Questions tagged [kde4]
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Activating KDE 4 notifications from bash scripts
I have a bash script activated by crontab and running in background. I would like to add to it the ability to send notifications during the execution. My KDE 4 desktop has a fancy notification system which pops out non-modal messages from the tray…

Massimiliano Fliri
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Monodevelop 4.0 no codeview
I'm developing an application (http://sourceforge.net/projects/audiocuesheet/) and use fedora. Since the rpm for fedora is from monodevelop 2.8.x and I need the features of monodevelop 4.0. I downloaded the tarball and build monodevelop. It works…

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Run a script at unlock?
Hey, I'd like to get a shell script to run everytime I unlock my computer, on KDE 4. I learned that I could run one by overwriting /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/krunner_lock with a shell script doing its thing, then the original krunner_lock binary, and I'd…

Etienne Perot
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How to send a desktop notification in KDE from a daemon
I have a daemon (netplugd) which can take some actions when my cable is being plugged in or out. These actions can be defined via a bash script. How can I send a notification (as a different user) to my desktop (using bash) that will inform me about…

Victor Dodon
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Ruby, Qt and third party widgets
I'm learning Ruby and, for this, I'm writing an application in it. My background is in C++/Qt. So I've started writing a Ruby/Qt app.
But there's a few previously written widgets (C++) I would like to use, besides qwt.
Is this possible? If it is,…

Vitor Py
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Dual monitor different resolution
What is the correct way to configure a dual monitor environment with different screen resolutions?
I have very different font size in both screens and I can not find how to configure different dpi per monitor or whatever.
Thanks in advance!

John Fadria
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KDE install dirs
I'm trying to write correct CMakeLists.txt file for my new KDE project. However, I have some troubles with KDE install directories.
Part of my installation commands in cmake file looks like below:
INSTALL(TARGETS photolayoutseditoreffectplugin_blur…

Lukasz Spas
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Very frustrating problem with cmake
I am having a frustrating problem with cmake on windows. i have the kde libs installed.
when i am trying to compile my project with cmake . this shoots up again and again.
Found Qt-Version 4.7.0 (using C:/Qt/2010.05/qt/bin/qmake.exe)
CMake…

coolname007
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CMake error while linking
I'm quite new to CMake and I'm trying to use it to build a little KDE application. I've to use QTXml module, my program compile with no problem but during the linking phase, ld fail to find QXml components...
main.cpp
#include "test.h"
int main(int…

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Where do I store plasmoid's custom data?
I'm new to KDE development. I wrote a plasmoid that needs to store its data somewhere, namely - ical feeds need to be stored for offline usage.
While I could just write it to ~/.ical/ or some other location I would make up, I'd like to know what is…

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How do I create keyboard shortcuts programmatically in KDE?
I am able to create keyboard shortcuts for Ctrl-F1 and Ctrl-F2, making them launch a script, using the Control Center interface, Input Actions section. The platform of interest is KDE 3.5 on CentOS 5 at present, but 4.x is also of
less immediate…

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Library Error for Ruby/QT
Trying to create a QtRuby application, I get the following error:
/usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/Qt/qtruby4.rb:2144: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03) [x86_64-linux]
I am running a 64-bit version of Novell OpenSUSE 11 with DKE4 and Qt

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Gui for KDE and Gnome
I want to write a gui to an application that is now CLI that needs to "look good" in both KDE and Gnome DE's, taking optimal advantage of a users settings for appearance.
If I select Qt or GTK+ will I be able to do this?
Do they integrate well with…

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KDE: klipper action script
So KDE's clipboard manager - klipper - allows one to write a script to be applied to clipboard contents matching regexp. Say, I want klipper to download an image through bash script.
Here's a klipper QRegExp:
^http://.*\.(png|svg|gif|jpg|jpeg)
I…

Adobe
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How to change the library include path of a binary from bash?
I have a software properly installed on Kubuntu.
Now, I am patching and testing some of its libraries.
How can I start the software from bash so that it loads my patched libraries instead of the official libs?
e.g.:
the official libs are locate…

augustin
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