Potential KDE to e17 problems

Hello
I want to try e17 quite badly. I tried using it in the past with Ubuntu but it never worked well. I am hoping it works a bit better with Arch. My point of the post is however if I install just the e17 package, will that be enough to go ahead and give it a try? Or is there more that needs to be done?
Thanks for the help with a stupid question.
Ghosty

I just installed E17 accounding to the wiki, and it works great for me. try it, you'll see.
To configure it, look at this :
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.ph … 723.0.html
hope this help.

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I've tried uninstalling e17, But it had no effect. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

There's no question that changing things in E17 can change things in KDE. I was playing around with using E17 as KDE's window manager, and just for fun I changed the icon properties for Firefox in E17's launcher to point to Konqueror, and it made the updates in KDE also. Apparently E17 is directly modifying the desktop file and not storing settings in some sort of configuration file.
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Hello,
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udisks --dump
========================================================================
Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/fd0
native-path: /sys/devices/platform/floppy.0/block/fd0
device: 2:0
device-file: /dev/fd0
presentation: /dev/fd0
detected at: dom 10 feb 2013 23:01:49 CET
system internal: 0
removable: 1
has media: 0
detects change: 0
detection by polling: 0
detection inhibitable: 0
detection inhibited: 0
is read only: 0
is mounted: 0
mount paths:
mounted by uid: 0
presentation hide: 0
presentation nopolicy: 1
presentation name:
presentation icon:
automount hint:
size: 0
block size: 0
job underway: no
usage:
type:
version:
uuid:
label:
drive:
vendor: Floppy Drive
model:
revision:
serial:
WWN:
detachable: 0
can spindown: 0
rotational media: Yes, unknown rate
write-cache: unknown
ejectable: 0
adapter: Unknown
ports:
similar devices:
media:
compat: floppy
interface: platform
if speed: (unknown)
ATA SMART: not available
========================================================================
Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda
native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata9/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/block/sda
device: 8:0
device-file: /dev/sda
presentation: /dev/sda
by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500418AS_9VMCBD07
by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x5000c5001ffb5c23
detected at: dom 10 feb 2013 23:01:49 CET
system internal: 1
removable: 0
has media: 1 (detected at dom 10 feb 2013 23:01:49 CET)
detects change: 0
detection by polling: 0
detection inhibitable: 0
detection inhibited: 0
is read only: 0
is mounted: 0
mount paths:
mounted by uid: 0
presentation hide: 0
presentation nopolicy: 0
presentation name:
presentation icon:
automount hint:
size: 500103634432
block size: 512
job underway: no
usage:
type:
version:
uuid:
label:
partition table:
scheme: mbr
count: 3
drive:
vendor: ATA
model: ST3500418AS
revision: CC38
serial: 9VMCBD07
WWN: 5000c5001ffb5c23
detachable: 0
can spindown: 1
rotational media: Yes, at 7200 RPM
write-cache: enabled
ejectable: 0
adapter: Unknown
ports:
similar devices:
media:
compat:
interface: ata
if speed: (unknown)
ATA SMART: Updated at dom 10 feb 2013 23:01:49 CET
overall assessment: Good
===============================================================================
Attribute Current|Worst|Threshold Status Value Type Updates
===============================================================================
raw-read-error-rate 117| 99| 6 good 166844081 Pre-fail Online
spin-up-time 97| 97| 0 n/a 0 Pre-fail Online
start-stop-count 98| 98| 20 good 2228 Old-age Online
reallocated-sector-count 100|100| 36 good 0 sectors Pre-fail Online
seek-error-rate 81| 60| 30 good 123879807 Pre-fail Online
power-on-hours 84| 84| 0 n/a 601,0 days Old-age Online
spin-retry-count 100|100| 97 good 0 Pre-fail Online
power-cycle-count 99| 99| 20 good 1157 Old-age Online
runtime-bad-block-total 100|100| 0 n/a 0 Old-age Online
end-to-end-error 100|100| 99 good 0 Old-age Online
reported-uncorrect 100|100| 0 n/a 0 sectors Old-age Online
command-timeout 100| 95| 0 n/a 1753 Old-age Online
high-fly-writes 100|100| 0 n/a 0 Old-age Online
airflow-temperature-celsius 71| 58| 45 good 29C / 84,2F Old-age Online
temperature-celsius-2 29| 42| 0 n/a 29C / 84,2F Old-age Online
hardware-ecc-recovered 36| 27| 0 n/a 166844081 Old-age Online
current-pending-sector 100|100| 0 n/a 0 sectors Old-age Online
offline-uncorrectable 100|100| 0 n/a 0 sectors Old-age Offline
udma-crc-error-count 200|200| 0 n/a 0 Old-age Online
head-flying-hours 100|253| 0 n/a 702,2 days Old-age Offline
total-lbas-written 100|253| 0 n/a 95817134109 Old-age Offline
total-lbas-read 100|253| 0 n/a 104282471364 Old-age Offline
========================================================================
Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda1
native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata9/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1
device: 8:1
device-file: /dev/sda1
presentation: /dev/sda1
by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500418AS_9VMCBD07-part1
by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x5000c5001ffb5c23-part1
by-id: /dev/disk/by-uuid/170cf4f3-3f7e-4d2d-ab67-570c700e976f
detected at: dom 10 feb 2013 23:01:49 CET
system internal: 1
removable: 0
has media: 1 (detected at dom 10 feb 2013 23:01:49 CET)
detects change: 0
detection by polling: 0
detection inhibitable: 0
detection inhibited: 0
is read only: 0
is mounted: 1
mount paths: /
mounted by uid: 0
presentation hide: 0
presentation nopolicy: 0
presentation name:
presentation icon:
automount hint:
size: 29002305024
block size: 512
job underway: no
usage: filesystem
type: ext4
version: 1.0
uuid: 170cf4f3-3f7e-4d2d-ab67-570c700e976f
label:
partition:
part of: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda
scheme: mbr
number: 1
type: 0x83
flags: boot
offset: 32256
alignment offset: 0
size: 29002305024
label:
uuid:
========================================================================
Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda2
native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata9/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/block/sda/sda2
device: 8:2
device-file: /dev/sda2
presentation: /dev/sda2
by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500418AS_9VMCBD07-part2
by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x5000c5001ffb5c23-part2
by-id: /dev/disk/by-uuid/986135cd-9358-419d-b8aa-0fa4fcaa4d7d
detected at: dom 10 feb 2013 23:01:49 CET
system internal: 1
removable: 0
has media: 1 (detected at dom 10 feb 2013 23:01:49 CET)
detects change: 0
detection by polling: 0
detection inhibitable: 0
detection inhibited: 0
is read only: 0
is mounted: 1
mount paths: /home
mounted by uid: 0
presentation hide: 0
presentation nopolicy: 0
presentation name:
presentation icon:
automount hint:
size: 466998497280
block size: 512
job underway: no
usage: filesystem
type: ext4
version: 1.0
uuid: 986135cd-9358-419d-b8aa-0fa4fcaa4d7d
label:
partition:
part of: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda
scheme: mbr
number: 2
type: 0x83
flags:
offset: 29002337280
alignment offset: 0
size: 466998497280
label:
uuid:
========================================================================
Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda3
native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata9/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/block/sda/sda3
device: 8:3
device-file: /dev/sda3
presentation: /dev/sda3
by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500418AS_9VMCBD07-part3
by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x5000c5001ffb5c23-part3
by-id: /dev/disk/by-uuid/ffe487bb-c718-4793-ba7c-5d20435610af
detected at: dom 10 feb 2013 23:01:49 CET
system internal: 1
removable: 0
has media: 1 (detected at dom 10 feb 2013 23:01:49 CET)
detects change: 0
detection by polling: 0
detection inhibitable: 0
detection inhibited: 0
is read only: 0
is mounted: 0
mount paths:
mounted by uid: 0
presentation hide: 0
presentation nopolicy: 0
presentation name:
presentation icon:
automount hint:
size: 4102799872
block size: 512
job underway: no
usage: other
type: swap
version: 2
uuid: ffe487bb-c718-4793-ba7c-5d20435610af
label:
partition:
part of: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda
scheme: mbr
number: 3
type: 0x82
flags:
offset: 496000834560
alignment offset: 0
size: 4102799872
label:
uuid:
========================================================================
Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0
native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata5/host4/target4:0:0/4:0:0:0/block/sr0
device: 11:0
device-file: /dev/sr0
presentation: /dev/sr0
by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-HL-DT-ST_DVDRAM_GH24NS90_K7EBCFE1508
by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x5001480000000000
detected at: dom 10 feb 2013 23:01:49 CET
system internal: 0
removable: 1
has media: 0
detects change: 1
detection by polling: 1
detection inhibitable: 1
detection inhibited: 0
is read only: 0
is mounted: 0
mount paths:
mounted by uid: 0
presentation hide: 0
presentation nopolicy: 0
presentation name:
presentation icon:
automount hint:
size: 0
block size: 0
job underway: no
usage:
type:
version:
uuid:
label:
drive:
vendor: HL-DT-ST
model: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS90
revision: IN00
serial: K7EBCFE1508
WWN: 5001480000000000
detachable: 0
can spindown: 0
rotational media: Yes, unknown rate
write-cache: unknown
ejectable: 1
adapter: Unknown
ports:
similar devices:
media:
compat: optical_cd optical_cd_r optical_cd_rw optical_dvd optical_dvd_plus_r optical_dvd_plus_r_dl optical_dvd_plus_rw optical_dvd_r optical_dvd_ram optical_dvd_rw optical_mrw optical_mrw_w
interface: scsi
if speed: (unknown)
ATA SMART: not available
========================================================================
A screenshot of the device manager:

Kde 3 Emulator Problem

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Hello Folks!
I'm having some very ugly problems with my Enlightenment E17 Desktop after the last full system upgrade. This problem has already been reported to the German Arch Linux community, but no response yet, but I can't figure out that nobody else troubles the same probs.
This is the following what I get when running pacman -Ss e17-svn
community/e-svn 42849-1 (e17-svn)
Enlightenment window manager DR17 (aka e17)
community/e_dbus-svn 42682-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
dbus abstraction layer for e17
community/ecore-svn 42854-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
Ecore is an abstraction layer for e17
community/edje-svn 42794-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
A graphical design and layout library based on Evas
community/eet-svn 42851-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
A data storage and compression library
community/efreet-svn 42759-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
freedesktop.org specifications for e17
community/eina-svn 42822-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
E17 file chunk reading/writing library
community/embryo-svn 42739-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
implementation of a C like scripting language for e17
community/evas-svn 42855-1 (e17-libs-svn e17-svn)
A hardware-accelerated canvas API for X-Windows
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Another problem I'm having with some applications, e.g. the Okular-Viewer, is that I'm not able to size down the window - it is always in full screen, and there's no chance to move it up (even not on the desktop preview widget) to move it down. Okular is always 100% filling my screen (over the height, only), and I'm not able to size it down. In the previous version, I didn't got this problems.
My question is now: is there any way to install the previous Enlightenment E17 packages? They where much better that this one... or will another update come out soon??
Thanks in advance for any help, any help is appreciated!
beachcoder
Last edited by beachcoder (2009-10-09 09:04:21)

Have you tried starting with a clean config and the default theme, it helps sometimes after big code changes?
If that doesn't help...
beachcoder wrote:My question is now: is there any way to install the previous Enlightenment E17 packages? They where much better that this one... or will another update come out soon??
If you find some mirror which keeps outdated packages that should not be a problem. Be sure to downgrade all of e17 packages (also some packages were deprecated and thus removed from the server during the last upgrade so you'd need to have those as well. You may still have those on your system though)
About a quick update, depends if Ican replicate it and if there is an easy fix. These things happen now and then with pre-alpha software when they do make major code changes. I try to test every update locally before putting it live but I of course can't test every single feature.
Last edited by pressh (2009-10-09 06:03:31)

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Fixed.
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Playing raw data 'KDE_Beep.ogg' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
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# Set default sound card
# Useful so that all settings can be changed to a different card here.
pcm.snd_card {
type hw
card 0
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pcm.dmix {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave.pcm "snd_card"
slave {
# This stuff provides some fixes for latency issues.
# buffer_size should be set for your audio chipset.
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 16384
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0 0
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pcm.dsnoop {
type dsnoop
ipc_key 2048
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bindings {
0 0
1 1
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type asym
playback.pcm "dmix"
capture.pcm "dsnoop"
# CONVERSION PLUG #
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# rate to be selected on the fly.
# duplex mode allows any alsa enabled app to read/write
# to the dmix plug (Fixes a problem with wine).
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "duplex"
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#ctl.!default {
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# AOSS #
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slave.pcm "duplex"
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type plug
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type plug
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Ok, I came to a solution.
My .asoundrc was ok. It was aplay that I wasn't aware of it couldn't handle .ogg files, it tried to play it anyway and that's why I got garbled sound output *headdesk*
I installed alsaplayer, after running it once I edited .alsaplayer/config to use the "text" user interface by default. Setting alsaplayer as external player for knotify seems to work.
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Funny ... I looked for a similar problem in the forum records and did not find any ...
I'll give your idea a try.
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Hi :shock:
I'm new to Arch (and to the Arch Linux forums of course) and I must say that I'm loving it so far ( spent 8 days with Arch so far).
This is the third Linux distribution that I'm familiar with (FC4, Slackware .. did not like Slack .. went back to FC4).
So far I was able to get almost every Desktop Environment, Window Manager, Display Manager and Login Manager to work on Arch. Except for E17 and Entrance.
I've installed the base packages and went on from there.
I installed Xorg (few related packages as well), xdm and a nvidia driver for my Asus Geforce2 card (respectively) after a pacman and system upgrade.
Next steps:
nvidia-xconfig
and
pacman -Sy e17
(utilizing fouiny's repo)
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I've tried to get E17 to boot up like this:
startx
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I've also tried to boot in entranced by putting it in the daemons section (rc.conf) and rebooted with init 5 as the default boot prefix. It boots up xdm instead.
I didn't really like xdm so I installed SLiM. It worked perfectly with every other WM's, DM's etc. No go for E17.
When I try to get it to work just by typing it in the CLI:
[rob@archbox]$ enlightenment
It's saying something about that it doesn't have a DISPLAY variable to work with.
After some googling I thought this would solve the problem:
$DISPLAY= my.ip.here:0.0
No luck.
Did I miss something?
I really, really want E17 no matter what. I'm willing to learn something new. Please help me out.
btw. I'm Dutch so you've undoubtly seen some minor (major ?) grammar/spelling mistakes 8) lol.
Cheers,
Rob.

X works pefectly. I'm currently using Gnome right now. SLiM, btw, generates an enormous log file full of warnings. Gnome, nevertheless, works perfectly. I hate it though when I know that my setup isn't pefect.
When I try to get E17 up it returns me to vc1 and the information I get is that it determined a Display prefix and that' s it. Very strange.
Thanks for trying to help me out.
Cheers,
Rob.

KDE/KDM initialisation problem [SOLVED]

On my laptop, all of a sudden, kdm refuses to start KDE anymore. It will just launch a single borderless white terminal and that's it. The strange thing is, if I add "startkde" to ~/.xinitrc and run "startx" then kde starts up fine. I've never encountered this before, and am at a loss as to why it is happening. Has anyone ever encountered this before?
Last edited by Valheru (2007-01-31 20:09:31)

The session type is set to KDE.
One thing I noticed, /var/log/kdm has a few errors in it that are strange :
Note that your system uses syslog. All of kdm's internally generated messages
(i.e., not from libraries and external programs/scripts it uses) go to the
daemon.* syslog facility; check your syslog configuration to find out to which
file(s) it is logged. PAM logs messages related to authentication to authpriv.*.
X Window System Version 7.1.1
Release Date: 12 May 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
Build Operating System: UNKNOWN
Current Operating System: Linux penguin 2.6.19-beyond2 #2 PREEMPT Sat Dec 30 23:05:58 CET 2006 i686
Build Date: 11 January 2007
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Jan 21 14:36:10 2007
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Fulfilled via DRI at 12587008
Freed 12587008 (pool 2)
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for "Mouse1"
Synaptics DeviceInit called
SynapticsCtrl called.
Synaptics DeviceOn called
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/speedo, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/util, removing from list!
QSettings: error creating /tmp/0925345898/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/0925345898/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /tmp/0925345898/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/0925345898/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
QSettings: error creating /tmp/0925345898/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/0925345898/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
Synaptics DeviceOff called
Freed 12587008 (pool 1)
(EE) VIA(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
Synaptics DeviceInit called
SynapticsCtrl called.
Synaptics DeviceOn called
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/speedo, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/util, removing from list!
QSettings: error creating /tmp/0506252434/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/0506252434/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /tmp/0506252434/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/0506252434/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /tmp/0506252434/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/0506252434/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
Synaptics DeviceOff called

KDE 4.10 - Problems with Plastik window theme

There seems to be several problems with the Plastik window decoration theme in KDE 4.10:
* When switching between windows the window decoration flickers several times and takes about a second to update the colours
* The font baseline is too high
* The button positions are messed up
It does not seem to affect any other themes.
It has worked perfectly in all previous 4.x releases.

There is a bug report about this:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314532

KDE Window Focus Problem

In KDE, when I'm focused on a window in foreground and I click on the contents of a window in the background the focus of the window changes, but the window that was in the foreground does not go behind the window that I just clicked on.
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/2745 … cusli7.png
In that picture, I was focused on the Pidgin window and I clicked on this text box of Firefox and the Pidgin window in the foreground.
The only way to place that window in the background is to click the title bar on top of Firefox, then it behaves normally. By the way, I'm running KDE3.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Last edited by darkNiGHTS (2008-03-26 02:19:46)

It's been quite some time since I've used KDE, but isn't there some kind of "raise on focus" setting that would raise newly focused windows? I'm certain this setting exists for focus-follows-mouse but I don't remember if it applies to click-to-focus.
j

E17 - problem compiling [SOLVED]

HI,
I'm using the easy_17.sh script to compile e17 on a fresh install of Arch. For almost every program I getthe following;
EASY_E17 CMD: ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/e17
Running aclocal...
Running autoheader...
Running libtoolize...
Running automake...
Running autoconf...
configure.in:65: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
So far I haven't been able to come up with a fix. Does anyone have any ideas??
TIA
Last edited by MillTek (2008-01-20 18:39:04)

MillTek wrote:
I installed base but not devel. Is there a list of the devel software available anywhere?
Thanks Skottish
Sure, through pacman
[ronald@Miranda ~]$ pacman -Sg base-devel
base-devel
abs autoconf automake bin86 bison csup diffutils ed fakeroot flex
gcc libtool m4 make patch pkgconfig

KDE Phonon sound problem

Hello!
I'm using KDE 4.1 with some video and audio applications like amarok. I have to sound devices:
1. Onboard sound card
2. USB Headset (Sennheiser)
Both sound devices are detected and configurable in alsamixer and Kmix. I demute both devices. The onboard soundcard works perfectly, I here the sound all the time, but the USB headset isn't functional. I only here the kde login sound through the headset, but amarok for example makes the sound output through the onboard soundcard.
In "System Settings" (KDE 4.1) in the category "sound" I changed the device preference. The USB headset is now at the top on all categories like "music". But it doesn't help. All sound output is played with the onboard sound.
My user "andreas" is in the groups audio and video:
video:x:91:andreas
audio::92:andreas
It looks like the output preference in kde 4.1 isn't functional.
Has anybody maybe a hint for me?
Thanks for your answers!
Best regards,
Flasher

Servus
I guess you're using amarok from extra repository and not amarok2? Then the answer is rather simple sadly - it doesn't make use of phonon because it's still a KDE3 app. It uses what had previously been configured as your primary sound output device. You can probably fix that with manually fiddling some files in .kde directory (don't ask me which ^^).
If you are on Amarok2 already, then no clue, sorry. On a sidenote: I'm not fully happy with phonon as I'm not even able to get sound out through two devices simultanously (SPDIF and regular speakers) as worked on KDE3. It's only working with kaffeine for me still (like amarok a KDE3 app still).

Kbuildsycoca mimetype errors: KDE or Arch problem? And how to fix?

Hi,
I'm running out of hdd space because of kbuildsycoca mimetype/servicetype in .xsession-errors
I know I can delete those files but I want to monitor the other errors.
So, I've lost my patience and started entering them hand...
Nevertheless, a few questions remain:
1. After 2 days reading materials on the net I still can't understand who is resposible for them: KDE or distro?
2. Does anyone know an automated way to fix those mimetypes (preferably for all users)?
3. Or at least how to fix by hand types like 'KPovModeler/Document'?
4. Where to find info for the correct values?
5. Is it true that some/all of those errors should be fixed "automagically" if correct 'application/octet-stream' is present (I entered it but with no values)?
6. ...Or have I just messed up something with installations (I'm using KDE 3.5.6)?
Thanks in advance.

1... partial answer, I guess, is that Arch supplies something useful for the mimetypes https://www.archlinux.org/packages/files/509/... (by installing
pacman -S shared-mime-info
, which I had done)
2, 3 and the above supplied things like:
usr/share/mime/application/x-kpovmodeler.xml
Then, if applying knowledge from this topic http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=32007, I should have had in my
~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
something more useful than
[Default Applications]
text/plain=mousepad.desktop
And, if comparing to Fedora Core 6, also quite rich this one:
usr/share/applications/defaults.list
but the latter had been absent on my Arch... Should it be? But, after copying it, kbuildsycoca is still very unhappy and produces long lists
update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
doesn't change sycoca's mood, nor
update-desktop-database
No errors, but no positive result, either.
pacman -R kde gnome xorg
etc. Deleting - backing .config , .kde etc. - same effect.
Any hints, folks? Nobody else have kbuildsycoca errors?
Btw,. I guess, every Knoppix has...

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