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digikam is trying to kill me and my computer
by dep 20 Jun '19

20 Jun '19

greets, folks . . . for more than a decade i've gone happily along, making pictures for a living, sorting them with a gnome application called gthumb (which meshes nicely with the gimp) and being generally happy. then the gnome people did what gnome people do: they improved gthumb to the point where it's utterly useless. they removed menus and scrollbars and committed other atrocities. so i thought i'd bite the bullet and try digikam, which is in many respects too much, just too much. it tries to do things that i do not want done. it insists on running a full inventory of all my pictures all the time -- gthumb was good about not doing this until it was asked to -- and generally behaves as if i'm a 14-year-old who wants to keep track of his million selfies. grrr. but i can live with that and i feel confident that after spending some time with it i can turn off much of the stuff i don't like and make it into something potentially more useful than gthumb was when it was useful, about one major version ago. but there's a problem: when i use digikam-trinity (0.9.6) within a few minutes i can hear my computer's fans screaming and when i run top i see that it's consuming more than 100 percent. any ideas how i can fix this or at least troubleshoot it? tia. -- dep Some pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] digikam is trying to kill me and my computer
by BorgLabs - Kate Draven 20 Jun '19

20 Jun '19

> On Thursday 20 June 2019 11:05:12 am Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > On Thursday 20 June 2019 17.39:01 dep wrote: > > > as to the initial problem, i can tell (from having watched top) that as > > > soon as digikam-trinity is asked to do anything at all -- display a > > > picture, open an external program -- it jumps to 100 percent or above, > > > unless the external application is ShowFoto, in which case *each* of th= > em > > > is at 100 percent. > > > > IMHO there must be some other problem. I have been running digiKam on all > > my photos (several hundred GB by now) and I see no such behaviour (this on > > two different motherboards with different processors). > > Appologies if this is useless as I know nothing about gthumb or digikam, bu= > t=20 > based upon the name gthumb (eg thumbs...) have you looked at an app called= > =20 > Geeqie? I've used it for years and it does have a right click open in gimp. > > http://www.geeqie.org/ > > michael@local [~]# apt show geeqie > Package: geeqie > Priority: optional > Section: universe/graphics > Installed-Size: 1,355 kB > Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss(a)lists.ubuntu.com> > Original-Maintainer: Michal =C4=8Ciha=C5=99 <nijel(a)debian.org> > Version: 1:1.1-8 > Replaces: gqview > Depends: libc6 (>=3D 2.14), libexiv2-12, libgcc1 (>=3D 1:4.1.1),=20 > libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>=3D 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>=3D 2.35.9), libgtk2.0-0 (= > >=3D=20 > 2.20.0), libjpeg8 (>=3D 8c), liblcms1 (>=3D 1.15-1), liblircclient0,=20 > libpango-1.0-0 (>=3D 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>=3D 4.6), libtiff5 (>=3D 4.0.3),= > =20 > geeqie-common (=3D 1:1.1-8) > Recommends: exiftran, exiv2, ufraw-batch, zenity, imagemagick, librsvg2-com= > mon > Suggests: gimp, xpaint, geeqie-dbg, libjpeg-progs, ufraw > Breaks: gqview (<< 1:1.0~beta2-3) > Download-Size: 518 kB > Homepage: http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/ > Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug > Origin: Ubuntu > APT-Manual-Installed: yes > APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64=20 > Packages > Description: image viewer using GTK+ > Geeqie is a browser for graphics files offering single click viewing of > your graphics files. It includes thumbnail view, zoom, filtering > features and external editor support. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Geeqie is cool thanks. I'm going to play with it for a while. Kate

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Tdewallet
by phiebie＠drei.at 20 Jun '19

20 Jun '19

Debian Buster uptodate and with systemd. tdewalletmanager-trinity_4%3a14.0.7~pre8-0debian10.0.0+4~a The walletmanager does not start automatically, when TDE is started. Starting it manually with [tdewalletmanager --tdewalletd] yields an icon in the taskbar, the wallets however never get opened not to speak of, that they stay completely empty. The tdewalletrc contains: [ ] [Wallet] Close When Idle=false Close on Screensaver=false Default Wallet=Peter Enabled=true First Use=false Idle Timeout=10 Launch Manager=true Leave Manager Open=false Leave Open=false Prompt on Open=true Use One Wallet=true [ ] Where should I look for a misconfiguration or wrong/insufficient permissions? Tks and regards.

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kmail crashing now unusable
by Gene Heskett 20 Jun '19

20 Jun '19

Greetings; Over the last several days, kmail has gotten so unstable its not usable. Now tdewallet has also died, I have submitted 20+ crash reports, no reply, and I've no clue if it will even send this message. How about some help or an acnowlegement of the problem. I've rebooted, even re-installed all of kmail to no avail. I've also run memtest about 3 full cycles, no errors. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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net_applet
by BorgLabs - Kate Draven 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

Hi people I no longer have net_applet access as user. This happened after a few updates. I'm guess it's a perm problem. Any ideas where to look? Thanks Kate

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here's what i'm talking about
by dep 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

i've made the picture dinky as i can while having it big enough to see. as you can tell, everything to the right -- taskbar, icons of running applications -- has gotten squashed. before i moved the icons on the left, simply rearranging them, everything was distributed nicely across the bottom of the screen. i do not know if having a black background is hiding some handle i can use to stretch stuff out, but if it is i cannot find anything about it. and every time i moved an icon to be in a grouping of other similar applications, the stuff on the right got squashed further, though no new icons were being added to kicker. nor can i find a configuration file i can screw around with. anybody know how i can fix this? dep Some pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album

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Re: [trinity-users] problems configuring kicker
by BorgLabs - Kate Draven 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

> hi, everybody . . . > > i've encountered a weirdness as i try to arrange some icons on my kicker. i= > =20 > can right click and move them, but kicker behaves as if a new icon is=20 > being added instead of an old one being moved. the old one moves well=20 > enough, but everything on the right -- task list, spelling applet,=20 > calendar, gets squashed farther to the right. so i have blank space in the= > =20 > icon section and the applets and such are all squashed together. > > so, is there a configuration option that lets me drag everything back to=20 > where it should be? > > thanks very much. > --=20 > dep > > Some pictures: > http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- I've encountered this as well. I usually just relock kicker and start again. If that doesn't work I log in again, that usually fixes it. I suspect small gnomes are living in my computers. Kate

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About a Kernel
by BorgLabs - Kate Draven 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

HI I would like everyone's opinion on this. I'm trying figure out the benefits of either staying with the LTS kernel or with the lastest kernel. The machines are every day use and stability is important. Am I tossing away any benefits, of the latest kernel, if I use the 4.8x/9x kernel. Or do the benefits of the 5.1x kernel out weigh any instability? I'd like all schools of thought. Thanks in advance, Kate

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] About a Kernel
by BorgLabs - Kate Draven 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

> On 06/13/2019 02:56 AM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: > > HI > >=20 > > I would like everyone's opinion on this. > >=20 > > I'm trying figure out the benefits of either staying with the LTS kerne= > l or=20 > > with the lastest kernel. The machines are every day use and stability i= > s=20 > > important.=20 > >=20 > > Am I tossing away any benefits, of the latest kernel, if I use the 4.8x= > /9x=20 > > kernel. Or do the benefits of the 5.1x kernel out weigh any instability= > ?=20 > >=20 > > I'd like all schools of thought. > >=20 > > Thanks in advance, > >=20 > > Kate > > Kate, > > Unless you have super-new bleeding-edge hardware that needs a new featu= > re > added in 5.1 that is not available in previous versions -- then 5.1 provi= > des > absolutely no benefit. Any tweak that 5.1 provided to help with Spectre > performance mitigation, etc.. will likely be backported and in a LTS kern= > el. > > I have Arch (that always runs the current upstream version of the kerne= > l, > 5.1.9 currently), and Arch also provides an LTS kernel using 4.19. I have= > a > SuSE leap 42.3 install running the 4.4 kernel, SuSE leap 15.0/15.1 instal= > ls > with the 4.12 version, I have a Pi running Debian/jessie with the 4.9 ARM > kernel, and from a general computing/feature/functionality standpoint, it > makes no difference. > > Now if you have bleeding-edge hardware that is only supported in the la= > test > greatest kernel -- then yes, there is a difference, otherwise you won't k= > now > the difference. > > HTH > > --=20 > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks David, This is my thinking as well. I have no real bleeding edge tech, I tend to stay away from it. Just wanted to challenge me decision , in case I was wrong. Kate

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sorry, on t-bird know nothing about running current version on imap
by Gene Heskett 16 Jun '19

16 Jun '19

First, I haven't figured out how to get t-bird to quote, or even to reply to a list posting, so this is all by had, I can't even get copy/paste to work. Dr Klepp asked which system: This is the same old asus box, in the house that ran wheezy for years, but now has an uptodate stretch amd64 install. At least I think its uptodate, they've made it almost impossible to run synaptic now, I ran, late yesterday about 3 full cycles of memtest, no errors. The main problems withkmail seem to be related to index files getting out of whack and I have restored it by stopping kmail, deleting the index files for the folder thats crashing, and restarting kmail --sync. Leave it alone for an hour or so and it will rebuild the index files again. But its in trouble again if I delete or move a file to the spam folder. And running it from a shell, to get that debugging output, when did kmail become dependent on N-M, as pasted from tht shell: ene@coyote:~$ kmail --sync [TDE NM Backend ERROR] [/build/buildd/tdelibs-trinity-14.0.6/tdecore/tdehw/networkbackends/network-manager/network-manager.cpp:1165] org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files [TDE NM Backend ERROR] [/build/buildd/tdelibs-trinity-14.0.6/tdecore/tdehw/networkbackends/network-manager/network-manager.cpp:1165] org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files [TDE NM Backend ERROR] [/build/buildd/tdelibs-trinity-14.0.6/tdecore/tdehw/networkbackends/network-manager/network-manager.cpp:1687] org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files kmail: WARNING: readFolderIds(): Found serial number zero at index 38 in folder /home/gene/Mail/.briarpatch.index.ids ASSERT: "msn != 0" in /build/buildd/tdepim-trinity-14.0.6/kmail/kmmsgdict.cpp (468) kmail: WARNING: writeFolderIds(): Serial number of message at index 0 is zero in folder coco kmail: WARNING: writeFolderIds(): Serial number of message at index 0 is zero in folder coco gene@coyote:~$ WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 1) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 2) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 3) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 4) suspended. kmail: WARNING: Attempt to reference invalid serial number 15648 kmail: kmail: WARNING: Attempt to reference invalid serial number 15649 kmail: *** KMail got signal 11 (Crashing) [kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'kmail' crashing... Thats one session of kmail, lasted maybe 10 seconds before I clicked on something and crashed it again. As you can see, its fussing about the coco list folder, which is the parent of around 17 subfolders named ack the year of each ones messages. Starting year is 2002, goes on to 2018 with the parent folder now containing the 2019 messages. If kmail survives the year, those will get moved to a 2019 folder. If it survives, its being a pita and I am just now learning how to use both t-bird and imap. Do you have any ideas? I'm all ears. Thanks Nik.

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