alberto Villa wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Dwayne MacKinnon d...@ncf.ca wrote: Done some further digging: Thanks! You're welcome! :D It appears that something is going on with the db connections between mysqld and akonadi. The net_read_timeout

Re: [kde-freebsd] Akonadi/mysqld problems

2012-06-14 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On June 14, 2012 01:10:05 PM Alberto Villa wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2012 09:59:26 Alberto Villa wrote: Found the problem. I was suspecting some kind of overflow, and in fact the working limit for wait_timeout here is 21474836, which is (2^31 - 1) / 100. I'm in contact with ale@,

Re: [kde-freebsd] Phonon won't play mp3

2012-07-08 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi, I don't have amarok installed, but Dragon Player plays mp3s for me just fine. I have Phonon using the gstreamer backend on kde-4.8.4 with up-to-date ports. (FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE i386). Have you tried forcing a re-install of all the gstreamer stuff? Cheers, DMK On July 8, 2012 10:53:33 AM

[kde-freebsd] Odd Kicker behaviour in KDE 3.5.7

2007-07-08 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi, I'm running 3.5.7 (upgraded from Ports) on FreeBSD i386 6.2-RELEASE. Since the upgrade, no matter how many konsoles I have open, Kicker won't group them. I use a lot of Konsoles, and the result is a very, very crowded kicker. This wasn't the case with 3.5.6 or previous. Any ideas on how I

Re: [kde-freebsd] Odd Kicker behaviour in KDE 3.5.7

2007-07-10 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On July 10, 2007 04:57:27 pm Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Sunday, 8. July 2007, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Hi, I'm running 3.5.7 (upgraded from Ports) on FreeBSD i386 6.2-RELEASE. Since the upgrade, no matter how many konsoles I have open, Kicker won't group them. I use a lot of Konsoles

[kde-freebsd] Problem with installation of kdebase-kompmgr-3.5.8

2007-10-31 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, Ran into a problem with the newest kompmgr when installing 3.5.8. I'm running 6.2-RELEASE-p8 on i386. Here's the error message: == Checking if x11-wm/kompmgr already installed cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/kompmgr/work/kdebase-3.5.8/kwin/kompmgr install -c -p '' -o root -g wheel -m 555

[kde-freebsd] Problems with KDE 3.5.8

2008-03-26 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hello, I'm running KDE 3.5.8 on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Last night I did a ports upgrade, and ever since my KDE experience has gone completely downhill. Most times that I open a window, it's in shutter mode. Every time I switch windows or virtual desktops, my cpu goes down 50%. Same thing happens

[kde-freebsd] hal-0.5.11.r2_4 does not play nice with /usr/sbin/moused

2008-03-28 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
vanished. Anyways, not sure if this is worth raising a PR about, but I wanted the two big desktop communities to know. A note in /usr/ports/UPDATING might be prudent. Cheers, Dwayne MacKinnon -- I can't afford to make any exceptions. Once word leaks out that a pirate has gone soft people start

[kde-freebsd] Can't automount without being root

2008-03-28 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
as a member of both the wheel and operator groups. Cheers, Dwayne MacKinnon ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd

Re: [kde-freebsd] Can't automount without being root

2008-03-28 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
- Original Message - From: George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, March 28, 2008 3:11 pm Subject: Re: Can't automount without being root Dwayne MacKinnon writes: Hi folks, I'm using KDE-3.5.8 on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Since the HAL upgrade I can't automount

Re: [kde-freebsd] Can't automount without being root

2008-03-31 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
: On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 13:33 -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: I'm using KDE-3.5.8 on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Since the HAL upgrade I can't automount as an ordinary user anymore. I get the following error message in Konqueror: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable

[kde-freebsd] Problem building textproc/redland when building kde4

2008-06-23 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, Just wanted to mention this: the redland build will break if db41 is installed, even if db42 is installed as well. I think that the linkage picks up the db41 stuff first somehow. Cheers, Dwayne MacKinnon ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde

Re: [kde-freebsd] [HEADS UP] KDE4 - Call for Testing Part 1

2008-07-17 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On July 17, 2008 12:37:45 pm Martin Wilke wrote: 3) kdebase-workspace requires qt-phonon, but it's not listed as a dependency. I'm believe that we're going to make qt-phonon and phonon conflict, yes? Please deinstall qt4-phonon stuff that is at the moment different from kde4 phonon.

[kde-freebsd] KWallet problems continued

2009-01-20 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, So, I decided that my problem might have been my aborted attempt to install the 4.2 beta. So, I used pkg_delete on all my KDE 4.1.4 packages, did an rm - Rf on /usr/local/kde4 and started over. My problem now is this message: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libkio.so.5 not found,

[kde-freebsd] KDE 4.2 Observations

2009-02-09 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, Installed 4.2 using Area51 ports last night. Everything built properly with no difficulties that I could see. A few observations: (I'm running 7.1-RELEASE i386). 1) The kdemerge script (Tools/scripts/kdemerge) has the unfortunate side-effect of wiping out all other files in

Re: [kde-freebsd] KDE 4.2 Observations

2009-02-09 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On February 9, 2009 11:29:55 am Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Quick follow-up: The kopete notifications thing is a known issue. Cheers, DMK Hi all, Installed 4.2 using Area51 ports last night. Everything built properly with no difficulties that I could see. A few observations: (I'm running 7.1

Re: [kde-freebsd] KDE 4.2 Observations

2009-02-09 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi Martin, Yes, dbus hal are both running. Cheers, DMK On February 9, 2009 11:35:49 am you wrote: dbus and hal right started? On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:29:55AM -0500, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Hi all, Installed 4.2 using Area51 ports last night. Everything built properly

[kde-freebsd] Problems with Juk 3.2.1

2009-02-09 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi folks, Running KDE 4.2 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE i386. I'm running into some odd problems with Juk 3.2.1 ,and I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing them. 1) It will only play one song when Play is pressed. 2) The Jump to the currently playing item button doesn't work. 3) While the song

[kde-freebsd] Juk 3.2.1 problem solved; Desktop effects problem

2009-02-12 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, Well, I upgraded a second box to 4.2, this time using the committed ports. I ran into the same problem with juk that I'd encountered before. I continued experimenting though, and found that the problem went away when I switched phonon to use the gstreamer back-end instead of the xine

Re: [kde-freebsd] Juk 3.2.1 problem solved; Desktop effects problem

2009-02-12 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
be fooling around with it when I get home. Cheers, DMK On February 12, 2009 11:18:00 am Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Hi all, Well, I upgraded a second box to 4.2, this time using the committed ports. I ran into the same problem with juk that I'd encountered before. I continued experimenting though

Re: [kde-freebsd] Plasma crashes caused by Kopete

2009-02-16 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On February 16, 2009 04:37:15 pm Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: The same problem was reported to this list by Dwayne MacKinnon on 9th February. I have seen no mention of such issues on kopete-devel, so this likely is FreeBSD-specific. I have a debug build of Kopete HEAD but have not had

Re: [kde-freebsd] Testing KDE 4.2

2009-02-17 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On February 17, 2009 02:20:28 pm Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: Yes, you can have both installed at the same time. The only thing I don't know about is where KDE4 writes its configuration to - I installed it a couple of days ago but have not run it yet. If it uses ~/.kde, then you want to log out

Re: [kde-freebsd] Plasma crashes caused by Kopete

2009-02-17 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On February 17, 2009 09:30:57 am Matt wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Matt datahe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Dwayne MacKinnon d...@ncf.ca wrote: On February 16, 2009 04:37:15 pm Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: The same problem was reported to this list

[kde-freebsd] KDE 4.2.1 breaks juk

2009-03-13 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi folks, I've run into this problem on two boxes now: I've upgraded to KDE 4.2.1, using phonon and the gstreamer backend. (I can never seem to get the xine backend to work; it seems to have some problems with devfs.) Both boxes are running 7.1-RELEASE on i386. On both boxes I installed

Re: [kde-freebsd] changing host's domain name resul ts in kde slow start ?

2009-04-24 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On April 24, 2009 03:29:44 am Dan wrote: Hi, I setup the machine's domain name when I first installed FreeBSD. I then built software for that laptop, including kde 3.5. I then changed the domain name. It seems that changing it yields a slower kde startup ( it waits some moments before

Re: [kde-freebsd] Konqueror Unusable

2009-05-19 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On May 19, 2009 12:50:25 pm David Naylor wrote: Hi, I've installed KDE4 from ports over the weekend and strangely Konqueror doesn't work properly. First was that the mouse middle click didn't open the link in a new tab (or do anything). I solved that by disabling gestures for Konqueror.

Re: [kde-freebsd] USB mount

2009-07-17 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On July 17, 2009 10:04:30 am Rich Winkel wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:00:56PM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: On Thursday 16 July 2009 10:31:39 Rich Winkel wrote: Has anyone gotten automatic user mount of USB drives to work under KDE? I'm running 3.5.10 under freebsd 7.1. The instructions

[kde-freebsd] Headsup: boost-python moved to boost-python-libs

2009-07-29 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi folks, Just wanted to warn everyone: the boost-python port has been changed to boost- python-libs. This is a bit inconvenient for us, as akonadi relies on boost- python. If you use portupgrade, you should be able to accomplish it by doing a portupgrade -o devel/boost-python-libs

Re: [kde-freebsd] Headsup: boost-python moved to boost-python-libs

2009-07-29 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Martin Wilke wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 02:08:40PM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Hi folks, Just wanted to warn everyone: the boost-python port has been changed to boost- python-libs. This is a bit inconvenient for us, as akonadi relies

Re: [kde-freebsd] FreeBSD ports that you maintain whic h are currently scheduled for deletion

2009-08-21 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On Fri August 21 2009 07:06:30 am Hannes Hauswedell wrote: multimedia/qt4-phonon actually works as replacement for kde? Something special I need to do? And what about multimedia/phonon-xine, will that now work with multimedia/qt4-phonon? Thanks, Hannes Hannes, You need to read

[kde-freebsd] Curious about 4.9

2012-08-31 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, This is not a complaint, I'm just curious. How's KDE SC 4.9 shaping up? Are we thinking of waiting for 4.9.1, as it should be out in a week or so? Thanks again for all the hard work! Cheers, DMK ___ kde-freebsd mailing list

Re: [kde-freebsd] KDEPIM4 error

2013-02-05 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
You're not the only one. I'm seeing the same type of errors in libkolabxml on 9.1-RELEASE, both i386 and amd64. My ports tree is up to date as of today. I've captured logs of the errors I've seen using both clang gcc, with MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE defined. If anyone wants them let me know. Cheers,

Re: [kde-freebsd] KDEPIM4 error

2013-02-05 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hey Oliver, Thanks for the tip. Setting LANG to C allowed me to get libkolabxml to compile and install. Cheers, DMK On February 5, 2013 08:26:18 PM Oliver Heesakkers wrote: Op ma 04 feb 2013 16:47:20 schreef Derrick Dantavious Edwards: Hi, I was wondering if I am the only one

[kde-freebsd] Small regression in KDE SC 4.9.5

2013-02-11 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi folks, First of all, thank you to the kde-freebsd team for all the work on 4.9.5. I really appreciate it, as KDE has been my preferred desktop for ages and I really enjoy having it on FreeBSD. 4.9.5 seems pretty solid, but I've noticed a small regression.This may be upstream, I'm unsure.

[kde-freebsd] www/choqok broken

2013-06-21 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hey all, I've been following this bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264091 as choqok stopped working due to Twitter retiring v1.0 of their API. A hard working programmer named Daniel Kreuter has managed to fix things up. It's unclear when there will be a choqok release with these fixes.

Re: [kde-freebsd] KMAIL Install Guide in Command line.

2013-08-07 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
This list is specifically for KDE on the FreeBSD operating system. For ubuntu assistance you'll have to look elsewhere, sorry. Cheers, DMK On 05/08/2013 1:21 AM, vishnu10...@iiitdmj.ac.in wrote: Hi, I want to install KMAIL on ubuntu server, so that mails can be encrypted and decrypted with

[kde-freebsd] Update Choqok to 1.4

2013-11-05 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi folks, Has anyone considered updating Choqok to version 1.4? It was released a while back. I've managed to get it working on 9.1-RELEASE using the existing 1.3 patches. Just updated the Makefile the distinfo. Not really sure the best way to update pkg-plist... I'll have to do some more

[kde-freebsd] Weird KDE VirtualBox problem

2014-02-28 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, I recently upgraded my amd64 box to FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE so that I could get the new amd kms drivers and move up to KDE 4.11/4.12. I've discovered an odd bug when running VirtualBox (emulators/virtualbox-ose) under the current KDE. Namely, it won't work. When I attempt to launch

[kde-freebsd] Akonadi problems after upgrading to 4.12

2014-03-19 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, I'm running a few boxes with KDE. This upgrade hasn't gone all that well. On my 10.0-RELEASE amd64 box, I keep having things fail with SIGABRT. For example, Choqok will unexpectedly exit while updating my twitter feed. Once it happens, it keeps happening for a while. If I try to open

[kde-freebsd] Problem with device mounting

2014-04-15 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, I'm running the latest KDE from ports on FreeBSD 10-RELEASE amd64. For some reason, my removable media isn't showing up in KDE. I've run solid-hardware -list ; the usb drive is there. I've run hald in --- no-daemon mode; everything seems normal. I've run dbus-monitor --system; I can

[kde-freebsd] Problems after latest upgrade

2014-10-27 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone here has seen (or can reproduce) the following two problems before I go make bug reports: 1) juk won't play ogg vorbis files. It will play mp3 just fine, but since the upgrade it won't play vorbis. 2) I can't use sftp with dolphin. It gives an error message:

Re: [kde-freebsd] Problems after latest upgrade

2014-10-27 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
wondering is this: is there something about how we're compiling the code now that is causing this problem? Could this be a clang vs gcc thing? Cheers, DMK On October 27, 2014 02:28:53 PM Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone here has seen (or can reproduce) the following two

Re: [kde-freebsd] after update to KDE 4.14.2: Virtual desktops Cube Animation not working

2014-10-28 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi Matthias, In System Settings-Desktop Effects under Simple effect setup is a pulldown menu for Effect for desktop switching. You can select Desktop Cube Animation there. I'm running 4.14.2 myself on FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE with Desktop Cube. Cheers, DMK On October 28, 2014 03:24:41 PM

Re: [kde-freebsd] Problems after latest upgrade

2014-10-30 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On October 27, 2014 02:28:53 PM Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone here has seen (or can reproduce) the following two problems before I go make bug reports: 1) juk won't play ogg vorbis files. It will play mp3 just fine, but since the upgrade it won't play vorbis

Re: [kde-freebsd] KDE 4.12.5 or 4.14.2: no jingle when KDE comes up

2014-11-03 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
On November 3, 2014 11:34:11 AM Jerry wrote: On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 13:18:03 -0200, brunomaxi...@openmailbox.org stated: Em 2014-11-03 10:10, Matthias Apitz escreveu: El día Monday, November 03, 2014 a las 12:23:37PM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: Hello, Since 4.12.5 and

[kde-freebsd] security/pinentry-qt4

2014-11-20 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon
Hi all, The security/pinentry port has been upgraded to 0.90 and simultaneously the qt4 frontend has been disabled with an IGNORE line. The port won't compile with /usr/lib/libc++.so. Fair enough. The thing is, pinentry has become much more important in recent iterations of KDE. For example,

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