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Reasons

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Registered: 2007-11-04

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Kdemod

With a recent install of arch, I decided to give kdemod a try. The only things left that I haven't found via forums or google are
-change the screen brightness based on if it is using  battery power (Kpowersave isn't working. Maybe because klaptop is too?)
-Widgets. I know about gdesktlets and screenlets but isn't there something different to display amarok status and whatnot?
-Autostarted applications. Nothing is very descriptive on what to do. I got it working for compiz fusion but nothing else.
-Konqueror size at the start. I'd rather it be long than wide.
-Installing a KDM theme. I can see how to change it, but there is nothing for installing.

Thanks for any help.

Last edited by Reasons (2008-01-11 18:23:58)

lucke

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Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: Kdemod

Widgets - use superkaramba. Look for "themes" on kde-look.org.

Autostart - put a .desktop file, bash script or just a symbolic link to an app in ~/.kde/Autostart, e.g. "ln -s /opt/kde/bin/ktorrent ~/.kde/Autostart".

Konqueror - start Konqueror, set the size you want and use Save View Profile in Settings top menu.

KDM themes - "pacman -S kdmtheme", then go to KControl -> System Administration -> KDM Theme Manager.

Last edited by lucke (2008-01-11 18:34:26)

mcmillan

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Re: Kdemod

Change screen brightness - Install laptop-mode-tools and have add laptop-mode to your daemons in /etc/rc.conf

Reasons

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Re: Kdemod

Thanks, that actually covered everything a lot quicker than I thought it would. The only last thing I noticed while messing around was audio volume. In gnome under Ubuntu (if I remember right, it's been some time) it had a program that would run at start to adjust the audio volume. Does kde have one or will I have to use a script like I used to?

lucke

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Re: Kdemod

You can use kmix to set volume.

vogt

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 389

Re: Kdemod

To save and restore your volume levels at boot/shutdown, the daemon/script that pretends to be a daemon named alsa in /etc/rc.d/ does it.

Just add it to your /etc/rc.conf DAEMONS=(syslog-ng ....otherstuff.... alsa)

Reasons

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Re: Kdemod

For the autostart, would it be possible just to make a bash script in there and have it read like

#!/bin/bash
bindkeys &
xmodmap .Xmodmap &
exit

Last edited by Reasons (2008-01-12 06:16:14)

Reasons

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Re: Kdemod

Should have read the above post as it answered that last question. Now I'm running 64bit arch and went to install flash today which I've done a few times and the install goes just find. In firefox, flash works find. In konqueror it maxes out my cpu and never does load. I have told konqueror to look in ~/.mozilla/plugins.

hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: Kdemod

if you set up your keyboard model in kcontrol -> regional & accesibility -> keyboard layout, you can get your volume and multimedia keys working properly, latest flash version doesn't work properly in konqueror as of right now ...but it is being worked on.

Reasons

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Re: Kdemod

How long has it been since they started to fix it OR will it be fixed anytime soon?

mips1

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Registered: 2008-01-02

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Re: Kdemod

There is a workaround for the flash issue in the meantime if you want, http://mikearthur.co.uk/?p=171

Reasons

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Re: Kdemod

Thanks for that. It worked but all the videos and stuff are cut to the left side only.

mips1

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Re: Kdemod

I have not experienced that yet. What site, got a link?

Reasons

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Re: Kdemod

Youtube and myspace both. Anything flash does it. Could it be because I'm using arch 64?

This is what I put in the kkmplayerrc

[application/x-shockwave-flash]
player=npp
plugin=/home/shawn/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

EDIT - reading the comments says I need a 32bit kmplayer. Darn, I wan't to keep away from 32 as much as possible. How would I go about doing this? AUR?

Last edited by Reasons (2008-01-12 21:54:14)

mips1

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Re: Kdemod

[application/x-shockwave-flash]
player=npp
plugin=/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/libflashplayer.so

Is what I have, I just did a search for libflashplayer.so and found it installed in the above location. Then again I'm using i686 on my laptop.

The description for 64bit is below the main instructions but it does not make much sense to me. Maybe just email the author and then post here for the rest of us that need to do 64bit (like me).

Last edited by mips1 (2008-01-12 22:21:11)