November 2018 - kde - Fedora mailing-lists

How to set default session type to Plasma for sddm
by Roderick Johnstone 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

Hi How do I set the default session type for sddm to offer to be Plasma? I'm currently getting Gnome Classic? This is F22. Thanks Roderick Johnstone

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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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KDE Telepathy Bonjour account: This IM Account cannot be created - a Telepathy Connection Manager named 'salut' is missing or it cannot handle protocol 'local-xmpp'. Please try installing salut with your package manager.
by Dennis Schridde 10 Jun '19

10 Jun '19

Hi! I was trying to setup a Bonjour (local XMPP) account in KDE Plasma System Settings for KDE Telepathy. In `System Settings > Online Accounts > Create`, I clicked "Bonjour" in the list on the right. This action was answered with an error dialogue box: "This IM Account cannot be created - a Telepathy Connection Manager named 'salut' is missing or it cannot handle protocol 'local-xmpp'. Please try installing salut with your package manager." However, `telepathy-salut` is already installed on my machine. Does anyone have an idea how to debug this, or where I would find the actual error message that led to this? I am using Fedora 27 KDE, with telepathy-salut currently being at version 0.8.1 (release 12.fc27), telepathy-mission control at version 5.16.4 (epoch 1, release 4.fc27) and ktp-accounts-kcm at version 17.12.1(release 1.fc27). Best regards, Dennis

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time to orphan/retire unmaintained uncommon kde4 language bindings?
by Rex Dieter 28 May '19

28 May '19

Looking over some broken deps reports, I came across some old packages: kdebindings smokeqt smokekde qyoto (csharp/mono) kimono (csharp/mono) ruby-qt ruby-korundum perl-Qt Of these, the only one that's not a pure leaf package is perl-Qt (debconf- kde depends on it). any comment or objection to considering orphaning most (all minus smokeqt/perl-Qt) or all of these ? -- Rex

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Emacs key binding in KDE Plasma 5?
by Sherman Grunewagen 21 May '19

21 May '19

Just moved from Fedora 21 to F25. Under F21 I had a file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 which contained gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" This enabled basic Emacs cursor motion keyboard commands in text input boxes throughout KDE, Firefox, &c. (Outside of input boxes, KDE shortcuts ruled.) How can I get this same behaviour for Plasma 5 w/in F25? From reading around, I've created ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and inserted [Settings] gtk-key-theme-name = Emacs in this empty file. This has given the desired result in Firefox and Thunderbird, but not w/in arbitrary text boxes in KDE (e.g. Alt-F2). The ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file is still intact, by the way. It seems to have no effect. Any ideas? -Sherman

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SDDM Themes not working
by Gerald B. Cox 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

I find that I now cannot select themes - and I'm getting either a solid white or blue background when SDDM starts. When I tried to test, this is what I received: sddm-greeter --theme /usr/share/sddm/themes/01-fedora-breeze [11:43:09.032] (II) GREETER: High-DPI autoscaling not Enabled [11:43:09.108] (EE) GREETER: Socket error: "QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name" [11:43:09.109] (EE) GREETER: Cannot connect to the daemon - is it running? [11:43:09.317] (II) GREETER: Loading file:///usr/share/sddm/themes/01-fedora-breeze/Main.qml... [11:43:09.317] (WW) GREETER: file:///usr/share/sddm/themes/01-fedora-breeze/Main.qml: No such file or directory [11:43:09.317] (WW) GREETER: file:///usr/share/sddm/themes/01-fedora-breeze/Main.qml: No such file or directory [11:43:09.317] (WW) GREETER: Fallback to embedded theme Wanted to see if there was a quick fix or if this is known before I create a bug report. I didn't see anything on bugzilla, but might have missed it. Thanks!

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Re: Xorg on F29
by akarshan.biswas 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

As long as this ML is active and users like us are participating, yes. However I didn't get your question. Plasma desktop by default uses xorg server unlike GNOME. So that is a dependency until wayland support on plasma is perfected. আমার স্যামসাং গ্যালাক্সি স্মার্টফোন থেকে পাঠানো হয়েছে। null

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Xorg on F29
by Frédéric 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

Hi, Can I keep using Xorg with Plasma desktop on F29? Kind regards, F

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xorg.conf Option "Primary" "true" and LeftOf/RightOf and DisplaySize ignored
by Felix Miata 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Same errant results in F28 & F29. inxi -Gxx Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM] driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 1002:6611 Display: server: Fedora Project X.org 1.19.6 driver: amdgpu unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: ati compositor: kwin_x11 resolution: 2560x1080~60Hz, 1920x1200~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon HD 8500 Series (OLAND / DRM 3.27.0 / 4.19.2-200.fc28.x86_64 LLVM 6.0.1) v: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.5 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes xorg.conf file that produces expected results on openSUSE Tumbleweed with 4.19 kernel and 1.20.3 server: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Xorg/Cfg/xorg.conf-4480x1200-amdgpu Log from F29 using same xorg.conf resulting in X ignoring all three options: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Xorg/Cfg/bad/xorg.0.log-f29-4480x1200-amdgpu-… Is this expected? Am I missing something about global X configuration while using KDE that's different in current Fedora from current TW? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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Language settings
by Klaus Kolle 25 Nov '18

25 Nov '18

Hi I've upgraded my Fedora KDE 27 to 29 recently. Now I cannot open documents, etc. that contains Danish letters. In Regional->Language settings I have British English set with dansk as a second choice, because I prefer to have all program menus etc. in English rather than mixed English and Danish. In Regional->Format settings I have Danmark set for the region an also in the Detailed settings everything is set to Danmark for numbers, time, currency, measurement unit and collation and sorting. Anytime a file or the path to the file contains æ, ø, å, Æ, Ø or Å Libreoffice fails to load the document. In the previous version of Fedora it worked well. What could be wrong? |< -- Med venlig hilsen Klaus Kolle Teknikumingeniør, B.Sc.EE., e-mail : klaus(a)kolle.dk Master of IT www : www.kolle.dk Kollundvej 5 Telephone : +4586829682 / +4522216044 DK-8600 Silkeborg, Denmark "Man skal ikke tilskrive til sammensværgelser hvad der tilstrækkeligt kan forklares af inkompetence" Poul Henning Kamp Planlægning er tanker om noget man agter at gøre en gang i fremtiden, hvis omstændighederne tillader det. Klaus Kolle 2006 Perfection is achieved not when nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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libreoffice-kf5 copr
by Rex Dieter 25 Nov '18

25 Nov '18

I was able to get f29/f28 builds going for initial/experimental gtk3-kde5 support built in libreoffice-6.1.x, https:://bugzilla.redhat.com/1647233 here's the fruits of that labor, https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/rdieter/libreoffice-kf5/ My initial testing was good, just verified that kf5-based filepicker shows when saving a file if libreoffice-kf5 package is installed and run from within a plasma session. -- Rex

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f29 plasma-5.14.3 builds queued for stable updates
by Rex Dieter 24 Nov '18

24 Nov '18

Just queued f29's plasma-5.14.3 builds for stable updates, https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-9c500b8e48 Thanks to all for the testing and feedback. -- Rex

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Plasma freezing
by Patrick O'Callaghan 21 Nov '18

21 Nov '18

F29 updated. For the last couple of days I've turned on my monitor in the morning to find Plasma unresponsive, i.e. clicking on the bottom panel does nothing, neither does right-clicking on the background. The machine is left on at night (not suspended or hibernating, just the monitor turned off), and today the clock widget shows a frozen time of 4:55am. Nothing is running overnight except the DE and my backup software (rsnapshot) which does run at around that time though it has been doing that for years without issue and according to the logs completed on time as usual. 'killall -s SIGSEGV plasmashell' (which in the past would kick it into restarting) is ineffective. Maybe the magic incantation has changed, but as none of this stuff is documented in man pages I don't know. 'kill <PID>' does kill it, but how do I run it again without logging out? Simply running plasmashell from the command line does put up the widget panel but it's still frozen, and the command never returns. poc

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FYI - pam-kwallet issue update
by Ed Greshko 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

A while back I posted a problem where even though my login and wallet passwords were the same the wallet wasn't opened on login meaning auto connect wifi wasn't working. I was unable to figure out why. So, I moved ~/.local/share/kwalletd out of the way, logged out, logged in. This created a new wallet which I then repopulated and it is working as expected. Magic! -- Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color scheme

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libreoffice qt5 integration, dropping kde4 support
by Rex Dieter 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

mgoodwin started a chat in #fedora-kde irc yesterday about libreoffice and some new developments wrt qt5 integration, which led to a feature request at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1647233 "VCL gtk3-kde5 is available with 6.1 and should be enabled with --enable- gtk3-kde5" Part of the comments there raised the possibility of dropping kde4 support, which I assume would need to happen sooner or later. Ultimately, thought it best to discuss it here. Opinions? -- Rex

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Odd statement at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE
by Patrick Boutilier 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Just wondering what is meant by "although most people just use it to open tens of character terminals" at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE

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NVIDIA Optimus on Fedora 29 KDE
by Robbi Nespu 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Hi there, I use Gnome for many years and now move to use KDE. I have laptop that comes with hybrid graphic card and now running F29 KDE spin. $ lspci -vnn | grep '\''[030[02]\]' 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 640M] [10de:0fd2] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) I plan to use and utilize optimus. Does it work on KDE? Please advice. -- Robbi Nespu (CPRE, CTFL) Twitter: @robbinespu | Skype: robbi.nespu | PGP: 0x6EA7B058

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kwayland config files?
by Neal Becker 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

After updating to f29, I once again tried plasma on wayland. It seemed to work very poorly, but as a test I tried logging in as a test user. This seemed much better! So I'm wondering what old files I need to clean out. It seems the poor kwayland experience on my normal user account must be due to some old config files. Where are they? Thanks, Neal

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Akregator - F29
by Colin J Thomson 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Hi, I just updated to F29 but excluded Applications 18.08 due to Akregator issues previously posted here. However after the upgrade Akregator would not start throwing up a symbol lookup error: /lib64/libakregatorprivate.so.5 After some bugzilla searching I found that downgrading kf5-syndication-1:5.52.0-1.fc29.x86_64 (I'm testing Plasma 5.52 from bodhi) down to kf5-syndication-18.04.3-1.fc29.x86_64 fixes the issue. FWIW it also happened with Plasma 5.51. Syndication has been moved from Applications to Plasma by the looks of it? Anyone else seeing this. KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.2 Qt Version: 5.11.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.52.0 Colin -- Fedora 29 (Twenty Nine) Registered Linux user number #342953

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Red Hat deprecates KDE on RHEL
by Temlakos 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Everyone: /The Register/ carried this article: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/rhel_deprecates_kde/ saying that Red Hat now /deprecates/ KDE in its Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution. The article mentions the recent release of Fedora 29, but says not a word about whether /Fedora/ will deprecate KDE as well. I switched to KDE for a reason. GNOME simply /did not show me/ how to switch users, or do any of the things that, on MS Windows, are practically intuitive. And I understand the reason for it. GNOME mimics MacOS, while KDE mimics Windows. I believe that GNOME has come to dominate for one reason only: those who develop distributions, like GNOME and dislike KDE. There's just something about KDE that, while it is /user/-friendly, is not /developer/-friendly--at least, not to the developers of operating systems. (Developers of /applications/ might have a different story to tell.) I suggest to this community that we have arrived at a crisis. In six years, according to /The Register/, Red Hat Enterprise Linux /will not support/ a KDE installation or maintenance. What are the maintainers of KDE going to do about this? Will Fedora's maintainers do the same thing that RHEL maintainers have announced their intention to do? Temlakos

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nvidia status
by Ian Malone 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

Hi, what's the current status on NVidia cards in Fedora+KDE? Looking at updating to a GTX 1050 Ti. Currently running a GT 640 which is mostly okay with nouveau, except for the occasional text display glitch. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk

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32bit F28: black window in systemsettings -> <various> plus panel clock stuck on UTC instead of local
by Felix Miata 04 Nov '18

04 Nov '18

dnf system-upgraded from F27 that had had kf5* and qt5* removed first (not enough space on disk otherwise with freespace consumed by 1200+ rpms) Plasma added back via dnf post-upgrade /etc/adjtime is set to LOCAL system time is correct panel clock display in IceWM is correct (local) clock settings have no effect on displayed time in Plasma panel regional settings cannot be checked due to systemsettings blackness no clues in .xsession-errors no apparent clues in journal systemsettings -> workspace theme crashes systemsettings systemsettings -> fonts is black window systemsettings -> icons crashes systemsettings systemsettings -> desktop behavior crashes systemsettings systemsettings -> multimedia crashes systemsettings systemsettings -> everything else produces expected response Can anyone suggest how to fix? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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Amarok, Juk & Elisa
by Joe Buckley 04 Nov '18

04 Nov '18

I hope this is appropriate. I'm not a contributor, but I am a long-time KDE (Fedora) user who has an extensive music collection on my lap-top. Since I saw the discussion about dropping Amarok (because of the use of qt4???) I installed and tried to configure juk. My experience is - it's not quite ready for prime time. Once juk is given a directory it creates a "collection" (it's a surprisingly confusing term!). That collection cannot be changed (or at least, the way to change it is lost in the mists of antiquity). Apparently, "collection" is not "directory" or "folder". A folder, once created, cannot be removed without crashing juk. At least, I found a way to create a folder that crashes juk when any attempt to remove from juk is made. Playlists are displayed in no known order. It is certainly not alphabetical. Column order cannot be changed. Changes to the settings (like, removing the comment column) are not retained from session to session. I'm starting to hope that Amarok is kept in the live image. -- */~ Joe Buckley/*

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