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Re: Kubuntu/Ubuntu does not remove everything from memory at shutdown

Perhaps related, when I reboot and then log in again, the bottom third of my screen flashes a screen shot of the end of my last session.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

media files

What file do I need to install to play video files ?

Black screen upon starting up Kubuntu

I have an up to date installation of Ubuntu/Kubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 and I
cannot seem to start up Kubuntu. It starts, I see the initial startup
screen, it fades to a black background. Akonadi starts up fine but
turns black right after that. I can hit Alt-F2 and the command window
pops up. I can hit ctl-alt-del and the logout window pops up fine but I
cannot do much else as I cannot see any menu bars or backgrounds.

Any help would be appreciated.

Keith

MySQL log with errors

It is annoying may be to raise this issue again... but I have again issue
while starting Kontact apparently due to akonadi.

At the start stage, the akonadi self-test log indicates errors at the MySQL
server (see copy below). I followed the instructions at
http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Environment_Setup with no success.

The result is that the Kalendar does not work (i.e. indicates no resources
found).

OT: Will they put Kubuntu on this?

New generation laptop - or rather rolltop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H0K1k54t6A

System overloaded

I have very strange performance on my lap-top after upgrade to 4.4.1. When I
start Kontakt (may be due to akonadi running), the system gets overloaded with
two CPUs (Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 /2 GB) running between 75 and 98% (!), and
physical RAM with more than 700 MiB. The system works but VERY-VERY slow for
about 30 mins, and then all calms down.

BTW Nepomuk strigi servise was suspended as I initially thought this might be
the issue.

Further to that is that I can monitor this load only through a system monitor
widget.

playing real media files

I have kubuntu 9.1 AMD 64 bit installed and I want to install any program that can play real media files on 64 bit

No calendar

Hi all,

Since today, when try to add new event on the calendar, I got a message: 'No
calendar found. Item cannot be added'.

I checked in system settings and ensured that akonadi-resource is pointing out
at the right file for calendar, and it is active. How can I solve this?

Thanks.
gk

Nautilus hijacking mounting

I manage files in both Nautilus and Dolphin to work around different
bugs. How can I prevent Nautilus from mounting media and rather
leaving that to KDE? In Nautilus' Preference -> Media I have checked
"Never prompt or start programs on media insertation" and unchecked
"Browse media when inserted". Yet, Dolphin still complains that it
cannot unmount media as HAL did not mount it. Only in nautilus can I
unmount media.

Karmic: how to delete /dev/sr1

Hi all,
I have an external USB hard disk from Western Digital (model My Passport).

This unit comes with two partitions, that I see and I can mount:

* /dev/sr1 that is understood as a CD
* /dev/sdb1 that is a normal NTFS partition

If I mount the partitions "mount" says:

...
/dev/sr1 on /media/WD SmartWare type udf
(ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/My Passport type fuseblk
(rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)

The problem is tah I'm not able to destroy, eliminate, kill :-) the
/dev/sr1 partition

With the partitions unmounted, nor "gparted" nor "fdis

Where is that darn icon?

I downloaded a nice icon for Ubuntuone that I since lost. I set it as the
icon for a folder and want to use again. After looking at all over the place
online, going through every single page, it is no longer out there. The odd
thing is that it still shows up as the icon in Dolphin's places sidebar even
though it has been deleted. It showa up in the Lancelot Favorites too, but I
think it gets it from the same place. I searched my machine from top to
bottom and cannot find it anywhere.
So my question is where does Dolphin keep the icons that it shows in the
Places sidebar?

Have Acroread 9.3 plugin, but Firefox won't load .pdf files

Hi, all.
FF 3.0.18 is my current web browser and the Adobe Reader v. 9.3 my
preferred pdf-viewing application.
FF Preferences - Applications shows /"Use Adobe Reader 9.3 (in
Firefox)"/ as the action for PDF file content type.
But when in a web page I click on a link pointing to a .pdf document, I
get this:

/Could not launch Adobe Reader 9.3. Please make sure it exists in
PATH variable in the environment.

Moderator message: Don't let your Yahoo mailbox fill up

Hi all,

recently a lot of users with a @yahoo.com mail address have been
unsubscribed in the members list by an automatic bounce, signifying
that the mail could not be delivered.

This usually happens if you exceed your allowed online space, so
please, be careful to not let your online mailbox overflow. If you
don't use the webmail and automatically redirect to Kmail, you should
not let too much old mail pile up in your online box.
@yahoo.com and @hotmail.com are typical targets for spambots, so this
can happen very fast.

can't boot into kubuntu 9.10 after installation

This is a peculiar problem (to me at least).
I spent a couple of days trying to install various recent Debian releases
...

File association defaults

I am having an issue with file association defaults in Kubuntu/Ubuntu.
In Firefox the default for pdf mimetypes was to ask for information on
how they should be handled. When the dialogue box pops up as a result of
clicking on the link, the open with entry lists Ocular as the default,
but if I look at the kde file associations for pdf files the first
application listed in the list of handling applications is Acrobat.

Programs that I had no idea existed.

I have used Ubuntu and linux for about 12 years and had no idea that
these food programs existed until I read this:
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20100301145202407/FoodandDrink.html
No worries, I had nothing to do with writing or the website and it is
a very short read. All the programs are in the repos of my system
9.10.

Ark -rar problem

hello all,
The '.rar' extention in the Archiving tool "Ark" is not functioning properly. It is not extracting, compressing nor opening or archiving .rar files saying "failed to locate program 'unrar' in path"

Re: Kubuntu/Ubuntu does not remove everything from memory at shutdown

Please turn that passive agressiveness in something constructive and at
least give a link to the bug report on launchpad.

high load average

From the 'top' report, i can see that kubuntu karmic on my laptop has a
steady heavy load, about 8.
No applications can be charged in particular. Several of them take part,
using 20% to 40% of cpu time.
I am wondering about other contributions to the total load average: i/o
and graphic card usage.

How can i monitor the graphic card usage? (mine is intel 915)

Thank you
----P

konqueror sessions

I find konqueror saving sessions facility really unsatisfying:
- Often, after having regularly logged out, at my logging in, konqueor
complains that the last session crashed, prompting for recovering
- Recovering sessions is seldom accomplished properly:
- sometimes the number of windows is doubled: two identical copies,
showing the same list of tabs, are built (often the two copies are placed
in two different desktops);
- sometimes some windows are missing, with no warning about what has
happened
- a window is always placed in the last active desktop, as before
logging off, rather t

akonadi error

Akonadi crashes at every log in, in my kubuntu karmic (on laptop)
Error seems due to mysql.

I have never customized the mysql configuration. Should i set up mysql,
by editing any files?
I am puzzling why kubuntu has been delivered without proper mysql setup.

Thank you
---P

kubuntu and lucid?

Will lucid also be an LTS release for kubuntu??

Kubuntu/Ubuntu does not remove everything from memory at shutdown

Hi,
I am having an issue with Kubuntu/Ubuntu 9.10 on my tri-boot
system. If I shut Kubuntu down and warm boot into Win 7 I do not get any
sound from windows or applications I run. To get sound in windows I have
to shut Kubuntu down and boot into Mandriva because at shutdown it wipes
everything from memory. What need to be done in Kubuntu to get it to
wipe everything from memory at shutdown as Mandriva does?

regards,
Steve

(OT) Time Tracking Tool

For over a year I've been relying on KTimeTracker (formerly KArm) to track
my time at work. Unfortunately the newest version has removed a feature that
I depending on, which is showing the total time worked in the status bar at
the bottom, so I'm looking for a new tool that can work within KDE. The main
features that I need are that I can track time to individual tasks, but also
get a total of the time I've spent working on all my projects during the
day.

Anyone got any ideas?

yahoo crashing kopete at sign on

Is anybody aware of an issue with yahoo accounts causing kopete to crash on
sign in? I've had the issue since going to 4.4. At first I just noticed that
kopete was crashing on sign in ad after disabling and re-enabling all my
accounts I relaized it was just yahoo causing the issue. Sometimes it signs
in fine for little while. One time I realized that the yahoo avatar was set
differently than the main kopete avatar... when I fixed it the crash was gone
for a little while.

root partition growing

Hello,

i have kubuntu 9.10. My first harddrive (1TB) has a boot-partition and a second
partition with dm-crypt and a lvm in it. the lvm has a root, tmp, home, ..
partition.
I get with du and df a difference. I hade the same Problem a view weeks before.
On the root was not enougth space left and i can't login on kde. I didn't find
the loss space and reinstalled the system.

cannot run external program in Kate

Hello again,

I try to configure an external program in Kate which I want to run via a menu
entry or hotkey. However, if I try to run this program from within Kate, a
Konsole window pops up and is immediately closed.

When I run, for example, the preconfigured script “Email CVS Diff for Current
Document”, this behaves as it should. However, if I copy its configuration an
run the copy, the problem described above appears.

Any thoughts?

Best wishes,
Wolfgang

no terminal in Kate

Hello,

I cannot find a way to get a terminal inside Kate. The manual (which is for an
older version) tells me that I have to use some menu item below the “Windows”
menu. However, there is no such menu in Kate. The shortcut F7, which the
manual mentions, also doesn’t work. Was this feature removed? If yes, why?

Best wishes,
Wolfgang

Games, Drivers & all

Hello Mr. Alan, Ms. Lindsay & everyone,**

* *

I was looking forward to receive your emails. Thank you for your guidance
:)). Today, I am going to ask you some more questions...I hope I will get
their answers.. (I'll also search for them on Internet).**

* *

To start with, I uninstalled Kubuntu 'application' from Windows and
installed it as an OS (side by side Windows). Here are some of my questions:
**

* *

*1. *Kubuntu has no game. So, I downloaded the *package*: kdegames 3.5.10
from http://games.kde.org & saved it in Windows . Then, opened KPackageKit >
Software Management.

pptp. problem accessing files from remote windows server

After a problem with a backslash in the username I was given, I now have been
able to create a tunnel using pptp on Kubuntu Intrepid. The question is, what
do I use to access the files on this remote windows server I'm connected to.

I fired up XP to see how pptp worked, and there, all I have to do to access
the files is enter \\xxxx-xx\ftp_folder (x's replace name) into the run
command, and the files are opened in windows explorer. It also works by
entering the same as above in Opera on XP.

Opera doesn't want to know on Intrepid, and says the file is unavailable.

keyboard not functioning

The strangest thing happened to me. I was typing an e-mail and all of a sudden
there is no reaction from the keyboard. Nothing works. Not typing, no
controls, nada. I know the problem isn't with the keyboard itself as I can
type and operate the keyboard before entering Kubuntu. I can type my password,
enter bios etc. Once the computer gets to my desktop after typing my password,
all keyboard action stops. I can do anything with the mouse, open programs
etc. but nothing with the keyboard.
Had my computer been a laptop, I know there are function keys to do all sorts
of things.

K3B and burning CDs

It's been quite awhile since I burned a CD. I keep getting errors
related to permissions to the drive. So, I googled and found a bunch of
messages pertaining to the problem, but I'm not seeing a real fix. I'm
running Jaunty which is up to date. thanx. Ric

20100228KU -- Taskbar & Network "Disaster"

Greetings --

Several list members have recently helped me in trying to get
multi-media to work, and I am MOST appreciative of the help. I simply
MUST have done something terribly wrong during an update process. The
result is that there is NO bottom panel OR task-bar any longer. As one
result of this, I can no longer establish ANY Internet connection, even
though the hardware is still in place as before.

20100227KU -- Bottom-Panel Difficulty

Greetings --

As most of you know, I have been working very hard -- with a LOT of help
from Kubuntu-Users! -- to get multi-media working on my Jaunty system.
If I don't have it, I am very close to having it; THANKS to all.

Now, however, my bottom-panel has changed quite dramatically -- for the
worse. I used to have K-Launcher and several other items on the left
end and quite a few items (KMail, Volume-Control, Virtualbox-OSE,
Networking, etc.) in the system tray (at the right end of the panel).

Re: KNetworkManager often ignores wireless

Am Samstag, 27. Februar 2010 10:07:27 schrieb Reinhold Rumberger:

I’ve just found the /sbin/rfkill binary.

KNetworkManager often ignores wireless

Hello,

I used KNetworkManager quite successfully for some time. However since two
weeks or so, KNetworkManager often doesn’t allow me to connect to wireless
networks. The option for activating wireless networks is deactivated an
“greyed out”. Sometimes, things work again after five reboots or so, sometimes
not.

In syslog I found this:

NetworkManager: Wireless now disabled by radio killswitch
NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (12048480) ... get_connections.
NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (12048480) ...

akonadi:Cannot get rid of 'Table 'mysql. servers' doesn't exist'

I tried everything at:

http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi

including:

http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Table_.27mysql._servers.27_doesn.27t_exist

but nothing works.

KDE widgets moving places in locked panels

Some time ago a KDE user (CCed) mentioned that his plasma widgets
would move around, even if the panels and desktop are locked. I
experienced this today for the first time. Can anyone else confirm
this happening? Thanks.

Fwd: Re: Fwd: Kubuntu 10.04 will be LTS but it is ready for that

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Fwd: Kubuntu 10.04 will be LTS but it is ready for that
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:41:46 -0500
From: Mackenzie Morgan <<...> at gmail dot com>
Reply-To: Kubuntu Developer Discussion
To: kubuntu-<...> at lists dot ubuntu.com

Gotta say, I expected more breakage than I got on the 4.3->4.4 upgrade for the
KDEPIM transition to Akonadi. My contacts were no longer visible in
KAddressBook *BUT* they were not actually lost.

Re: Installing nvidia driver from cmd line -- no video

On 2/24/10, kubuntu-users-<...> at lists dot ubuntu.com

I've been having a little trouble with an old nvidia card. (e-GeForce
FX5500 -- Don't laugh it's what i could afford. I plugged in and it
worked but I still got occasional lagging and it didn't seem as if I
had hardware acceleration at all, especially Youtube videos paused and
stuttered as with the video on my motherboard. (ECS L7MM3)) So I tried
the above procedure in case there was a problem with the driver.

Kubuntu 10.04 will be LTS but it is ready for that

Those who have been around long enough remember the discussion around
the last Long Term Support release. Ubuntu 8.04 is LTS whereas Kubuntu
8.04 is not, the difference being that it was deemed unsupportable to
have an LTS with KDE 3.5 as base when KDE 4 was "almost released".

Now we see the coming release of 10.04 going to be Kubuntu LTS. I assume
with KDE SC 4.4 as "base" and from what I see of those trying it out at
the moment there are some really major headaches with Akonadi, Nepomuk
and KDE-PIM.

So my query is: is it the right time to go LTS?

unneeded printer setup

Since the upgrade to kde4.4 on Karmic, a printer is now setup and an
icon put into the system tray. I do not have a printer connected nor
will there ever be one and I am loath to have redundancies such as
this. Is it possible to remove this. I looked in the kde settings but
there is nothing there for this, no printer setup and listed in those
settings.

nepal.

where to turn off screen/power saver function in kde 4.4 karmic.

Since the recent upgrade to KDE 4.4 on Karmic (9.10), a setting seems
to have changed somewhere that now activates a screen save/ power save
function that I cannot track down and disable. I did this once(several
times) before on kde 4.x. in the power save options and those settings
have not changed AFAICT. Anyone know where this new parameter/function
call or however it is activated is coming from and importantly how to
disable it?

nepal

After installation: cannot get into the system, because of password/ login problems.

Dear everybody

Tonight, I installed Kubuntu netbook remix at my Asus 1001HA. However,
I do not manage to access the system. The login/ password combination
I have in mind, does not work. The only part of the system I do manage
to reach is the recovery mode menu - e.g. the root prompt.

Thx. for replying.

Bas.

Fwd: testers needed for Alpha 3 candidates

---------- Forwarded Message ----------

Subject: testers needed for Alpha 3 candidates
Date: Wednesday 24 February 2010, 04:39:10 pm
From: Jonathan Riddell <<...> at ubuntu dot com>
To: kubuntu-<...> at lists dot ubuntu.com

Please test candidates for alpha 3

http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/build/kubuntu/all

Jonathan

Installing nvidia driver from cmd line

A guy in work has tried to install 9.10 from the live CD.
The install went OK but he can't log in as his nvidia card is not supported by the nv driver. He
just gets dropped to a shell after X tries to start a few times.

What commands does he need to install the latest (or best) nvidia driver and enable it?

Nigel

Parital Printing - Update

Now this IS weird!

I can print from GIMP but only the top third of a page from Inkscape or Gwenview.

Any idea why they would stop working?

Stan

"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt

HP Photosmart 2575 partial printing

Hi everyone!

I have a Kubuntu 9.10 setup with an HP Photosmart 2575 all-in-one printer. I've been printing files from Open Office and PDFs without a problem.

Today, I tried to print a series of full-page (US Standard) 8.5"x11" photos.

First, I had some composite family photos that I assembled in Inkscape. Then I exported the Inkscape drawing to a PNG file. Finally, I just took one of my default JPG files and tried to print.

In every case, the printer got busy for a couple of minutes, then spit out the paper with only the top third of the image.

Karmic: occasional no sound at boot up

Occasionally when I turn my computer on, I will get a pop up appear saying
that it couldn't find any sound drivers.

Need lib not in repository

Hi

I am setting up kubuntu in my new box.
I use an old program that needs the libstdc++.so.5 library, which is no longer
available in the kubuntu repository.

I tried a symbolic link to the existing libstdc++.so.6 library in my machine
ln -s libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.5
but it did not work

Any idea?

Best
javier

Knetworkmanager

Hi all,

I have some severe issues using the Knetworkmanager for connecting to wifi
networks.

1. In 50% of the cases it does not connect to any network at all (despite
correctly written password, if such is needed). It does not connect even in
free wifi locations!
2. In 40% of the cases it does connect but after 10 or more 'activate' click
on the widget.
3. In 10% of the cases it does not accept simple WPA/Personal password. What
happens is that it wants confirmation on and on and after 4-5 clicks just goes
straight to 'not connected mode'.

Any help please? Kubuntu 9.10, KDE 4.4
gk

Amarok. Problems with internet radio streams

This is on Kubuntu Intrepid with Amarok 1.4.10 (Using KDE 3.5.10).

I'm having problems with Amarok playing windows media streams from the BBC for
radio. I drag the link for a stream (radio 7 for example) into Amarok's add
stream, and it shows up as: http://bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r7.asx

I ok that. Then a cookie alert, so I select the "all cookies from this domain"
option, then accept. Now Amarok says "populating playlist", and it loads up
32 tracks, which are for this bbc radio 7 stream.

Now the problem.

No mail from News server- kubuntu port 119

No mail received from newsserver for last 3 days, but able to receive by
direct mail. Is there any problem with gmane newserver? Both
Thunderbird3 and Opera mail agent unable to get through gmane newserver.

Sorry for the noise if problem is from my side.

Regards - Goh Lip

Wacom Tablet

Has anyone managed to set up a Wacom Tablet?

I got a new toy and sure would like to use it on my Linux box. I tried
following the instructions on the Source Forge pages but there's so much
information that I don't understand I get confused about what I need to do.

Re: Nepomuk and Akonadi

I've had problems with Akonadi, too but I've upgraded from KDE 4.3.2 or 4.3.3
to 4.4 beta and then rc...
I'm using system MySQL database.
That upgrade broke my Akonadi database so it couldn't be upgraded.
Then problems with Kontact/Kmail...
I had to drop all the tables in Akonadi database so it created new one and
then it worked but I had to start Akonadi manually in KDE 4.4rc. Upgrade to
KDE 4.4 final fixed my problem with Akonadi autostart. It starts now as it's
needed (for example Kontact start).

And about Nepomuk...

desktop effects

Hello,

I just installed Kubunutu 9.10 (up2date) running KDE 4.3.2.

Firefox installer crashing with ruby script error on 9.10/KDE 4.4

I have two desktops with Jaunty 9.10 all updates plus KDE SC 4.4 from
backports, one of them a clean install from yesterday. On both of them when
I run kubuntu-firefox-installer I get the following:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/KDE/korundum4.rb:597: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i486-linux]

I can install firefox from apt easily enough myself but was curious if
anyone else had this problem and whether I should report it on launchpad.

Nepomuk and Akonadi

Still trying to make both work so to get back the addressbook and the calendar
...

So, I enabled Nepomuk (and Strigi) from the System setting. After reboot
though go the message:

"Nepomuk was not able to find the configured database backend 'redland'."

What is this? Is it normal or should be somehow fixed? Thanks.
gk

partitionning and formatting

is there a way to format and partition the drives and usb flash disks from Kubuntu??

Icons won't resize in panel

Hi

I just upgraded to KDE SC 4.4 on Kubuntu 9.10. Deleted the relevant *plasma*rc
files to get a clean desktop. I like to have a large panel at the bottom of the
desktop and a small one at the top. For some reason the icons in the large
panel won't resize as seen in the screenshot in this link:

http://picasaweb.google.com/tanghus/Screenies#5437446508732963570

Any idea why?

biggest resolution is 1024x768

I just bought a Tohiba laptop with i3 processor. I tried to install Karmic.
But laptop couldn't show anything when I booted Karmic CD.

Then I tried "safe graphic mode" and it worked. And I installed Karmic.

Now the biggest resolution is 1024x768 and it's inappropriate. My laptop is
16" widescreen. The resolution should be I think at least 1280x800.

Laptop has intel graphics card. How can I fix this problem?

Thanks.

Klich.

how do I get codecs for Kubuntu and install them?

I just installed Kubuntu and need codecs and steps to get the video's to work
thanks

problem installing java 6.0

hello,
I can't install "jdk 6u18 linux x64-rpm.bin" i tried to follow the instructions on the java site but the terminal doesn't allow my authentication using my user password

Kde desktop file

I would like to do a fresh install of Kubuntu, but want to reuse my home
directory. Which file do I have to remove to allow Kubuntu desktop preference
to show/install, not the ones from the former distro? Thank you very much.

Slow transfer rates with FTP and Fish on Intrepid and Hardy

I'm getting very slow transfer rates 10 - 50KB/s when transfering data using
Gftp on my local network.

After upgrade to KDE 4.4, I cannot open Kaddressbook

Although the upgrade to KDE 4.4 from 4.3.5 went smoothly on my test
machine, my production machine will not start Akonadi when I open
Kaddressbook. Kubuntu 9.10 with the Backports repo
enabled.

clean /tmp after reboot

Hello,

did someone now, how to clean the /tmp directory after a reboot? The
"TMPTIME=0" in /ets/default/rcS is set but the /tmp is never empty.

Anny Idea? I think only the files with me as owner will not be deletet.

Greetings
Max

How to get useful bug fixes for KDE 4.4. without automatically upgrading to 4.5?

Hello everybody

At my main desktop 'production' partition I work with Kubuntu Karmic.
In December 2009, I added via "Adept" this backport to the list of
'software resources' from which to take automatic updates:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu
I did so at that moment with a view to upgrading to KDE 4.3, which was
a stable version with several useful bug fixes and good new features.
My experience with KDE 4.3.

Setting resolution on Kubuntu 9.10

Just installed Kubuntu 9.10 on my PC and having a problem setting my screen
resolution to 1024X768.
Settings> System Settings> Display does not show 1024X768

Then I search for the xorg.conf in my system but it was not there and I
created a new one by executing the configure command. It generated the
xorg.conf.new in \root.
Then I have added a line with the resolution 1024X768 with refresh rate 70.
Then I renamed and moved the file to \etc\X11. After that it started showing
the 1024X768 in the display settings.

KDE File Chooser for all GTK apps

KDE File Chooser for all GTK apps
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/281834

The above-mentioned but was recently marked WONTFIX foir the following reason:
"GTK+ should provide sensible desktop integration, not the desktop
toolkit integration."

If anybody can provide counter-arguments, please do so politely on the
bug report itself. Don't forget to respect the developer and his
limited time, and don't troll. Just please bring counter-arguments to
help convince him. Be nice!

Opening Nautilus replaces the desktop with the Gnome desktop.

Due to a long-standing bug in Dolphin / Konqueror I have been using
Nautilus as my file manager lately. However, when I open Nautilus my
desktop goes from Plasma to Gnome. The Plasma panel remains, however,
and the Gnome panels don't come up. How can I prevent my desktop from
switching to Gnome?

/etc/rc.local does not run at boot

How can I force /etc/init.d to run /etc/rc.local when my 8.04 LTS
machine boots?

The only way /etc/rc.local runs is if I _manually_ run it as root with
/etc/rc.local.

I think it may be something in /etc/init.d/rc.local which is unchanged
from the installation of 8.04 LTS.

ls -l /etc/init.d/rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 522 2009-01-23 09:01 /etc/init.d/rc.local

#! /bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
[ -f /etc/default/rcS ] && . /etc/default/rcS
.

Can I revent KDE 4.4?

I upgraded to KDE 4.4 from the PPA and I'm finding a couple of applications I use regularly are not compatible (kdenlive being the most important). Does anybody know of a way to revert back to KDE 4.3.5 *safely*? I know, I shouldn't use PPAs on a 'production' system, so t's my own fault.. :)

Mark

mp3splt-gtk and Kubuntu 9.10

I've got some audio files that I want to split without degrading the quality
and came across mp3splt-gtk.

I can install and run it fine on UNR 9.10, but whatever I try to do with
Kubuntu 9.10, it complains that it can't play the files - mp3 and ogg.

Any suggestions?

Latest updates want to remove half my system!

Just got a notification about some new updates, two days after I upgraded to KDE 4.4 from the ppa:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade...

2 documents side by side

I see in windows 7 that two documents can be "clicked" into position
side by side so that one can work on both documents at the same time.
One drags the one document to the right side of the screen and it
"clicks" into place. One then drags the second document to the left side
(it "clicks" into place) and both documents are then readable
simultaneously. I read that this is also possible in Kubuntu. Is this
so? If so could somebody write a "blow by blow" description an how to
enable this.
TIA
Errol

Kaddressbook: No writable resource was found

When I add an 'Address Book on IMAP Server via KMail Resource Settings',
and I try to add an address, the following error occurs:

No writable resource was found, saving will not be possible. Reconfigure
KMail first

This is KDE 4.4. Any idea what is meant by 'reconfiguring KMail'?

koffice and kformula won't install

I elected to install koffice, to see if it's spreadsheet was less
buggier than Open Office's. For some ungodly reason koffice needs
kformula, which wants to de-install half my system. Who dat?? Ric

Open Office upgrade??

I'm having a couple of problems with OpenOffice. I install just what is
available from the repos. I had my share of grief, when I used Fedora,
with too new beta software so I'm a tad gun shy to install packages not
"official". Yet, when I try to enter a bug report, the site advises me
to upgrade before it'll accept my bug report. I have Open Office
3.01 installed (1:3.01-9) and am running Jaunty.

Am I missing something here?? Ric

why is it so hard to install Kbbuntu 9.1?? help please

I have tried many ways to install Kubuntu but i failed .

help on Java execution

Hi There,

I just need some help in compiling or running Java program on kubuntu. I tried: javac filename.java, didnot work. Do I need to install separately JDK from Kubuntu 9 CD? Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,

Aklilu

No desk top computer?

We have lived in a fairly small house for over 7 years now. It was quite
big enough for us, but we now seem to have acquired three grandchildren.
I use one of the bedrooms as a study where I have my desktop computer.
With all the bits and pieces it takes up quite a lot of room so there is
a bit of a palaver when we have visitors. Hints have been dropped!!

So I am wondering about replacing the desktop with a (good sized) laptop
computer. This leads me on to wonder if any list members do not use a
desk top at all, and rely on a laptop only. Anyone?

missing config.

along the top of kmail was a selection for status, which is still
there and alongside this was a selection for how to display the
message list. I don't think I mislaid it! ;)

So how do we now select how we want the message list to look, e.g. one
to a line.

nepal.

Akonadi Server

The Options and settings for this are now missing from the System
Settings / Advanced Selections. Has it moved/ been removed, is
available via the command line? anyone please?

nepal.

Lost Audio since 4.4 upgrade

Hi List,

Apart from other problems some of which I have fixed following the
upgrade last night to kde4.4, I have now lost sound output. No sound
from any audio player and no sound with YouTube either. I am on 64bit
Karmic (9.10) with all updates.

Following the update I had similar problems to those already
documented with loss of the plasma desktop or workspace or .... This I
fixed by running the recover option from the grub menu using dpkg. This
worked and returned my desktop access.

For sound, my settings were using the Xine backend and that remains
so, but without any sound now.

Hardware data collection

I need to know things like what motherboard, graphics card etc a
computer has. What programs are good for getting this info. I thought
there was something that was standard but I can't find it. Maybe the
was kde3?

device notifyer

Two issues with the device notifyer, maybe someone knows how to get
around it
Kubuntu 9.10 w KDE 4.3.5

when I insert a usb disk I would like the notifyer to either:
1. by default open it in Dolphin when I click on it in the notifyer
2. or at least, if I must get the choices. put File Manager ON TOP of
the list

I would like something like "left-click opens with choice of
filemanager, right-click gives you options"

any ideas anyone?

Sinclair

User Management and Kopete in KDE4.4

I just upgraded to KDE4.4

Can someone confirm 2 things for me? Just start the programs.
- System Settings -> Advanced -> User Management no longer works (crash)
- Kopete no longer works (crash)

The NFS kioslave is still broken, but the rest seems to be in order.
We lost Akonadi Management too, but I knew that one already.

Issues installing KDE 4.4

Last night I got the message for this big update. The package manager gave me
option for certain packages, at the same time some 40+ are blocked.

After restart plasma krashes and cannot be restarted. The machine however
works but I need to start any program with Alt+F2 combination.

In the Kpackage now I have one package (see below for the name) hanging for
installation. Installed it already 3 times and it is still there.

USB memory stick - what a contrast

I bought my first ever memory stick today - Kingston Data Traveler 8GB.
I have two computers to use it on, desk top Kubuntu Hardy and laptop
Mint Gloria Xfce.

I tried it in the desktop - locked the computer solid, had to use the
reset button.

Partitioner does not show partitions

I tried to setup Kubuntu on a PC where windows7 is already installed.
I have a 500GB HDD (SATA) with following partitions,
primary 100MB (NTFS) - windows management
primary 100GB (NTFS) - windows7 installation
the rest is unallocated space (~400 GB)

I wanted to install Kubuntu on new partitions created on the unallocated
space, but when I'm going through the installation wizard and when I come to
the create partitions screen it does not show any existing partitions. Even
the hdd is not shown as unallocated space.

Kubuntu simple backup tool

One thing I miss in Ubuntu (and Kubuntu) is a simple way to backup files and system configuration... Sometimes my system became unstable cause of packages installed, but I don't remember what is the wrong one, so I don't know what package I exactly have to remove. In Windows there's a system configuration backup tool very useful to solve these problems baking up an old configuration. It doesn't really works well, cause Windows miss a package system, but in Ubuntu this works very well, thanks to dpkg. Anyway, using console maybe a little difficult, expecially for beginners.

Deleted system tray

I inadvertently deleted my system tray? I know I could reinstall Kubuntu, but I want to keep all my bookmarks and emails. Is there a relatively easy way to restore the tray?

Thank you for your advice

problem converting to ext3 file system

hello all,
I want to convert from NTFS to ext3 to be able to install Kubuntu and make it work.

Hello and help

Hi everybody,

I use Ubuntu in my desktop, but I´d like to install Kubuntu in my new
netbook, as Asus 1005ha-m. I have a doubt about it, how can i install,
because in kubuntu.org I downloaded the netbook iso and the desktop iso, I
supposed that the only difference between it is Plasma netbook and Plasma
desktop. So what should I do?

KOrganizer cannot add items

Friends,

I am trying to start using the calendar in KOrginizer more. However, every
time I am trying to add an appointment for example, I got message that 'No
resources found, item cannot be added'. I have the same message if I place an
alarm through KAlarm and click on 'Show in KOrganizer' option.

Any idea on what causes this? Thanks.
gk

questions

I recently tried Kubuntu through windows(wubi) and I want to permanently install it but i have some questions please,

1-when it was installing through wubu it came to the part of installing apps.(80%) and gave an error so i skipped
2-should I convert the file system to ext3 or ext4 and NTFS is not possible?
3 If I did this file system conversion or format will I loose anything If I did applied this to a separate drive other than that which has all the needed data and the drive for windows?

thanks in advance :)

Cropped Display

Hello

I want to install kubuntu on my media pc and tried the recent live cd.
The Desktop started properly but the screen configuration seems to be
wrong. Display is a TV with resolution 1360*768 60Hz via HDMI, kubuntu
sets the right resolution the refresh rate is 59.8Hz, maybe this is
also right?!

The problem is that the Desktop seems to be on the wrong position on
the screen, the right quarter of the screen is black and on the left
side the desktop is cropped.

Any Ideas? If possible I want to fix this with the live CD before
installiung on hard disk.

Thanks
Daniel

Thunderbird 3.1a1PRE

I checked the KPackageKit program and upgraded to Thunderbird
3.1.whatever. It is shown as Shredder 3.1a1PRE and none of the
extensions for Thunderbird work with it. I am curious if this KDE's way
of sabotaging users of Thunderbird. When I try to check on addons it
takes me to the normal Thunderbird page for addons. There is nothing
there that is compatible with this version of Thunderbird if it is a
version of Thunderbird.
There doesn't seem to be a middle ground between the 2.0 version I had
and the new 3.1a1PRE.

bluetooth problem

I'm trying to get bluetooth running on my 9.10 installation of Kubuntu.
I get an error message saying that bluez isn't running. How can I
straighten out this problem? I guess I need to know how to start bluez.

Eric Jackson

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