March 2012 - kde - Fedora mailing-lists

nntp (aka, usenet) client in kde?
by Gene Smith 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

I currently use t-bird with an nntp account pointing to gmane to read this list and sereral others. Does kde have an nntp client program of any sort? I don't see it as a possible new account type in kmail. Also, search with kpackagekit yields nothing with "usenet" or "nntp" that is kde specific. -gene

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Kate not installed by default on Fedora 16
by Sonic 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

Hi.. I just found out that Kate was not installed by default on Fedora 16 even though I had selected 'KDE Software Development' during installation. KDevelop is installed, but not Kate. Was this a concious decision or a mistake? regards, Syam

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kde-4.8.2
by Rex Dieter 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

An initial batch of kde-4.8.2 builds are now available in f16/f17 kde- testing repos. So far so good, give it a whirl, and share how it goes (good or bad). -- rex

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Setting a protocol handler
by Patrick O'Callaghan 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

I'm trying to set up qbittorrent to handle magnet: links. I've searched high and low in KDE Settings to no avail. Note that these links don't usually have a distinguishing file extension. Instead they're flagged as magnet:... in the URL. I use Google Chrome, which is a GTK-oriented browser, so I also tried using gconf-editor to set this up. However the setting is completely ignored (the default is set to use transmission, but in fact clicking on a magnet link always fires up Ktorrent, which I don't want), so that seems to be out. I've also tried messing with the Chrome text config files, which are undocumented and obscure. The built-in Chrome settings widget is no help either. In short, I don't know if I'm in the right part of the forest. In fact I'm not sure I'm even in the right forest. Why is this stuff so hard? poc

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multiple screens
by Neal Becker 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

If I hook up a projector, it seems I get best results by choosing the default config (twinview, with projector on right). This is using nvidia driver. Having done this, my panel then jumps onto the right screen (the projector). Is there some way to avoid this? (Turning off the projector, my panel is now gone, which can be annoying).

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Sound Problem with USB Headphone
by Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hello, I'm running 64 bit Fedora 16 (All up to date) and gstreamer backend. Now the problem is: I was having no issues with sound whatsoever. But few days back I plugged in an USB headphone. That thing got proper sound and all but now I can't hear anything with it plugged in. I tried changing the order of the sound card (Internal, Manhattan,USB Audio) & looked into ALSA Mixer. But I just can't hear anything. And is there anyway to playback via XINE rather than gstreamer? I'm running KDE here. -- Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor Core Developer Intern, Diaspora <http://joindiaspora.com> Twitter - @Nirjhor <http://twitter.com/nirjhor>

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Changing kate syntax highlighting for .pro files
by Roderick Johnstone 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hi How can I change the mode of syntax highlighting that kate does for a file extension of .pro? I read the section on syntax highlighting in the kate handbook but am none the wiser. kde 4.8.1 (on F16) recognises files with extension .pro, for syntax highlighting purposes, as qmake files. This is shown by a checked radio button under in tools/highlighting/other/QMake when editing a file with this extension. Also, tools/mode/other/QMake is checked. I'd like to make kate activate tools/highlighting/sources/RSIIDL for syntax highlighting automatically for the .pro file extension instead since this file type is used by the Interactive Data Language (now owned by Excelis, but formerly by RSI, hence RSIIDL, to avoid a conflict with IDL the Interface Definition Language) for its language source files. I'd like to be able to make this change on a system-wide basis. Thanks for any pointers anyone can give. Roderick

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Copy file with Dolphin is slower
by Armelius Cameron 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Hi, I am always curious why copying file in Dolphin is always so much slower than just using command line. For example, for convenient I have an entry in my Dolphin to access my remote server via fish://username@servername. If I try to copy file from my local machine to the remove server, it shows transfer speed initially at 1.3Mib/s, and sometimes it drops to only hundreds of kb/s. When I try using scp, I get over 11MB/s, which makes sense since I'm on the Gbit LAN. Annectodally I've seen similar thing when copying large file over different disk partition or to external drive via dolphin or just command line 'cp'; cp is always faster. But I like to convenient of Dolphin so for smaller file size this is tolerable. But I'm curious still of the big performance difference. Thanks. AC

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Fedora 17 Beta RC1 desktop validation needed
by Adam Williamson 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Hey folks! By some miracle we've managed to get Fedora 17 Beta RC1 out almost on time: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/17-Beta.RC1/ As always, we need to do the desktop validation for it. See the desktop validation page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_17_Beta_RC1_Desktop And please, if you can, help us to fill in the results for your desktops. Desktop team, I know we didn't get 3.3.92 into Beta and sorry about that, but we do need to check it passes the validation tests - the ones for Beta aren't too difficult and shouldn't take long to do, so if you can help that'd be great. I have done a smoke test on all four desktops; they all boot okay to a sane looking desktop and successfully install to hard disk and boot from hard disk, so they're all clearly testable, not DOA. Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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virtuoso_t high CPU with Akonadi
by Armelius Cameron 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Hello, This starts happening after upgrading to KDE 4.8.1. I constantly see virtuoso_t using high CPU (~99%), and my laptop fan is constantly running at high speed. Google search landed me on this page: http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#High_CPU_or_Memory_usage So I tried closing kontact, then 'akonadictl stop', and virtuoso_t process is gone from 'top'. When I start akonadi and Kontact, it's back. I checked krunner config page as suggested, but I don't see those services as enabled in my plugins. I tried reboot, re-login, etc and virtuoso_t keeps coming back. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. AC

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kdm, sssd, kerberos keytab login
by Anthony Joseph Messina 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Is is possible to set up a system such that it can use KDM to auto login a user via KDM (or GDM if need be) using a local kerberos keytab? The underlying system will be a fully updated Fedora 16 or 17 host using SSSD and access Kerberized NFSv4 mount points. Thanks. -A -- Anthony - http://messinet.com - http://messinet.com/~amessina/gallery 8F89 5E72 8DF0 BCF0 10BE 9967 92DC 35DC B001 4A4E

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Alt-tab on kde 4.8.1
by Chris Rouch 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

I recently updated to kde 4.8.1 on fedora 16, and notice that Alt-Tab no longer works. In the settings window, I have this set to "walk through windows". The top half of this is greyed out with a message "Focus policy settings limit the functionality of navigating through windows.", but previously (kde 4.7.4) this action would raise the next window. The focus policy is "focus under mouse". Is there a way to make alt-tab work again? Regards, Chris

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Per-Window Opacity
by Armelius Cameron 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

Hello, There used to be a way to set per-window opacity from the Window advanced menu, but I can't find that anymore. Does anyone know what's happened to that ? I am using F-16 fully updated (kde-4.8.1) with Oxygen window theme. In the past, there was pre-defined opacity level (e.g. 100%, 90%, 70%, ... ) that I can select from. Thanks. AC

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Fastest mirror
by Timothy Murphy 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

I just came from Ireland to Italy, and was surprised that when I ran "sudo yum update" with the fastest_mirror plugin, it still used the same repo in Ireland for fedora-update, though I can't believe it would be the fastest in Italy. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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Timezones and SELinux...
by Marko Vojinovic 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Hi folks! Just updated my F16 to KDE 4.8.1, restarted the system in the latest kernel, and I am hitting a few issues. I've seen the same issues with KDE 4.7.*, but didn't complain, hoping that they'll go away... ;-) After the KDE update, both before and after the restart of the system (there was a new kernel as well), my timezone setting is wrong again --- it is set to Lisbon (GMT), which was my previous setting, rather than Belgrade (GMT+1) which was my current setting (prior to update). AFAIK, this should not happen unless I ask for the timezone change. Second, when I open systemsettings to change the timezone, after clicking "apply" and giving the root password, the timezone change fails, and SELinux gives an alert: ===== long quote ===== SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/kde4/kcmdatetimehelper from using the dac_override capability. ***** Plugin dac_override (91.4 confidence) suggests *********************** If you want to help identify if domain needs this access or you have a file with the wrong permissions on your system Then turn on full auditing to get path information about the offending file and generate the error again. Do Turn on full auditing # auditctl -w /etc/shadow -p w Try to recreate AVC. Then execute # ausearch -m avc -ts recent If you see PATH record check ownership/permissions on file, and fix it, otherwise report as a bugzilla. ***** Plugin catchall (9.59 confidence) suggests *************************** If you believe that kcmdatetimehelper should have the dac_override capability by default. Then you should report this as a bug. You can generate a local policy module to allow this access. Do allow this access for now by executing: # grep kcmdatetimehelp /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:gnomeclock_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Target Context system_u:system_r:gnomeclock_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Target Objects [ capability ] Source kcmdatetimehelp Source Path /usr/libexec/kde4/kcmdatetimehelper Port <Unknown> Host Yoda Source RPM Packages kde-workspace-4.8.1-6.fc16.x86_64 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.10.0-75.fc16.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name Yoda Platform Linux Yoda 3.2.10-3.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:39:46 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 1 First Seen Mon 19 Mar 2012 08:00:25 AM WET Last Seen Mon 19 Mar 2012 08:00:25 AM WET Local ID 6c829d68-d5d6-4696-b636-f6efa26b8b49 Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1332144025.273:73): avc: denied { dac_override } for pid=2173 comm="kcmdatetimehelp" capability=1 scontext=system_u:system_r:gnomeclock_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:system_r:gnomeclock_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=capability type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1332144025.273:73): arch=x86_64 syscall=access success=no exit=EACCES a0=1db33d8 a1=2 a2=200 a3=0 items=0 ppid=1 pid=2173 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm=kcmdatetimehelp exe=/usr/libexec/kde4/kcmdatetimehelper subj=system_u:system_r:gnomeclock_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) Hash: kcmdatetimehelp,gnomeclock_t,gnomeclock_t,capability,dac_override audit2allow #============= gnomeclock_t ============== allow gnomeclock_t self:capability dac_override; audit2allow -R #============= gnomeclock_t ============== allow gnomeclock_t self:capability dac_override; ===== end of long quote ===== Somehow I feel that I am not supposed to tweak SELinux policy in order to change my timezone setting. In the past I would put SELinux into permissive mode, change the timezone, and then re-enforce SELinux. But the issue keeps reappearing, so I don't believe that this is the right solution. Ideas? Best, :-) Marko

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claws-mail crashing with updated KDE on F16
by George Avrunin 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

I did a yum update yesterday and got a lot of kde 4.8.1 rpms (replacing mostly 4.7.4, I guess). Now claws-mail crashes every time I send a message (though the message does seem to get sent). Claws-mail didn't get updated, and it seems to work ok with gnome, so I assume the problem is the kde stuff. Claws shows a message at the bottom saying it's "Scanning folder avrunin(a)ext.math.umass.edu/Queue" (the account is avrunin(a)ext.math.umass.edu) and dies. I have sent off the abrt stuff (#804790 on bugzilla), but I'm hoping there's some known problem and I can either work around it or use rpms from updates-testing or the kde repos. Any suggestions will be appreciated. George

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Kmail two little questions
by Mario Santagiuliana 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

I update my kde pim package to new present in stable repo. Now I have kde 4.8.1. I must to delete and recreate my akonadi database. New version can't read old database. I must recreate all my email accounts and filters and I can retrieve my old emails. Now I have two problems: - some emails contain just the header but not the body message. This happen on email in local folder and some time on an imap account (gmail); - the filters are not apply every time kmail download new emails, I must do it manually... Do you have these problems? Have you got any suggestions? Thank you -- Mario Santagiuliana www.marionline.it

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Comic widget bug at new kde 4.8.1
by Gene Smith 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Now see this bug after latest upgrade to kde 4.8.1: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290239

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KMail search facility
by Timothy Murphy 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Now that KMail appears to be more or less stable on my laptop (touch wood), I'm looking at some less important features. I notice that there seem to be 2 search facilities, to look through folders: (1) there is a narrow Search window above the list of emails in the folder, and (2) there is a search facility Tools=>Find Messages. The former seems to work, but the second appears completely non-functional, eg I just searched for "the" in 1000 emails (choosing "Complete message") and got no response on pressing Search. There is no evidence in fact that any search is being made. This doesn't really matter, since one method works. But I wonder if the second method works for anyone? There has incidentally been some changes in the format of the Tools method, eg it looks (or claims to be looking) through the current folder, rather than through all folders. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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KMail working!
by Timothy Murphy 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

KMail seems to be working fine for me now on my Fedora-16 laptop. I saw there was a kdepim update which may have been responsible. But something else I did which seemed to have a dramatic effect was to yum-reinstall mysql and mysql-server. Akonadi seemed to take some time after this re-creating a database, which I don't recall it doing before, when moving to KMail2? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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Fwd: [Bug 295970] Magnet torrents don't save to the proper directory
by John Aldrich 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Just in case anyone else is wondering... it's supposedly fixed in KTorrent-4.2.0. As soon as that version is released from testing, I'll upgrade. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [Bug 295970] Magnet torrents don't save to the proper directory Date: Thu March 15 2012, 6:37:36 PM From: nucleo <nucleo(a)fedoraproject.org> To: jmaldrich(a)yahoo.com https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295970 --- Comment #2 from nucleo <nucleo(a)fedoraproject.org> --- ktorrent-4.2.0 along with kde-4.8.1 submitted to Fedora 16 updates. Please, test this update. -- You are receiving this mail because: You reported the bug. -----------------------------------------

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Re: smooth-tasks crashes plasma
by Rex Dieter 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

On 03/09/2012 02:02 AM, Eli Wapniarski wrote: > After upgrading from 4.8 to 4.8.1 smooth-tasks crashes plasma > Bug reported upstream: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295583 kde-plasma-smooth-tasks has been FTBFS (fails to build from source) for a long time in fedora, hasn't been (re)built since f15. Apparently, there may be a patch on it's kde-apps site, but no one's tested/imported/built it yet. I'll open a local bug to track it. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801762 -- rex

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f16 kde48 repo no more, use kde-testing instead
by Rex Dieter 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

since we've got kde-4.8.x in f16's updates-testing for a little while now, I took the liberty to: * clear out the dedicated kde48 repo (it's empty now) * put it all in f16/kde-testing repo instead and, if all goes well, we should get kde-4.8.x pushed to f16 stable updates before the end of the week. -- rex

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Re: KMail issues
by Rex Dieter 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

On 03/12/2012 01:28 AM, Eli Wapniarski wrote: > On Sunday 11 March 2012 12:24:17 Rex Dieter wrote: >> On 03/11/2012 11:42 AM, John Aldrich wrote: >>> I've reported this problem, but the developers don't seem to care about it >>> -- I regularly receive HTML messages and if I click on the link to render >>> the HTML and/or load external pictures, it will often cause KMail (Kmail >>> 2) to crash. >> >> For giggles, if you happen to have flash-plugin installed, to uninstall >> it (temporarily) if that helps? >> >> If so, you're experiencing a flash-plugin bug (fixed in 11.2beta and newer) >> > > Tried it Rex... External sources still crashing kmail :( OK, which bug is tracking this for you? the flash one was generally qtwebkit-related and/or https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286307 -- rex

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Re: yumbackend.py running every few minutes...?
by Rares Aioanei 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

On 03/13/2012 06:40 AM, Gene Smith wrote: > Since today's f16 update, yumBackend.py seem to being running 100% cpu > every few minutes. I think this also happened a few months ago but got > OK but now it seems to be back. > > OK, here's where it's described: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752564 > > I had set my kde apper check for update interval to "weekly" and that > "fixed" it. But now it doesn't care and just does the check every 5 > minutes regardless. > > -gene > It's PackageKit, most likely. Try running gpk-prefs. Best, -- Rares Aioanei

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Ktorrent + magnet links
by John Aldrich 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Any idea when/if the bug that exists in KTorrent with respect to NOT saving downloads in the correct directory will be fixed? Apparently it's a known bug, but no one seems to be worried about squishing it. It's saving in ~\apps\kio_magnet\ instead of the directory specified in the configs.

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F16: kde-plasma-daisy broken
by Reindl Harald 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

kde-plasma-daisy-0.0.4.25-2.fc15.x86_64 * no updated package for F16 available * applet does not work "component plasma_applet_daisy" not found can we have a update for this? ___________________________ kde-baseapps-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kde-baseapps-libs-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kde-filesystem-4-38.fc15.x86_64 kdegraphics-thumbnailers-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kde-i18n-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch kde-i18n-German-3.5.10-15.fc15.noarch kde-l10n-4.8.1-2.fc16.noarch kde-l10n-German-4.8.1-2.fc16.noarch kdelibs3-3.5.10-31.fc16.x86_64 kdelibs-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdelibs-common-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdemultimedia-common-4.8.1-1.fc16.noarch kdemultimedia-kio_audiocd-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdemultimedia-kmix-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdemultimedia-libs-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdenetwork-common-4.8.1-1.fc16.1.noarch kdenetwork-kdnssd-4.8.1-1.fc16.1.x86_64 kdenetwork-kget-4.8.1-1.fc16.1.x86_64 kdenetwork-kget-libs-4.8.1-1.fc16.1.x86_64 kdenetwork-kopete-4.8.1-1.fc16.1.x86_64 kdenetwork-kopete-libs-4.8.1-1.fc16.1.x86_64 kdenetwork-krfb-4.8.1-1.fc16.1.x86_64 kdenetwork-krfb-libs-4.8.1-1.fc16.1.x86_64 kdepimlibs-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdeplasma-addons-4.8.1-2.fc16.x86_64 kdeplasma-addons-libs-4.8.1-2.fc16.x86_64 kde-plasma-daisy-0.0.4.25-2.fc15.x86_64 kde-plasma-ihatethecashew-0.4-3.fc15.x86_64 kde-printer-applet-4.8.1-1.fc16.noarch kde-runtime-4.8.1-2.fc16.x86_64 kde-runtime-flags-4.8.1-2.fc16.noarch kde-runtime-libs-4.8.1-2.fc16.x86_64 kdesdk-common-4.8.1-1.fc16.noarch kdesdk-kcachegrind-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdesdk-kioslave-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdesdk-kmtrace-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdesdk-kmtrace-libs-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdesdk-kompare-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdesdk-kompare-libs-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdesdk-kpartloader-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdesdk-okteta-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdesdk-okteta-libs-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 kdesdk-scripts-4.8.1-1.fc16.noarch kde-settings-4.7-14.fc16.noarch kde-settings-kdm-4.7-14.fc16.noarch kde-settings-ksplash-4.7-14.fc16.noarch kde-settings-plasma-4.7-14.fc16.noarch kde-settings-pulseaudio-4.7-14.fc16.noarch kdesvn-1.5.5-3.fc15.x86_64 kdeutils-common-4.8.1-1.fc16.noarch kdewebdev-3.5.10-11.fc16.x86_64 kdewebdev-libs-3.5.10-11.fc16.x86_64 kde-workspace-4.8.1-2.fc16.x86_64 kde-workspace-libs-4.8.1-2.fc16.x86_64 lockdev-1.0.3-10.fc16.x86_64 lovelock-backgrounds-kde-14.91.1-1.fc16.noarch lovelock-kde-theme-14.91.0-2.fc16.noarch polkit-kde-0.99.0-3.fc16.x86_64 pykde4-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 qalculate-kde-0.9.7-3.fc15.x86_64 qtcurve-kde4-1.8.11-1.fc16.x86_64 subversion-kde-1.6.17-5.fc16.x86_64 verne-backgrounds-kde-15.92.1-1.fc16.noarch verne-kde-theme-15.91.0-1.fc16.noarch

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KMail even worse
by Timothy Murphy 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Is anyone except me still using KMail? The recent enormous yum-update (600MB in my case) of Fedora-16/KDE seems to have left KMail in an even more unstable state. It crashes perhaps half the times I use it, and what is worse, it has developed a habit of not crashing, but simply disappearing. I see nothing reported in /var/log/messages after these episodes. I tried sending the error (backtrace) as suggested after one crash, but as far as I could see KDE bugzilla was out of action at the time. Am I alone in thinking that Fedora, and in particular KDE, is becoming too complicated? There seem to me to be too many interacting applications which depend on each other for survival. The idea of a single program that does one thing (and does it well) seems to have gone out of fashion. I see that in Italy they have a Minister of (or for) Simplification. I wish there were something like that in KDE. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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Custom workspace arrangement?
by Marko Vojinovic 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Hi everyone! :-) I have configured eight virtual desktops (or workspaces, or whatever they are called) on my stock up-to-date F16 KDE. They are automatically arranged in 2x4 fashion, two rows with four columns in the pager. I want a 1x8 geometry, so that there is no desktop "above" or "below" the current one. I can configure the pager to display the desktops in this fashion, but the rest of KDE somehow still "knows" that desktop 5 is "below" desktop 1. This is visible when switching desktops via the keyboard, or using some 3D desktop effects, or otherwise. So, how do I configure KDE to arrange my desktops into a 1x8 geometry? The point is that I want to use right/left screen edge to move to the next/previous desktop, but I do *not* want anything to happen when I hit the top/bottom screen edge. However, I cannot configure screen edge action separately for each edge, and OTOH I cannot arrange eight desktops so that there is no desktop above/below the current one. I'd appreciate any pointers on how to disentangle this mess. ;-) Best, :-) Marko

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KDE 4.8.1 update: kwin crashing
by Patrick O'Callaghan 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Last night I noticed a lot of 4.8.* rpms in updates-testing, so I decided to have go: sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update "KDE Software Compilation" Now I find that Kwin crashes on login, leaving me without a window manager, and hence unable even to focus on a console window. Kwin is from kde-workspace-4.8.1-2.fc16.x86_64. The problem occurs even when I rename .kde and try again. Writing this from FVWM (which is very functional and fast BTW :-) poc

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Re: KMail issues
by Rex Dieter 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

On 03/11/2012 12:31 PM, Eli Wapniarski wrote: > Nah... thats not it. I get this happening with lots of different sources. Tech > Republic, CNET etc. It more than likely a problem that has its bases in > Konqueror. But thats just a wild guess. don't guess. It actually solves one large class of "kmail crashes on html mail", really. :) -- rex > On Sunday 11 March 2012 12:24:17 Rex Dieter wrote: >> On 03/11/2012 11:42 AM, John Aldrich wrote: >>> I've reported this problem, but the developers don't seem to care about it >>> -- I regularly receive HTML messages and if I click on the link to render >>> the HTML and/or load external pictures, it will often cause KMail (Kmail >>> 2) to crash. >> >> For giggles, if you happen to have flash-plugin installed, to uninstall >> it (temporarily) if that helps? >> >> If so, you're experiencing a flash-plugin bug (fixed in 11.2beta and newer) >> >> -- rex >> _______________________________________________ >> kde mailing list >> kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde >> New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org >

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KMail issues
by John Aldrich 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

I've reported this problem, but the developers don't seem to care about it -- I regularly receive HTML messages and if I click on the link to render the HTML and/or load external pictures, it will often cause KMail (Kmail 2) to crash. Of course, since I don't have the debugging symbols loaded, it doesn't do a darn bit of good to click on "report" especially as it seems to not want to interface with bugs.kde.org. :( IIRC someone said it has to do with the app that is being used to render the HTML, but that it was hard-coded so couldn't be changed. Anyone know if this is the case or if there's a "fix" in the works?

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akonadi issues with 4.8.1
by Christos Lazaridis 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Anyone else getting messages like these? "Unknown error. (Unable to fetch item from backend)" When starting plasma-desktop or kontact such entries show up in .xsession-errors: > plasma-desktop(7084)/libakonadi > Akonadi::EntityTreeModelPrivate::fetchJobDone: Job error: "Unknown error. > (Unable to fetch item from backend)" for collection: 161 They started showing up after the 4.8.1 update. Was ok with 4.8.0. Christos. -- .................................................................. :: Christos Lazaridis +41 76 26 82453 ( cell ) :: :: CERN/EN-MEF-LE (530 R-014) +41 22 76 62789 ( office ) :: :: Machines & Experimental Facilities Group :: :: http://chrislaz.net :: :: :: :: There is still something in everything I do that defeats me, :: :: makes me dissatisfied, challenges me to further effort. :: :: Sometimes I rise above my level, sometimes I fall below it, :: :: but always I fall short of the things I dream. :: :: ~ H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau :: ..................................................................

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smooth-tasks crashes plasma
by Eli Wapniarski 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Hi After upgrading from 4.8 to 4.8.1 smooth-tasks crashes plasma Bug reported upstream: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295583 Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Analog Clock Causing Weird Problems
by Richard Heck 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi, all, If I put the analog clock widget on my desktop, then I get a series of errors when KDE starts, viz: Mar 8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2855]: module-udev-detect.c: inotify_init1() failed: Too many open files Mar 8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2855]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-udev-detect" (argument: ""): initialization failed. Mar 8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2855]: main.c: Module load failed. Mar 8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2855]: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. Mar 8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2853]: main.c: Daemon startup failed. repeating several times. I know this sounds crazy, but it is absolutely reproducible. Even if the clock is the only widget on the desktop, I get these errors, plus a dialog box asking me if certain sound devices should be removed since they weren't found. This is with KDE 4.7.4 on an up-do-date F16. The issue has been around since about 23 February, when I reported the problem on the Fedora list http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2012-February/414329.html though I didn't know its cause then. So it must have been caused by some update around that time. Richard

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fedora-kde48 update error
by Neal Becker 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Error: Package: 7:kdenetwork-kget-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 (fedora-kde48) Requires: libktorrent.so.3()(64bit) Available: libktorrent-1.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64 (fedora) libktorrent.so.3()(64bit) Available: libktorrent-1.1.3-2.fc16.x86_64 (updates) libktorrent.so.3()(64bit) Installed: libktorrent-1.2-0.1rc1.fc16.x86_64 (@fedora-kde48) Not found

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KDE backlight control - backlighthelper not running?
by Maciek Borzęcki 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

I'm seeing an odd issue with KDE and screen backlight control. I'm running Thinkpad T60, with KDE 4.7 (from updates) and unfortunately the backlight control does not work. Pressing Fn+Home/Fn+End does not seem to have any effect. I normally have to tweak hotkey mask to something like 0xffffff in order to have the proper key events appear, and it does work but only in Gnome and Xfce. Before anyone suggests reinstalling bash, I've already done it (otherwise it wouldn't work in Xfce). Looking at the logs: - kded debugs: kded(2495) PowerDevil::BackendLoader::loadBackend: Loading UPower backend... kded(2495) PowerDevil::BackendLoader::loadBackend: Success! kded(2495) KDEDPowerDevil::init: Backend loaded, loading core kded(2495) PowerDevil::Core::loadCore: Core loaded, initializing backend kded(2495) PowerDevilUPowerBackend::brightness: Screen brightness: 0 <---- why is current brightness 0? kded(2495) PowerDevilUPowerBackend::init: current screen brightness: 0 kded(2495) PowerDevilUPowerBackend::init: Can suspend kded(2495) PowerDevilUPowerBackend::init: Can hibernate kded(2495) PowerDevil::Core::onBackendReady: Backend is ready, KDE Power Management system initialized - messages - nothing about backlight helper being activated - .xsession-errors - nothing related Since it does not work with 4.7 from updates, I updated to 4.8 from kde48 repo. Unfortunately, with similar results. As a last resort I checked with KDE live spin, and amazingly, backlight control works. So something between the current version of packages and the one from live KDE spin, things got broken. Correct me if I'm wrong, but looking at the code, I see that in order to control the backlight, there's a helper program (/usr/libexec/kde4/backlighthelper) which starts through dbus activation, and exposes brigthness, setbrigthness methods. I take that once started the demon should remain running at lest for some time. Now in KDE spin, that happens to be the case, I can clearly see backlighthelper process listed in ps output (there are also logs in messages, that activation of backlighthelper was successful). However, right now, no such log is to be found, as if for some reason backlight helper does not get started. Any ideas on how to proceed with debugging this? Thanks, -- Maciek Borzecki

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ksysguard on F17 Alpha Live
by T.C. Hollingsworth 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Did ksysguard get dropped from the F17 live image on purpose? (Hard to believe since it's only 354K.) Or was it never there to begin with and I just don't remember installing it manually before? I ask mainly because I recall something else accidentally got lost due to the recent packaging split. ksysguard isn't strictly needed on the live image IMHO because the process viewer in krunner suits most people just fine. Thanks, T.C.

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tracker in KDE
by Martin (KDE) 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hallo Yesterday I upgraded from F15 to F16. This went smoothly (almost) but after the restart there were ugly processes running and tacking much of the CPU power: tracker-* AFAIK these processes are the "nepomuk" part of gnome and I don't need them. Why are the tracker processes activated in a typical KDE environment? Martin

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KDE-SIG meeting report (09/2012)
by Jaroslav Reznik 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the topics that were discussed. If you want to add a comment please reply to this email or add it to the related meeting page. = Weekly KDE Summary = Week: 09/2012 Time: 2012-02-28 15:00 UTC Meeting page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2012-02-28 Meeting minutes: http://bit.ly/xldRuU Meeting log: http://bit.ly/AetIRK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ = Participants = * jreznik * rdieter * rnovacek * Kevin_Kofler * than * ltinkl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ = Agenda = * topics to discuss: ** Fedora 17 alpha post-mortem ** touch interfaces, Fedora Active * recent bugs: ** #796969, f17 kde reboot does not work, leads back to kdm [1] == Summary == Fedora 17 Alpha post-mortem * KDM shutdown/restart issue present in Fedora 17 alpha, we are waiting for more feedback after f17 spread enough * ACTION: Kevin_Kofler to take a look on systemd support as original author of CK code, jreznik to help with * KDM also supports non-root session for greeter * ACTION: to check the possibility of setting it up f17 kde reboot does not work, leads back to kdm * kudos to Michal Schmidt for figuring it out * [2] update to be tested touch interfaces, Fedora Active * first try kickstart for Fedora Active * we will need package splits for touch interfaces (-mobile subpackages, kdepim, calligra...) * we need the separate kde-settings profile set up * ACTION: to check if the plasma-mobile patches are still needed 4.8.1 * ACTION: rdieter to prepare f17-kde koji target/tag * ACTION: jreznik to start updates when tarballs hits packagers ftp * AGREED: to backport kio_tar bugfix to f15 * ACTION: Kevin_Kofler to take care about backport = Next Meeting = http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2012-03-06 = Links = [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796969 [2] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kde-workspace-4.8.0-12.fc17 -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik(a)redhat.com> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/

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Anyone using Horos KDM theme?
by Ian Pilcher 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

If so, are the last few pixels of the last character of the hostname cut off? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784440 -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher arequipeno(a)gmail.com "If you're going to shift my paradigm ... at least buy me dinner first." ========================================================================

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