Questions tagged [kde4]

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What is the proper way to identify screen, plasmoid is running on?

Currently I'm developing KDE Plasma/Wallpaper plugin with D-Bus interface(small learning project). I have multi-monitor setup and would like to be able to address each D-Bus Plasma/Wallpaper instance independently(running on different monitors or…
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PyQt and Bespin (KDE style)

What tab widget decorate by Bespin Tabs? I tried QTabWidget, QTabBar, KTabWidget, KTabBar, bau no effect. What Im doing wrong? All KDE apps and SMPlayer decorate by Bespin, but acetoneiso and PyQt apps have regular tabs=( I mean this…
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Initial emacs position in KDE

I use emacs 23.1.1 with KDE 4.3.1. I have set (initial-frame-alist) and (default-frame-alist) to make my windows come up where I want. But my initial window does not come up where I want. My initial window comes up with one font, changes font,…
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Python - send KDE knotify message with cron job on linux?

I'm trying to send a notification to KDE's knotify from a cron job. The code below works fine but when I run it as a cron job the notification doesnt appear. #!/usr/bin/python2 import dbus import gobject album = "album" artist = "artist" title =…
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In Pyqt, how do I enable dragging/moving windows by the empty widget space?

Main Qt apps, and AFAIK most KDE apps let you drag windows around not just by their titlebar, but using any empty space on the window. For some reason, a basic Pyqt app like this doesn't appear to let you do that: from PyQt4.QtGui import * import…
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How to put an image from python to klipper?

Using python, one can read in an image: from PIL import Image, ImageTk image = Image.open("test.jpg") Then one can write to klipper in the following way: import dbus bus = dbus.SessionBus() proxy = bus.get_object("org.kde.klipper","/klipper") iface…
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Missing FindKDE4Internal.cmake module

I have trouble compiling KDE aurorae designer with the following error : ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in /home/user/.kde/share/apps;/usr/share/kde4/apps Apparently because I haven't this module FindKDE4Internal.cmake…
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change default service preference for application/xml global

Background: KDE4 global change application/xml (all users) For application xml in "services preference order" the default is that konqueror use "KHTML (khtml)" profile (see service preference order) on top in local provice file associations. But…
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parse ACDSee categories

How could one parse a xml-like string and convert it a separated list? I am trying to convert the following string: 6 Level 6.2 Level
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Screen resolution on KDE and Windows

I was developing a small application using Qt4 to get it cross-platform, but when I compared the result I found a really disturbing issue. On both Linux (KDE4) and Windows 7 my screen resolution is 1680 x 1050 but on KDE my application widgets are…
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Qt::Tool window diasappears when application become inactive

I have problem with keeping Qt::Tool window visible when the application becomes inactive. The application is running and there are 2 windows opened - main and additional with Qt::Tool flag set. When I open/switch to other app e.g Konosole the main…
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How to type Numpad Enter, if there's no such key on the keyboard?

I'm working with an ancient platform emulator, so sometimes I need to press Numpad Enter, but my notebook keyboard has no options for doing that. Is is possible to emulate Numpad Enter key somehow? I don't mind if the solution is clumsy.
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KDE for Windows (7): non-resizable dialogs

the problem: I have to use win7 currently, but I want to use Umbrello UML. Now I have installed the KDE for Windows port and the tool is running. But if there high dialogs poping up or other windows that are not resizeable it could happen that I do…
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"argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'"

I'm trying to use PyKDE, PyKDE.kdecore.KStandardDirs to be precise. This method is called with two strings according to the documentation and according to the PyQt4 documentation, I can use standard Python strs instead of QString. This doesn't…
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Use dolphin (or other browser) like yakuake

I often want to open a file browser to open a file and then close the browser. Is there a way (a plasmoid, a dolphin plugin, another browser...) which could allow me to have a file browser "in the style of" yakuake? (i.e. unfolding with a shortcut,…
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