Something wrong with the KDE wireless interface?
by Marko Vojinovic
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
13 years, 1 month
Activity woes: Help!
by Peter G.
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?
13 years, 1 month
google chrome under kde
by Roderick Johnstone
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
13 years, 1 month
KDM oxygen-air theme broken?
by Chris Smart
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
13 years, 1 month
Akregator consumes too much CPU
by Gombang Nan Cengka
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
13 years, 1 month
KDE-SIG meeting report (11/2011)
by Jaroslav Reznik
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/
13 years, 1 month
Problem with VPN kde-plasma-networkmanagement
by Paul Scott
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
13 years, 1 month
"Query Server" flashes by too fast
by Timothy Murphy
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
13 years, 1 month
plasma-desktop has taken over my computer
by Claude Jones
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
13 years, 1 month
4.6.1 fixes bugs
by Neal Becker
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.
13 years, 1 month
