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How to set default session type to Plasma for sddm
by Roderick Johnstone 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Hi How do I set the default session type for sddm to offer to be Plasma? I'm currently getting Gnome Classic? This is F22. Thanks Roderick Johnstone

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nntp (aka, usenet) client in kde?
by Gene Smith 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

I currently use t-bird with an nntp account pointing to gmane to read this list and sereral others. Does kde have an nntp client program of any sort? I don't see it as a possible new account type in kmail. Also, search with kpackagekit yields nothing with "usenet" or "nntp" that is kde specific. -gene

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F25 runs wayland by default
by Neal Becker 14 Apr '17

14 Apr '17

I see that F25 will run wayland by default instead of Xorg. Will kde run on wayland?

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Re: Broken users session management
by Robin Laing 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

On 19/10/16 03:50, Germano Massullo wrote: > By several months, the entire management of multiple users sessions is > broken. > In past I used sometimes to leave my machine to another person, so I > locked my user session, and started another user "foo" session. Then > when user foo finished to use my machine, he ended his session, so I > unlocked mine and continued to work normally. > > Now such actions are no longer possible in Plasma 5 because for unknown > reasons, the locked user session will be killed as soon you start > another user session. > > Any feedbacks about? > > > > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list -- kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > I normally have two session open in KDE but don't have that issue. I do have a fixed Xorg.conf file and that may make the difference. F23 and F24 Robin

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KMail not working (again)
by Timothy Murphy 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

When I start KMail I get gobbledygook in the Message window. When I run "sudo akonadictl restart" I am told akonadi is not running. I see no way to start it. ========================= [tim@william ~]$ sudo akonadictl start [tim@william ~]$ sudo akonadictl restart Akonadi is not running. [tim@william ~]$ /bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/akonadi- root.ZrNeSQ/mysql.socket' (2 "No such file or directory")' Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/akonadi- root.ZrNeSQ/mysql.socket' exists! [tim@william ~]$ ps aux | grep mysql tim 1708 0.5 1.5 2568696 127296 ? Sl 17:06 0:05 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults- file=/home/tim/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf -- datadir=/home/tim/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ --socket=/tmp/akonadi- tim.G41xdj/mysql.socket [tim@william ~]$ sudo ls /tmp/akonadi-root.ZrNeSQ/mysql.socket ls: cannot access '/tmp/akonadi-root.ZrNeSQ/mysql.socket': No such file or directory ========================= I've been getting the KMail message mix-up for some days, but have always been able to recover with "sudo akonadictl restar". But today after the latest updates I get the above. Any advice or elucidation gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

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How do I run xorg-modesettings driver instead of xorg-intel?
by Sudhir Khanger 28 Oct '16

28 Oct '16

Hello, For months I have been suffering from this nasty bug where I can't unlock my system. I lose my data every time my Fedora KDE box hangs in the blank state. I am trying out things Martin Gräßlin has suggested in the bug report. The first things is to switch from xorg-intel to xorg-modesettings driver. Any idea how to do it? I have posted about it here[1] and the see the bug report here[2]. Bugs like these make me wonder why do I bother with Linux at all. Regards, Sudhir. [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@lists.fedoraproject.org/m… [2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370352

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Fedora 25 Final blocker status mail #1
by Adam Williamson 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

Hi folks! The Fedora 25 Final freeze is fast approaching (it's 2016-11- 01), so it's time for a blocker status mail. As there's only five blockers, I'll skip the tl;dr summary, the mail is quite short anyhow. Bug-by-bug detail ================= 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378156 - python-blivet - POST TypeError: Must be number, not str Funny story - I started writing this mail yesterday afternoon, got distracted trying to straighten out the three different iSCSI blockers that were listed at that time, and wound up spending all night fixing iSCSI. So, I've sent a fix for this, it's going through review now. We'll need dlehman or vpodzime to merge it and do an F25 build+update, then QA will have to test and karma the update. 2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376471 - gnome-shell - POST global menu can't be used for 15-30 seconds, startup notification stuck, missing item in alt+tab (on wayland) The POST status here seems to reflect that Florian has attached some patches to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768531 (the upstream bug). Presumably those need reviewing and porting downstream, CCing Rui as he was mentioned in the RHBZ. 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381996 - libblockdev - ON_QA TypeError: SynchronizedABCMeta object argument after ** must be a mapping, not NoneType (Intel firmware RAID discovery fails when RAID set is 'migrating') https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-4720fedecc should fix this and just needs karma. You kinda have to build an installer image (or at least an updates.img, but I'm not sure libblockdev in an updates.img really works) to test it, though. 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1370222 - sddm - NEW KDE doesn't start if hostname changes during boot due to network (infamous xauth issue) There does not seem to have been any movement on this since it was accepted as a blocker on 2016-09-19. We need KDE team to look at it. 5. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382001 - sddm - NEW Switching between users doesn't work and freezes the desktop Similarly there's been no response from KDE team since this was accepted as a blocker on 2016-10-17. We need them to take a look at it. That's a pretty short blocker list for 4 days before freeze, which is great, but there are still some tests we have not run, so QA folks, please do help make sure all Alpha, Beta and Final tests have been run on a recent candidate. You can use https://www.happyassassin.net/testcase_stats/25/ to help you with this - it shows a 'history' for each test case, it makes it easy to spot ones that need running. Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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KDE frequently crashing during initialization in Fedora 25 openQA testing
by Adam Williamson 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

Hey folks! I did mention this in my mails explaining the 'compose check reports' to test@ and devel@, but in case anyone isn't following those, I thought I'd mention it here too. Lately, openQA tests of Fedora 25 KDE seem to be crashing quite often during KDE startup. Here are three that crashed just in testing of today's nightly compose: https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/44206 https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/44216 https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/44278 As a simple openQA primer, the fact that you see a screenshot of a black screen with a red border around the screenshot in the thumbnail sequence, shortly after a screenshot of the KDE startup splash screen, means the test failed because instead of seeing a clean KDE desktop (like it was expecting), it saw a black screen. After that it switches to a console so it can upload some logs for us. You can watch videos of each test by switching to the Logs & Assets tab and clicking Video, but that's all they'll show you - at some point during the test KDE tries to start up but sticks at a black screen. The subsequent switch to a console is done by the test system by pressing ctrl-alt-f6 or ctrl-alt-f2, it's not a part of the failure mode. Note the videos are sped up - in reality the system sat at the black screen for around 5 minutes in each case (that's the timeout on the 'wait for a clean KDE desktop to appear' step). More interestingly on the Logs & Assets tab you can find various uploaded log files. The most useful one is probably 44216: https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/44216#downloads because there you can find an ABRT problem directory for the crash, in https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/44216/file/_graphical_wait_login -spoolabrt.tar.gz . You can also find the entire contents of /var/log in the var_log.tar.gz file. I'll try looking into this a bit more manually too - see if I can reproduce it in a virt-manager VM and on bare metal - but it'd be great if anyone else can help figure out what's going on. The openQA test VMs are direct runs of qemu (libvirt is not used) with the 'qxl' graphics driver. openQA interacts with the VM via qemu's built-in VNC server. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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enable trackpad right click on a thinkpad X1 carbon 2nd generation
by CS DBA 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

I've installed Fedora 24 (KDE Spin) on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 2nd Generation but the trackpad wont do right or middle clicks. Anyone know how to enable it? Thanks in advance

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Plasma 5.8.X in Fedora 24
by Aivis Purvinsh 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Hello Dear All, Can I kindly ask if users of Fedora 24 can expect update to Plasma 5.8.x in near future or it is better to start with F25 beta. Thank You in advance

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