Kopete 1.4.4 in KDE 4.10.4 without libjingle support

i don't even have this tab in settings of gtalk-jabber account.

Is it https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … 9784c02bd4 ?
Last edited by karol (2013-06-24 12:17:28)

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KDE starts with terminal without any windows

I don't know whats happend,but one my user can't start normal KDE inerface,but he can start fluxbox
and others users has working KDE...
when i entering username and password in kdm it became starting kde with graphic terminal
what can i do?

linderox wrote:
Yes it works!!!
but with a default settings!
can i return my lats one?
whats happend with my KDE?
The settings got messed up. The files I had you move were the settings for KDE, and since they no longer existed where KDE could find them, all the settings reverted to default and KDE worked again. As I said, you can either set it all up again, or do your best to try to weed out the problem.
The problem is most likely with with the session settings, so perhaps you could try putting the old settings back(aka move the kde and kderc files in your home directory back to .kde and .kderc), and then doing `rm -r ~/.kde/share/config/session/` and trying to login again. If that does not work, and someone does not come around with an exact solution, you can just move or delete the files again and setup KDE again.

KDE. Font rendering without antialiasing

I don't like antialiasing and always turn it off. Everything is ok, except modern fonts on the web. They look realy ugly. Is there any way to improve their rendering without antialiasing?
Thanks in advance!

Hi ryvasy - I'm no expert, but from what I understand is that some fonts are designed to look good with antialiasing, and some are designed to look good withoutwiki antialisasing. So what you should do is apply the antialising that the font wants! This means antialias ON for some fonts, and OFF for others. let your eyes decide. I'm just diving into this (like I said, no expert!), I think it's in a fonts config file (see the wiki).
The other thing is the size. This post is from someone who puts aliassing on large letters only, but who keeps the smaller sizes antialiased.

Kde: lipstik, dotcurve, kpager2, taskvar v2, kio-locate

lipstik
- style based on plastik
PKGBUILD
pkgname=lipstik
pkgver=1.0beta1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Based on the plastik style, Lipstik is a purified style with many options to tune your desktop look."
url="http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=18223"
license=""
depends=(kdebase)
makedepends=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
install=
source=(http://www.kde-look.org/content/files/18223-$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
md5sums=()
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde
make || return 1
make prefix=$startdir/pkg/opt/kde install
dotcurve
- very simple style
PKGBUILD
pkgname=dotcurve
pkgver=0.3b
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Your faster style is back! featuring translucent menus, and configuration."
url="http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=16211"
license=""
depends=(kdebase)
makedepends=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
install=
source=(http://webs.ono.com/usr047/uucp/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
md5sums=()
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde
make || return 1
make prefix=$startdir/pkg/opt/kde install
kpager2
- a complete desktop pager
PKGBUILD
pkgname=kpager2
pkgver=0.5.2
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The is probably the most powerfull pager for KDE. (The author wrote thsi sentence ¬_¬')"
url="http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=7120&vote=good&tan=33883408"
license=""
depends=(kdebase)
makedepends=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
install=
source=(http://www.uni-weimar.de/~wolff3/kdelook/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
md5sums=()
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/kpager2
find . -print -exec touch {} ;
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde
make
patch src/kpagermainwin.moc.cpp < ../../../kpagermainwin.moc.cpp.diff || return 1
make || return 1
make prefix=$startdir/pkg/opt/kde install
kpagermainwin.moc.cpp.diff
9a10,12
> #include "version.h"
> #ifndef KPAGER_IS_APPLET
>
103a107,108
>
> #endif
taskvar v2
- a nice taskvar with window preview
PKGBUILD
pkgname=mtaskbar
pkgver=0.7
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="It is a modified TaskBar for the KDE 3.3 kicker panel which supports thumbnail images of application windows, transparency on (semi) transparent panels and a few otherfeatures to beatifulize the kicker panel without loosing convenient functionality."
url="http://www.uni-weimar.de/~wolff3/index_taskbar.html"
license=""
depends=(kdebase)
makedepends=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
install=
source=(http://www.uni-weimar.de/~wolff3/kdelook/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
md5sums=()
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/mtaskbar
find . -print -exec touch {} ;
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde
make || return 1
make prefix=$startdir/pkg/opt/kde install
kio-locate
- suport for locate:/ in kde (forget accessing the dir, open the file directly
PKGBUILD
pkgname=kio-locate
pkgver=0.3.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="kio-locate is a KDE I/O Slave for the locate command."
url="http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=17201"
license=""
depends=(kdebase)
makedepends=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
install=
source=(http://arminstraub.de/downloads/kio-locate/$pkgname_$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=()
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde
make || return 1
make prefix=$startdir/pkg/opt/kde install

Thank you, first, for contributing these PKGBUILDs. I have successfully built and installed the package for taskbar v2. I began attempting kpager2 and had errors. Specifically, the message was:
./PKGBUILD: line 23: syntax error near unexpected token `||'
./PKGBUILD: line 23: `|| return 1'
==> Making package: kpager2 (Thu Mar 3 17:46:56 CST 2005)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
==> Using local copy of kpager2-0.5.2.tar.bz2
==> WARNING: MD5sums are missing or incomplete. Cannot verify source integrity.
==> Extracting Sources...
==> tar --use-compress-program=bzip2 -xf kpager2-0.5.2.tar.bz2
==> Removing existing pkg/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
/usr/bin/makepkg: line 557: build: command not found
==> ERROR: Build Failed. Aborting...
Steps I took before receiving the error:
1. created a directory called "kpager2"
2. created a file called "PKGBUILD" in the aforementioned kpager2 directory and it contains the text of the PKGBUILD you posted
3. in the kpager2 directory, created a file called "kpagermainwin.moc.cpp.diff" and the contents of the file are as you posted:
9a10,12
> #include "version.h"
> #ifndef KPAGER_IS_APPLET
>
103a107,108
>
> #endif
4. ran "makepkg"
Thanks for the help!

[KDE 4.10] Kontact/Kalender/KMail issue

Hello together!
I have recently updated to KDE 4.10, which looks very good. Unfortunately, the above mentioned parts of KDE have stoped to work. I use Kontact for organising my mails, calender and RSS-feeds. The RSS programm (akregator) still works after the update,
yet Kalender and KMail do not work anymore. Kalender does not find any files, while Kmail still shows the the correct E-Mail accounts and files, but cannot fetch data from the servers. Due to this setup, I think either something is wrong with the SQL or
akonadi, but I do not know where to look especially for the problem.
Here is what KMail says when started seperately:
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
If no one has a easy solution, can you at least tell me how I can downgrade to KDE 4.9 again without manually tip in every package name?
Thanks in advance,
hermi

Okay, the solution in the thread did not work for me.
When I start akonadi, I get the following messages:
[hermi@localhost ~]$ akonadictl start
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
[hermi@localhost ~]$ QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: connection 'initConnection' is still in use, all queries will cease to work.
QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: connection 'initConnection' is still in use, all queries will cease to work.
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
search paths: ("/usr/local/bin", "/usr/bin", "/bin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/sbin", "/sbin", "/usr/bin/core_perl", "/opt/qt/bin")
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
"Cannot connect to agent instance with identifier 'akonadi_imap_resource_3', error message: 'Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.akonadi_imap_resource_3': no such name'"
ItemRetrieverException : Unable to contact resource
search paths: ("/home/hermi/.kde4/lib/kde4/plugins/", "/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/", "/usr/lib/qt/plugins", "/usr/bin", "/usr/lib/kde4/plugins", "/home/hermi/.kde4/lib/kde4/", "/usr/lib/kde4/")
search paths: ("/home/hermi/.kde4/lib/kde4/plugins/", "/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/", "/usr/lib/qt/plugins", "/usr/bin", "/usr/lib/kde4/plugins", "/home/hermi/.kde4/lib/kde4/", "/usr/lib/kde4/")
search paths: ("/home/hermi/.kde4/lib/kde4/plugins/", "/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/", "/usr/lib/qt/plugins", "/usr/bin", "/usr/lib/kde4/plugins", "/home/hermi/.kde4/lib/kde4/", "/usr/lib/kde4/")
search paths: ("/home/hermi/.kde4/lib/kde4/plugins/", "/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/", "/usr/lib/qt/plugins", "/usr/bin", "/usr/lib/kde4/plugins", "/home/hermi/.kde4/lib/kde4/", "/usr/lib/kde4/")
search paths: ("/home/hermi/.kde4/lib/kde4/plugins/", "/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/", "/usr/lib/qt/plugins", "/usr/bin", "/usr/lib/kde4/plugins", "/home/hermi/.kde4/lib/kde4/", "/usr/lib/kde4/")
akonadi_nepomuk_feeder(1979) FeederPluginloader::feederPluginsForMimeType: No feeder for type "inode/directory" found
akonadi_nepomuk_feeder(1979) FeederPluginloader::feederPluginsForMimeType: No feeder for type "text/calendar" found
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
AkonadiAgentServer(1972) Akonadi::SingleFileResourceBase::handleHashChange: The hash has changed.
akonadi_imap_resource_3(1975)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
akonadi_imap_resource_0(1973)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
akonadi_imap_resource_2(1974)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
It seems that akonadi cannot connect to the Imap-ressource. What can I do about this besides waiting for a bugfix?
Ohh, and here is my akonadiserverrc file:
[%General]
Driver=QSQLITE3
[QMYSQL]
Name=akonadi
Host=
Options="UNIX_SOCKET=/home/hermi/.local/share/akonadi/socket-localhost/mysql.socket"
ServerPath=/usr/bin/mysqld
StartServer=true
[Debug]
Tracer=null
[QSQLITE3]
Name=/home/hermi/.local/share/akonadi/akonadi.db
hermi

GCC with Symbol Visibility patch = faster apps (KDE 3.4)

I've checked gcc CVS PKGBUILD and I can't seem to find this patch in it. The patch is already present in GCC 4.
What is this patch useful for? (quote from here)
1. It very substantially improves load times of your DSO (Dynamic Shared Object)
For example, the TnFOX Boost.Python bindings library now loads in eight seconds rather than over six minutes!
2. It lets the optimiser produce better code
PLT indirections (when a function call or variable access must be looked up via the Global Offset Table such as in PIC code) can be completely avoided, thus substantially avoiding pipeline stalls on modern processors and thus much faster code. Furthermore when most of the symbols are bound locally, they can be safely elided (removed) completely through the entire DSO. This gives greater latitude especially to the inliner which no longer needs to keep an entry point around "just in case".
3. It reduces the size of your DSO by 5-20%
ELF's exported symbol table format is quite a space hog, giving the complete mangled symbol name which with heavy template usage can average around 1000 bytes. C++ templates spew out a huge amount of symbols and a typical C++ library can easily surpass 30,000 symbols which is around 5-6Mb! Therefore if you cut out the 60-80% of unnecessary symbols, your DSO can be megabytes smaller!
4. Much lower chance of symbol collision
The old woe of two libraries internally using the same symbol for different things is finally behind us with this patch. Hallelujah!
What I've understood from that webpage is that, in order to turn this on, the applications must be compiled with some certain flags (this provides GCC backward compatibility, even with this patch applied, IMO).
A comment here states that KDE 3.4 (upcomming version) supports this compile flag and it's (a lot) faster.
I haven't seen the PKGBUILD of KDE 3.4 beta 2 to check if it uses "-fvisibilty=hidden", but I suppose it does not since GCC is not patched.
Fedora, MDK 10.2 and Gentoo have this patch applied to GCC 3.4 (and KDE 3.4 betas are compiled with fvisibility in those distros, according to the comments there.
There's also "-fvisibility-inlines-hidden" which does not require any support from the application, but I think that's overriden by -fvisibility flag.

Well there are plenty of non-kde and kde specific features that are supplied as extras and would only benefit those users that need them (cups, samba, etc) to the rest of the users who may not like, want, or need them they get them anyway right now because in order to not keep recompiling package to add features Arch maintainers add the features in right from the get go. Modularity means that the packages may be built to support such features but will run without the supporting packages and the feature only works or gets enabled when you install the supporting packages.
Take transcode for example it really only has about four true dependencies but it can support all sorts of features all one has to do is install what supporting packages it needs to use these features. thsi allows the user to use whatever features or codecs they like and not have to rebuild in order to use a specific feature. It makess the maintainer's jobs alot easier because they can build all support in with only the minimal dependencies in the end.
Modularity works for all level and need of the user. The developers of KDE have to know that many users will want it all and many will want a slim KDE that is the nature of the user base in linux. Modularity caters to both.
(Modualrity has been a standard in kernels for years and should be the standard for big projects like kde,gnome, etc.)

[KDE] Dolphin hangs during file operations

Whenever I copy/rename a (small) file, or create a new folder, Dolphin stutters for a full 3-4 seconds before letting me do anything else. If the file is larger, Dolphin repeatedly becomes unresponsive every few seconds before coming back to normal. If I minimize and restore it, the window won't even redraw.
Terminal output throws out the following during application launch:
dolphin(17632)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
dolphin(17632) KSambaSharePrivate::testparmParamValue: We got some errors while running testparm "Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Loaded services file OK.
Invalid combination of parameters for service Home. Level II oplocks can only be set if oplocks are also set.
and Dolphin always exits with
dolphin(20132)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
dolphin(20132)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
dolphin(20132)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
dolphin(20132)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
dolphin(20132)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
dolphin(20132)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
There's no terminal output during the stutters; and nothing else really seems to stand out. There's plenty of free RAM, no swap hits, and the laptop is well cooled. This happens on both a partition mounted via ntfs-3g as well as my / mounted on ext4.
What's more, I've tried the file ops with thunar (within KDE) and everything happens without problem.
KDE 4.10.5 on kernel 3.10.3.

It turns out I forgot that folder is mounted on my HDD, not the SSD, so it was an actual copy to destination -> delete source operation.
Preview is off, and I disabled the indexer (it wasn't producing any CPU activity anyway), still same problem.
Dolphin is by far the slowest file manager according to my tests:
Setup:
copy 13k icons ext4 SSD -> ext4 HDD, destination folder deleted between runs. Each file manager tested 3 times
Results:
dolphin: 1:23
thunar: 1:17
nautilus: 0:26
windows exlorer: 0:14
pcmanfm: 0:10
command line: 0:02
Double the numbers for move (I guess that's because it has to delete the files as well). Here's hoping they can figure out how to speed it up with the KDE5 dolphin port...
edit: added windows explorer for comparison. It does quite well, surprisingly.
Last edited by Soukyuu (2015-02-05 12:30:44)

[kde-unstable] KDE SC 4.13

Hi all,
it's again time for a new major release of KDE Software Compilation.
The first beta of the 4.13 series has been released.
As usual, you find the packages in the [kde-unstable] repo, which only contains beta/rc releases.
Read install instruction from here.
NOTE: It requires [testing] enabled.
The following packages have been added:
* kfilemetadata
* baloo
* baloo-widgets
* kdeedu-artikulate
* kqtquickcharts
KDE is migrating from Nepomuk to Baloo, because of this, I built KDE without Nepomuk support.
Dolphin, KDEPIM and Gwenview have already been ported to Baloo. It seems that KActivities will not be ported away from Nepomuk in those 4.x releases.
Amarok, KDE-Telepathy, Digikam and more still use Nepomuk, but future releases will not. You can take a look to this list.
Please report any packaging bug to our bug tracker.
KDE bugs go in the upstream bug tracker.
Have a nice update and testing!
Watch the list of known issues.

Until recently veromix worked fine but now it doesn't. I think this is the problem:
File "/usr/share/apps/plasma_scriptengine_python/pyappletscript.py", line 22, in <module>
from PyKDE4.plasma import Plasma
RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v11.0 but the PyKDE4.plasma module requires API v10.1
According to their changelog they changed it for their sip v4.15.5 release http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/stati … /ChangeLog
Downgrading sip, python2-sip and python-sip to [extra] brings this:
File "/usr/share/apps/plasma_scriptengine_python/pyappletscript.py", line 20, in <module>
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v10.0 to v10.1 but the PyQt4.QtCore module requires API v11.0
so I guess PyKDE is just lagging behind and everyone else is already using the new thing?
edit: Maybe they made a mistake with their release tarball? I have not tested it, but I got the PKGBUILD from here: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … e/PKGBUILD and made it build from the kde 4.13 branch of their git repository and it works: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=rdjEJ9tU
Well, except for
Error connecting to veromix-service:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.veromix.pulseaudio.qt exited with status 1
But maybe that solves itself after the next kde restart.
edit2: It didn't.
For some reason it doesn't launch some dbus service foobar.
python2 /usr/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/veromix-plasmoid/dbus-service/veromix-service-qt.py
Then it works.
Also, in the last kde update the former issue with pykde got solved I think.
Last edited by haagch (2014-03-25 17:19:33)

KDE + KOffice on an iBook?

I recently found out about KDE and KOffice, and decided to try using them. So I...
1. Installed Fink 0.7.2 (as I'm running 10.3.9 on my iBook) and then Fink Commander (which comes with Fink's installer);
2. I then launched Fink Commander, searched for "kde" which yields 62 results;
3. I ctrl-clicked on "bundle-kde", scrolled to "Binary > Install", it then asked me if I'd like to proceed (I chose yes, of course) and Fink Commander is in the process of downloading the required components...
So here's my further questions:
1. The search results doesn't contain KOffice, where do I find one suitable for Mac OS X?
2. Does installing KDE via Fink Commander means it's independant from Mac OS X? If yes, how do I directly boot into KDE? If not, how can I make it so?
Thanx in advance (pardon me, I don't understand the developer's lingo, simple English would be great.).
-- Dav.

1. KDE relies on XDarwin, which requires OS X. So I'm
not using KDE as an independant OS, am I? Is there a
way to achieve that goal (having KDE as a secondary
boot on my iBook)?
XDarwin is one of several options for installing X-windows on OS X. It is not a separate operating system. You could also use Apple's X11, as is shown in the screenshot above.
The easiest way to install KDE as a "secondary boot" is to install a KDE-based linux dist. like Kubuntu. But why do you want to do that?
2. It's funny: I'm running KDE in full screen
(without desktop icons) but when I saw an interesting
KDE app, I had to switch back to OS X, open Terminal
and uses Fink to install that app (if it's available
thru Fink at all). Can I directly install KDE apps
from KDE?
X11 can be run either in full screen mode or in rootless mode. An example of the latter is shown in the above screen shot. You are still in OS X in each case, so the only thing you are switching back is the display. You can open a KDE or any X-windows based terminal (xterm, konsole, etc) from within KDE in X-window's full-screen mode and run fink (but not Fink Commander) from that.
Why not run KDE rootless, like I'm showing in that screenshot. Then everything in OS X is immediately available to you, all at once.
3. PowerPC seems to be a "soon to be abandoned"
platform, isn't it?
No.
I thought so because I haven't seen any KDE apps on its website that have a
compiled binary for PPC (not OS X, but PPC).
Any thoughts?
Does "its website" refer to Apple? I would be surprised if you would find any KDE apps on Apple's website. Until the release of the new processors, there was only PPC, so there was no reason to state explicitly that something was compiled for it.

[Resolved] [kde 4.11] startkde-wayland missing?

Hey,
AFAIK (Martin's blog and arch forums), you can run kde 4.11 under wayland, however the executable that's used to start kde as a wayland compositor (startkde-wayland) is missing from the packages in the official repo. Is that a decision to build kde without wayland support or do I need another package?
Last edited by Dheart (2013-08-25 04:40:55)

There is no wayland compositor in 4.11. It's just a hack to render it to a weston surface, so you'd have to launch weston first anyway. I think the reason Martin demonstrated this was to counter the silly Mir PR videos. He doesn't even want any bug reports for that so it's obvious that it's only intended as a demo using a hack nothing official.
Last edited by blackout23 (2013-08-25 00:11:55)

[Solved] OSS4 KDE Notifications problem

After reading a lot of great stuff about OSS4, I decided to give it a shot. I installed it and parts of it seem to work just fine, but I noticed that a lot of my KDE sounds weren't working. To make a long story short, for some reason OSS4 doesn't seem to be able to play Ogg Vorbis files on my system. Is this a problem with OSS4 or is there maybe something else I should be looking at? I have an extremely fresh install of Arch so I'm not sure what the issue could be if it's mine.
Thanks!
Last edited by Locri (2008-05-18 14:13:29)

Another update, wine works fine too, so I figured I'd look directly at 'play'
Running play from the commandline gives me a good hint at what's going on:
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
ALSA snd_pcm_open error: No such file or directory
play ao: Could not open default device: error 5
play soxio: Failed writing `default':
So it looks like 'play' is trying to use ALSA rather than OSS. I've been looking around for configuration options of some sort, but nothing seems to be coming up. Could the package in the repositories possibly have been built without OSS support? Or is there possibly something else I'm missing?
Thanks again for the help.
Edit: Ok, I've made a custom compiled SOX package that definitely compiled OSS support and it's still doing the same thing >_<
Last edited by Locri (2008-05-18 13:19:45)

Windows sometimes don't redraw their contents

Sometimes, when I obscure a window by another one or switch desktops, some of my windows have "blank" areas. When I then force the window to redraw somehow, like by clicking on something that changes its content, the window gets back to normal. I've seen this happen for urxvt that uses Xlib directly, AFAIK, xfce4-panel that's GTK+ app and Kopete or KTorrent which use KDE toolkit -- so it doesn't seem to be related to any particular GUI toolkit. I can't really reproduce it either.
This is a screenshot of what it looks like:
I don't really have an idea of what could be going on. I'm not running any compositor or anything else that gives fancy looks -- just plain OpenBox.
If you can point me in some direction, you'll be welcome.

carlocci wrote:I don't get what's wrong with the picture.
Post your xorg.conf / videocard magic though
The "empty" portions of the irssi and Kopete Contact List windows are wrong. The only modification to the picture I did was blurring the conversation -- otherwise it's what actually was on my screen.
I'm using NVidia drivers, nvidia-173.14.09-4 and nvidia-utils-173.14.09-1 are the packages installed.
My somewhat messy xorg.conf:
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
#SubSection "extmod"
#Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
#EndSubSection
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "bitmap"
# Load "xtt"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
# Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefonts"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/unifont"
#FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/encodings"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,cz"
Option "XkbVariant" ",qwerty"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:menu_toggle,compose:rwin,grp_led:scroll"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" # IntelliMouse PS/2
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Q770"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-100
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVidia GeForce"
Driver "nvidia"
VideoRam 131072
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "CursorShadow" "true"
Option "HwCursor" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "UseEdidDpi" "false"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "NvAGP" "0"
Option "DamageEvents" "true"
Option "UseEvents" "true"
Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
Option "BackingStore" "true"
Option "UseCompositeWrapper" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "NVidia GeForce"
Monitor "Q770"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
# Section "DRI"
# Mode 0666
# EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "enable"
Option "DAMAGE" "enable"
Option "RENDER" "enable"
EndSection

Bashrun 1.0 rc2 -- complete rewrite, needs testing

Dear fellow archers,
About two years ago I posted an early version of bashrun on these forums. Bashrun is a versatile application laucher based on bash, using a small, one-line terminal window for it's user interface to provide a simple run-dialog.
The positive response I got here convinced me of properly publishing and developing it further. Credits are due to Ghost1227, Shapeshifter, DieterBe and lots of others from the Arch Community. Without your support and feedback, I would probably have forgotten about bashrun soon.
Unfortunately, my bash scripting skills were next to non-existent by the time i wrote the first version, and thus the current version of bashrun (0.16) suffers from a lot of shortcomings and ugly hacks. So I decided to do a complete rewrite to do it properly and implement a lot of stuff I had in mind for it.
I've now arrived at a release candidate for what I plan to become bashrun 1.0. I feel that I need some more testing before releasing it properly, since I can't possibly test it under all environments with every suited terminal out there... so I need your help! Please use the PKGBUILD provided below to install it. Note that the release candidate won't touch any existing config files from earlier versions, so you can simply downgrade again if you run into problems or just don't like it.
Some of the features and benefits bashrun 1.0 provides:
* An application launcher that works like bash, simply because it is bash. Completion, history, aliases are thus supported out of the box already.
* Launch graphical and terminal applications from any terminal, either by using a full-fledged bashrun session in a regular terminal or by sourcing a lightweight remote interface.
* Launch terminal/console apps in dedicated terminals, e.g. use a different terminal program for certain apps or use different font and geometry settings.
* Rewrite non-executable command lines using regular expressions and substitution, along with a simple interface to programmable completion, e.g add web shortcuts, file associations, special rules for certain commands, etc.
* Add your own actions, i.e. change and extend the core functionality of bashrun.
* Write plugins implementing new actions, handlers, rules etc. and share them with other users... (pacman/abs/aur plugin anyone?)
* Use bashrun as a lightweight replacement for graphical su frontends like gksu or kdesu. (see bashrun --help)
* Better suited for use in tiling wms (Tip: use urxvt, with -override-redirect to make bashrun float)
* Generalized terminal support -- you tell bashrun how to use the terminal of choice
* Now comes with it's own little helper application for window management -- no xdotool required anymore
* Uses GNU autotools for installation
In general, bashrun provides different kinds of configuration objects that can be used to implement a great variety of helpful features. Note that by simply adding 'eval "$(bashrun --remote-control)"' to your bashrc you will get remote access to all of bashrun's features from any terminal on your desktop. This is a feature I personally can't live without anymore. For example, consider the following bits of configuration:
+rule su-run
--match '/^emacs +/etc//'
+rule su-term-notify
--match '/^/etc/rc.d/' '/^/etc/cron\..+/'
Now any command that begins with 'emacs /etc' will automatically be run as root, prompting me for the root password using the bashrun terminal window. Likewise, any command beginning with '/etc/rc.d', '/etc/init.d' or '/etc/cron.d' will be launched as root, it's output shown in a small terminal that automatically closes two seconds after the command is finished. But enough of this...
What you can do to help
Be sure to read the "Getting Started" section of the manual page and take a look at the system-wide config file located at /etc/xdg/bashrun/bashrun.rc. The latter is extensively commented and contains a lot of examples, and should give you an idea of what bashrun is capable of. Also, press F1 in bashrun to view a list of keybindings.
Any kind of feedback will be helpful. I've tried to make the manual as concise as possible, but it's probably far from perfect. If there's anything unclear or doesn't work as expected, please complain. If you don't feel like digging very deep, a simple "Runs fine in KDE and urxvt" is just as good, though.
Installation
This PKGBUILD should be all you need to get going:
pkgname=bashrun
pkgver=1.0.0rc2
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Launch applications from interactive bash sessions"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://bashrun.sourceforge.net"
license=('GPL2')
depends=('bash' 'libx11')
source=(http://bashrun.sourceforge.net/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz)
md5sums=('f2879c71152713dbe8190f84949e219c')
build() {
cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
make || return 1
package() {
cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
Note that the first startup may be somewhat slow. This will improve once the configuration has been cached.
Thanks in advance, and have fun!
Best regards,
Henning
EDIT: I've created a second release candidate, fixing a bug that would plugin lookups fail when multiple directories where present in XDG_CONFIG_DIRS. The PKGBUILD given in this post has been updated accordingly. The tarball is available at http://bashrun.sourceforge.net/bashrun-1.0.0rc2.tar.gz
Last edited by hbekel (2010-10-05 16:55:11)

demian wrote:That's a very nice app.
After installing it, i had to create /etc/bashrun and copy the content of /etc/xdg/bashrun to that folder.
I'd prefer if that step were already integrated into the makefile/pkgbuild, preferably using ~/.config/ instead of /etc/.
This shouldn't be necessary if bashrun was configured with --sysconfdir=/etc, like in the PKGBUILD i posted. This is explained in the README file. (EDIT: Or your XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set to "/etc" instead of "/etc/xdg", in which case bashrun expects the config file at "/etc/bashrun/bashrun.rc". Please check.)
No package should install anything to the user's home directory, so I provide a system wide config file to start from. I could copy the config file to the user's XDG_CONFIG_HOME on first startup, but a lot of people don't like that, and it's considered bad taste. (See rmshit for example). Other projects like openbox or awesome don't do this either, it's up to the user.
demian wrote:Also, if I start bashrun via Openbox shortcut (...) it produces an error message:
After i click OK in that error message window bashrun finally starts.
That error occurs because bashrun is started by Openbox without the XDG_CONFIG_DIRS variable.
I'm currently avoiding this issue by placing the bashrun.rc in ~/.config/bashrun/ and commenting out line 12 (+plugins terminal) but maybe that's something you want to have a look at.
Yes, this is a bug i discovered recently. I'll post an rc2 version here soon, please stay tuned.
Apart from this bug, bashrun doesn't care whether the XDG variables are actually defined, it uses the defaults in that case (as required by the xdg spec). Your XDG vars should be set to the defaults from /etc/profile.d/xorg.sh in any case, though.
demian wrote:Also, i suppose, there is no easy way of making this use zsh instead of bash?
No, that may be a long term goal, if it's possible at all. (I know nothing about zsh, and bashrun uses some very bash specific features)
Last edited by hbekel (2010-10-05 13:30:01)

[SOLVED] urxvt not using locale

Help! I am stuck here.
For the life of me I cannot find a reason why urxvt won't use my locale.
Output of locale
LANG=en_DK.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_DK.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_DK.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_DK.utf8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_DK.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_DK.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_DK.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_DK.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_DK.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_DK.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_DK.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_DK.utf8"
LC_ALL=
Output of locale -a
C
POSIX
en_DK
en_DK.iso88591
en_DK.utf8
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
Whenever I try to start urxvt from a(nother) terminal I get
urxvt: the locale is not supported by Xlib, working without locale support.
I have tried using both en_DK.utf8 and en_US.utf8. Neither works for me. (I would prefer en_DK.utf8)
If I set the locale to C, then I don't get the error message. However I also don't get the filenames displayed correctly then.
Anyone know what I can do?
I am using lxde with openbox. Don't know if that makes a difference.
I have spend the last 4 hours looking for a solution to this. Google turns up a lot of results, but they all (more or less) just tell me to make sure my locale is correct!? The word frustrating comes to mind
EDIT: Somehow urxvt is using my locale for showing the files correctly, but not for input from the keyboard. The keys that normally produce æ, ø and å (danish chars) just doesn't do anything at all?
EDIT2: Just in case someone stumbles upon this, here is what I decided to do. I didn't exactly solve the problem, but found another terminal to use instead.
What I actually was trying to do was getting yeahconsole to work. I really liked using yakuake in kde, but after deciding to use lxde didn't want to pull in the complete QT library. yeahconsole however which is actually a wrapper for xterm/urxvt didn't want to behave the way I wanted it to. Well the truth is urxvt didn't want to work the way I wanted it to
Fortunately for my nerves I found another quake like terminal called stjerm. This one works great (until now...). It has tabs and recognizes my locale setting. It's not in the official repos, but is easily installed from AUR.
EDIT3: OK. This is kind of annoying. Now I don't need the solution any more and of course now I have found it
To make urxvt use my locale correctly I must set it as follows: (note the LC_CTYPE setting)
LANG=en_DK.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_DK.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_DK.utf8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_DK.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_DK.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_DK.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_DK.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_DK.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_DK.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_DK.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_DK.utf8"
LC_ALL=
I mark this topic as solved.
Last edited by madeye (2009-10-31 21:21:06)

Move 'exec awesome' to the bottom of your ~/.xinitrc.

Language problems

Hi,
since today the language here on kde is half in english and half in german and it should be just german.
In the KDE system-Settings I've set the country to germany and the preferred language to german but nevertheless parts of the KDE menu and e.g. firefox, kmail and many more programs that used to be in german are now in english.
Another strange thing is that "$ locale" in the KDE "konsole" gives:
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
When I don't use x and log me in with the same user the output is correctly set to "de_DE.UTF-8" everywhere where "POSIX" is standing above.
I've tried to manually set "export LC_ALL= "de_DE.UTF-8"" but this didn't correct the language issues in KDE.
In /etc/rc.conf everything is also set as before to:
LOCALE="de_DE.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin"
KEYMAP="de"
CONSOLEFONT="default8x16"
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
And I've executed "#locale-gen" also without success. Further I've reinstalled the german KDE translation "kde-l10n-de" also without success.
Any ideas how to fix this problem?
matse

So, I've found out that the intel-mkl package (AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36909) causes these problems, if I uninstall it everything is fine and the locales are set as wanted. If I install the package the problems begin...
I've uploaded a picture of the package content, I really don't see a file which could cause such problems.
Any ideas?
matse
Last edited by matse (2011-06-17 20:04:02)

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