Re: KDE - Wayland vs X11

2024-09-02 Thread George at Clug
On Monday, 02-09-2024 at 18:03 Nicolas George wrote: > Dan Ritter (12024-09-01): > > It is unlikely that X will be actually abandoned until all of > > these problems with Wayland are solved. > > oneko and xeyes do not work properly with Wayland, that is definitely a > deal breaker. Thanks for

Re: KDE - Wayland vs X11

2024-09-02 Thread Erwan David
On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 10:03:32AM CEST, Nicolas George said: > Dan Ritter (12024-09-01): > > It is unlikely that X will be actually abandoned until all of > > these problems with Wayland are solved. > > oneko and xeyes do not work properly with Wayland, that is definitely a > deal breaker. > >

Re: KDE - Wayland vs X11

2024-09-02 Thread Nicolas George
Dan Ritter (12024-09-01): > It is unlikely that X will be actually abandoned until all of > these problems with Wayland are solved. oneko and xeyes do not work properly with Wayland, that is definitely a deal breaker. Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: KDE - Wayland vs X11

2024-09-01 Thread George at Clug
Dan, Thank you for your reply. George On Monday, 02-09-2024 at 11:15 Dan Ritter wrote: > George at Clug wrote: > > When installing KDE for people, I have been leaving Wayland as the > > compositor, believing that X11 was no longer supported. However > > recently I tested X11 and found the exp

Re: KDE - Wayland vs X11

2024-09-01 Thread Dan Ritter
George at Clug wrote: > When installing KDE for people, I have been leaving Wayland as the > compositor, believing that X11 was no longer supported. However > recently I tested X11 and found the experience was much better. This is not unusual. Wayland is young and immature. Wayland has been in t

Re: KDE Frameworks 5.103.0 and KDE Plasma 5.27

2023-02-21 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 6:35 PM Patrick Franz wrote: > Hej, > > Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2023, 20:09:13 CET schrieb Timothy M > Butterworth: > > Is Bookworm going to get Frameworks 5.103.0 and is there any estimated > > time when Bookworm will get Plasma 5.27? > > Bookworm already has Plasma 5.27

Re: KDE Frameworks 5.103.0 and KDE Plasma 5.27

2023-02-21 Thread Patrick Franz
Hej, Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2023, 20:09:13 CET schrieb Timothy M Butterworth: > Is Bookworm going to get Frameworks 5.103.0 and is there any estimated > time when Bookworm will get Plasma 5.27? Bookworm already has Plasma 5.27 beta (it's officially called 5.26.90), but both the Frameworks 5.1

Re: Kde: Dolphin file manager doesn't show comment content in the Details view mode?

2022-07-21 Thread local10
Jul 21, 2022, 11:46 by timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com: > I tested it on Debian 11 and I am able to go to Properties/Details and add a > comment. The comment is then displayed. It looks like it might be a > regression. Are you running Bookworm or Sid? > Bookworm. Thanks

Re: Kde: Dolphin file manager doesn't show comment content in the Details view mode?

2022-07-21 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 01:18:38PM +0200, local10 wrote: > Hi, > > Tried adding comments to files (a useful feature in some cases) and the > comments are added and saved. A file comment can be seen by selecting the > file, doing a RMB click > Properties > Details > Comment. The comment is > the

Re: Kde: Dolphin file manager doesn't show comment content in the Details view mode?

2022-07-21 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 7:19 AM local10 wrote: > Hi, > > Tried adding comments to files (a useful feature in some cases) and the > comments are added and saved. A file comment can be seen by selecting the > file, doing a RMB click > Properties > Details > Comment. The comment is > there. > > Howe

[SOLVED] Re: KDE: widget settings location

2022-03-08 Thread local10
Mar 7, 2022, 16:00 by loca...@tutanota.com: > Perhaps I need to clarify that I'm looking for my Digital Clock widget *user* > settings. When one goes into the "Configure Digital Clock" window and selects > different options (for example, "Show date", "Time display format", "Date > format", etc)

Re: KDE: widget settings location

2022-03-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 17:00:07 +0100 (CET) local10 wrote: Hello local10, >Perhaps I need to clarify that I'm looking for my Digital Clock widget >*user* settings. I realise that. I'd hoped that there would be some pointers in the file & url I sent. It appears not. I only had a cursory glance, T

Re: KDE: widget settings location

2022-03-07 Thread local10
Mar 7, 2022, 15:37 by b...@fineby.me.uk: > After a bit of DDG'ing, I found this folder; > > /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.digitalclock/ > > from the discussion at; > Perhaps I need to clarify that I'm looking for my Digital Clock widget *user* settings. When one goes into the "Confi

Re: KDE: widget settings location

2022-03-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 16:12:55 +0100 (CET) local10 wrote: Hello local10, >That file seems to contain the list of widgets installed on the panel. >Am looking for a place where "org.kde.plasma.digitalclock" settings are >kept. After a bit of DDG'ing, I found this folder; /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids

Re: KDE: widget settings location

2022-03-07 Thread local10
Mar 7, 2022, 15:01 by b...@fineby.me.uk: > Right click on the clock widget brings up (amongst other things) > 'Configure Digital Clock'. That is to say, it does here. > Tried that but it doesn't work right. > However, all I can find is; > ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc and s

Re: KDE: widget settings location

2022-03-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 15:43:43 +0100 (CET) local10 wrote: Hello local10, >Digital Clock widget and I can't find any way to fix it so maybe >removing the clock Right click on the clock widget brings up (amongst other things) 'Configure Digital Clock'. That is to say, it does here. However, all I

Re: KDE Icon query

2022-01-28 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 28/01/2022 21:38, Hans wrote: Am Freitag, 28. Januar 2022, 18:51:21 CET schrieb Peter Hillier-Brook: Hi Peter, the icons should be below /usr/share/icons/ and then within thwe required themefolder. If dolphin and the other apps are in the menus, but got no icon, try another icon theme in the

Re: KDE Icon query

2022-01-28 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 28. Januar 2022, 18:51:21 CET schrieb Peter Hillier-Brook: Hi Peter, the icons should be below /usr/share/icons/ and then within thwe required themefolder. If dolphin and the other apps are in the menus, but got no icon, try another icon theme in the settings menu. If then there is

Re: KDE and Pulseaudio; swapping users

2021-05-17 Thread deloptes
James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > Does anyone have a solution for the problem that when I switch users, to > have any sound as the new user, I have to su to root to kill the other > users Pulseaudio. If I don't do this I'm left with a dummy sound card. >From what I read recently but couldn't test beca

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 19 iun 20, 09:58:40, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 05:54:38AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Mi, 17 iun 20, 10:55:55, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > Making things user friendly (something we *gotta* do) means sometimes > > > taking decisions for the user. Where

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-19 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 05:54:38AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 17 iun 20, 10:55:55, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > Making things user friendly (something we *gotta* do) means sometimes > > taking decisions for the user. Where's the limit? Where's too much > > (authoritarian software)? W

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 17 iun 20, 10:55:55, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Making things user friendly (something we *gotta* do) means sometimes > taking decisions for the user. Where's the limit? Where's too much > (authoritarian software)? Where's too litle (RTFM software)? You'll > be wrong most of the time for s

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-17 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 04:51:39PM -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: [...] > Miacopa All is well, and sorry if my tone was... rough. > I think I was venting. I am so frustrated with this whole Dolphin > mess that I may have gone overboard [...] I feel your pain. Not from KDE land, but I think it's a

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-17 Thread didier . gaumet
Le mercredi 17 juin 2020 01:40:05 UTC+2, Gary L. Roach a écrit : [...] > I now have to start communications with the Elmerfem people who have > religated their GUI Qt4 problems from a bug to an inhancement. I have > gotten warnings from several different sources that Debian is dropping > Qt4 be

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-17 Thread didier . gaumet
(Apologies if this link have been given before) You will find a thread there on a KDE forum detailing why running Dolphin as root is discouraged and how to bypass this measure: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=141836

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/16/20 12:26 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:21:24AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: On 15.06.20 21:47, Gary L. Roach wrote: Someone in the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was too much of a security risk. So the problem has propagated to at least a half dozen ot

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/15/20 1:05 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 15 iun 20, 12:47:59, Gary L. Roach wrote: I assume that with respect to the original message that it should be obvious that the root user problem stems from the underlying Debian OS. Someone in the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was to

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-16 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:21:24AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > On 15.06.20 21:47, Gary L. Roach wrote: > >Someone in the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was too > >much of a security risk. So the problem has propagated to at least > >a half dozen other distros (Ubuntu,Kubuntu, Mint) to

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-16 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 08:33:29AM +1000, Keith bainbridge wrote: [...] > Here, hear i say. It is my computer. You own it, you do the work. Complaining ain't working ;-D > Now, i just tested both caja and nemo and both run as sudo and su > -c. caja could not connect to ibus. (Default file manag

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-16 Thread Marco Möller
On 15.06.20 21:47, Gary L. Roach wrote: Someone in the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was too much of a security risk. So the problem has propagated to at least a half dozen other distros (Ubuntu,Kubuntu, Mint) to name a couple. To my knowledge, this is not true! It is the Dolphin

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-15 Thread Keith bainbridge
On 16/6/20 6:19 am, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 11:05:32PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 15 iun 20, 12:47:59, Gary L. Roach wrote: I assume that with respect to the original message that it should be obvious that the root user problem stems from the underlying Debian

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-15 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 11:05:32PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 15 iun 20, 12:47:59, Gary L. Roach wrote: > > > > I assume that with respect to the original message that it should be obvious > > that the root user problem stems from the underlying Debian OS. Someone in > > the Debian hier

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 15 iun 20, 12:47:59, Gary L. Roach wrote: > > I assume that with respect to the original message that it should be obvious > that the root user problem stems from the underlying Debian OS. Someone in > the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was too much of a security > risk. So the

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-15 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/14/20 1:22 PM, Default User wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 4:12 AM Marco Möller wrote: On 09.06.20 23:55, Default User wrote: (...) Now, a final note. When I did my main install, it was a day or two before the release of Buster 10.0. I immediately upgraded to Unstable. But it is still

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-14 Thread Default User
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 4:12 AM Marco Möller wrote: > > On 09.06.20 23:55, Default User wrote: > > (...) > > Now, a final note. > > > > When I did my main install, it was a day or two before the release of > > Buster 10.0. I immediately upgraded to Unstable. But it is still > > originally based

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-10 Thread Marco Möller
On 09.06.20 23:55, Default User wrote: (...) Now, a final note. When I did my main install, it was a day or two before the release of Buster 10.0. I immediately upgraded to Unstable. But it is still originally based upon Stretch. It was set up with both root and user passwords. And I use good

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 09 iun 20, 17:55:07, Default User wrote: > > Well, when I did an alternate Buster Stable install on a spare drive, > I was surprised (not happily) that when running from that setup, > various programs demand the root password, and will not accept the > user password. So, now I have to reme

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-09 Thread Default User
On Sunday, Jun 7, 2020, at 12:11, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > >Running > > sudo sh -c 'unset SUDO_USER; KDE_FULL_SESSION=true > dolphin' > > from a shell gets a dolphin window. Thanks, Kushal. That does work. For Dolphin, anyway. > There is some advice at > https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=223

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 09:07:58AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > In Debian's default configuration members of group 'sudo' have sudo > access, so all you need is: > > adduser my_user_name sudo (and then log out and back in) > As far as I know the installer does the equivalent of that. If

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 07 iun 20, 21:21:07, Marco Möller wrote: > > Yes, design options exist. However, I never tried out if the user root could > be blocked by the graphical session manager only, in the case of KDE usually > sddm is in use. But I know that the login of user root can be blocked in > general: when

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-07 Thread Marco Möller
On 07.06.20 02:42, Keith bainbridge wrote: On 7/6/20 8:30 am, Marco Möller wrote: I would easily agree with you concerning not to log into a graphical session as the user root. But Dolphin is also not running with sudo prepended. And here I was thinking that the dolphin issue ran here fo

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-06 Thread Keith bainbridge
On 7/6/20 12:56 pm, Default User wrote: So I guess I just got spoiled, using the nemo file manager in Cinnamon. Just right click the Cinnamon desktop, select "Open as root", then use nemo with temporarily elevated privileges.  Then close nemo, and I am back to the desktop as a regular user ag

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-06 Thread David Wright
On Sat 06 Jun 2020 at 18:10:10 (-0700), Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Default User writes: > > > > As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive, and > > installed kde on it. > > > > I have not tried kde in many years, so am not really familiar with it. > > Perhaps I am overlook

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-06 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Default User writes: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 21:19 Kushal Kumaran wrote: > >> Default User writes: >> >> > Hi, all. >> > >> > As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive, >> and >> > installed kde on it. >> > >> > I have not tried kde in many years, so am not really fa

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-06 Thread Default User
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 21:19 Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Default User writes: > > > Hi, all. > > > > As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive, > and > > installed kde on it. > > > > I have not tried kde in many years, so am not really familiar with it. > > Perhaps I am ov

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-06 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Default User writes: > Hi, all. > > As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive, and > installed kde on it. > > I have not tried kde in many years, so am not really familiar with it. > Perhaps I am overlooking something obvious, but I can not seem to run > Dolphin or Ko

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-06 Thread Keith bainbridge
On 7/6/20 8:30 am, Marco Möller wrote: I would easily agree with you concerning not to log into a graphical session as the user root. But Dolphin is also not running with sudo prepended. And here I was thinking that the dolphin issue ran here for several days, just a few weeks ago. And

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-06 Thread Marco Möller
On 06.06.20 23:37, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 4:20 PM Default User > wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 16:55 Default User mailto:hunguponcont...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, all. As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-06 Thread Marco Möller
On 06.06.20 23:20, Default User wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 16:55 Default User > wrote: Hi, all. As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive, and installed kde on it. I have not tried kde in many years, so am not re

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 4:20 PM Default User wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 16:55 Default User wrote: > >> Hi, all. >> >> As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive, >> and installed kde on it. >> >> I have not tried kde in many years, so am not really familiar with i

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-06 Thread Default User
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 16:55 Default User wrote: > Hi, all. > > As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive, > and installed kde on it. > > I have not tried kde in many years, so am not really familiar with it. > Perhaps I am overlooking something obvious, but I can not s

Re: kde, localization and keyboards

2020-03-08 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 08/03/2020 06:15, Graham Seaman wrote: > I've previously used either Gnome or Enlightenment as my main > environment; I just installed Debian on an old laptop and decided to > give KDE a go instead. I often want to switch keyboard briefly to do a > bit of text editing with non-english characters

Re: KDE file dialog in Libreoffice

2020-01-18 Thread Rainer Dorsch
On Samstag, 18. Januar 2020 21:00:04 CET Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 06:49:23PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > is there a way to get the KDE file dialog in libreoffice > > (buster-backports) ? > > > In

Re: KDE file dialog in Libreoffice

2020-01-18 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 06:49:23PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > is there a way to get the KDE file dialog in libreoffice (buster-backports) ? > > Installing libreoffice-kde does not seem to be sufficient for me... libre

Re: KDE madness again

2019-11-03 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > +100 deloptes, but we are the choir you are preaching to.  So many of us > who liked the original kde, and have been using it since about 1.2 are > now running TDE which is a fork of kde at about the 3.5 level, with > hundreds of bugs fixed, but few new features. No changes o

Re: KDE madness again

2019-11-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 November 2019 06:07:18 deloptes wrote: > Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 09:47:50AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > >> Reco wrote: > >> > # apt install qttools5-dev-tools -y > >> > >> tried several times without success - perhaps because qt4 was > >> installed before. > > > > QT4 has

Re: KDE madness again

2019-11-03 Thread deloptes
Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I am currently running most packages on testing. On my system, > qdbusviewer seems to be: > > # ls -l /usr/bin/qdbusviewer > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May  3  2019 /usr/bin/qdbusviewer -> qtchooser > > qdbusviewer itself seems to be in qttools5-dev-tools, and I seem to be >

Re: KDE madness again

2019-11-03 Thread deloptes
Reco wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 09:47:50AM +0100, deloptes wrote: >> Reco wrote: >> >> > # apt install qttools5-dev-tools -y >> >> tried several times without success - perhaps because qt4 was installed >> before. > > QT4 has no future, and will be probably removed in bullseye. > > tru

Re: KDE madness again

2019-11-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 08:45:49AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > Long time ago I stopped using KDE, because they started going insane. > > Two days ago upgraded to Buster and now wanted to check if all works fine. > > One of the things I need to use is qdbusviewer - unfortunately there is no > acce

Re: KDE madness again

2019-11-03 Thread deloptes
Reco wrote: > # apt install qttools5-dev-tools -y tried several times without success - perhaps because qt4 was installed before. > $ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qdbusviewer > > Works for me. you should try starting qdbusviewer not from the full path. Does it work? $ which qdbusviewer /

Re: KDE madness again

2019-11-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 08:45:49AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > Long time ago I stopped using KDE, because they started going insane. > > Two days ago upgraded to Buster and now wanted to check if all works fine. > > One of the things I need to use is qdbusviewer - unfortunately there

Re: KDE madness again

2019-11-03 Thread Reco
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 09:47:50AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Reco wrote: > > > # apt install qttools5-dev-tools -y > > tried several times without success - perhaps because qt4 was installed > before. QT4 has no future, and will be probably removed in bullseye. > > $ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/q

Re: KDE desktop not accessible after installation

2019-11-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On 11/2/19 9:06 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: I don't know the full details on how kde starts, but have been researching jovie to my limited capacity. If spdconf has been run and had a voice configured it may be possible to hit alt+f2 then type jovie or kmouth and maybe have speech come up and talk

Re: KDE desktop not accessible after installation

2019-11-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On 11/2/19 8:42 PM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 3/11/19 5:42 am, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hello, I have been using XFCE for quit some time, but wanted to play with several other desktop environments, so I installed Cinnamon, Mate, and KDE.?? The KDE choice does not show up in sddm's or lightdm

Re: KDE desktop not accessible after installation

2019-11-02 Thread Felix Miata
Kenward Vaughan composed on 2019-11-02 11:42 (UTC-0700): > I have been using XFCE for quit some time, but wanted to play with > several other desktop environments, so I installed Cinnamon, Mate, and KDE. > The KDE choice does not show up in sddm's or lightdm's menu.?? I see no > startkde (has t

Re: KDE desktop not accessible after installation

2019-11-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
I don't know the full details on how kde starts, but have been researching jovie to my limited capacity. If spdconf has been run and had a voice configured it may be possible to hit alt+f2 then type jovie or kmouth and maybe have speech come up and talk. Me with no kde experienced sighted assis

Re: KDE desktop not accessible after installation

2019-11-02 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 3/11/19 5:42 am, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hello, I have been using XFCE for quit some time, but wanted to play with several other desktop environments, so I installed Cinnamon, Mate, and KDE.?? The KDE choice does not show up in sddm's or lightdm's menu.?? I see no startkde (has that disap

Re: KDE program 'klipper' is missing from Jessie to Stretch

2019-08-15 Thread Keith Christian
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 11:39 AM Bob Weber wrote: > On 8/15/19 9:49 AM, Keith Christian wrote: > > Bob, > > Thank you. > > I assume the clipboard application that installs by default on stretch can > be removed and replaced with the (far superior, IMHO) klipper app? > > Or can (or should?) the tw

Re: KDE program 'klipper' is missing from Jessie to Stretch

2019-08-15 Thread Bob Weber
On 8/15/19 9:49 AM, Keith Christian wrote: Bob, Thank you. I assume the clipboard application that installs by default on stretch can be removed and replaced with the (far superior, IMHO) klipper app? Or can (or should?) the two clipboard applications coexist? Keith On Wed, Aug 14, 2019

Re: KDE program 'klipper' is missing from Jessie to Stretch

2019-08-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 07:49:12 -0600 Keith Christian wrote: Hello Keith, >Or can (or should?) the two clipboard applications coexist? IIRC (from when I installed klipper, a long, lng time ago), they won't co-exist. IOW, installation of klipper will require the removal of it predecessor. --

Re: KDE program 'klipper' is missing from Jessie to Stretch

2019-08-15 Thread Keith Christian
Bob, Thank you. I assume the clipboard application that installs by default on stretch can be removed and replaced with the (far superior, IMHO) klipper app? Or can (or should?) the two clipboard applications coexist? Keith On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 4:48 PM Bob Weber wrote: > On 8/14/19 6:27

Re: KDE program 'klipper' is missing from Jessie to Stretch

2019-08-14 Thread Bob Weber
On 8/14/19 6:27 PM, Keith Christian wrote: klipper was a feature-rich clipboard manager but I can't find it in Stretch. This is all I see: $ apt-cache search klipper cairo-dock-clipper-plug-in - Clipper plug-in for Cairo-dock cairo-dock-clipper-plug-in claims to be a clone of klipper but the f

Re: kde kmail to much email Unable to fetch item from backend

2019-07-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-07-04, Thomas wrote: > Hello, > I have an Gmail Mail account and lots of email. > Iam not able to open this folder succesfull anymore. > After some time I get this message. > Unable to fetch item from backend (collection -1) Unable to retrieve item > from > resource. > > Whats the probl

Re: kde kmail to much email Unable to fetch item from backend

2019-07-04 Thread Keith Christian
I have no suggestions for your Kmail problem, you might try Thunderbird and see if that does the job or else email the KDE team. Keith On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 10:56 AM Thomas wrote: > Hello, > I have an Gmail Mail account and lots of email. > Iam not able to open this folder succesfull anymore.

Re: KDE Bluedevil

2018-09-06 Thread David Wright
On Wed 22 Aug 2018 at 22:58:00 (-0400), Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On 8/21/18, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 20 Aug 2018 at 20:12:57 (-0400), Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > >> In Debian 9.5 KDE Bluedevil is unable to add devices. Is their any fix > >> for this other then using GNOME Blueman t

Re: KDE Bluedevil

2018-08-22 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
David, When I try to pair a new device it fails with Bluedevil. I tried to pair multiple devices. I installed GNOME Blueman and was able to pair the devices. Now that the devices have been paired I can connect to and disconnect from them with Bluedevil. Tim On 8/21/18, David Wright wrote: > On

Re: KDE Bluedevil

2018-08-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 20 Aug 2018 at 20:12:57 (-0400), Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > In Debian 9.5 KDE Bluedevil is unable to add devices. Is their any fix > for this other then using GNOME Blueman tool. In the absence of other replies, can you explain what you mean by "add devices". I use bluetooth, bluez, bl

Re: KDE 4.4.3 in unstable

2018-05-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010 schrieb Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > > However, whether to ship akonadi trunk/beta/final of the next version > > is another question which is still open. In my opinion, Akonadi > > itself is > > > > pretty mature so it might be doable. > > I didn't complain well. This is t

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2018-05-07 Thread deloptes
Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I think mainly Akonadi, Nepomuk, Plasma, a bit also Phonon needs > quite some more stabilization and performance work. After 10years - those basic applications still cause problems ... and you call it "more stabilization and performance work" ... come on - jokes. The

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2018-05-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010 schrieb Sune Vuorela: > On 2010-05-06, Curt Howland wrote: > > On Thursday 06 May 2010, Ana Guerrero was heard to say: > >> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:17:43AM -0300, Jorge Gonçalves wrote: > >> > Maybe use dummy packages, or rename the packages so that KDE 3.5 > >> > coul

Re: KDE 4.4.3 in unstable

2018-05-05 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010 schrieb Modestas Vainius: > Hello, > > On ketvirtadienis 06 Gegužė 2010 23:48:43 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [...] > > > YOU assume that your truth is an ultimate one. > > > > Not really. I made objective statement about KMail based on > > observable facts. I also vo

Re: kde in stretch is very usable

2017-12-10 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 10:15:17AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > bw wrote: > > > I won't chime in on the main topic, there has been way too much already, > > but this is really undeserved.  The plasma implementation the debian > > maintainers put together for stretch is really pretty nice. > > > > No,

Re: kde in stretch is very usable

2017-12-10 Thread deloptes
bw wrote: > I won't chime in on the main topic, there has been way too much already, > but this is really undeserved.  The plasma implementation the debian > maintainers put together for stretch is really pretty nice. > > No, it's not perfect, but I'm really good, so it's close. ;-> I recently h

Re: KDE Plasma Date & Time Format

2017-09-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 09/19/2017 08:35 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: On Monday, 18 September 2017 15:59:22 CEST Jimmy Johnson wrote: In KDE4 I use the long date with the short day: "Mon, September 19, 2017". Is there an easy way to do this in Plasma5? Even better would be long date with short day and short month: "

Re: KDE Plasma Date & Time Format

2017-09-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday, 18 September 2017 15:59:22 CEST Jimmy Johnson wrote: > In KDE4 I use the long date with the short day: "Mon, September 19, 2017". > Is there an easy way to do this in Plasma5? Even better would be long > date with short day and short month: "Mon, Sep 19, 2017" Is there a > config file

[SOLVED] Re: KDE: GIMP tool tips are blank

2017-08-01 Thread RavenLX
On 07/29/2017 06:04 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-07-28, RavenLX wrote: I am using the default theme "Breeze" for both GTK and KDE (ie. never changed it) in KDE. Whenever I use gimp and hover over something, the tool tip is blank. Now I am not so sure if it's GTK related or not because when I hover o

Re: KDE: GIMP tool tips are blank

2017-07-29 Thread Curt
On 2017-07-28, RavenLX wrote: > I am using the default theme "Breeze" for both GTK and KDE (ie. never > changed it) in KDE. Whenever I use gimp and hover over something, the > tool tip is blank. Now I am not so sure if it's GTK related or not > because when I hover over something in Thunderbird

Re: kde install accessibility experience

2017-01-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
talk. On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, Keith Bainbridge wrote: Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 01:45:32 From: Keith Bainbridge To: Jude DaShiell Cc: Debian Lists Subject: Re: kde install accessibility experience Suggest you contact Klaus Knopper of knoppix, who had similar issues with a better half if I rem

Re: kde install accessibility experience

2017-01-13 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Suggest you contact Klaus Knopper of knoppix, who had similar issues with a better half if I remember. Keith Bainbridge 0447667468 keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my APad On 10 Jan 2017 18:06, "Jude DaShiell" wrote: > Earlier I wrote the kde-accessibility list and asked how to get kde >

Re: kde install accessibility experience

2017-01-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
This was an issue in Jessie Stable I hadn't downloaded the Stretch iso before I had that install failure. On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 22:23:08 From: kamaraju kusumanchi To: Jude DaShiell , "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Subject:

Re: kde install accessibility experience

2017-01-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:05 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Earlier I wrote the kde-accessibility list and asked how to get kde > accessibility working with kde installed on a system specifically screen > reading accessibility. I was advised I would need to install the whole orca > dependency stack a

Re: kde install accessibility experience

2017-01-09 Thread Felix Miata
What follows is likely no more than tangentially related to the subject line or the OP, but might be of use to anyone seriously challenged visually. I spent about 6 hours today at the home of a previously sighted long-time Linux user whose macular degeneration is nearly complete. We have multib

Re: KDE - reset of graphics?

2016-08-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 12:50:01 + root wrote: Hello root, >Of course, I believe, there are only very few users, who run the >combination of debian/testing + KDE * nvidia card + proprietrary nvidia >driver. Count me in that category. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obviou

Re: KDE - reset of graphics?

2016-08-08 Thread root
Hi Brad, > I haven't seen it recently, but yes. It happened most often when > various KDE part were upgraded (I run testing), but not all. As a > result, some parts of KDE were v4 and others were at v5. Things have > been okay for a while now. > I am running testing on my desktop pc (graphics o

Re: KDE - reset of graphics?

2016-08-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:19:30 +0200 Hans wrote: Hello Hans, >Doies someone watch this effect, too? It is not often (about 2-4 times >a week). I haven't seen it recently, but yes. It happened most often when various KDE part were upgraded (I run testing), but not all. As a result, some parts of

Re: KDE - some icons missing after update (debian/testing)

2016-07-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 22:35:15 +0200 Hans wrote: Hello Hans, >However, it is still a bug and should be fixed. KDE/Plasma is in transition; Some packages are v5.22 and some are at v5.23. Mixing can produce strange results - I've had some issues here. Wait for the transition to complete, or get r

Re: KDE - some icons missing after update (debian/testing)

2016-07-22 Thread Hans
Ok, I found out more. Thwe problem appears to be some compability with the nuvola-icon-design. Although the nuvola package was not changed, several icons disappered. However, they appeared before! At the moment I changed to the oxygen icon theme, were all icons appear (also the ones of the yah

Re: KDE & removing items from the panel

2016-06-29 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 29/06/16 07:20, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > On 29/06/2016 07:26, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> On 6/14/16, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >>> On 14/06/16 18:17, Hans wrote: Did you unlock the widgets? Hans >>> They've never been locked, but locking and un-locking did not impr

Re: KDE & removing items from the panel

2016-06-28 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 29/06/2016 07:26, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 6/14/16, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 14/06/16 18:17, Hans wrote: Did you unlock the widgets? Hans They've never been locked, but locking and un-locking did not improve the situation. On Tuesday 14 June 2016 18:10:48 Peter Hillier-Brook wro

Re: KDE & removing items from the panel

2016-06-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 6/14/16, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > On 14/06/16 18:17, Hans wrote: >> Did you unlock the widgets? >> >> Hans >> > They've never been locked, but locking and un-locking did not improve > the situation. > >> On Tuesday 14 June 2016 18:10:48 Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >>> I've recently noticed t

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