kde October 2016

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System can't reach screen locker
by Sudhir Khanger 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Hello, Like I have said earlier sometimes my system wakes up from suspend or screen off (I can't say for sure) it never reaches screen locker. I see black screen and mouse pointer. In some places mouse pointer changes to input cursor. Other than that my only recourse is to restart system. I can't keep losing my data because Fedora or KDE fails to work. My questions is I am not even sure which log file should I be looking into to track possible problem if I am to continue using Fedora. I am on a fully upgraded F24. -- Regards, Sudhir Khanger, sudhirkhanger.com.

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How is Session Restore related to Autostart?
by Patrick O'Callaghan 05 Oct '16

05 Oct '16

I use Save Session with "Restore manually saved session" to try for a known desktop configuration on login. I say "try" because in various ways it doesn't completely work, as discussed in other threads. To attempt to get round some of the issues I also have a number of programs in Autostart, but it's never been clear to me what relation if any there is between these two things. Case in point: if I have program Foo in Autostart, but also save a session with Foo running, is the desktop after a new login expected to show two Foo instances or one (or none because of a conflict). Or is this simply not defined? Or does it depend on Foo itself? poc

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Offline Updates and KDE
by Gerald B. Cox 05 Oct '16

05 Oct '16

There is/was a discussion on the development list today regarding a problem when running dnf upgrade from a terminal window under a DE, e.g. GNOME or KDE. What kind of surprised me was that apparently the "official" Fedora stance is use the GNOME GUI updater which updates via reboot and that it is unsafe to do it from a terminal within GNOME or KDE. I have never encountered any issue so was trying to obtain some stats about exactly what the risk/benefit is... the only thing I could find was within the following thread: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2015-March/459603.html "... Updating online works 99.8% of the time. The 0.1% time it will corrupt random bits of your file-system, and 0.1% of the time it will leave you vulnerable to the security issue you thought you just "fixed". The only way to fix this so that online updates are safe is to redesign the centralised shared package model we use for distributing applications. The workaround is to use offline updates..." Also, as I understand it (and this may have changed) is that within KDE there is no "offline" update solution. Apper basically does it the same as issuing the command from a terminal. So, what is the recommended KDE solution for this? I stated on the development list I thought rebooting for every update was basically sacrificing system availability for what appears to be a very minor risk. Perhaps I'm missing another point or am completely off base here. That is why I'm wanting to know what other KDE users think of this. I've been entering DNF/YUM UPGRADE from within konsole for many years and have never encountered any corruption issues. I try to keep up-to-date with things, but I completely missed this, and apparently it was introduced in F18.

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No battery level in Plasma 5.7.5
by Patrick O'Callaghan 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

Using the Status and Notifications widget used to show the battery level in my Bluetooth mouse. Now it just says there are no batteries. It's a desktop, so there are indeed no batteries in the system, but there are in the mouse. What am I missing? poc

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Dolphin and samba problem
by Mattia Verga 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

I'm having problem with browsing Samba shares on my network with Dolphin on F24. I always used to enter in Network -> Samba shares in dolphin left panel and see a list of servers with samba shares on my network, but now I get "unable to find a workgroup on your local network. It may be due to firewall problems" (a rogue translation from Italian). Now, I've not changed anything in my firewall and I have SMB client ports opened. In fact, if I point directly to a server IP I can browse it (for example smb://192.168.1.200 it shows my server), so I don't think it's a firewall problem. Is anyone experiencing the same issue? Mattia

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hibernation?
by Neal Becker 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

I never use hibernation, but am surprised I don't see it as an option anywhere I've looked (alt-ctrl-del, and on the kde main menu "leave")

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erroneous crash detection
by Ed Greshko 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

How is crash detection supposed to work under KDE? I ask since a crash of ktorrent often gets detected when I click on a magnet link. ktorrent isn't crashing. So what and why is it being seen as such? This is on an F24 system and while I'm not running plasma-5.8.0 from copr it was happening prior to enabling that repository. -- You're Welcome Zachary Quinto

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