kde March 2011

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Fun and games with sound
by Anne Wilson 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

A few days ago I installed a Creative SB X-Fi Surround 5.1 box - a USB device that allows you to use good speakers from your laptop. At first I had no success at all, but following the steps at http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenris02/pulseaudio-fixes-and-workarounds got me started. This is where the fun and games begins. When I look at System Settings > Phonon, the number of devices that are listed varies enormously. I have seen about 10 on one occasion. Today there are 3, one of which is greyed out. I have no idea what causes the devices to be seen on some occasions but not on others. FWIW, the 5.1 system tops the list, the laptop's internal speakers are next, then the greyed out one is another configuration of the 5.1 system. Then there's sound output from applications. On the occasion that all the devices were listed I had good sound from front and rear, left and right, no center and no bass. Today, from a CD + VLC I have good sterio sound from rear L and R - nothing from the other speakers. Amarok simply outputs through the center speaker. Clementine plays through the laptop's speakers. I'm rather at a loss with this so any ideas you might have would be very welcome. Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org

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Shipping a dedicated backup solution on the KDE live CD?
by Kevin Kofler 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hi, on IRC, we have been discussing lately whether we should add a dedicated backup application to our live image (we probably should), and which one(s). I have collected some thoughts on the following wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Backup_Solution In short, we need to collect the common use cases and requirements (and also check which of them, if any, are already covered by e.g. Dolphin or Ark), and then evaluate how well the existing backup applications cover them. (Writing an entirely new application is not really in the scope of this discussion, it'd be a long-term task in any case. But this discussion MIGHT also be the starting point for such a project.) I have started by collecting some features I would like to see, but some of those might not be really needed (at least for most users), and there may be more important ones I have forgotten. (I'd like to know about any additional features people would like to see.) My list is just the output of the brainstorming I did, it is by no means intended to be final or binding. See the wiki page for details. If you have any feedback, you can: * reply to this mail on this mailing list, * use the discussion (Talk) page attached to the wiki page, * edit the wiki directly and/or * come to discuss this on IRC in the #fedora-kde channel on Freenode. We would appreciate any user feedback on this. Kevin Kofler

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Ghost (flash?) advertisements on the desktop.
by linux guy 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

I get ghost images in applications on certain areas of my desktop after I open a website with an advertisement. The advertisements appear to be flash based. After a while the ghosts disappear and aren't a problem any more in the session. When I start a new session I get a ghost and it hangs around for a while and then disappears. I am not sure what causes it to disappear. I am running a fully up to date F14 installation. kdelibs.i686 6:4.6.1-0.2.fc14 @kde-testing akmod-nvidia.i686 1:260.19.36-1.fc14 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i686 1:260.19.36-1.fc14 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates flash-plugin.i386 10.2.152.27-release @adobe-linux-i386 I have not searched Bugzilla for information on this situation. There was an article on www.linuxhomepage.com that spoke of a similar issue, but I cannot find it anymore. Any and all advice for handling this issue is appreciated. Thanks.

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Empty Home - 4.6.1/F14
by Colin J Thomson 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hi, Finally found a report on one of the other bugs I have with 4.6.1 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267709 Colin -- Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) Registered Linux user number #342953

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/var/log/kdm.log
by Tomas Straupis 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

Hello I have a bigish /var/log/kdm.log file (272M). As far as I understand this log file is created by KDE (login(display?) manager)? Is it there by default and if so, shouldn't some kde package drop a file to /etc/logrotate.d/ to take care of the size of this log file? Should I go to bugzilla? (yum whatprovides /etc/logrotate.d/kdm* returns nothing, and looking through results of yum whatprovides /etc/logrotate.d/* does not reveal a potential kdm.log cleaner) P.S. f14, kde4.5.5. -- Tomas Straupis

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Re: fyi, kde-redhat repos now support f15
by Laurin 06 Mar '11

06 Mar '11

Am 06.03.2011 um 21:30 schrieb Christoph Kaulich: > If yo switch the language in the Help Menue to US the error get fixed, > see the comments in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256591 Oh yes, now it works. Thank you :) Regards -- Laurin Novak Member Of The Fedora Localization Project - German Translators Team (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N_German_Team) GPG-Key-ID: 0xF4239033

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kmail from kde-4.6.1 cannot access kwallet or mysql error
by Peter G. 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

When I start kmail, kwallet opens, but I am asked for the passwords for all of the stored pop3 servers anyway, then after entering them (even though they are already in kwallet), a new window opens stating that akonadi is not running as root and that there are errors in the mysql log (I cannot find that log: /var/log/mysqld.log is completely empty) and when I then click that window closed, kmail also closes, with the result that I am unable to download/read my emails.

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lost service menus after update
by Dj YB 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Hello,I have updated my system recently and found out that service menus entries I have added manually using the Menu Editor are lost. where can those be found in order to back them up? Thanks in advance, YB.

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Problem with Panel and Application Icons
by Eli Wapniarski 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Hi Recently updated to 4.6.1. As usual, a great job packaging :) Now, when I log into KDE, the icons on the panel seem to be spread out evenly across the entire panel as opposed to sitting snuggly next to each other. Has anyone else noticed this behavior. Thanks Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: fyi, kde-redhat repos now support f15
by Laurent Rineau 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Le jeudi 03 mars 2011 18:06:05, Laurent Rineau a écrit : > Le jeudi 03 mars 2011 16:49:00, Rolf Offermanns a écrit : > > On 03/03/2011 04:24 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: > > > I'm a little baffled, I checked the physical contents of > > > http://kdeforge.unl.edu/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/14/ > > > vs. > > > http://kdeforge.unl.edu/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/15/ > > > and didn't see anything out of the ordinary. > > > > > > the repoview data seems consistent as well, > > > http://kdeforge.unl.edu/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/14/i386/testing/repoview/ > > > http://kdeforge.unl.edu/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/14/x86_64/testing/repovie > > > w/ > > > > > > And, it seemed to upgrade and work properly on my own f14/x86_64 box. > > > > > > so, I'm at a loss here. > > > > Hmm... I did a "yum clean all" (did that multiple times before today) > > and now "yum update" seems to work fine again. > > I did yum clean all several time but I still get fc15 packages! > > $ sudo yum list qt.x86_64 > Loaded plugins: changelog, downloadonly, presto, refresh-packagekit, > security Installed Packages > qt.x86_64 1:4.7.2-1.fc14 > @kde-testing Available Packages > qt.x86_64 1:4.7.2-1.fc15 > kde-testing Now qt-4.7.2-1.fc15 and all fc15 packages have disappeared (from my F14 repos), and I have been able to update. -- Laurent Rineau http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LaurentRineau

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