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vipernicus

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

Wow, if it weren't for KDEMod, ArchLinux would be completely unuseable to me.  Thanks!  Someone needs to help out with the default KDE distribution of ArchLinux, it is definitely too bloated to be usable.

I have two screenshots, one clean and one dirty for KDEMod on ArchLinux.
http://vipernicus.org/files/images/screenshots/

Keep up the good work, and thanks for all of the effort.

hacosta

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Registered: 2006-10-22

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

@vipernicus

why use both pidgin and kopete?

Last edited by hacosta (2007-06-10 01:18:10)

tafsen

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Registered: 2006-05-03

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

After the latest update I can't login with my normal user.  I can only login with root.

funkyou

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

Do you think that this is the info i need to help you?

It works for me, the latest update just removed the httpslave patchset and added 4 additional bugfixes for kopete...

@Vipernicus: Thanks, and i have to say thanks for your kernel patchset

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tafsen

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

I was just wondering if anyone else had the same problem after the update

I found out that my .xinitrc file was messed up

vipernicus

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

@vipernicus

why use both pidgin and kopete?

Pidgin has better meanwhile/sametime support, which is used by IBM Lotus Notes.  When I VPN into my workplace it is very handy.

funkyou

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

Hey guys, any chance you can get http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/AL … tent=60054 in? I like that one...  And http://kde-apps.org/?xcontentmode=37 shows some other nice new patches, like better transparancy support to Kdesktop and some other stuff. please?

The kdesktop patch is included now, upload will be finished soon... Maybe we will provide a kdemod-tools package with the ALDM and possibly some other tools...

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superstoned

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

Hey guys, any chance you can get http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/AL … tent=60054 in? I like that one...  And http://kde-apps.org/?xcontentmode=37 shows some other nice new patches, like better transparancy support to Kdesktop and some other stuff. please?

The kdesktop patch is included now, upload will be finished soon... Maybe we will provide a kdemod-tools package with the ALDM and possibly some other tools...

You guys rock ;-)

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eNTi

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Registered: 2006-04-30

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

hi. i've installed kdemod a few days ago and i really like it. i was looking for something optimized and slim... but today kde started acting up. for example my kbuildsycoca crashed, when kde was firing up. also my kicker dies from time to time and reloads most of the time, but not always. also - this might or might not be related - the new 100.xx nvidia drivers are acting up big time. i'm getting black screens most of the time, when i start kdm and have to reboot the whole machine.

buddabrod

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Registered: 2007-02-25

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

No Problems here, (almost) everything works nicely, the only problem is the more or less broken typing notification in kopete when one chats with other icq users.. kopete <-> kopete works nicely, but kopete <-> icq only shows the beginning of someones typing and after 3 seconds it stops showing.. it's not kdemod related, but maybe someone found/made a fix, since the bugreport on kde.org seems to be more or less dead.

vipernicus

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

Couple of issues:

Do you guys add any patches to arts?  I can't seem to disable it without kcontrol freezing.

Also, on my konqueror toolbar, the button that switches view types does not function.

n8schicht

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

Good that vipernicus mentions the button that switches view types: Is there any way to restore the default state of this like it is in an unaltered konqueror? I once changed that in Kubuntu, but they had their own files which do not exist in Arch. So does somebody know to get back the original view mode buttons?

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funkyou

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

hi. i've installed kdemod a few days ago and i really like it. i was looking for something optimized and slim... but today kde started acting up. for example my kbuildsycoca crashed, when kde was firing up. also my kicker dies from time to time and reloads most of the time, but not always. also - this might or might not be related - the new 100.xx nvidia drivers are acting up big time. i'm getting black screens most of the time, when i start kdm and have to reboot the whole machine.

Please check your logs etc and your ~/.xsession-errors for example... If you can reproduce it, open a bug...

No Problems here, (almost) everything works nicely, the only problem is the more or less broken typing notification in kopete when one chats with other icq users.. kopete <-> kopete works nicely, but kopete <-> icq only shows the beginning of someones typing and after 3 seconds it stops showing.. it's not kdemod related, but maybe someone found/made a fix, since the bugreport on kde.org seems to be more or less dead.

The typing notification is not standardised, so it seems we have to live with it... I have already added 4 bugfixes for kopete dealing with other protocols and clients

Do you guys add any patches to arts?  I can't seem to disable it without kcontrol freezing.

Also, on my konqueror toolbar, the button that switches view types does not function.

Arts has one patch applied, and so far there were no problems with it. Try to start the soundserver config with "kcmshell arts" and take a look if there are any messages on the terminal...

The viewmode buttons have been merged, so you have to cklick and hold the cursor for about 1 second over that button to see the viewmode menu...

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vipernicus

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

Do you guys add any patches to arts?  I can't seem to disable it without kcontrol freezing.

Arts has one patch applied, and so far there were no problems with it. Try to start the soundserver config with "kcmshell arts" and take a look if there are any messages on the terminal...

Hmm, using kcmshell arts this time I had no problems.  Earlier, this appeared in dmesg when arts crashed.  I'm using arch's kernel26ck atm.

artsd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0
[<c0159e43>] out_of_memory+0x173/0x1a0
[<c015b7cc>] __alloc_pages+0x29c/0x2f0
[<c015cfde>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x11e/0x270
[<f88f3400>] ext3_get_block+0x0/0x100 [ext3]
[<c0347ee2>] io_schedule+0x22/0x30
[<c03481ab>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x5b/0x70
[<c01564e0>] sync_page+0x0/0x40
[<c01564c3>] __lock_page+0x73/0x80
[<c0159006>] filemap_nopage+0x2d6/0x410
[<c0163a36>] __handle_mm_fault+0x136/0x8e0
[<c011f365>] do_page_fault+0x125/0x600
[<c011f240>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x600
[<c0349e9c>] error_code+0x7c/0x84
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I think this might be caused by the wake up that your artsd patch does.

Last edited by vipernicus (2007-06-12 22:58:11)

dunkelstern

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

artsd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0
[<c0159e43>] out_of_memory+0x173/0x1a0
[<c015b7cc>] __alloc_pages+0x29c/0x2f0
[<c015cfde>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x11e/0x270
[<f88f3400>] ext3_get_block+0x0/0x100 [ext3]
[<c0347ee2>] io_schedule+0x22/0x30
[<c03481ab>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x5b/0x70
[<c01564e0>] sync_page+0x0/0x40
[<c01564c3>] __lock_page+0x73/0x80
[<c0159006>] filemap_nopage+0x2d6/0x410
[<c0163a36>] __handle_mm_fault+0x136/0x8e0
[<c011f365>] do_page_fault+0x125/0x600
[<c011f240>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x600
[<c0349e9c>] error_code+0x7c/0x84
=======================

OOM-killer means that your machine ran out of memory and the kernel attempts to kill some processes to get some free. The oom-killer (out of memory - killer btw.) kills normally the programs that are most idle and where the chance to get free memory is big enough.

Please try to find your memory hog/leak with top before that happens. It may not be arts' fault here, because the kernel kills any program that is worth to be killed to get memory, it may even have killed some terminal or kdesktop or something else, it's completely random what it kills on a users perspective.

Please check if your swap partition is turned on correctly.

Evoreth

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

funkyou: I finally found the immodule-qt patch! You can get it here: http://people.freedesktop.org/~daisuke
The latest patch is for Qt 3.3.7, so I really hope that this will work with Qt 3.3.8 as well...
What do you think?

funkyou

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

funkyou: I finally found the immodule-qt patch! You can get it here: http://people.freedesktop.org/~daisuke
The latest patch is for Qt 3.3.7, so I really hope that this will work with Qt 3.3.8 as well...
What do you think?

I'll take a look at it, thanks

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funkyou

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

We have evaluated the survey and already included some changes based on its results. The testing repo is now open again to check out some new packages.

The changes are so far:

- Kickoff is not included in the base installation anymore. Its now provided by a completely seperated kdebase package called "kdemod-kdebase-kickoff". This solves some of the hackish issues and keeps the base installation much cleaner.

- All patches that are too experimental or unclean in some way or require hacks and/or unsermake have been removed from the base installation. In detail we have removed the following ones: tablet pc support, ksmserver timeout, ksmserver tooltips, kdesktop transparency, improved offline browsing (httpslave) and some other small patches...

- The "fetch new wallpapers" button is available again in the desktop options. From now on we'll try not to modify KDE's functionality (more KISS ) and only add new features and execandy...

- kdemod-extra is now splitted into 2 seperate packages called kdemod-applets and kdemod-tools, and the baghira sidebar has been removed completely to solve dependency issues with baghira itself.

- added several new languages: kde-i18n-br, kde-i18n-ca, kde-i18n-cy, kde-i18n-eu, kde-i18n-he, kde-i18n-hi, kde-i18n-hu, kde-i18n-km, kde-i18n-ko, kde-i18n-nb, kde-i18n-sk, kde-i18n-sl, kde-i18n-sr, kde-i18n-uk, kde-i18n-vi

to check out the new stuff, just add (and keep the current kdemod entry) the following entry to your pacman.conf:

[kdemod-testing]
Server = http://kdemod.ath.cx/repo/testing/i686

Before updating, remove the kdemod-extra package, otherwise some strangeness will occur... If it does not work, just install the packages manually with pacman -S kdemod-testing/kdemod-kdebase kdemod-testing/kdemod-tools kdemod-testing/kdemod-applets (replace kdemod-kdebase with kdemod-kdebase-kickoff if you want to use it)

more follows later, we are quite busy right now

Last edited by funkyou (2007-06-13 18:54:24)

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Janax

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

Don't want to waste space here, but you guys are awesome!  Thanks for putting so much of your time and effort into making us all have it so easy!

vipernicus

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

artsd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0
[<c0159e43>] out_of_memory+0x173/0x1a0
[<c015b7cc>] __alloc_pages+0x29c/0x2f0
[<c015cfde>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x11e/0x270
[<f88f3400>] ext3_get_block+0x0/0x100 [ext3]
[<c0347ee2>] io_schedule+0x22/0x30
[<c03481ab>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x5b/0x70
[<c01564e0>] sync_page+0x0/0x40
[<c01564c3>] __lock_page+0x73/0x80
[<c0159006>] filemap_nopage+0x2d6/0x410
[<c0163a36>] __handle_mm_fault+0x136/0x8e0
[<c011f365>] do_page_fault+0x125/0x600
[<c011f240>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x600
[<c0349e9c>] error_code+0x7c/0x84
=======================

OOM-killer means that your machine ran out of memory and the kernel attempts to kill some processes to get some free. The oom-killer (out of memory - killer btw.) kills normally the programs that are most idle and where the chance to get free memory is big enough.

Please try to find your memory hog/leak with top before that happens. It may not be arts' fault here, because the kernel kills any program that is worth to be killed to get memory, it may even have killed some terminal or kdesktop or something else, it's completely random what it kills on a users perspective.

Please check if your swap partition is turned on correctly.

swap was on, and I had almost 600 megs of ram free at the time.

Last edited by vipernicus (2007-06-13 21:02:17)

funkyou

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

Argh, forgot something... If you want to use the testing stuff, be sure to place the testing repo above the current repo in pacman.conf...

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turing

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

I did a small update to the KDEmod-kdm-userlist. The System button is now at the right position and the "login failed" text also. I added a screenshot as well (also to the KDEmod-kdm theme). You can find the two files here: http://h0st.mine.nu/~pawlak/arch/0.2/

newgargamel

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

Looks good! You have my vote

funkyou

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

I did a small update to the KDEmod-kdm-userlist. The System button is now at the right position and the "login failed" text also. I added a screenshot as well (also to the KDEmod-kdm theme). You can find the two files here: http://h0st.mine.nu/~pawlak/arch/0.2/

Thanks turing I'll update kdebase with them

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_adam_

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Re: kdemod - a lightified and modular KDE + additional patches

hey guys. first off, thanks for all of your work on kdemod. it is really appreciated. second, i looked back a few pages but couldn't find it, what happened to the old kdemod wallpaper? the one with archlinux in the middle? can i still get it? i just updated and now my transparent terminals are unreadable.

Last edited by _adam_ (2007-06-14 17:00:36)