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Configure third button of a 3M Ergonomic Mouse
I've just bought a 3M Ergonomic Mouse, model EM500GPL, and for pointer movement and left/right click it works fine. But I'd like to know if it's possible to configure the third button to behave the ...
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How to show time away from computer?
I was wondering how to measure the time elapsed after, say, screensaver starts and then show that time on a freedesktop notification when back.
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Change default position of Dialog Windows KDE 4.10
I have KDE 4.10 running on my system, today when configure to work with two monitors top/bottom i get the surprise that modal dialogs show in the middle of two monitors, example the Intellij's Search ...
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How to restore kde plasma desktop
I was tried chrome remote desktop app with a friend. He has a Mac. By mistake he clicked cmd + s, I do not know if that is super + s combination, the thing is it killed all my kde plasma widgets.
Is ...
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Experiencing problems with KDE after an upgrade
After an upgrade of KDE I am experiencing problems. A lot of problems.
"Konsole" doesn't starts at all! (I have to switch to a console with ctrl+alt+Fx login with username, export DISPLAY=:0 and ...
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Is it necessary to use quotes in KDE4 ServiceMenus?
In the Exec= line of a service menu in kde4, I normally use:
Exec=command %f
So I wonder, if it's necessary to quote the %f, not sure how KDE4 parses the menu file, i.e
Exec=command "%f"
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Torify in KDE on 12.04 - all connections through tor
http://freemarketlinux.com/2012/10/16/torify-your-ubuntu-linux-12-0412-10-operating-system/
There is no such option in my KDE4 settings. I squeezed google and the software center for missing packages ...
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How to manage multiple panel layouts for different display setups in KDE?
I use my laptop in 3 display setups:
laptop only
laptop + monitor
laptop + projector
For each one I use different screen setup and panel layout. It's quite boring to modify layout after each ...
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Volume icon/settings not showing in “system tray”, it did before then just disappeared
I'm on a Fedora 21 x86_64 KDE system.... I was messing around with sound(alsamixer and pavucontrol) and after I noticed that there is no sound/volume icon in the system-tray anymore, was there before ...
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programmatically alter kde file associations
Problem:
In kde I want to remove a particular file association from every file type
Details:
I wanted to try out clamTk as a companion to clamAv. It didn't suit my needs so I uninstalled the ...
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NetworkManager cannot remember my WiFi password
My system is Gentoo 64bit, with KDE4. I just updated my Gentoo system. And after reboot, it asks me for my WiFi password. But the next I log in, it asks the password again. I checked the settings, and ...
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Synchronize KDE4 Hotkeys
how can I synchronize my personally defined KDE4 Hotkeys between different computers? I would like to check in a file in git, as I do it with .bashrc and other configuration files.
I found ...
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Setting icon theme for Qt based apps in non kde environment
How could I set icon theme for Qt based apps in a non-kde environment? In KDE I could specify a different one, otherwise it would go for the default gnome theme.
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Get rid of this button in KDE4?
Looks like mandatory, I run plasma-desktop, there's always a button on the right corner,
is there anyway to remove that? It wasn't an removable "widget"
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Is there any way to upgrade from KDE 4 to 5 on Linux Mint 17?
Earlier you could install KDE5 via repository using Project Neon, like these: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/07/how-to-install-plasma-5-in-kubuntu-1410.html, but unfortunately PPA maintainer deleted it, ...
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In KDE, how to enforce window rules on already open windows?
I can set window rules for specific applications and match on process name, window title, window class and more properties.
I want to enforce the rule to a window name of a website opened in chrome.
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When I use left window key + e in konsole it prins 'se'
I was trying to change my keyboard layout and when I tried it in the konsole, I saw that konsole interprets it rather oddly. Win + E executes some hostnames and prints "se" on the prompt. With other ...
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“Screen Energy Saving” (in KDE) - how to trigger command when entering and exiting such mode?
I have two commands:
one I'd like to execute when computer enters "Screen Energy Saving" mode,
another when it exists this state.
How to trigger those commands depending on "Screen Energy Saving" ...
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Setting environment variables at runtime in KDE4
Is it possible to set an environment variable at runtime, affecting all the programs started from the DE after that point (Desktop Environment, in my case KDE4) (without rebooting)?
I know it it ...
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Adding separator on top level service menu
I have a top level service menu, now I want to add a separator before this menu,
Here's my current service menu header:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
Actions=A;_SEPARATOR_;B;C;
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How to install kde 4 on fedora 22
I use fedora 22 KDE spin plazma 5. It have some huge bugs for me. How can I install kde 4 on my system? All resources in google are only about 'how to upgrade kde 4 to kde 5'. I found one recipe from ...
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How to change default media player in KDE 4
I would like to use mplayer to play all audio and video files on my desktop computer. Is it possible to set it system wide without setting it for every file extension manually? The best solution would ...
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My kdeinit4 process hogs all wifi traffic
It seems my kdeinit4 process eats up a good part of my wifi bandwidth by sending a lot of stuff.
#netstat -tap
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address ...
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How to make GTK application use the theme options configured in the GNOME Tweak Tool (and not the KDE's GTK configuration) when I'm under GNOME?
I'm using openSUSE 13.1 initially installed as a KDE4 Desktop environment (it's the default corporate install at my work).
Now I would like to use the GNOME desktop. So, I installed GNOME 3.10 with ...
