Login background change
by Anne Wilson
Currently when I log in I get the solar backdrop. How can I change this to
leonidas?
Anne
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Automatic upgrade - incomplete kde?
by Anne Wilson
I allowed the automatic update on the netbook last night. All seemed to go
well up to and including the message that it was finishing off the install.
When next I looked I had a black screen with a white square cursor. I left
this overnight, in case something was still running in the background, but it
wasn't.
A reboot brought the same display. I was able to get a level3 login, both as
user and root. Can someone advise me where to look now? Thanks
Anne
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Re: Minor dovecot/KMail problem
by Kevin Kofler
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> You are going to find this difficult to believe,
> but I did not actually understand your reference to "upstream"
> in response to my query (I was the OP).
"Upstream" is literally where the water you're seeing in the river is coming
from. For software, it means where the software is coming from. (Is that
metaphor really that hard to comprehend? :-( ) So for KDE, that's the KDE
project. Reporting bugs upstream means reporting them in their bug tracker,
which is located at: https://bugs.kde.org/
Kevin Kofler
14 years, 10 months
system bell in konsole
by Orion Poplawski
How do I get konsole to output a system bell beep on a bell?
In System Settings -> System Bell I've checked use system bell, and the
test button makes a noise, but no effect on konsole.
konsole -> settings -> configure notifications doesn't seem to give the
option of using the system bell, and play sound -> browse just puts you
in your home directory which is kind of useless if you are looking for
system sounds.
Thanks!
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14 years, 10 months
fc10 x86_64 missing packages
by John Pilkington
Hi Rex,
I have 9 newish packages of 4.2.4 flavour that won't install - including
kdebase, kdebase-libs, kdm, kdeartwork. They need matching
kdebase-runtime and kdepimlibs, and ksysguardd looks more complicated.
Are these in the pipeline? I have 'stable' and 'testing' enabled.
Currently 'Upgrade all' proposes to revert some packages from 4.2.3 to 4.1.2
Thanks a lot,
John P
14 years, 10 months
Re: Minor dovecot/KMail problem
by Rex Dieter
Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 June 2009 01:41:07 Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> I know what distribution packagers do, I am a Fedora KDE packager. And we
>> ask users to report their bugs upstream unless there is evidence that
>> they're specific to Fedora. The vast majority of bugs which are reported
>> to us are NOT specific to Fedora, they're upstream bugs. Also note that
>> we don't even have that many patches, we try to stay as close to upstream
>> as possible.
>
> This is contrary to what I've been told.
It's not a black or white thing, and often depends on case-by-case factors,
including who you're dealing with, the severity of the issue at hand,
etc...
> I always recommend trying to ascertain whether other distros also see the
> problem, and to report it upstream if that seems to be so. If it is not
> possible to ascertain that I was told that it should in the first instance
> be reported to the distro, who will then pass it upstream if relevant.
Here's my quick $0.02:
When distro maintainers (fedora kde-sig) ask reporters to upstream issues,
it is usually at the point where it is strongly believed to not be a
distro-specific issue. For issues the team deams critical and
reproducible, sure, we'll usually take the reigns from there. Otherwise,
our usual sop is also, to ask reporters to upstream issues themselves. And
even then "Upstream" here sometimes has varying meanings, from "ask on
upstream mailing list" (similar to checking other distros) to reporting on
upstream bug trackers.
The moral of my story is to prevent issues languishing downstream
indefinitely, to avoid the kind of comment "this bug has been around
forever, why is it still a problem and not fixed?", which does no one any
good, esp when upstreams aren't made aware of the issues (which, by all
accounts so far, seems to be what happened here in this particular
dovecot/kmail case).
Hopefully this clarifies things, as I see it. I don't mind continuing to
discuss the details of how all this happens, and how best to share the
burdens of bug reporting, followup, reproducibility, triage, etc...
Actually, I'd invite such dialog, to make things better for everyone
involved.
14 years, 10 months
help
by Charles J Smith III
i'm new to fedora, let alone fedora 11.
i've installed the full version of fedora 11 and by default got the gnome desktop.
i've done teh yum install system-switch-desktopmanager and switched to kde
i've gone to and downloaded the kde package
i've restarted and get the kde login but when i log into my user i get only screen with a terminal box in the bottom right corner.
i've logged into to su, and cd /etc/sysconfig and nano my desktop file and it has desktop=kde and displaymanager=kde.
how do i get the kde desktop?
when i log out and log in as root, it works fine. only as the user do i get the terminal box.
please help.
charles
14 years, 10 months
F10 update problem?
by Thomas Davis
[root@localhost ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/fedora/all/stable/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/fedora/all/stable/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
Trying other mirror.
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kdeartwork.x86_64 0:4.2.4-1.fc10 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: kdebase-workspace >= 4.2.4 for package: kdeartwork-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64
---> Package kdeartwork-kxs.x86_64 0:4.2.4-1.fc10 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: kdebase-workspace >= 4.2.4 for package: kdeartwork-kxs-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64
---> Package kdeartwork-screensavers.x86_64 0:4.2.4-1.fc10 set to be updated
---> Package kdeartwork-sounds.noarch 0:4.2.4-1.fc10 set to be updated
---> Package kdeartwork-wallpapers.noarch 0:4.2.4-1.fc10 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
kdeartwork-kxs-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64 from kde has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: kdebase-workspace >= 4.2.4 is needed by package kdeartwork-kxs-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64 (kde)
kdeartwork-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64 from kde has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: kdebase-workspace >= 4.2.4 is needed by package kdeartwork-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64 (kde)
Error: Missing Dependency: kdebase-workspace >= 4.2.4 is needed by package kdeartwork-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64 (kde)
Error: Missing Dependency: kdebase-workspace >= 4.2.4 is needed by package kdeartwork-kxs-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64 (kde)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
14 years, 10 months
Dealing with fc10 packages in F11
by Anne Wilson
After the update I'm left with a number of fc10 packages. I can't find any
way of getting them upgraded to fc11 packages. I tried to install libiodbc,
to deal with the problems with akonadi and strigi, but that said that v.
3.52.6-4.fc10 would be installed from updates - after which it said that it
couldn't be found.
What do I need to do to sort this out?
Anne
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