kde July 2010

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nntp (aka, usenet) client in kde?
by Gene Smith 07 Feb '20

07 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 desktop effects
by Marko Vojinovic 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

Hi everyone! Every time a new Fedora comes out, when I install it I try to spend some time evaluating the progress of kwin desktop effects, in the hope that they will eventually become feature-full enough to replace compiz (for my particular usecase, that is). So now I have tried them in F13 (clean install from KDE LiveCD and fully updated), and I have several questions: * Is there a way to put a background behind the cube in the desktop cube effect (in compiz this is called "skydome")? * Is there a way to configure the amount of elevation of windows when they are configured to hover outside the cube? Currently they are way to far away from the cube surface, and it doesn't look nice. * Is there a way to include mouse buttons as a keyboard-shortcut action? For example, I would like to have the desktop cube effect activated not with the usual ctrl+f11 combination, but with ctrl+alt+left-mouse-button (as I did in compiz). Mouse buttons do not seem to be accepted in the shortcut dialogs. * I typically use 8 desktops, which kwin has arranged into a 2x4 grid. How can I rearrange this into a 1x8 grid? I don't want to switch desktops up and down, only left and right. * I want to switch desktops when hitting the left/right screen edge, but not when hitting top/bottom screen edge. How can this be configured? Also, is there a way to customize the size of "screen corner" versus "screen edge"? I have a "present windows" effect active in upper-left corner, which works perfectly when edge desktop switching is disabled. But if I enable it and put the mouse into a corner, the desktop switching kicks in rather then the present windows effect, and I cannot seem to hit the very corner with the mouse that easily. So it would be a good idea to customize how "big" is the corner supposed to be. * Is there any equivalent of the "ring switcher" from compiz? That is, window thumbnails displayed in a ring (circle or ellipse), and rotate when alt-tab is being pressed... * Is there a possibility to draw window borders which one can grab with the mouse and have the window fold like a sheet of paper (this makes sense only when window is maximized)? This is a feature of Emerald window decorator in compiz, haven't seen it anywhere else. Kwin doesn't seem to have an option of drawing window borders at all, for maximized windows. * Is there a possibility to download/install extra effects, which are not included in the default install with F13 (do any extra effects exist)? Overall, I've seen a lot of improvement in desktop effects compared to F11 and F12, but it is still not as configurable as compiz. If anyone can answer any of the above questions, I'll try to stick with kwin some more and explore it, otherwise I'll just fall back to compiz/emerald again and wait for F14. Any suggestions welcome! ;-) :-) Marko

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Howto switch from 4.5-rc3 to 4.4.5?
by Clemens Eisserer 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Hello, As usual I tested beta/rc builds during the 4.5 development cycle, however at least on my laptop even 4.5-rc3 has many bugy which annoy me and it doesn't look like 4.5 final will be any better. Is there a way back to 4.4.5? Thank you in advance, Clemens

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Is klipper broken?
by Anne Wilson 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Since the update to 4.4.95 yesterday I can't get klipper to respond to me at all. Is there a problem, or is it something I need to track down here? Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org

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krunner / kscreenlocker can only execute once, require manual kill
by Gilboa Davara 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Hello all, I'm seeing a weird bug in both rc2 and rc3. When lock my workstation (using Ctrl-Alt-L) and then unlock (w/ password), re-locking no longer works. I have to either kill kscreenlocker or restart krunner to get it to work again. Anyone else seeing this? - Gilboa

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What is kdewallet for?
by Timothy Murphy 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

For some reason, laptop 1 only asks me once for my wallet password when I reboot, and never if I hibernate. However, laptop 2 repeated asks for my kdewallet password when I launch an application. Can I safely disable kdewallet? I really don't understand what it is for. I just find it a nuisance, and it doesn't make me feel any safer.

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kde application groups
by Diego Daguerre 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

hi all I'm using fedora with kde for a few weeks and I find it a bit difficult to handle packages kde. The problem I have is that I want to install some kde applications, for example kwrite without having to install all applications in the same group. I was searching the net and it seems impossible, if so I wonder if anyone can tell me why it is, just to know. It was just that, I appreciate if someone can tell me, thanks.

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Desktop validation testing: round 1 coming soon!
by Adam Williamson 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hi, folks. Further to my earlier email about desktop validation testing for Fedora 14, here's a note - or a reminder, if you knew already! - that our first manual test point for the F14 cycle is due on Thursday, with the Alpha 'Test Compose' (it's a sort of early-warning test build that gives us some time to sort out any major kinks before we start building Alpha RCs). When the build is up, Rui He or I will send or forward you the official announcement, with links to the results matrix and downloads and so forth. This is just a heads-up so you know it's coming soon. It's probably worth doing a quick check of Rawhide to see if there's any huge problems with your desktops which would make the TC completely untestable, and if so, get 'em fixed before we build it :). You can get nightly live builds at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ if you want to check quickly without installing Rawhide, though there've been some bugs lately which broke the booting of live images, so they _may_ still be unbootable. The nightlies are built and uploaded automatically, and there are KDE, Xfce and LXDE builds there. Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net

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virtuoso
by Petrus de Calguarium 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

I notice that I do not have virtuoso-opensource-utils installed. I ran yum info virt-o-u... and all it tells me is that these are utilities. What would this package do for me? What commands, functions does it provide? What is in it that I might actually like to use or would conceivably use? How do I get yum to tell me the above in the future, without me having to ask on a forum (for similar future cases when I wish to know what a package actually does, since yum info barely ever really tells you much at all upon which to base a should I/should I not install question on)?

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Problem with Yum on one of my computers
by Eli Wapniarski 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hi all Got a weird one. (not kde problem). Even though I have plugins enabled in yum.conf (contents follow) some don't seem to be working on this computer. The plugins that I use most frequently are presto, downloadonly, and priorities and fastmirror. While priorities and fastmirror seem to be working, presto and downloadonly don't seem to work. And I've checked their configurartion file also. and they are enabled. If anyone has any thoughts on this, it would be greatly appreciated. [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever keepcach e=0 debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log exactarch=1 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 plugins=1 installonly_limit=3 color=never Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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