KDE is a full featured desktop environment and collection of software for communication, work, education and entertainment.
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How to restart KDE window decorations without loosing the running X session
For graphics editing of some special graphics formats I am using a java program called imagej. This has the annoying bug that one special function tends to kill KDE's window decorations if it has too ...
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Will GNOME and GTK libs bloat up my KDE?
I want to use Shutter. I installed it previously under Kubuntu and it needed a lot of libs.
What bothered me most was that Kubuntu wanted me to restart, that is rare for OS's nowadays and in general ...
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Remote desktop server as daemon
I'm using KRFB as remote desktop server in my Linux Mint KDE. It works fine as usual remote desktop server but I've to log-in then run it manually (or at start up)
How can I run KRFB of any remoter ...
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How to move windows between displays in KDE-KWin
So I'm using kde and I have two monitors: HDMI2 (primary), VGA1, configured as as extended desktop.
I'm looking for a way to move windows between displays be means of a keyboard shortcut (akin to ...
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How can I make monodevelop render text in KDE?
Monodevelop from git in KDE 4.10.2 does not render text in code edit tabs
I tried with xfce and text is rendered ok there.
I tried disabling composition with alt shift f12 and restarting x server ...
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Logging into KDE after installing it on opensuse
I have installed KDE on opensuse, but I am unable to get to the log in screen via the terminal.
How can you do this?
Thanks
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Storing Okular PDF annotations and metadata in the PDF itself
The PDF viewer Okular (part of KDE desktop) has lots of nice features and supports lots of file formats.
One of the things I like about it is the comments and annotations.
Unfortunately, all of the ...
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KDE how to remove “Kickoff Application Launcher” popup
Every time I hover the cursor over K button, I get a popup: "Kickoff Application Launcher". It irritates me a lot. I managed to remove task manager popups in it's properties. But for Kickoff there is ...
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Unable to compile beclock on Arch
I was unable to compile beclock on latest Arch, with yaourt -S bekwinfx-git:
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package):
By not providing "FindXCB.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
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Setting a default todo list in KOrganizer
I've been using KOrganizer's calendar for awhile now, synching it with my Android phone's calendar using Google's calendar. Now I want to start using the todo list. Synching it with my phone using ...
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Win7+TightVNC+vncconfig|autocutsel shared clipboard intermittenly fails for large (HTML?) pastes
My setup:
- Windows 7
- TightVNC client
- rhel5 running KDE, w/ and w/o Klipper
- I've tried both vncconfig and autocutsel
My problem is cut-and-paste intermittently fails. Copying a single line of ...
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X doesn't work after upgrading Slackware from 13.37 to 14.0
I upgraded the system, using instructions from file UPGRADE.txt on the disk. Everything works fine. But when I try to startx, it quits with an error:
ck-launch-session: error while loading shared ...
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Making Netflix-desktop more stable
I've installed netflix-desktop as per the iheartubuntu Netflix Desktop app guide. It works for about 2 hours and then crashes, taking down my KDE window manager with it.
How can I make Netflix ...
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Setting KDE to crop the laptop's screen to match external VGA device's ratio
I have a laptop with 16:9 screen ration. Sometimes I need to attach it to a projector via VGA. The projector ratio is 4:3.
I use System Settings->Hardware->Display and Monitor->Size & Orientation ...
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Qt based apps have unreadable, tiny font sizes
I'm running debian squeeze with Xfce 4.6. Today I logged onto my machine
and all Qt-based apps have really tiny font sizes. I took a screenshot with Kile, skype 2.6, Kate and gedit for comparison:
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How to set open app icon to be the same as in App Launcher in KDE
I am using Fedora 16 with KDE and, for the most part, the icon associated with an app is the same in the open app bar in the bottom of the screen as it is in the Application Launcher in the lower left ...
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KDE; each monitor another desktop
Is it possible to configure for example 4 desktops and switch them separately for each monitor?
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How to use xscreensaver's screensavers in kscreensaver
How can I use xscreensaver screensaver "molecule" in KDE's screensaver programme?
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Change file type association in Fedora/KDE
Can anybody explain how to change file extension associations with applications to open them with in Fedora/KDE ? E.g. my PDFs open with Okular and I would like to change the default to Adobe.
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Unable to install Parallels Workstation Extreme 6 on Linux Mint 14 KDE
I just installed Linuxmint 14 KDE 64bit on my pc, and tried to install Parallels Workstation Extreme 6, but for some reason it showed errors and wasnt working.
I did some googling and found someone ...
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LibreOffice 4.0 looks ugly in KDE
I installed recent LibreOffice version (4.0) but it looks so ugly in my KDE on Linux Mint, as shown in the following picture... how can I fix this issue?
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Open kickoff via shell/script
Is there any (undocumented) way to open the KDE Kickoff menu via dbus or some similar mechanism?
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Window content freezes
I recently started using Kanotix, a Debian based distro that loads itself into RAM on boot, and i'm loving it. But this is the second time I have this problem, and I was wondering what caused it and ...
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All installed software/commands will not run unless root user in Slackware 14
I originally thought it was just startx, but now I've discovered ALL commands are "not found" for any user except root... I obviously haven't checked the path for every single one, but the path for ...
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“startx” not found in Slackware 14.0
Had been running smoothly for a while in Slackware 14 on my laptop, did full install with KDE,then after installing Tor and Vidalia, the Vidalia icon stopped working, so I restarted the computer.
For ...
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Where place own application icons? How to get the current theme icons?
I'm developing a little application for Gnome, Unity and KDE desktops. I want the application icons to be fully theme aware.
Now, I'm including the icons on the application directory on ...
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Disable screen blackout in KDE while watching iPlayer
How can I turn off the screen blackout in Linux when playing a film in BBC iPlayer? I usually use it in Chrome, but if there is a way to do it in Firefox (Iceweasel) than it is good enough as well.
I ...
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What does Chakra “optimize” about KDE?
The KDE about box in Chakra says that I'm running "Platform Version 4.9.97 optimized by The Chakra Project". What exactly does Chakra "optimize" about KDE? I'm considering switching away (mostly due ...
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Ubuntu 12.04, black background for some areas of GTK programs under KDE
I use ubuntu 12.04, x86_64, kernel 3.2.0-35-generic.
I use KDE desktop. However, under KDE the GTK programs have black background in some areas.
e.g.
How to solve the problem?
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Microsoft touch explorer mouse middle mouse button not working on Linux Mint 14 KDE [closed]
I am trying to get a Microsoft touch explorer mouse working on Linux Mint 14 KDE.
The middle mouse button is not registered at all.
I tried xev and pressing the middle mouse button does not trigger ...
