kde December 2009

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Incorrectly sized logoff box
by Dave Ulrick 26 Dec '09

26 Dec '09

Hi, Ever since I went to KDE 4.x on Fedora 10 (I've since upgraded to KDE 4.3.3 on Fedora 11), the box I see when I ask to log off KDE via <right-click>Leave has looked strange. A large white power-off symbol (similar to a "U" with a vertical bar in the middle) is superimposed on top of vertically stacked buttons that read "Logoff", "Turn Off Computer", and "Restart Computer". On an alternate userid, the box appears to be twice as wide with the white power-off symbol over to the left of the stacked buttons. This smells like a corrupted "rc" file of some kind that contains incorrect window geometry, but my efforts to 'find' or 'grep' for the appropriate file under ~/.kde/ haven't turned up anything. Any idea of what I can do to fix this? Thanks, Dave -- Dave Ulrick Email: d-ulrick(a)comcast.net

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kde-plasma-ihatethecashew-0.4-1.fc11.i586
by Dave Ulrick 26 Dec '09

26 Dec '09

Hi, I've just opened a bug report regarding a new problem with the ihatethecashew plasmoid: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550630 I'm running Fedora 11 and KDE 4.3.3 with the latest patches, although I've rolled back to kernel 2.6.30.9-102 pending shipment of the nvidia kmod for the new 2.6.30.10-105 kernel. After installing the kde-plasma-ihatethecashew-0.4-1.fc11.i586 RPM via kpackagekit's Software Update and rebooting (due to a new kernel), I saw a message on the KDE desktop that said something about a plasmoid not being found. I removed the message. Due to a (unrelated?) problem with video artifacts (missing/incorrect colors), I decided to reboot to the previous kernel. This resolved my video problem. I then noticed that the "beloved" cashew was visible at the upper-right of the KDE desktop. I attempted to add the ihatethecashew widget, but this failed with an error message: This object could not be created for the following reason: Could not find requested component: ihatethecashew Any suggestions on how I might proceed to troubleshoot/resolve this problem? Thanks, Dave -- Dave Ulrick Email: d-ulrick(a)comcast.net

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NOTE: KDE SC 4.4 Beta 2 (aka 4.2.85) is coming to kde-redhat/unstable shortly
by Eike Hein 25 Dec '09

25 Dec '09

As the subject says, the KDE SIG is currently preparing KDE SC 4.4 Beta 2 (aka 4.3.85) for inclusion in kde-redhat's un- stable repository, just as a heads up as not to catch any- one off-guard. -- Best regards, Eike Hein

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Forgive the Dumb Question
by Eli Wapniarski 25 Dec '09

25 Dec '09

Hi all Could somebody please tell me which package contains the copy to & move to context menu items. I've had the opportunity to install a fresh install of Fedora 12 and for the life of me I can't seem to remember nor recognize the package name. Thanks Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Problem with Update from Fedora 11 to Fedora 12
by Eli Wapniarski 24 Dec '09

24 Dec '09

Hi Bug report already filed at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550384 Just performed an upgrade on one of my machines from fedora 11 to 12. The update to kde-filesystem-4-30.fc12.noarch.rpm failed Yum reported error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/doc/HTML/de/docs/common: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory I downloaded and tried to install the file manually with the same result. I then deleted: /usr/share/doc/HTML/de And tried again with the message: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/docs/common: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory I then removed the folder /usr/share/doc/HTML/ru All was well when I tried to install again. Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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24 Dec '09

Hi, When I boot into KDE (v. 4.3.85) on rawhide I've to try two times to get in. This only happens when I boot or restart my computer. Log out/in works okay. In /var/log/message I see: Dec 24 10:47:31 ps-1866 kdm: :0[1426]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Method "OpenSessionWithParameters" with signature "a(sv)" on interface "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager" doesn't exist Dec 24 10:47:31 ps-1866 kdm: :0[1426]: Client start failed Dec 24 10:47:31 ps-1866 kdm: :0[1426]: Cannot close ConsoleKit session: Unable to close session: no session open Dec 24 11:11:04 ps-1866 kdm[2904]: Cannot lock pid file /var/run/kdm/kdm.pid, another xdm is running (pid 1353) Does anyone else experience this or do I miss something? Thanks, Martin Kho

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screensaver question
by Neal Becker 24 Dec '09

24 Dec '09

I can get my screen to blank using either of 2 methods. Either via settings/Screensaver (on the app menu, not system settings menu), which brings XScreenSaver, or I could configure this in powerdevil. Which is preferred? I think the screensaver route is better, because some players know how to deactivate the screensaver, but don't seem to know about powerdevil. But, that's yet-another-daemon. I think this can be confusing.

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Fedora 12 spontaneously suspending
by Orion Poplawski 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

Has anyone here had trouble with F12 spontaneously suspending? Esp. a couple minutes after coming out of suspend. I have a couple users with this issue, and I haven't been able to figure out what is triggering it. - Orion

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beatify [sic] :-)) notes & weather/opendesktop plasmoids
by Petrus de Calguarium 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

1. Is there a way to beautify the notes plasmoid? All of the plasmoids have nice edges with rounded corners and pleasant shadows, but notes is all crooked, has no edging and no shadows. It simply does not harmonize with the other plasmoids at all and looks ugly alongside other plasmoids on the desktop. 2. Also, when speaking of plasmoids and aesthetics: The weather forecast plasmoid (neither yawp nor the lcd one) has the buttons mixed up, showing a button to press on the page that is shown and showing a depressed button on the page that one needs to click to, ie., they are backwards. The opendesktop plasmoid, the first of the two, makes the identical error, of using the depressed button for the page that is to be clicked on and the clickable button for the page that is actually being displayed -- again, the buttons are reversed.

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Rawhide performance tracker
by Gerwin Krist -|- Digitalus Webhosting & Webdesign 23 Dec '09

23 Dec '09

Hi guys, It's a little bit offtopic but in-directly it's related to KDE it's performance though :-) But it seems that they guys on phoronix are monitoring fedora 13 (rawhide) perfomance on a daily base now. You can read more on http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzgzNQ and http://www.phoromatic.com/fedora-tracker.php I'm curious for the results as F13 is evolving .... -- Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, Gerwin Krist Technical Manager Digitalus Webhosting First-class Internet Webhosting Web: http://www.digitalus.nl E-mail: gerwin at digitalus.nl Tel.: +31 (0) 598 630000 Fax: +31 (0) 598 631860 BOFH Wisdom: Collapsed Backbone *************************************************************************************** This message may contain information which is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message and any attachments without retaining a copy. ***************************************************************************************

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