> I have artsd running on this install, but kmix cannot find any
>sound backend running:
>
>
> 449 ? S 0:03 \_ tdelauncher [tdeinit] --new-startup
> 460 ? S 0:24 \_ twin [tdeinit] -session
>10d7cdd8c9000139108311200000009720000_1391
> 479 ? S 1:32 \_ /opt/trinity/bin/artsd -F 10 -S
>4096 -s 60 -m
>artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f
>
> kmix has the red crossed-out circle over it in the tray and when
>opened, you
>have no option of choosing any backend sound server. I have
>screenshot of them
>both.
>
> What should I attempt to try and get kmix working?
I've seen this before, when logging in with the same account
between two systems that have different sound hardware.
Try terminating kmix, delete the two kmix* rc files, then start
kmix.
Darrell
> Going through kcontrol printer configuration, I was hit with an
>error that
>cups could not be found (see attached dialog). That was strange
>because cupsd
>was running:
>
>[15:49 valhalla:/home/david] # systemctl status cups -l
>cups.service - CUPS Printing Service
> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled)
> Active: active (running) since Thu 2014-01-30 14:13:50 CST; 1h
>37min ago
> Main PID: 839 (cupsd)
> CGroup: /system.slice/cups.service
> └─839 /usr/bin/cupsd -f
>
> Do you have any ideas why kprinter configuration would not be
>able to see cups?
Just to be clear, kprinter is now tdeprinter.
Run the following (konsole or Alt+F2):
tdecmshell printers
When the dialog appears, look just above the dialog OK/Cancel
buttons. On my system I see this:
Server: /var/run/cups/cups.sock
Do you see anything similar?
Darrell
Tim, Darrell,
I recall discussion earlier about optimizations applied to R14. Did any of
those have to do with the number of times a toolbar or menu is drawn or
refreshed on first display? I ask because I am seeing a lot of text that is
either missing or cut-off when a kcontrol app, or menu is displayed.
The text headings in the individual kcontrol apps and pop-up config items are
the worst. When you first open a config applet the top-half of the text is for
the block titles. For example:
open 'konqueror --profile filemanagement' (or 'Personal Files' on taskbar) The
first block of options contains radio buttons for 'color' or 'picture' the block
title for that group is 'Background'. When that dialog is first displayed, the
top part of 'Background' is missing like it got clipped when the next element
was drawn -- and then was never refreshed a last time to insure the entirety of
all elements were visible. I don't ever recall seeing this behavior in the past
and comparing to an older 3.5.13-sru install -- that does not occur.
Another area is menu entries. Open kwrite and open the 'Edit' menu. When I
first to this the Ctrl+G 'Go To' line contains nothing but the underscore and
the Ctrl+G tooltip:
" _ Ctrl+G "
I just clicked it again and this time the "Overwrite Mode" text disappeared
leaving only the 'Insert' tooltip on the right-side. An time focus changes, the
text is restored (both in kwrite, kcontrol, etc..) Since a focus change (which I
guess forces a redraw) corrects the issue, it makes it almost impossible to
capture with ksnapshot.
I have nothing concrete, but the feel I get is that some type of optimization
fix was done to prevent TDE from redrawing a menu or applet one or two more
times after initial display. I don't know if that is it, but it just feels like
the elements are 1 redraw or refresh away from being ready when they are first
displayed.
You guys think about this and let me know where to go with it...
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>I have a joystick help handbook to push to git but no screen
>captures. I don't own a joystick! :)
>
>I need two screen captures:
>
>* tdecmshell joystick (3.5.13.2: kcmshell joystick)
>
>* The Calibrate dialog
>
>Preferred ksnapshot method: Capture mode: Window under cursor
Nobody has a joystick?
Darrell
> I recall discussion earlier about optimizations applied to R14.
Which discussion were those? What was being optimimized?
> You guys think about this and let me know where to go with it...
Screen captures would help much. :)
Darrell
>> So at the same time are we starting a separate branch for RC1 so
>we are
>> still free to work on the main trunk on other things?
>>
>I had no plans concerning this. Before GIT we used to just freeze
>the
>source tree, then have the developers merge their patches in after
>the
>release was complete; now that we use GIT we need to give this
>some thought.
I never tested the waters of the 3.5.13.2 branch, but seems that
once we go into RC status then that is an appropriate time to
create the R14.0.0 branch rather than when officially released.
That would mean backporting patches, but eventually we have to do
that anyway with the maintenance releases. Perhaps a compromise is
to create the R14.0.0 branch at RC3 rather than RC1. Then we have
to backport patches only for the last few bug fix patches of RC3.
Just thinking out loud.
Darrell
> I don't know if this is related to the issue, but on logout, if
>you move your
>mouse over the buttons on the shutdown dialog, the tooltips stack
>up behind the
>mouse and do not get repainted leaving you with a deck-of-cards
>looks on the
>right side of the dialog. If you 'Cancel' the shutdown, then all
>tooltips are
>removed when the window is repainted. If you have any ideas what
>to check, let
>me know. I'll try turning SAK off and see if that help.
I cannot replicate this. Tooltips appear in front of the dialog.
Interestingly, tooltips do not appear for all buttons. (Probably
none in the code.)
I am not using any theme.
I can't test tsak: I built without that support.
Darrell
> The syntax highlighting rules for kwrite/kate should be updated
>one last time
>from kde.org before RC1 is frozen. Currently new version exist
>for:
>
>C++11
>CMake
>CSS
>POV-Ray
>reStructuredText
>
> Might as well be up-to-date for R14.
As Michele explained, users no longer update the files from KDE.
When users now update the files from within kate the files are
downloaded from the git tree and not KDE.
Michele manually checks the KDE site for updates at their end and
then merges pertinent changes into our files. Our files have become
a tad customized for Trinity. A direct update from KDE kills all of
that. From now on there will be differences from our files and
those in KDE. The content of some xml files will be different, some
version numbers will be different, etc.
After R14.0.0 is released this doesn't affect active git users but
will affect eventual official release users. If you are a git user
then you will be current every time you sync your local tree and
build new packages. Official release users will still have to
update manually through kate, but their downloads will connect to
the Trinity git tree and not KDE.
Darrell
All,
Another issue I need to chase is tdenetworkmanager crashing as soon as TDE
starts. When I launch TDE, I'm greeted by a dailog telling me that
tdenetworkmanager died: attached. .xsession-errors has very little information
on the event:
[dcopserver] DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-1023' to 'tdenetworkmanager'
ERROR: Communication problem with tdenetworkmanager, it probably crashed.
[kcrash] TDECrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
[kcrash] TDECrash: Application Name = tdenetworkmanager path = <unknown> pid = 1027
[tdeinit] Got EXEC_NEW 'drkonqi' from socket.
[tdeinit] drkonqi is executable. Launching.
[FIXME] HardwareInfo::setPowerSave unimplemented!
I'll rebuild with full debug and reinstall and see if I can find out where it
is crashing, but beyond that, I'm not sure what else to check in tde to see if
more information can be found. Any ideas?
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.