kde February 2013

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nntp (aka, usenet) client in kde?
by Gene Smith 08 Feb '20

08 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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Install Plasma Resources???
by Lester Petrie 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

I installed F18 last week, and now when I log in, I get a pop up message box with the subject as the title. The top line then says "Plasma requires an additional service for this operation". Then there is an icon with "script engine" out to the side. Finally, at the bottom, it says "The following service is required. Do you want to search for this now?", and a Continue button and a Cancel button. When I click on the Continue, it comes back with "Failed to search for Plasma service" as the top line, and a big yellow triangle with "Could not find service in any configured software source" There is a Close button that deletes the message box. What is it looking for? What do I do to make it quit coming up? The only other strange thing that I observe that might possibly be connected is that when I try to start yumex, it fails with a message YUM: The value for the SHELL variable was not found the /etc/shells file /etc/shells has all the entries that are in it on another machine where yumex works. -- Lester M Petrie

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kde-4.10.x plans
by Rex Dieter 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Turning into a FAQ so... KDE 4.10.0 is available for early adopters and testing on fedora 18, in kde- unstable repository. For details on how to access, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Testing . The Fedora KDE-SIG has tentative plans to wait for 4.10.1 release, in approximately one month, to seriously evaluate for release as an official update to fedora 18. follow us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fedora-KDE-Plasma-Workspaces/169934056512

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kde-4.10.x for f17 coming to kde-unstable
by Rex Dieter 10 Mar '13

10 Mar '13

Just finished up an initial batch of kde-4.10 builds for fedora 17 (finally). I plan on signing and pushing these to kde-unstable repo shortly. Same warning for these as for the prior f18 builds. These are for early adopters and testers only. In short, if you don't know how to manually downgrade things in case of trouble, I'd recommend you not touch this...yet. Let us know how it goes and what breaks. :) -- rex

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USB problems KDE-4.10/F18
by Colin J Thomson 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Hi, I have recently been having USB removable drive problems, on plugging in my camera or USB pen drive the device notifier does not pop up, if I click on the icon no devices are shown. Sometimes the pen drive can be accessed and it shows up in the device notifier but I am asked for my root password: "Authentication is required to mount /dev/mapper/mpathbp1" All was fine about a week ago so I guess some update has caused this problem. Any ideas which packages are related to this as I am puzzled to what it could be. This is on F18/KDE-4.10 The devices are seen in dmsg and in kcmshell4 kcmusb.. CD/DVD drive is fine and appear in the device notifier once a disk is put in. It might not be KDE related, but I'm not sure. Is anyone else seeing this? I'll pop over to bugzilla and kde.bugs to see what I can find later on in the week. Colin -- Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow) Registered Linux user number #342953

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kde-plasma-daisy still looking for a maintainer
by Kevin Kofler 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Hi, the kde-plasma-daisy package is still orphaned: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/kde-plasma-daisy and will be retired if it isn't picked up by March 12. Is anyone here interested in that package? Kevin Kofler

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backlight control not working
by Neal Becker 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

I just did a clean re-install on my hp laptop. I had been running f18 + kde-4.10. Now I'm running f18 with stock kde. When I bring up powermon, there's a slider for brightness. I can move it, but nothing happens. Screen is too dim. I logged into gnome, and with it's powermonitor, I was able to change brightness. Any ideas? Maybe I should install kde-4.10?

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akonadi not working
by Neal Becker 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

I have akonadi set to defaults, (internal mysql), but it won't start. Any ideas? $akonadictl start ProcessControl: Application 'akonadiserver' returned with exit code 255 (Unknown error) search paths: ("/home/nbecker/.local/bin", "/home/nbecker/bin", "/home/nbecker/.local/bin", "/home/nbecker/bin", "/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin", "/usr/lib64/ccache", "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/bin", "/bin", "/usr/games", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/libexec", "/usr/libexec", "/opt/mysql/libexec", "/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin", "/opt/mysql/sbin") Did not find MySQL server default configuration (mysql-global.conf) "[ 0: akonadiserver(_Z11akBacktracev+0x34) [0x451ec4] 1: akonadiserver() [0x452201] 2: /lib64/libc.so.6() [0x3e410359b0] 3: /lib64/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x35) [0x3e41035935] 4: /lib64/libc.so.6(abort+0x148) [0x3e410370e8] 5: /lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_Z17qt_message_output9QtMsgTypePKc+0x74) [0x3e4c4713c4] 6: akonadiserver(_ZN15FileDebugStream9writeDataEPKcx+0x9b) [0x453edb] 7: /lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN9QIODevice5writeEPKcx+0xb4) [0x3e4c50b4d4] 8: /lib64/libQtCore.so.4() [0x3e4c51617f] 9: /lib64/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QTextStreamD1Ev+0x3b) [0x3e4c51e77b] 10: akonadiserver(_ZN6QDebugD1Ev+0x3f) [0x44c04f] 11: akonadiserver(_ZN13DbConfigMysql19startInternalServerEv+0x286) [0x4c2966] 12: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer20startDatabaseProcessEv+0xc7) [0x454be7] 13: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServerC1EP7QObject+0xa5) [0x455b65] 14: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer8instanceEv+0x47) [0x457177] 15: akonadiserver(main+0x183) [0x44b573] 16: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x3e41021735] 17: akonadiserver() [0x44bed1] ] " ProcessControl: Application 'akonadiserver' returned with exit code 255 (Unknown error) "akonadiserver" crashed too often and will not be restarted!

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strange GUI problem with Dolphin and Konqueror
by Claude Jones 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

I must have inadvertently changed some setting, but, I've gone through them over and over and can't find the issue. Normally, in either app, there's a horizontal bar just below the address field, that has information columns you can sort on: "Name, type, date created, etc..." In some folders, these still exist, but in most, they've disappeared. How do I get them back??? -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA

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Mouse sensitivity
by Brad Hubbard 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

Were there any changes very recently that might effect mouse behaviour? The reason I ask is that, all of a sudden, I'm seeing lost of double click responses when I only click once and also things like double submissions in web forms, etc. This has only started happening this week. -- Kindest Regards, Brad Hubbard Software Maintenance Engineer Red Hat Global Support Services Asia Pacific Region

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