On Friday 08 March 2019 09:15:16 William Morder wrote: > On Friday 08 March 2019 01:54:00 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 08 March 2019 00:18:11 David C. Rankin wrote: > > > On 03/01/2019 08:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings; > > > > > > > > After this mornings update, which refreshed about 25% of tde, I > > > > ran okular to check on the docs for something synaptic showed me > > > > in a changelog from linuxcnc, and got this spew in the terminal > > > > I ran okular from after I had rebooted: > > > > > > > > gene@GO704:~$ okular > > > > > > Gene, > > > > > > Okular was the KDE4 replacement to kpdf that had a number of > > > bugs. It is the pdf viewer in KDE5 (Plasma) -- it has gotten > > > better there, but.... > > > > > > none of that explains how its failure is related to TDE? I suspect > > > you have installed okular and it has pulled in its KDE4/Plasma > > > dependencies and -- how now fallen flat on it face (a routine > > > problem with KDE4/Plasma). > > > > And just one of the reasons I baled to TDE. :) > > > > > Additionally, it is based on Qt4/Frameworks in the various > > > versions, so there shouldn't be a Qt conflict. > > > > > > Changes in TDE should not affect okular and vice-versa (it would > > > be very strange if there was still a common library name being > > > used between the two -- and then your package manager should have > > > flagged it). > > > > > > Also note: > > > > > > kbuildsycoca4 running... > > > kbuildsycoca4(3570) KBuildSycoca::checkTimestamps: checking file > > > timestamps > > > kbuildsycoca4(3570) KBuildSycoca::checkTimestamps: timestamps > > > check ok kbuildsycoca4(3570) kdemain: Emitting > > > notifyDatabaseChanged () > > > > > > > > > kbuildsycoca4 is the KDE4 (KDE Build System Config Cache) > > > > And what do you call your equivalent to kbuildsycoca4? > > > > > I think you have a KDE4/Qt4 problem -- who would have thought... > > > Nuke it! > > > > But if you want a clean printout, okular is king. Telling evince to > > fit to page runs stuff off the top and bottom of the page, on a > > printer that claims to be borderless, but is perfect as a viewer. I > > haven't used kpdf enough to reach a conclusion on that point, but > > clicking on links within a document that point to another section of > > that same document does not work, so I wind up using okular or > > evince again, where IIRC it does, I think, thinker needs more > > caffeine this time of the morning as it just short of 5 am here. > > > > So to get this straight in my ancient head, which of the 3 is the > > TDE preferred pdf utility? > > > > > > In the list of pdf viewer/printers possible > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > KPDF is King! > !!!!!!! > Well now, if kpdf is king, why isn't it in my menus under office? Or anyplace else. I'm updating a whole bunch now, including a re-install of kpdf-trinity, but its fussing that its not authenticated. ????? And I see I'll have to reboot as twm-trinity is in the list. For some reason, logging out has done a hot reboot here for the last 2 years. And thats 15 minutes just getting everything restarted correctly once I log back in. > Bill > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>