kde March 2011

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Something wrong with the KDE wireless interface?
by Marko Vojinovic 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Since a couple of updates and weeks ago (F14, don't remember exactly when, sorry) the KDE wireless applet stopped doing its work. When I click on it and choose to connect to my wireless router, it asks for a passphrase (WPA), and then hangs in "waiting for authorization" state forever, without connecting. After some troubleshooting, I figured I can use the nm-applet from Gnome, after I disable a couple of services in the KDE service manager (namely, the "NetworkManager User Setting Service" and "Network Status"). If I don't disable them, nm-applet fails to run, saying another instance is already running (which is wrong, btw). I suspect one of these services are simulating the presence of nm-applet to prevent it from running concurrently. Anyway, when the services are disabled, nm-applet is running and connects to my router without any problems. The issue is that this is a workaround, and that default KDE configuration used to work flawlessly until some point. I also tried to connect to other wireless networks (open, wep, wpa...) to check if it's something related to my router, but the symptoms are the same everywhere. Is this a known issue? Am I the only one seeing it? How can I troubleshoot it? I was monitoring /var/log/messages while trying to connect, but nothing there points to the problem, AFAICT. Btw, when nm-applet is running, the KDE applet in the taskbar correctly reports the state of the wireless interface, and appears to coexist nicely with nm-applet. From what I understand, the NetworkManager service is running correctly, nm- applet is also running correctly, but something within KDE went to lunch... Any ideas? TIA, :-) Marko

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Activity woes: Help!
by Peter G. 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

I am experimenting with the Search & Launch activity. I hate the cashew in the upper left corner and have installed the plasma cashew widget, but I am unable to remove the Tool Box from the Search & Launch desktop. It is covered by a thin film of the favourites, I presume, and the widget is unable to perform it's magic on this desktop layout. Anyone know how I can get rid if the cashew/activity tool box?

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google chrome under kde
by Roderick Johnstone 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Hi I wonder if anyone has tried google-chrome (from the google repositories) dev channel under kde 4.5.5 and whether it works ok for them? I'm having problems with it hanging a lot on F14 x86_64, but not every time. When I start it, sometimes it just doesnt render some web pages. Often if its trying to restore half a dozen tabs it'll do a couple but hang on the rest. Eventually they timeout. The beta channel seems to work fine. The dev channel works well under gnome, it seems to be kde its having problems with. I had an idea that this behaviour started after they set the default to enable accelerated layers, but the obvious trick of using the --disable-accelerated-layers option doesnt seem to fix it. Anyone any info or ideas? Thanks Roderick

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KDM oxygen-air theme broken?
by Chris Smart 20 Mar '11

20 Mar '11

Has anyone else noticed that if you set the KDM theme to be oxygen-air, it actually uses the darker oxygen theme instead? ..or is it just my machine? -c

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Akregator consumes too much CPU
by Gombang Nan Cengka 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Any suggestions? Top shows Akregator hogs about 70-90 percent of CPU load. This causes other applications become sluggish and unresponsive at times. With only 26 sites my RSS subscription list is rather modest, and should present no problems. I am on KDE 4.6.1, Fedora 15 on a rather weak processor (Celeron M 1.86 GHz). -- Gombang Nan Cengka Blog: http://gombang.blogspot.com |http://gombang.wordpress.com

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KDE-SIG meeting report (11/2011)
by Jaroslav Reznik 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

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. = Weekly KDE Summary = Week: 11/2011 Time: 2011-03-15 15:00 UTC Meeting page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2011-03-15 Meeting minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-15/kde- sig.2011-03-15-15.06.html Meeting log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-03-15/kde- sig.2011-03-15-15.06.log.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ = Participants = * Kevin Kofler * Jaroslav Reznik * Lukas Tinkl * Rex Dieter * Than Ngo * Radek Novacek * Thomas Janssen * Christoph Wickert * nucleo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ = Agenda = topics to discuss: * kde-4.6.x on f14 status recent bugs: * Bug 684476 – kdebase-workspace requires gpsd [1] = Summary = kde-4.6.x for f14 * rdieter has kde-4.6.x stack up through kdepimlibs built for dist-f14-kde target ** jreznik to continue builds * rdieter to compose list of additional deps after meeting * nepomukcontroller in lost and found [2] kdebase-workspace requires gpsd * tentative rejection (wontfix) of bug #684476 , pending any new information or feedback ** the only reason are users that do not have any gps device, but gpsd+deps have a small footprint gtk+3 theming * these are now filed for GTK+ 3 support: ** kcm-gtk: [3] (thanks rdieter) ** krdb: [4] nm 0.9 * contingency plan for f15/nm-0.9 ** reason: last time after freeze call for nm-0.9 update ** no support in plasma-nm *** especially missing system connections making port not an easy one * fallback to nm-applet as an option ** no gtk+3 theming ** keyring problems ** really very bad UI (usability concerns) * NetworkManager08 is not an option (KDE and GNOME - even apps - mutually exclusive!) * we hope for common sense not to push it to F15 * ltinkl playing with own nm code = Next Meeting = http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2011-03-22 = Links = [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684476 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=687869 [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kcm-gtk/+bug/734979 kcm-gtk [4] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268567 krdb -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik(a)redhat.com> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/

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Problem with VPN kde-plasma-networkmanagement
by Paul Scott 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

I can no longer connect to a my work VPN. I notice that the knetworkmanager-* rpms have recently been replaced by kde-plasma-networkmanagement-* and I wonder if the new version has caused the problem. It used to work just fine. The error message is below - "No VPN secrets!" I have checked the wallet and the password has been saved there correctly. I have tried deleting the VPN connection and creating a new one, but this has not fixed the problem. I have also tried deleting old entries from the wallet. Anyone else having the same problem? Mar 13 11:48:30 paul-laptop NetworkManager[1195]: <info> Starting VPN service 'pptp'... Mar 13 11:48:30 paul-laptop NetworkManager[1195]: <info> VPN service 'pptp' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 2301 Mar 13 11:48:30 paul-laptop NetworkManager[1195]: <info> VPN service 'pptp' appeared; activating connections Mar 13 11:48:30 paul-laptop NetworkManager[1195]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1 Mar 13 11:48:30 paul-laptop NetworkManager[1195]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3 Mar 13 11:48:30 paul-laptop NetworkManager[1195]: <info> VPN connection 'Work' (Connect) reply received. Mar 13 11:48:30 paul-laptop NetworkManager[1195]: <warn> VPN connection 'Work' failed to connect: 'No VPN secrets!'. Mar 13 11:48:30 paul-laptop NetworkManager[1195]: <warn> error disconnecting VPN: Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active. Mar 13 11:48:30 paul-laptop NetworkManager[1195]: <info> Policy set 'Home' (wlan0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS. Mar 13 11:48:36 paul-laptop NetworkManager[1195]: <info> VPN service 'pptp' disappeared -- Paul Scott paulsscott at gmail.com

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"Query Server" flashes by too fast
by Timothy Murphy 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

When I go to Kontact=>Settings=>Configure Kontact=>LDAP Server Settings then highlight my server and click on Edit Host there is a small Query Server box. When I click on this whatever it says flashes past too quickly to read. I have seen the same thing in other places in KDE. Is there in fact any way to keep the answer on-screen sufficiently long to read what it says? -- 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

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plasma-desktop has taken over my computer
by Claude Jones 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

The machine has beome barely responsive; things like the kickstart menu button, or right-click on the desktop, or clicking on the options button on the panel produce no effect - nothing. I don't remember doing anything in particular that could have caused this. If I run top, it says that plasma-desktop is using 100% of my CPU. If I long in as a different user, the problem's not there, so this specific to my regular user configuration. I notice that there are also three processes called 'migration' running - could those have anything to do with this problem? None of them seem to be using any measurable CPU resources... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA

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4.6.1 fixes bugs
by Neal Becker 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

kdebase-4.6.1-0.1.fc14.x86_64 fixes the 2 bugs that have been bugging me: 1) problems with screen brightness on resume in powerdevil 2) notification sounds were distorted So far, no new bugs noticed.

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