kde July 2016

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How to set default session type to Plasma for sddm
by Roderick Johnstone 29 Oct '21

29 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 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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session restore broken?
by Glenn Holmer 04 Sep '16

04 Sep '16

After the latest updates, saved session restore no longer restarts Thunderbird and Firefox. Is anyone else seeing this? -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."

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xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-19.20151206.fc23 (re)enabled dri3 by default
by Rex Dieter 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

In the not-too-distant past, a xorg-x11-drv-intel update reverted back to default dri2 because dri3 was to unstable and too-often resulted in plasmashell freezes, see also: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-8616 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223477 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223477 A new update came this past week turning dri3 back on, https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-606ca05253 Please help test this if you are able. For *me*, it's pretty good, but I've now experienced at least 3 plasmashell deadlocks (when left idle and screen off) similar to past results when using dri3. And... oddly, chrome seems to freeze similar to plasmashell sometimes too. -- Rex

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copyq - qt based advanced clipboard manager
by Gerald B. Cox 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

I just pushed a new testing update out to bodhi on this and realized that I may not have advised folks that copyq is available in the fedora repos. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it here is a link to a recent review article: http://goo.gl/1oMjHv It requires qt5 and has remarkable set of options. The project is active and updates are pushed in a timely manner. The one criticism I've seen is that it is "too advanced" and people get lost in the options. That really isn't the case. If you use the vanilla setup, it works just like any other clipboard manager. The advantage is if you want to do some neat things with your clipboard data, copyq will help you do it easily. Of course, if you want to play around, you need to RTFM. For those who like eye candy, the system area icon is animated and the scissors will "cut" when you clip something for the clipboard. Enjoy!

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ssh-agent emulation in gpg-agent stopped working
by Michael Strobel 30 Jul '16

30 Jul '16

Hello everyone, i'm managing my ssh key password with the ssh-agent emulation using gpg-agent which stopped working recently. When i ssh some machine the output is Enter passphrase for key '/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa': instead of pinentry-qt popping up asking for my password and i have to retype the password every time. /etc/kde/env/gpg-agent-startup.sh is started automatically on login and here is my gpg-agent config file: ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf: default-cache-ttl 36000 pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-qt enable-ssh-support allow-loopback-pinentry Anyone running into the same troubles? Some hint to alternatives would also be appreciated. Best wishes Michael

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Kmail Won't Start
by Garry Williams 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

All of a sudden, Kmail will not start. I get this error: The Email program encountered a fatal error and will terminate now. The error was: Could not create collection sent-mail, resourceId: 8 In my system log, I see more details: Jul 29 17:24:32 tfr akonadiserver[1661]: DB error: "Duplicate entry '4-sent-mail' for key CollectionTable_parentAndNameIndex'" Jul 29 17:24:32 tfr akonadiserver[1661]: Error text: "Duplicate entry '4-sent-mail' for key 'CollectionTable_parentAndNameIndex' QMYSQL3: Unable to execute statement" Jul 29 17:24:32 tfr akonadiserver[1661]: Query: "INSERT INTO CollectionTable (remoteId, remoteRevision, name, parentId, resourceId, enabled, syncPref, displayPref, indexPref, cachePolicyInherit, cachePolicyCheckInterval, cachePolicyCacheTimeout, cachePolicySyncOnDemand, cachePolicyLocalParts, isVirtual) VALUES (:0, :1, :2, :3, :4, :5, :6, :7, :8, :9, :10, :11, :12, :13, :14)" The system offers to report the problem and takes quite a bit of time to upload the core dump and analyze it and then *fails* with this error: 2016-07-29 21:42:15 Analyzing crash data 2016-07-29 21:42:26 WARNING:fedora.client.openidbaseclient:Unable to create /usr/share/retrace-server/.fedora: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/share/retrace-server/.fedora' (Now that's irritating.) I used akonadiconsole to look at the database and there already is a record in the collectionstable with a key of (4, 'sent-mail'). Anyone have a clue why akonadi wants to create another one? Please excuse any formatting problems in this E-mail message. I had to use Gmail to compose and send it since Kmail won't run! -- Garry Williams

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Plasma 5.7.1 issues
by Raman Gupta 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

Since upgrade to Plasma 5.7.1, I have a bunch of new issues: - I am unable to assign a shortcut to my application launcher. It simply is not saved any more. No related errors in .xsession-errors. - I am unable to get my screens to go to standby mode. Changing power settings does not help. Even setting standby manually with `xset` does not work any more (radeonsi driver). - Every second or so, 5 duplicate lines (10 lines total) are written to .xsession-errors: kde.systemtray: Wrong IconThemePath "/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/tray" : too short or does not end with 'icons' kde.systemtray: Wrong IconThemePath "/home/raman/.local/share/icons:/home/raman/.icons:/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/icons:/usr/local/share/icons:/usr/share/icons:/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/pixmaps:/usr/local/share/pixmaps:/usr/share/pixmaps" : too short or does not end with 'icons' All of these issues when upgrading KDE (even relatively minor updates like 5.6 to 5.7) are certainly frustrating. It really seems like the KDE and QT teams have serious QC issues. Regards, Raman

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kwin BadWindow error
by Gerald B. Cox 28 Jul '16

28 Jul '16

Has anyone else noticed this... As far as I can tell, everything is running fine... but I'm getting these messages over and over and over again... just filling up my log... kwin_x11: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 24419, resource id: 94373925, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0

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Fedora/KDE boot graphics
by Timothy Murphy 28 Jul '16

28 Jul '16

Am I alone in finding what I see on the screen when re-booting very drab, and much inferior to what Fedora/KDE used to provide? Is it possible to choose a more interesting non-default setup? I find the slowly filling horizontal line under the K icon particularly boring; it makes the Microsoft rotating circle seem like an exciting entry into the Windows world. In older versions of Fedora/KDE various icons used to appear in order, showing what was happening at that moment during the re-boot. I've always thought it was a selling-point of Linux that it wasn't a black box, one could see (if one wished) what is going on. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

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