Need help getting my address book back
by Arthur Pemberton
So in the major KDE update before the last, I seem to have lost the
ability to add (or otherwise change) my address book (which had since
been renamed to anaondi something). I did the most recent update in
the hope that the problems had been resolved, now I can't use my
Kontact address book at all, the window is blacked out with the
message "Akonadi is not operational".
Since I didn't do anything to break Akonadi, I'm unsure of what to do
to fix it. Can anyone assist please?
--
Fedora 11
(www.pembo13.com)
14 years, 1 month
Re: KDE questions.
by George R Goffe
Armelius,
First of all, I want to thank everyone who responded. I can and will use EVERY tidbit of information! Thank you.
You suggested that I look in "System-Settings --> Keyboard and Mouse --> Global keyboard Shortcuts" for keyboard mappings. This menu does exist; it's where I was looking for "raise" and "toggle raise/lower". I see settings for alt-up and alt-down. There is nothing about raise a window or toggle raise/lower a window as in 3.5. I'm not sure I understand how this works though. Did this get lost in the new development?
Regards,
George...
Message: 2
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:31:44 -0400
From: Armelius Cameron <armeliusc(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: KDE questions.
To: KDE on Fedora discussion <kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Message-ID: <201004090931.44529.armeliusc(a)gmail.com>
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On Thursday 08 April 2010 11:58:07 pm George R Goffe wrote:
> Jaroslav,
>
> Thanks for your responses.
>
> When I say "widget" I think of the X11 term, is that the right word? Like
> the xterm? Like the browser? Like any "thing" that is displayed by the
> window manager. With KDE 3.5 I was able to map alt-up to raise a "thing"
> (widget sounds so much more elegant) which isn't all that exciting, the
> alt-down key sequence I had mapped to the toggle raise and lower. I used
> this a lot. Is it gone now? I know that there are other ways to get a
> "thing" to come to the top but I got used to the alt- sequences. Are they
> gone now?
What you called "widget" is much more commonly refered as "Window". "Widget"
has different meaning in KDE 4.
You can try to set that shortcut via
System-Settings --> Keyboard and Mouse --> Global keyboard Shortcuts
KDE Component: KWin
you can search for Raise window
(haven't tried this myself, but this seems to be what you want).
Hope that helps.
AC
14 years, 1 month
Dolphin cause X high CPU usage
by Armelius Cameron
Hello,
I have noticed that Dolphin can cause X process to use a lot of CPU on both my
laptop and desktop running F12 with latest updates. I tried restarting, login
to KDE, then just run Dolphin and top. All I need to do is just moving around
mouse cursor on Dolphin window and I can drive X CPU usage to 40%, and Dolphin
CPU usage to above 30% on my desktop (Athlon 64 3000 (1.8GHz CPU)). Similar
thing happens on my laptop (a dual core machine).
The desktop has NVidia GE Force FX 5500 with Nouveau driver. Laptop has Nvidia
GeForce GT 220 with proprietary NVidia driver (installed from RPMFusion
repository).
Is anyone else seeing this ?
Thanks.
AC
14 years, 1 month
What is kio_http_cache_cleaner ?
by Marko Vojinovic
... and why is it throttling my processor for five minutes after every boot?
Mainly halting one of the processors for I/O waiting (according to top and
iotop).
Yum says it belongs to kdelibs package.
So what is it for? Is it necessary, can it be shut down or rescheduled or
something, is it configurable, what is its purpose?
I am not rebooting that often, but when I do, I am a bit annoyed by this. OS
itself boots quite quickly and I am very happy with that, but when KDE starts
up, it hogs the machine for several minutes before it becomes usable.
So what's the story here?
Best, :-)
Marko
P.S. F12/64bit/KDE4.4.1
14 years, 1 month
Re: KDE questions.
by George R Goffe
Jaroslav,
Thanks for your responses.
When I say "widget" I think of the X11 term, is that the right word? Like the xterm? Like the browser? Like any "thing" that is displayed by the window manager. With KDE 3.5 I was able to map alt-up to raise a "thing" (widget sounds so much more elegant) which isn't all that exciting, the alt-down key sequence I had mapped to the toggle raise and lower. I used this a lot. Is it gone now? I know that there are other ways to get a "thing" to come to the top but I got used to the alt- sequences. Are they gone now?
Regards,
George...
14 years, 1 month
Mouse button menu
by Lester M Petrie
I have just discovered that by left clicking on the background, and selecting "Desktop Activity Settings", I can enable
an "Application Launcher" menu by clicking on the background with the selected mouse button. This was a feature from
KDE 3 that I really missed when I transitioned to KDE 4. The application launcher menu looks rather like an old version
of my standard application launcher menu, with pieces missing, and lots of rearrangement. What is the menu displayed,
and how can it be edited?
--
Lester M Petrie
Oak Ridge National Lab
865-574-5259
14 years, 1 month
Re: KDE questions.
by George R Goffe
Jaroslav,
I also used to be able to set the behavior of the left/right/center mouse buttons. Is this gone too?
You can see now why I asked about a document about configuration. I don't want to ask the whole group every time I want to do something.
"It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Wil Rogers
14 years, 1 month
KDE questions.
by George R Goffe
Howdy,
I'm a recent convert (shudder) to KDE 4.x and am looking for a way to do
what I used to do with KDE 3.x.
I have several questions:
1)
Is there a conversion document that collects all this configuration
information in one place by any chance? I chose KDE some time ago
(several years) because of it's "Control Center" which gathered all the
config options I wanted in ONE PLACE and not all over the landscape as Gnome was (maybe still
is?).
2) I used to be able to map "alt up/down" arrows to
raise/lower the "current" Widget. Apparently this capability no longer
exists? Did it get overlooked? What else was overlooked?
Any/all help/hints/tips/suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards,
George...
"It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Wil Rogers
14 years, 1 month
Re: Summer Coding Idea/Proposal -- KDE Netbook Edition Spin
by Ryan Rix
Looks like I'm going batty... I could've sworn I sent a reply to this :)
On Mon 5 April 2010 4:32:22 pm Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:17:15PM -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> > What are your thoughts?
>
> Rather than presuming ... which do you want to be, student doing the
> work or mentor for another student (who does the work)?
I hadn't really considered that to be completely honest... I'm kind of at some
point in between needing a mentor for this, and wanting to mentor it. On the
one hand, I know what needs to happen, and how to do it to make this spin
happen so wouldn't really be sure what to do with a mentore... But on the
other hand, I don't really feel that I am qualified to be mentor to someone
else at the current time.
I suppose we can just leave it as "an idea I'm throwing out right now" :)
> It sounds like a well-thought out proposal, so far. What we need is a
> KDE SIG mentor, who works on the support from the SIG overall. You
> probably know more about that than I do :) and could likely fill the
> mentor role, _if_ you weren't thinking for you to be the student.
>
> If you are the student, great idea, do you happen to know who could be
> mentor? If so, please invite said person to this list. :)
cc'd the KDE list. Any SIG member who is interested in mentoring or being
mentored on this project is welcome to subscribe to the summer-coding list and
join in on the discussion.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-coding-discuss
> Regardless, you are doing the right thing, let's keep on moving, and
> get this in to the ideas page. I think we need to do some work to
> make:
>
> 1. "Template" (layout) for an idea page, along with a category.
> 2. Short list of ideas with link to invididual pages.
> 3. [[Summer Coding 2010 ideas]] is comprised of the above.
>
> In fact, I just did that, also renamed [[Summer Coding ideas for
> 2010]] to [[Category:Summer Coding 2010 ideas]]:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas
>
> If you look at the page source, it works now like this:
>
> [[Category:Summer Coding 2010 ideas]]
> transcludes in [[Summer Coding 2010 idea - RHQ - shortinfo]]
> which has a link to =>
> [[Summer Coding 2010 idea - RHQ]]
> which transcludes in [[Summer Coding 2010 idea - RHQ - shortinfo]]
> and links to [[Category:Summer Coding 2010 ideas]]
>
> I'll put this all together in a template page that is at the top of
> [[:Category:Summer Coding 2010 ideas]]. (The ':' after '[[' is the way
> to link to a category inline without putting the linking page _in_ the
> category.)
Annnnnd here we are:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_ideas_-_KDE_Netbook_Spin
> - Karsten
--
Ryan Rix
== http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://rix.si/ ==
14 years, 1 month
