Firefox disasters
by Anne Wilson
For some time now I've been having problems with Firefox. It seemed to give
me some sort of runaway situation, where the cpu went sky high and stayed
there. That doesn't seem to happen any more, but now there seems to be a
memory leak. I had noticed things slowing down, but eventually I got one of
the freezes at a moment when konsole+top was in view. It was clear that there
was abnormal memory usage. In these situations it takes about 2 minutes for
anything to respond to a mouse-click, and I can't shut firefox down with a
mouse-click. The only thing I can do is use pkill to get rid of it. That
also takes a very long time, but the moment firefox disappears everything is
back to normal working speed.
It's got so bad that I won't use firefox if I can possibly avoid it, but there
are some situations, like a shared googledoc, where I seem to have no option.
The site won't accept konqueror, and if I use the agent to pretend that it's
firefox konqueror crashes when I try to access the doc.
I tried renaming ~/.mozilla, but it seemed that something was still a problem
- it was very slow to start up, then froze the system altogether.
I'm getting desperate. I do need to be able to work on those shared
documents. If I delete firefox is there any alternative? Does anyone
successfully access googledocs in any other browser?
Anne
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[ot] kcachegrind printout
by Neal Becker
kcachegrind makes lovely graphics. How can I save some of these to files
for documentation?
14 years, 5 months
kghostview still around?
by Neal Becker
I have kdegraphics-4.3.2-3.fc11.x86_64, but no kghostview. Does it still
exist or is there a replacement?
14 years, 5 months
Launchers Not Working
by Richard Heck
For a little while now, I've been getting this error:
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/firefox
Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'firefox' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 9502 error_code 3 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
function.)
aborting...
/usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.4/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 20670 Aborted
"$prog" ${1+"$@"}
sometimes, when trying to launch Firefox via a launcher in the panel. I
do not get it when launching from a terminal. I also see the same
problem with Thunderbird.
Any ideas?
Richard
14 years, 5 months
KDE-SIG weekly report (46/2009)
by Sebastian Vahl
This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the
topics that were discussed. If you want to add a comment please reply
to this email or add it to the related meeting page.
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= Weekly KDE Summary =
Week: 46/2009
Time: 2009-11-10 14:00 UTC
Meeting page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2009-11-10
Meeting minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
meeting/2009-11-10/fedora-meeting.2009-11-10-14.02.html
Meeting log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
meeting/2009-11-10/fedora-meeting.2009-11-10-14.02.log.html
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= Participants =
* BenBoeckel
* JaroslavReznik
* KevinKofler
* LukasTinkl
* RexDieter
* SebastianVahl
* StevenParrish
* ThanNgo
* Hello Chissini de Castro
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= Agenda =
* Celebration of F12 going gold
* Status of KDE 4.3.3
* Features for F13
= Summary =
o Topic 1
- notes
o Celebration of Fedora 12 going GOLD:
* The KDE-SIG celebrated the gold status of Fedora 12.
* With Hello Chissini de Castro a new KDE-SIG member was introduced.
* He has been working for Connectiva/Mandriva for over 10 years and is also a
KDE developer for a long time.
o Status of KDE 4.3.3:
* KDE 4.3.3 is imported into CVS for F10 and F11, work on F12 is ongoing.
* (Existing) Extragear for KDE 4.3.3 packages will follow when buildroot is
ready.
* KDE 4.3.3 will be the last update for F10 which will EOL soon.
o Features for F13:
* KDE related features and their owners for Fedora 13:
- phonon/pulseaudio integration (KevinKofler)
- knetworkmanager (RexDieter)
- polkit-1 in KDE (JaroslavReznik)
- Firefox/OpenOffice.org integration in KDE (LukasTinkl)
- Prepare a wiki page outlining KDE features in F13 to work on (LukasTinkl)
[1]
o package splitting:
* SebastianVahl proposed a splitting of KDE packages as a possible Feature for
F13.
* Splits could be done on a per-app basis or a split out of the "popular"
packages.
* First pros/cons were discussed in the meeting:
- more control over the installed packages (+)
- better support for a minimal runtime for small targets (like netbooks) (+)
- huge increase of metadata to download (--)
- more work for packagers (-)
- more complexity for users (-)
* SebastianVahl will prepare a wiki page with pros/cons and a documentation of
the splitting already done as a basis for further discussions.
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= Next Meeting =
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2009-11-17
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= Links =
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/F13Features
14 years, 5 months
F12 KDE display issues
by Mark Bidewell
I have been running into display performance issues in F12 KDE. The
Kickoff menu, device notifier and panel cashew each take about 5-10
seconds to come up during which time the UI is noresponsive. Desktop
cashew, right-click menu, traditional menu, and lauchers work fine.
If it is relevant I am using the lastest nvidia drivers from
rpmfusion.
Has anyone else seen this?
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14 years, 5 months
KNode with different servers
by Timothy Murphy
Is there any way of keeping the same newsgroup in sync
when using different servers?
Eg I am looking at sci.math on server 1.
Then I go abroad, and I want to look at it on server 2.
Is there any way of passing over the postings read?
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
14 years, 5 months
Info requested from packagers, please
by Anne Wilson
My recent update of http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/KDE3toKDE4 has brought
this comment:
<quote>
The section on Drag'n'Drop claims, that if you drop an image on the desktop,
you get three options: Previewer, PhotoFrame or icon. When I try this I only
get the latter two. Is this a distro thing? I tested it with SUSE 11.2
Milestone 8 and KDE 4.3.1.
</quote>
Is this a Fedora thing, or is it a 4.3.2 thing?
Thanks
Anne
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