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Re: [trinity-users] okular spew

From: William Morder <doctor_contendo@...>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 08:05:54 -0800

On Friday 08 March 2019 07:23:59 Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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
> >

> Cheers, Gene Heskett

You may be having problems with the servers due to an issue that was discussed 
by Slavek, et al., in an earlier thread. 

Something was said about using Trinity's servers rather than another; and I 
quote: 

>>  For now, you can use mirror on
> > http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity-sb instead of
> > http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb
> >
> > Cheers
> > --
> > Sl�vek

Bill