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From KDE - KDE Software Compilation:
- The KDE Software Compilation grew out of the history of the KDE Project. In its inception, KDE was formed to create a beautiful, functional and free desktop computing environment for Linux and similar operating system. At the time, these systems lacked a graphical user environment that could rival the offerings from the larger proprietary operating system vendors. KDE was created to fill this gap.
- The KDE Software Compilation is the set of libraries, workspaces, and applications produced by KDE that share this common heritage, and continue to use the synchronized release cycle. Software may move in and out of this semi-formally defined collection depending on the particular needs of the contributors who are working on that software, with exceptions made to ensure that binary compatibility remains at the library level throughout any major release of the compilation.
From KDE - Getting KDE Software:
- KDE software consists of a large number of individual applications and a desktop workspace as a shell to run these applications. You can run KDE applications just fine on any desktop environment. KDE applications are built to integrate well with your system's components. By using also KDE workspace, you get even better integration of your applications with the working environment while lowering system resource needs.
- 1 Overview
- 2 Installation
- 3 Starting KDE
- 4 Configuration
- 4.1 Personalization
- 4.1.1 Plasma Desktop
- 4.1.2 Window Decorations
- 4.1.3 KDE 4 Theme Integration with GTK Applications
- 4.1.4 Icon Themes
- 4.1.5 Arch Linux Logo Icon in Kicker menu
- 4.1.6 Fonts
- 4.1.7 Space efficiency
- 4.2 Networking
- 4.3 Printing
- 4.4 Samba/Windows support
- 4.5 KDE Desktop Activities
- 4.6 Power Saving
- 4.7 Monitoring changes on local files and directories
- 4.1 Personalization
- 5 System Administration
- 6 Desktop Search and Semantic Desktop
- 7 Phonon
- 8 Useful Applications
- 9 Tips and tricks
- 9.1 Configure KWin to use OpenGL ES
- 9.2 Enabling thumbnails under Konqueror and Dolphin file managers
- 9.3 Hiding partitions
- 9.4 Konqueror Tips
- 9.5 Firefox integration
- 10 Troubleshooting
- 10.1 KDE4 does not finish loading
- 10.2 KDE and Qt programs look bad when in a different window manager
- 10.3 KHotkeys issue
- 10.4 Suspend to Disk/Ram not working
- 10.5 Graphical related issues
- 10.5.1 Low 2D desktop performance (or) Artifacts appear when on 2D
- 10.5.2 Konsole is slow in applications like vim
- 10.5.3 Low 3D desktop performance
- 10.5.4 Desktop compositing is disabled on my system with a modern Nvidia GPU
- 10.5.5 Flickering in fullscreen when compositing is enabled
- 10.6 Sound problems under KDE
- 10.7 Arch linux specific packaging issues
- 10.8 I wanted a minimal installation of KDE. After I installed some packages and logged in KDE, there are no panels
- 10.9 I want a fresh installation of KDE for my system. What should I do?
- 10.10 Plasma desktop behaves strangely
- 10.11 Konsole does not save commands' history
- 10.12 Kimpanel does not work with the IBus backend
- 10.13 KDE password prompts display three bullets per char
- 10.14 knotify4 process constantly uses CPU time
- 10.15 Nepomukserver process still autostart even with semantic desktop disabled
- 11 Other KDE projects
- 12 Bugs
- 13 External Links
KDE 4.8 Software Compilation is the current major release of KDE that includes a number of improvements and bug fixes. The new Arch package set for KDE makes it possible to only install those applications you like.
Important features of the Arch Linux KDE SC in short:
- Split packages; for more Information see KDE Packages and Splitting KDE.
- You can use different Phonon backends, like Gstreamer or VLC
- Meta packages ensure a smooth upgrade and emulate the old monolith packages for those who prefer them.
Important hints for upgraders:
- Always check if your mirror is up to date.
- pacman will ask you to replace all kde packages with kde-meta packages.
- Do not force an update. If pacman complains about conflicts please file a bug report.
- You can remove the meta packages and the sub packages you do not need after the update.
- If you do not like split packages just keep using the kde-meta packages.
Information about upstream changes is available here
KDE 4.x is modular. You can install an entire set of packages or only install your preferred KDE applications. See KDE Packages for more information.
Full install
There are two packages to choose from: kde and kde-meta. Learn about their difference in the KDE Packages article.
To install the entire KDE set, first fully upgrade your system:
# pacman -Syu
Install kde or kde-meta available in the Official Repositories. If you need language files, install
kde-l10n-yourlanguagehere e.g. kde-l10n-de for the German language.
Minimal install
If you want to have a minimal installation of the KDE SC, here is an example:
# pacman -S kdebase kde-l10n-yourlanguagehere phonon-vlc
You can choose phonon-gstreamer instead of phonon-vlc.
ttf-* package.
phonon-vlc already requires
ttf-freefonts, but when using
phonon-gstreamer you should add
ttf-dejavu or another too. For more information see FS#26012.
Starting KDE
Start the dbus daemon and add dbus to your DAEMONS array so it starts automatically on boot.
Starting KDE depends on your preferences. Basically there are two ways of starting KDE. Using KDM or xinitrc.
Using KDM (KDE Display Manager)
It is highly recommended to get familiar with the full article concerning display managers, before you make any changes. See also KDM Wiki page.
Starting KDM through /etc/inittab [recommended]
/etc/inittab and comment out:
#id:3:initdefault: [...] #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
Then uncomment:
id:5:initdefault: [...] x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
Starting KDM as a daemon
Add kdm to daemons array in
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus network crond ... kdm)
Using xinitrc
The meaning and usage of xinitrc is very well described here.
kdebase-workspace provides startkde. Make sure it is installed. Then edit
~/.xinitrc, uncomment:
exec ck-launch-session startkde
After a reboot or/and login, each execution of Xorg (startx or xinit) will start KDE automatically.
For other personalization options not covered below such as activities, different wallpapers on one cube, etc please refer to the Plasma wiki page.
How to set up the KDE desktop to your personal style; use different Plasma themes, window decorations and icon themes.
Plasma Desktop
Plasma is a desktop integration technology that provides many functions from displaying the wallpaper, adding widgets to the desktop, and handling the panels or "taskbar".
Plasma themes can be installed through the Desktop Settings control panel. Plasma themes define how your panels and plasmoids look like. If you like to have them installed system-wide, themes can be found in both the official repositories and AUR.
Plasmoids are little scripted or coded KDE apps that enhance the functionality of your desktop. There are two kinds, plasmoid scripts and plasmoid binaries.
Plasmoid binaries must be installed using PKGBUILDS from AUR. Or write your own PKGBUILD.
The easiest way to install plasmoid scripts is by right-clicking onto a panel or the desktop:
Add Widgets -> Get new Widgets -> Download Widgets
This will present a nice frontend for kde-look.org and allows you to (un)install or update third-party plasmoid scripts with just one click.
Most plasmoids are not created officially by KDE developers. You can also try installing Mac OS X widgets, Microsoft Windows Vista/7 widgets, Google Widgets, and even SuperKaramba widgets.
Window Decorations
Window decorations can be changed in
System Settings -> Workspace Appearance -> Window Decorations
There you can also directly download and install more themes with one click and some are available on AUR.
KDE 4 Theme Integration with GTK Applications
Please go to Uniform Look for QT and GTK Applications.
Icon Themes
Not many full system icons themes are available for KDE 4. You can open up System Settings > Application Appearance > Icons and browse for new ones or install them manually. Many of them can be found on kde-look.org.
Right click on the Kicker menu button, press Application launcher settings and then press the icon on the right. Then you may choose an Arch Linux icon or any other icon that will replace the default one.
Official logos, icons, CD labels and other artwork for Arch Linux are provided in the archlinux-artwork package. After installing you can find such artwork at
Fonts in KDE look poor
Try installing the ttf-dejavu and ttf-liberation packages.
After the installation, be sure to log out and back in. You should not have to modify any settings in the "Fonts" panel of the KDE System Settings application.
If you have personally set up how your Fonts render, be aware that System Settings may alter their appearance. When you go System Settings > Appearance > Fonts System Settings will likely alter your font configuration file (
There is no way to prevent this but if you set the values to match your
fonts.conf file the expected font rendering will return (it will require you to restart your application or in a few cases for you to have to restart your desktop).
Note too that Gnomes' Font Preferences will also do this if you use both desktop environments.
Fonts are huge or seems disproportional
Try to force fonts DPI to 96 on System Settings > Application Appearance > Fonts.
If it does not work try set DPI directly on Xorg configuration here.
Space efficiency
KDE is often criticized for being bloated.
The user might get this perception from seeing many toolbars and pretty big scaled icons in the applications. One thing that improved the situation was the new Kwin-Theme that came with KDE SC 4.4.* with the more elegant buttons that one can also resize. KDE Apps allows to hide many toolbars, menubars and statusbars.
All sorts of *bars
Most toolbars of a program can be removed in the menubar-entry "Settings". There you often can hide the statusbar and often all toolbars. The last step should be to remove the menubar itself via Ctrl + M.
If you do not want to remove any bars you can still make them smaller or remove the text via:
System Settings -> Application Appearance -> Style -> Fine Tuning -> (Main toolbar text / Secondary toolbar text)
Since most aspect ratios of modern flat screens are wider than 4:3 it could be reasonable to put the toolbar at the left or right of a window to artificially stretch windows more to the monitors aspect ratio.
There are also some settings and modifications you can apply to your plasmoids to make KDE less space wasting.
For example, the "Digital Clock" wastes more space than the "Analogue Clock". The little plasma icon ("Cashew") that one can see in the panel can be hidden by locking the widgets via rightclicking onto the panel.
If you have got many tasks in your task-manager you should consider using Icon Tasks.
This alternative task-manager allows you to just display the icons of a task thus using less space but still maintaining the ability of the user to distinguish the different tasks.
Since KDE 4.8, the old smoothtask plasmoid is in the kdeplasma-addons group, install it by typing:
# pacman -S kdeplasma-applets-icontasks
After installing and substituting it with the original task-manager you should have a deep look at the settings since they are much broader. One way of using the features of Icon Tasks could be to only display the icons of tasks and move the panel to the left or right of the screen. This is most useful on widescreens.
On very small screens it could be reasonable to set the bottom-panel to auto-hide completely.
For netbooks there is a special workspace, called Plasma Netbook, that makes better use of the screen:
System Settings -> Workspace Behavior -> Workspace -> Workspace Type
Windows decorations can also be resized by decreasing button size in the decoration thus making the whole top border smaller:
System Settings -> Workspace Appearance -> Window Decorations -> Configure Decoration... -> Button size
You could also remove the side-border of all windows via:
System Settings -> Workspace Appearance -> Window Decorations -> Configure Decoration... -> Border size
Menu Titles - To disable the menu titles in kmenu, just add the entry
ShowMenuTitles=false to the
[menus] section of
Menu Icon Size - To adjust the size of the icons in kmenu, just add the entry
MenuEntryHeight=X to the
[menus] section of
~/.kde4/share/config/kickerrc, where X is one of the available icon sizes of your theme (16,24,32 etc)
Two Rows Of Icons In The Systray - Just set your kicker height to 48 pixels manually. This is the smallest size where you still get two rows of icons in the systray.
NetworkManager support has been added in KDE SC. See NetworkManager for more information.
Also you can use wicd-kdeAUR.
The printers are configured in this way can be found in applications KDE.
You can also choose the printer configuration through System Settings -> Printer Configuration. To use this method, you must first install the packages kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde and cups.
You need to start the cupsd daemon first or you will get the following error:
The service 'Printer Configuration' does not provide an interface 'KCModule' with keyword 'system-config- printer-kde/system-config-printer-kde.py' The factory does not support creating components of the specified type.
If you are getting the following error:
There was an error during CUPS operation: 'cups-authorization-canceled'
This means you need to give the user rights to manage printers.
For CUPS, this is set in
Adding lp to SystemGroup allows anyone who can print to configure printers. You can, of course, add another group than lp.
# Administrator user group... SystemGroup sys root lp
Samba/Windows support
If you want to have access to Windows services install Samba (package samba).
You may then configure your Samba shares through
System Settings -> Sharing -> Samba
KDE Desktop Activities
KDE Desktop Activities are Plasma based "virtual desktop"-like set of Plasma Widgets where you can independently configure widgets as if you had more than one screens/desktops.
On your desktop, click the Cashew Plasmoid and on the pop-up window press "Activities".
A plasma bar will appear at the bottom of the screen which presents you the current Plasma Desktop Activities which exist. You can then navigate between them by pressing their correspondent icon.
Power Saving
KDE has an integrated power saving service called "Powerdevil Power Management" that may adjust the power saving profile of the system and/or the brightness of the screen (if supported).
How to enable Cpufreq based power saving
Since KDE 4.6, CPU frequency scaling is no longer managed by KDE. Instead it is assumed to be handled automatically by the the hardware and/or kernel. While some distributions use the
ondemand cpufreq governor by default, Arch does not.
As a prerequisite to the following, you should carefully read through the wiki article on cpufreq and ensure that the appropriate kernel modules are loaded. If you are happy with setting your governor once at boot (with the
cpufreq daemon script, for example) then this section is not relevant and can be skipped.
1. If you have not already done so, install the cpufrequtils package (for the cpufreq-set utility).
2. Next, you will need to grant access to cpufreq-set for the appropriate users by configuring sudo. For example, if you are part of the wheel group, you could use
visudo to add
%wheel ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cpufreq-set
to your
sudoers file.
3. From System Settings > Power Management > Power Profiles select a profile to edit or create a new one. Check the Run Script option and add an appropriate
cpufreq-set command for the selected power profile. For example, your "Powersave" profile might have:
sudo cpufreq-set -r -g ondemand
Your "Performance" profile might have
sudo cpufreq-set -r -g performance
For some CPU families the
-r switch may not set the governor for all cores/cpus and instead only set the governor for CPU 0. In this case you will need to write a script to iterate through all your cores. A simple script for a four core system could look like:
#!/bin/bash for i in {0..3}; do sudo /usr/bin/cpufreq-set -c${i} -gondemand done
cpufreq-info -o or less intuitively by inspecting
Monitoring changes on local files and directories
KDE now uses inotify directly from the kernel with kdirwatch (included in kdelibs), so Gamin or FAM are no longer needed. You may want to install this kdirwatchAUR from AUR which is a GUI frontend for kdirwatch.
System Administration
Set keyboard layout in order switch language inputs
In order to do that, navigate to
System Settings > Hardware > Input Devices > Keyboard
There you may choose your keyboard model at first.
In the "Layouts" tab, you choose the languages you may want to use by pressing the "Add Layout" button and therefore the variant and the language. In the "Advanced" tab, you can choose the keyboard combination you want in order to change the layouts in the "Key(s) to change layout" sub-menu.
Terminate Xorg-server through KDE system settings
Navigate to
System Settings -> Input Devices -> Keyboard -> Advanced (tab) > "Key Sequence to kill the X server" submenu
and tick the checkbox.
Useful KCM
KCM means KConfig Module. This modules help you to configure you system providing a interface on System Settings.
Configuration for look&feel of your GTK apps.
Configuration for the GRUB2 bootloader.
- grub2-editorAUR
- kcm-grub2AUR
Configuration for Synaptics driver based touchpads.
- synaptiksAUR
- kcm_touchpadAUR
Configuration for main system config file rc.conf.
Configuration for UFW
- kcm-ufwAUR
Configuration for Policy Kit
Configuration for Wacom Tablet
More KCM can be found here.
Desktop Search and Semantic Desktop
Most users who freshly install KDE are wondering what functionality the following four pieces of software are able to offer. Most features are still somehow hidden under the hood and yet not many applications featured in the KDE SC are using these interfaces. This chapter intends to first explain the features and then convince the user of the power these tools offer once properly integrated into KDE. The following sections are more or less a roughly shortened version of this blogpost.
Soprano is a library for QT that is able to process RDF data. This is semantic data. Semantic data is a special kind of metadata which is much more flexible than metadata you might know from MP3-Tags or Meta-Tags in HTML since RDF data more resembles the structure of a spoken sentence, thus allowing a much wider field of ways dealing with them. Soprano stores semantic data in a backend and allows low level access to this data.
Nepomuk is somehow the glue between Soprano and the KDE Desktop and thus the user. Nepomuk allows to tag the files with various entries and offers an API for the applications featured in KDE SC. It is enabled by default. Nepomuk can be turned on and off in
System Settings -> Desktop Search
Nepomuk has to keep the trace of a lot of files, because of that is recommended to increase the number of files that can be watched with inotify, to do that:
sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
To do it persistant:
echo "fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
And restart Nepomuk.
Akonadi is one of the ways of getting data into Nepomuk. Its intention is to gather all kinds of PIM data from KMail, KAdressbook or Kopete. It collects chat contacts, email addresses, email attachments and email contents. First of all it feeds Nepomuk with this data but moreover it provides a centralized access point for all this data.
Disabling Akonadi
If you do not want Akonadi to be ran in your system (for your own reasons), edit
~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc and turn
And then relogin into your account.
Configuring Akonadi to use MySQL Server running on the System
First, you need to set up the database using the following commands (replace password with the correct one):
CREATE DATABASE akonadi; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON akonadi.* TO 'akonadiuser' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
~/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf does not exist then
cp /usr/share/config/akonadi/mysql-global.conf ~/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf
and uncomment the following line
Then edit
[%General] Driver=QMYSQL [QMYSQL] Name=akonadi Host=localhost ServerPath=/usr/bin/mysqld StartServer=false User=akonadiuser Password=<password> Options= [Debug] Tracer=null
Restart the Akonadi server with:
akonadictl restart
Configuring Akonadi to use sqlite
According to the kdepim FAQ, sqlite doesn't work too well under load, but according to several users, it gives much better performance than the alternatives.
First stop Akonadi:
akonadictl stop
Change the Driver-line in
~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc to the following:
[%General] Driver=QSQLITE3
Then start Akonadi again:
akonadictl start
Strigi Search
Strigi is another way of feeding data into Nepomuk. It preferably indexes the users home-folder. Indexing means that it not only gathers filenames but also information about your music collection or tagged downloads you did with Kget. The Strigi search is also integrated into KDEs launcher which can be accessed via: Template:Keypress + Template:Keypress
By default, Dolphin has a search bar on top-right where you may type what you want to be found from Strigi's index.
Strigi folder indexing can be configured in:
System Settings -> Desktop Search -> Desktop Query -> Customize index folders…
What is Phonon?
Phonon is the multimedia API for KDE 4. Phonon was created to allow KDE 4 to be independent of any single multimedia framework such as GStreamer or xine and to provide a stable API for KDE 4's lifetime. It was done for various reasons: to create a simple KDE/Qt style multimedia API, to better support native multimedia frameworks on Windows and Mac OS X, and to fix problems of frameworks becoming unmaintained or having API or ABI instability.
from Wikipedia.
Phonon is being widely used within KDE, for both audio (e.g., the System notifications or KDE audio apps) and video (e.g., the Dolphin video thumbnails).
Which backend should I choose?
You can choose between various backends, like GStreamer (phonon-gstreamer), VLC (phonon-vlc), Xine in [unsupported] (phonon-xineAUR) or even MPlayer in [unsupported] (phonon-mplayerAUR). Most users will want GStreamer or VLC which have the best upstream support. Note that multiple backends can be installed at once and you can switch between them via System Settings -> Multimedia -> Phonon -> Backend.
According to announce of KDE 4.6 in Arch and mail in Phonon dev list:
"Phonon Xine is not maintained and thus will not see releases."
"This intial preference currently rates GStreamer highest, followed by VLC as there is some feature difference."
Useful Applications
This application provides a Quake-like terminal emulator, which is toggled visible using the F12 key. It also has support for multiple tabs. YaKuake can be installed by package yakuake.
A new project, known as Real-Time Communication and Collaboration, has been started in KDE. The goal is to integrate Instant Messaging clients with the desktop systems.
At the moment things are in progress and miss some features, but a very base communication system is ready.
To install all Telepathy protocols install the telepathy group. To use the Telepathy KDE client, install the telepathy-kde group.
Tips and tricks
Configure KWin to use OpenGL ES
Starting with kdebase-workspace 4.8 kwin offers the possibility to use the OpenGL ES 2.0 backend for displaying a composited desktop. In some cases the OpenGL ES backend is faster than the standard OpenGL backend. If you want kwin to use the OpenGL ES backend you have to create the following file:
[Desktop Entry] Name=KWin GLES Exec=kwin_gles TryExec=kwin_gles X-KDE-WindowManagerConfigure=systemsettings X-KDE-WindowManagerRestartArgument=--replace
After you have created the file you can change the windows manager in the system settings. Open System Settings, go to Window Manager, select Use a different window manager: and select KWin GLES.
Enabling thumbnails under Konqueror and Dolphin file managers
For thumbnails of videos in konqueror and dolphin install kdemultimedia-mplayerthumbs or kdemultimedia-ffmpegthumbs.
Hiding partitions
If you wish to prevent your internal partitions from appearing in your file manager, you can create an udev rule, for example
KERNEL=="sda[0-9]", ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"
The same thing for a certain partition:
KERNEL=="sda1", ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1" KERNEL=="sda2", ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"
Konqueror Tips
Disabling Smart Key Tooltips (Browser)
To disable those smart key tooltips in Konqueror (pressing STRG on a web page), open
~/.kde4/share/config/konquerorrc and add this section:
[Access Keys] Enabled=false
Disabling The Sidebar Tab (Filemanager)
To disable this small sidebar tab on the left side, open
~/.kde4/share/config/konqsidebartng.rc and set
HideTabs to
Get A Finder-Like Look (Filemanager)
Just install the Baghira SidebarTemplate:Linkrot (maybe kdestyle-baghiraAUR now?) for Konqueror to get a nice clean finder look.
Using WebKit
WebKit is an open source browser engine developed by Apple Inc. It is a derivative from the KHTML and KJS libraries and contain many improvements. WebKit is used by Safari, Google Chrome and rekonq.
It is possible to use WebKit in Konqueror instead of KHTML. First install the kwebkitpart package.
Then, after executing Konqueror, press Settings > Configure Konqueror.
On the "General" submenu, select the "WebKit" as the "Default web browser engine".
Firefox integration
See Firefox#Firefox_with_better_KDE_integration.
KDE4 does not finish loading
There might be a situation in which the graphic driver might create a conflict when starting KDE4. This situation happens after the login but before finishing loading the desktop, making the user wait indefinitely at the loading screen. Until now the only users confirmed to be affected by this are the ones that use Nvidia drivers and KDE4.
A solution for Nvidia users is to edit the file at
/home/user/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc and change the option Enabled=true to false in the [Compositing] section. For more information look at this thread: [1].
KDE and Qt programs look bad when in a different window manager
If you are using KDE or Qt programs but not in a full KDE session (specifically, you did not run "startkde"), then as of KDE 4.6.1 you will need to tell Qt how to find KDE's styles (Oxygen, QtCurve etc.)
You just need to set the environment variable QT_PLUGIN_PATH. E.g. put
export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/.kde4/lib/kde4/plugins/:/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/
into your
/etc/profile (or
~/.profile if you do not have root access). qtconfig should then be able to find your kde styles and everything should look nice again!
Alternatively, you can symlink the Qt styles directory to the KDE styles one:
# ln -s /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/styles/ /usr/lib/qt/plugins/styles
KHotkeys issue
Ιf khotkeys does not work, make sure you have a fully updated system first.
You can also create
~/.kde4/Autostart/reloadkhotkeys.sh with contents
#!/bin/bash (sleep 3 && qdbus org.kde.kded /modules/khotkeys reread_configuration) &
and then do a
chmod u+x ~/.kde4/Autostart/reloadkhotkeys.sh
then logout & login.
Suspend to Disk/Ram not working
If you are starting KDE with startx try adding ck-launch-session to the
as so:
#!/bin/sh # # ~/.xinitrc # # Executed by startx (run your window manager from here) # exec gnome-session exec ck-launch-session startkde # exec startxfce4 # ...or the Window Manager of your choice
This is done automatically with KDM.
Low 2D desktop performance (or) Artifacts appear when on 2D
GPU driver problem
Make sure you have the proper driver for your card installed, so that your desktop is at least 2D accelerated. Follow these articles for more information: ATI, NVIDIA, Intel for more information, in order to make sure that everything is all right. The open-source ATI and Intel drivers and the proprietary (binary) Nvidia driver should theoretically provide the best 2D and 3D acceleration.
The Raster engine workaround
If this does not solve your problems, maybe your driver does not provide a good XRender acceleration which the current Qt painter engine relies on by default.
You can change the painter engine to software based only by invoking the application with the "-graphicssystem raster" command line. This rendering engine can be set as the default one by recompiling Qt with the same as configure option, "-graphicssystem raster".
The raster paint engine enables the CPU to do the majority of the painting, as opposed to the GPU. You may get better performance, depending on your system. This is basically a work-around for the terrible Linux driver stack, since the CPU should obviously not be doing graphical computations since it is designed for fewer threads of greater complexity, as opposed to the GPU which is many threads but lesser computational strength. So, only use Raster engine if you are having problems or your GPU is much slower than you CPU, otherwise is better to use XRender.
Since Qt 4.7+, recompiling Qt is not needed. Simply export QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=raster, or "opengl", or "native" (for the default). Raster depends on the CPU, OpenGL depends on the GPU and high driver support (it is buggy and highly in development, so I would not expect it to work), and Native is just using the X11 rendering (mixture, usually).
The best and automatic way to do that is to install kcm-qt-graphicssystemAUR from AUR and configure this particular Qt setting through
System Settings > Qt Graphics System
For more information, consult this KDE Developer blog entry and/or this Qt Developer blog entry.
Konsole is slow in applications like vim
This is a problem that is caused by slow glyph rendering. You can solve this by switching to a scalable font like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
Low 3D desktop performance
KDE begins with desktop effects enabled. Older cards may be insufficient for 3D desktop acceleration. You can disable desktop effects in
System Settings -> Desktop Effects
or you can toggle desktop effects with Template:Keypress + Template:Keypress + Template:Keypress
Desktop compositing is disabled on my system with a modern Nvidia GPU
Sometimes, KWin may have settings in its configuration file (kwinrc) that may cause a problem on re-activating the 3D desktop OpenGL compositing. That could be caused randomly (for example, due to a sudden Xorg crash or restart, and it gets corrupted), so, in case that happens, delete your
~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc file and relogin. The KWin settings will turn to the KDE default ones and the problem should be probably gone.
Flickering in fullscreen when compositing is enabled
As of KDE SC 4.6.0, there is an option in systemsettings -> Desktop Effect -> Advanced -> "Suspend desktop effects for fullscreen windows" Uncheck it would tell kwin to disable unredirect fullscren.
Sound problems under KDE
"Falling back to default" messages when trying to listen to any sound in KDE
When you encounter such messages:
- The audio playback device <name-of-the-sound-device> does not work.
- Falling back to default
Go to
System Settings -> Multimedia -> Phonon
and set the device named "default" above all the other devices in each box you see.
I cannot play mp3 files when using the GStreamer Phonon backend
That can be solved by installing the GStreamer plugins (package gstreamer0.10-plugins. If you still encounter problems, you can try changing the Phonon backend used by installing another such as phonon-vlc. Then make sure the backend is perfered via:
System Settings -> Multimedia -> Phonon -> Backend (tab)
If you have OSS4 installed and encounter any problems you should be aware that developers of Kmix are still integrating OSSv4 support. There is an kdemultimedia-kmix-oss-svnAUR that is still experimental.
Arch linux specific packaging issues
Due to some upgrades on the packages or a newer versioned pacman with bugs (pft, like there are any ;) there could be some problems during upgrading. Please read the sections below, if you have a problem.
I wanted a minimal installation of KDE. After I installed some packages and logged in KDE, there are no panels
If you wanted a minimal installation of KDE, logged in, heard the login sound but nothing else happened, you may not have installed the Plasma binaries which are included in kdebase-workspace. Install this package and restart Xorg.
I want a fresh installation of KDE for my system. What should I do?
Just rename the settings directory of KDE (just in case you will want to go back to your original settings):
mv ~/.kde4 ~/.kde4-backup
Plasma desktop behaves strangely
Plasma issues are usually caused by unstable plasmoids or plasma themes. First, find which was the last plasmoid or plasma theme you had installed and disable it or uninstall it.
So, if your desktop suddenly exhibits "locking up", this is likely caused by a faulty installed widget. If you cannot remember which widget you installed before the problem began(sometimes it can be an irregular problem), try to track it down by removing each widget until the problem ceases. Then you can uninstall the widget, and file a bug report (bugs.kde.org) only if it is an official widget. If it is not, I recommend you find the entry on kde-look.org and inform the developer of that widget about the issue (detailing steps to reproduce, etc).
If you cannot find the problem, but you do not want all the KDE settings to be lost, do:
rm -r ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma*
This command will delete all plasma related configs of your user and when you will relogin into KDE, you will have the default settings back. You should know that this action cannot be undone. You ought to create a backup folder and copy all the plasma related configs in it.
Konsole does not save commands' history
By default console commands' history is saved only when you type 'exit' in console. When you close Konsole with 'x' in the corner it does not happen. To enable autosaving after every command execution you should add following lines into your .bashrc
shopt -s histappend [[ "${PROMPT_COMMAND}" ]] && PROMPT_COMMAND="$PROMPT_COMMAND;history -a" || PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a"
Kimpanel does not work with the IBus backend
There is a bug (FS#19580) with current Arch kimpanel packaging. See IBus#Kimpanel for a workaround.
KDE password prompts display three bullets per char
You can change it under System Settings > Account Details. At Password & User Account the options are:
- Show one bullet for each letter
- Show three bullets for each letter
- Show nothing
knotify4 process constantly uses CPU time
It is a bug with Gstreamer phonon back-end. Try changing to VLC phonon on System Settings > Multimedia > Phonon > Backend. If this is not in the list, install it (package phonon-vlc).
If you do not want change the back-end you can try use an external player to play the sound systems. First install mplayer, vlc or any other sound player.
Go to System Settings > Application and System Notifications > Manage Notifications > Player Settings and change to Use an external player putting the path of your preferred sound player.
Nepomukserver process still autostart even with semantic desktop disabled
Go to System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Service Manager > Startup Services and uncheck the Nepomuk Search Module.
Other KDE projects
KDE unstable (snapshot)
kde-snapshots (unofficial)
The member Zolnierz is maintaining a repo where he uploads development snapshots of KDE packages. You may visit this topic for more information.
Semi-official kde-unstable
When KDE is reaching beta or RC milestone, KDE "unstable" packages are uploaded to the [kde-unstable] repo.
You may add it by adding:
[kde-unstable] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
They stay there until KDE is declared stable and passes to [extra].
Make sure you make bug reports if you find any issues.
Read this section in the wiki as well.
KDE Legacy
Along with the official KDE4, the KDE3 code "lives" under the fork project called "Trinity".
Unofficial community repository for KDE 3
From the release of KDE 4.x, the developers dropped support for KDE 3.5.x. Nevertheless you can still use KDE 3.5.x through a project called kdemod3 In this thread. The current rebuild of the unsupported KDEmod3 is based on the Trinity project code (KDE 3.5.12). See Trinity on Arch Linux below.
Trinity Desktop Environment is a fork of KDE3 developed by Timothy Pearson (trinitydesktop.org). This project aims to keep the KDE3.5 computing style alive, as well as polish off any rough edges that were present as of KDE 3.5.10. See Trinity for more info.
Chakra Project KDEmod
The Chakra Project KDEmod (for KDE4) is no longer active and the current Chakra Project's KDE is no longer compatible with Archlinux packages and repos.
If you have installed KDEmod (for KDE4), please remove it and install KDE SC from the official Archlinux repos.
Distro and Upstream bug report
It is preferrable that if you find a minor or serious bug, you should visit the Arch Bug Tracker or/and KDE Bug Tracker in order to report that. Make sure that you be clear on what you want to report.
If you have any issue and you write about in on the Arch forums, first make sure that you have FULLY updated your system using a good sync mirror (check here) or try Reflector.
KDE 4 config files are usually located at
and for app-specific configs


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Buy it once, use the pirated copy thereafter. After all you're purchasing a "license" and a "service" not a product, so all that matters is the license.
Buy it once, use the pirated copy thereafter. After all you're purchasing a "license" and a "service" not a product, so all that matters is the license.
I don't understand why you would pay for DRM-infested products, if you don't even intend to use them after purchase. What you are effectively doing there is rewarding the company for making user-unfriendly products. It might seem the "moral" thing to do, but it really just enables the company to remain "immoral" and continue with their anti-consumer policies.
Did you notice that whooshing noise?
I completely disagree. Buying an item you don't intend to actually use is sending the wrong message. You're rewarding the book publishers for their insane DRM when you should be discouraging them.
Finding pirated books can be a pain in the ass. If they're going to force me to spend time looking for a copy with bad proofreading and odd line-breaks, I'm going to ask for a refund on the money I spent on the book. Or better yet, just not spend it in the first place. Its not that I'm unwilling to buy ebooks, its that I value my time and spending 10-60 minutes looking through various websites/peer to peer applications is more valuable to me than the cost of the book in the first place.
And for the record, I've spent just under $1000 at Baen's online store over the last 3 years, because the books there are unencumbered by DRM and are easy to find and buy. I'm more than willing to buy books if I'm given a fair deal. It just seems that a lot of book publishers are so scared by the piracy boogieman that they piss off their real customers.
(I am not the GP). Many books I am interested in reading, don't have a decent "downloable version" on PirateBay. The lack of a decent non-DRM service does hurt.
I have a ebook reader (Hanlin v3), and I am also at point in my life where I have the surplus income to buy all books I want without problems. I could and would pay for books for it. The books I want are not in PirateBay, or just have crappy scanned copies.
Specially when going on vacations, I would really rather the Hanlin than 10 dead-tree books. E
Buy it once, use the pirated copy thereafter. After all you're purchasing a "license" and a "service" not a product, so all that matters is the license.
Jamie Thomas just got fined $1.9M for having files on her computer that were never proven to be shared with anyone unauthorized (MediaSentry is a fully authorized download) and owned all the CD's of the songs in question. So just what did she purchase?
19 plastic disc's.
Better yet - buy it once [webscription.net], download in HTML or other format and read as much as you like.
There are people who get it.
Unfortunately, this isn't really correct. The way the copyright law is written, you're not buying a license, you're buying a copy. This has several implications. The first is that you don't necessarily have the right to duplicate it onto your portable player, you car mp3 player, etc. Although most people suspect that the courts would rule this to be fair use, this has never been established. If the music were licensed, it would say specifically whether or not this were allowed and would most likely have to allow it to get consumers to buy it. The second is that you don't have to destroy copies upon transfer of ownership. So when you sell your mp3 player, you don't have to erase it. Or if you make a copy of something to discuss it in class (education and critical fair use) you aren't required to destroy it once you're done discussing it.
Now, what's been happening is that the media companies (RIAA, MPAA, BSA) don't like the second implication of this. So they tell people that they aren't buying a copy, but only a license. This is nonsense. You don't need a license to read a book you've bought and you don't need a license to play an mp3 you bought. If you went to the grocer and he told you he was selling you a license to eat an apple and then handed you an apple, you'd correctly assume that he was being silly and just consider yourself the owner of the apple. This is the same thing which is happening with digital music files. They may say "I'm selling you a license", but what they've actually given you is a copy. You own that copy. It's fixed on your hard-drive, which you own. They may in some cases argue that they can attach a license to that purchase to restrict what you can do with your copy, but they're selling you a copy, not a license.
That's exactly my point, hence the "quotes" on license. They're basically selling bullshit by trying to take responsibility for a product but all the rights of a license.
DRM has not been implemented correctly to date.
The idea is almost zen. How to screw the user yet not screw the user?
The idea is almost zen. How to screw the user yet not screw the user?
and the Koan Master replied, "zorro."
The idea is almost zen. How to screw the user yet not screw the user?
very gently
Squirt them.
He won't.
It works when he buys it, so he buys it. When it stops working, he gets angry, but that doesn't stop him. He will buy the next DRMified content because, hey, it's working. Maybe from another vender ("because I'll NEVER buy with those again, they ripped me off!"), but that doesn't mean he won't buy with someone else.
You mean that totally 100% DRM free music service?
If you gotta buy digital books or music, don't fall for any DRM scheme. Here's an example that even the biggest digital retailers can't get it right. I await a flawless DRM that will work on multiple pieces of hardware--hardware that I choose! I fear I will be waiting for quite some time
Collectively, we generally don't appreciate and value what you describe there. The minority who does is probably small enough to be marginalized, though it does appear to be growing. That's the reason why (at least in the USA) it's so difficult to use any cellphone with any carrier's network, or why the most widely-used office software doesn't actively try to produce documents in a format that any other office software can use. There are many other examples.
And please, I'm sick of responses to my posts with some snide remark that you don't have DRM and yours is free with a link to the Pirate Bay. It's getting old. I want to support the content providers but I don't want to give up or inhibit my rights to access that content.
Just as you have your frustrations with that, the phenomenon itself is born of a frustration with the media companies and their refusal to work with us instead of against us. That refusal is why the very interoperability you describe is not the norm. I will neither defend nor condemn piracy, but I will say that it sums up to a "fuck them then" sort of reaction that, from the perspective of human nature, is rather understandable or at least predictable. The media companies seriously believe that they can view their customers as a resource that they may take for granted, like so much lumber or iron ore.
They believe they can do so with impunity, and if not for piracy, they would mostly be correct. Again I am not going to say whether it's right or wrong, only that the very companies which complain about piracy have done much to set the stage for it and to create the ill will that makes people feel justified when they infringe these copyrights. No one does anything unless they believe, verily or falsely, that it is the right thing to do, or at least that it is wrong but either justifiable or serves some kind of greater good. Those snide remarks you mention come from this sense of feeling justified, though of course there are better expressions of the same sentiment.
I pretty much agree. I don't see anything wrong with piracy against the very companies that bought the law that made it a crime. Buying the law was, itself, corruption, so they don't deserve ANY profits as a result of it.
OTOH, I consider it a reckless lifestyle choice. I'd prefer to just not purchase anything that supports DRM. So I don't. I've also stopped going to movies. I've also stopped buying music CDs. (Except from local bands without contracts with the RIAA or any member company.) And my software CDs are Linux & GPL (plus the occasional GPL compatibly licensed software). I made this choice before the DMCA was passed, though I'll admit that that reconfirmed my decision. (The Sonny-Bono copyright extension act was part of my reason. The rest came from reading the MS EULA for either Windows2000 or Office2000 at work. [My reaction to it was "This is a suicide note for any business that signs it!". The company lawyer's attitude was "No court will uphold this". He wouldn't realize that MS was capable of enforcing the EULA via technical measures, and that this was only to make their actions legal.])
DRM has not been implemented correctly to date.
Are you crazy?
There IS no correct implementation of DRM.
When a manufacturer puts DRM into a device, it means they want to control the device even when they no longer own it. And that means that at best, you're renting the device with a one time charge that they call a "purchase"... at worst, they're just laughing at you behind your back because you gave them money for nothing.
I have a Kindle, and on occasion I even buy books from the Amazon store (Note: Amazon: Please make sure Kindle price tracks book price. Knowing that Kindle price is less than hardcover (10$ vs. 30$) means nothing at all once the paperback is out at 1/2 to 2/3 the Kindle price.
The books I do buy from Amazon, I strip the DRM and use the stripped copy thereafter. I also archive all my books to a NAS with redundancy, and I burn a DVDR of all my books once a year. It works very well, my digital books are probabl
While you might hope that your iTunes or Kindle--being a popular product--will have flawless DRM that will not inhibit you, this is simply not the case.
I think iTunes current music DRM is pretty much flawless.
But then I have all my music in a format which can be read pretty much anywhere.
Honestly, if you don't like it, nobody's forcing you to buy a zune or kindle. Boycotts are the only way these companies are gonna learn that customers won't tolerate DRM.
The possibility that concerns me is the other way that companies could handle that realization. They could design a DRM system that is generous on all counts, such that the average person has no pragmatic or material objection to its restrictions. This would make its adoption by customers much more widespread and would present the very convincing illusion of nullifying the arguments against DRM. Certainly it would nullify the reasons against it which are not rooted in principle. Effectively, that would
I have no problem with DRM until it stops me from being able to use my media legally as I see fit. If a DRM scheme somehow prevented me from giving a file to my friends, but let me listen to the song on my ipod, Sansa, or Zune as I wished, that'd be perfectly okay. I don't mind buying products/services/licenses. The DRM that is demonized is the DRM that preemptively treats you like a criminal and unfairly restricts your usage of a PRODUCT THAT YOU PAID FOR THE USAGE OF.
Your post makes it sound like DRM is b
"Your post makes it sound like DRM is bad."
DRM _IS_ bad because there's no way to allow me to use media I purchase in any way I choose (e.g ripping DVDs to my MythTV server) while preventing me from giving those files to someone else.
DRM simply cannot be 'implemented properly', because it's broken by design; either I control my use of purchased media or the IP Robber Barons do... there's no middle ground.
Any effective DRM will cripple my use of media so much that I simply won't buy it. For example, I would have bought a few hundred Blu-Ray disks by now if it weren't for the DRM... if it's cracked to the point where I can use those disks as easily as DVDs, then I'll start buying them, but not until then.
I have no problem with DRM until it stops me from being able to use my media legally as I see fit. If a DRM scheme somehow prevented me from giving a file to my friends, but let me listen to the song on my ipod, Sansa, or Zune as I wished, that'd be perfectly okay. I don't mind buying products/services/licenses. The DRM that is demonized is the DRM that preemptively treats you like a criminal and unfairly restricts your usage of a PRODUCT THAT YOU PAID FOR THE USAGE OF.
Your post makes it sound like DRM is bad. BAD DRM is bad. Whether or not it can be effectively implemented is another issue; I know you couldn't magically detect the difference between a new media player and a friend's thumb drive.
All DRM is in fact bad because all DRM carries the assumption that you are incapable of doing the right thing and thus, must be actively prevented from doing the wrong thing. A DRM scheme that prevents you from giving a file to your friends is treating you like a criminal because the assumption behind it is that you WOULD give it to your friends -- they are so certain that you would do this, that they paid programmers to design a system to prevent it. To say that this restriction doesn't bother you because you wouldn't do that anyway misses the point. The point is that your morality means absolutely nothing if you have no ability to be immoral. To support any form of DRM is akin to saying that they are right to treat their customers in this adversarial, dehumanizing fashion.
DRM is power. It's power to control markets, to micromanage customers, to dictate obsolescence, and to hold content hostage. It's a power that comes with no concept of due process or innocent until proven guilty. It's a power that is "justified" by the fact that media companies have chosen not to create a business model suitable for the Information Age, which is no justification at all. It's a power that was not given to the companies willingly, but rather was one that they have taken for themselves. It was born not of overwhelming customer demand, but rather, a desire to control.
DRM is also a sad alternative to restoring the balance that once existed between the temporary monopoly granted by copyright and the benefit of society. Copyright was once only twelve years in duration, and this was when a mechanical printing press was the most technologically advanced method of distribution. We now have the ability to create and sell many more copies of a work in twelve years than we ever could have done before, yet copyright now has a ridiculous duration that has no concept of balance. It is plainly evident that you are dealing with people who are never going to be satisfied, for whom enough is never going to be enough.
The reason why so many no longer respect copyright is because it is no longer respectable. Those who choose to respect it anyway give it a benefit of doubt that the media companies are not willing to extend to their customers. Restoring the balance that once existed could create a world where people again respect copyright because they can see that it is reasonable and good. Such people would not want to infringe it, and thus, would need no restraints to prevent them from doing so. The fact that this simple, self-evident truth is so hard for so many to imagine is evidence enough that we have gone too far down this negative path that we are on. More DRM, no matter how benign, could only take us farther down that path.
have no problem with DRM until it stops me from being able to use my media legally as I see fit. If a DRM scheme somehow prevented me from giving a file to my friends, but let me listen to the song on my ipod, Sansa, or Zune as I wished, that'd be perfectly okay.
That system can't excist. If you are able to play back content with the player of your own choice, you can surely just use a open source one and dump audio to disk again after the DRM is dealt with? Or you could simply strip away the DRM straight aw
If the DRM is so good that "the average person has no pragmatic or material objection to its restrictions" then objecting to it on "principle" alone becomes an exercise in, well, juvenile-wish-fulfillment. In fact, the "average" person has no problem with DRM schemes such as those that "lock" down DVDs or VHS (macrovision), nor those that iTunes had or most software has. I'm not saying that most DRM schemes are there yet, but if DRM is that unobtrusive, then I'd consider it an acceptable part of the real-w
"In fact, the "average" person has no problem with DRM schemes such as those that "lock" down DVDs or VHS (macrovision),"
The average user has no problem with them because they're trivially crackable.
If the DRM is so good that "the average person has no pragmatic or material objection to its restrictions" then objecting to it on "principle" alone becomes an exercise in, well, juvenile-wish-fulfillment. In fact, the "average" person has no problem with DRM schemes such as those that "lock" down DVDs or VHS (macrovision), nor those that iTunes had or most software has. I'm not saying that most DRM schemes are there yet, but if DRM is that unobtrusive, then I'd consider it an acceptable part of the real-world compromise necessary when dealing with the owners. I leave to each person to decide if that deal is Faustian or not.
My explanation of why I object on the basis of principle can be found in this post [slashdot.org]. Far from being juvenile, it's a recognition that there are timeless things in life which are and always have been far more important than immediate convenience and certainly more important than whether you can play your music. The juvenile approach is the one in which convenience is everything, where all concerns about whether something is wrong are put to rest by access to entertainment. Such an approach knows nothing of principle, or of the difference between what is legal and what is right and good.
What I'd fear more is the DRM schemes that are designed not to control but to outright discourage the use of digital media. Put on your tin-foil hat with me and ask for a second why content owners would allow online digital providers such as Wal-Mart, Amazon, MicroSoft, and Audible to run a service which can disable your ability to use a license not due to breach on your part but just because they don't want to maintain their servers anymore (and in some cases this has already happened, see Walmart). Any good contract between owner and provider would require that the customer be allowed continued use of the product as sold. Not having those provisions smacks of a scheme by the owners to be able to say "oh, your product doesn't work anymore, well, that's digital downloads for you. Aren't CDs so much nicer!"
No tinfoil hat is necessary for that. All you're doing there is making the observation that these companies are still living in the past, a past time when they had full control over distribution. It's a natural consequence they have no interest in correctly dealing with digital media, as you have pointed out. They have not decided that technological progress has created a different world with new possibilities, and that this means they should evaluate whether their business model is suited to this new world. Instead, they still want that old world where they have full control and they are willing to become adversaries to their own customers in order to preserve it. That is the actual problem. Rather than address this problem and become a joy to do business with, they want to apply a band-aid and this band-aid is called DRM. Other band-aids include wielding political clout to purchase laws that benefit their interests at the expense of others, and making monstrous "examples" by financially ruining the lives of people who have done very little harm to anyone. I cannot in any good conscience support this effort, nor any devices designed to promote it. It's not just that it isn't working, it's that it is wrong. No amount of convenience and no degree of music player reliability is going to change that.
In fact, the "average" person has no problem with DRM schemes such as those that "lock" down DVDs or VHS (macrovision), nor those that iTunes had or most software has.
Are you sure that the "average" person has no problems with DRM? I heard that the main push towards DRM-free music downloads came from the stores themselves, since the DRM systems they previously used caused so much problems for their customers, and thus so many time-consuming support calls, that the profitability on those DRM-protected tracks went down the drain. How does that support your hypothesis that average Joe is indifferent to DRM?
They could design a DRM system that is generous on all counts, such that the average person has no pragmatic or material objection to its restrictions. This would make its adoption by customers much more widespread and would present the very convincing illusion of nullifying the arguments against DRM.
Well, they couldn't. Because it would be the opposite of DRM. DRM and convenient usage exclude each other. I would even say that it's the point.
I think they already work the hardest, to even get to that level, from the insanity that the requirements of the media industry demand.
When this is not "enough" for the industry anymore, that is when the fun starts. ^^
It's a vicious circle. Just wait for them, destroying themselves, by attacking the very source of their survival, instead of fixing themselves.
They could design a DRM system that is generous on all counts, such that the average person has no pragmatic or material objection to its restrictions.
Steam! About the only thing you can't do with Steam DRM is sell it to somebody else, which doesn't bother a horder like me.
I'd argue the steam DRM actually adds value. I can download my entire library of games onto any computer I please without having to dig out the media, enter CD keys, or activate anything. It saves me from doing tech support for my Po
Amen. Nobody seems to understand that we (at least in America) live in a hugely capitalistic society, and that means that we as the consumer hold IMMENSE power. It's all well and good to buy an ipod and then write to Apple complaining about DRM, but that doesn't mean much, because they've got your money already.
Exercise your capitalistic rights to control the market.
tl;dr ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH [youtube.com]
We the consumer may potentially hold massive power, unfortunately in order to wield that power you need to teach a sufficient proportion of the consumer base why something like DRM is bad...
Unfortunately, it is the media companies who control the most efficient methods for getting the message out, and they will be using their considerable resources to tell consumers the opposite message. Only people who care enough to do their own research, or who have been bitten by DRM themselves and are clued up enough t
unfortunately in order to wield that power you need to teach a sufficient proportion of the consumer base why something like DRM is bad...
Fortunately, the media companies have provided some help in teaching average consumers the pitfalls of DRM. Case in point: The shutdown of DRM license servers. In an instant, heaps of music became unusable, and that really burned some people who had acquired significant libraries of DRMed music tracks. Some people cannot be taught not to do something that can hurt them, they must feel the pain themselves before they really get the lesson.
Boycotts are the only way these companies are gonna learn that customers won't tolerate DRM.
When are people gonna learn that boycotts haven't worked for 60 years? We're dealing with multi-national corporations now. Bitching about their products on the internet will get you further than a boycott. If you were going to purchase a Zune and decided against it due to ethical issues, then Microsoft's out $100. If you run a popular blog and bitch about it and get a thousand people to not purchase the product, then Microsoft is out hundreds of thousands of dollars, regardless of whether you yourself have
DRM is a fundamentally broken concept. It relies on the argument that you're purchasing a service and not a product, but then you're treated as though you purchased a product and not a service. In effect what's happening is that the consumer expends money and then literally has no rights whatsoever and, thanks to TOS/EULAs, no recourse either.
Which is why I find it misleading when Amazon shows the price of the kindle version and directly compares it to the price of the deadtree version. They are really two completely different animals, and this hidden download limit is one great example of what makes the comparison false.
(I try to use my kindle and kindle iphone app with open eyes, but I didn't know about this download limit until now.)
The hidden download limit is out and out fraud. They are not giving you what they lead you to believe they were. It's no different than putting 3 pints of product into a bottle marked as 2 quarts.
I hate DRM as much as the next person (or at least the next person who understands it), but this isn't really that different from buying the actual book. If I buy a book from Amazon, I get one copy. If I lose it for any reason (theft, fire, etc.), they will not replace it. That having been the case with physical books, why would you assume that no similar limitation exists with digital books? Does it say somewhere in their terms of service that you can download the books you purchase from them any number of
A physical book takes resources to create, data can be replicated (effectively) an infinite number of times at virtually no cost to a business that's already making a profit.
Great point.
I generally hate DRM, unless as you say, the process really fits a service model.
Zune has since moved away from DRM when you buy music - they now generally give you unprotected MP3s. But if you get a subscription it really is a service - you can download all the music you want but it will expire if you don't keep up the subscription (although you do get to keep 10 songs a month in MP3).
I think that model of DRM is the only one that I've seen that actually seems fair and works.
It's not news that the media you buy for both Kindle and Zune are protected by DRM.
I hope it doesn't sound like too minor of a gripe, but I greatly prefer to call it encumbered by DRM.
I hope it doesn't sound like too minor of a gripe, but I greatly prefer to call it encumbered by DRM.
I prefer to call it infested with DRM.
The emerging problem is certainly books and video. Niether of these is going to be trivial to convert to electronic format anytime soon, and the files don't seem be trivial to burn to an unprotected format either. This means that video and books are still on the list, as music used to be, of only be useful as long as the files stay in good shape. It is interesting that Amazon has chosen to take this one step further and limit it to a number of devices. As the article states, since one is to upgrade often, and the files are owned by Amazon, this puts an effective lifetime on the books. Where on can buy a hardback and refer to it for a lifetime, the Kindle will eventually break.
I think this is a good argument against most e-book readers. The publishers are not going to fully support them, and unless there is special need, the consumer does not get the value. Movies, are another issue, but pretty much I don't buy movies to download. Better value with $5-10 dvd.
To those complaining. Do NOT buy DRM media.
Every time you pay for an item you support DRM.
And when things go awry, you come here complaining?!
Please note that this also includes buying things on Steam.
Yes, no kidding. I'm so glad this is a music/book related DRM discussion, because I think that if I were to browse ONE MORE game related DRM thread where everyone goes on about how evil DRM is but how awesome Steam is, I think my brain will explode. It's the same thing, in fact in Steam's case it's actually worse, but it's fawned upon by the same tards that regard DRM as the ultimate evil.
DRM is the ultimate evil, by the way. My placement of the word tards makes it seems like it's the people that think that DRM is evil are tards, when I meant that it was the people that like Steam and not DRM. It's Monday morning, I haven't finished my coffee. Fuck off.
When the library of classic works available so dwarfs what you can expect to complete in a mere few years anyway?
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page [gutenberg.org]
The first thing I do when I download media with DRM these days is strip the DRM. If I can't figure out how to strip it before I lay down my money, I pass. DRM does nothing to enhance my experience and can only serve to detract from my experience.
Back 7 or 8 years ago, when ebooks were making their first surge, I bought about $50 worth from various vendors and didn't strip the DRM. It was a bit of an experiment to see how it would turn out. One of the vendors shut down just weeks after I made my purchase. I hadn't even activated one of the titles yet so it was a total loss. The other one was only readable as long as that computer lived. Same happened with the rest of the titles eventually. So $50 worth of ebooks I purchased just a few years ago are gone forever. Meanwhile, paperbacks I purchased when I was a kid still work just as well as the day I bought them. Nevermind the hassle of keeping track of each vendor's authentication system and the crap-ton of different software packages I had to install to handle all of those methods.
The funny thing is this isn't even the first time a major online music "seller" has screwed people by revoking access to purchased media. Wasn't it just a few years ago that some big seller shut down or changed their authentication system and the users got a big FU for all of their lost music?
All you're accomplishing is telling these companies that DRM is fine with you. And the ones you don't download, they figure you're just stealing that. There is no way to get feedback to the company that your purchases are dependent on breaking DRM, or in other words you won't buy anything that has DRM, because you keep stripping it without telling them.
All of the people who figure it's OK to buy something for one device and have to re-buy it later, and they do exist, appear exactly the same to these selle
Vendors who incorporate DRM and who rig it so the songs quit working when certain events happen will be in trouble with the law if they don't advertise this in advance, like "if you buy this song, you may have to buy it again if you upgrade your media device or if it breaks and is repaired."
Failure to do that is breach of implied contract: You bought the music with the understanding it would work at least for the lifetime of the device on which it was originally installed.
Every single piece of DRMed music is available in some other format, be it a purchasable CD (my personal choice), or via other, possibly less legal means. Get your music in a non-DRMed format and do what you like with it.
It's not like this is the first time we've heard of customers getting shafted by DRM. It's been going on for years. Learn from it and move on to something you know you can use.
Until recently it's only been Slashdot Types that were aware of the evils of DRM. Once the general masses are aware of it, they won't stand for it. Or maybe I give them too much credit...
> DRM is a bad idea, poorly implemented.
Should be DRM is a bad idea [FULL STOP].
There is no good implementation of DRM and there never will be. There can't be when you assume that EVERY customer is out to rip you off and you wish to enforce it on everyone, some of which are (or maybe were now) loyal customers. The irresponsibility that is being shown in these examples are just the topping on the cake... but it sure gives your a look inside their psyche. Their point of view is "we're big, we don't have
Microsoft seems to be violating their own Zune EULA [zunestore.net]:
Microsoft may from time to time make available for download from the Services certain images, artwork, photographs, videos, and other content (the "Downloadable Content"). Microsoft hereby grants you a limited, non-transferable, nonexclusive license to download such content solely for your personal, noncommercial use in accordance with these Terms of Use. Such license shall be limited to the specific purpose for which such Downloadable Content was made available (e.g. for use as wallpaper or poster prints, as specified in connection with the download), and you may not modify, distribute, perform, transmit , create derivative works of or otherwise use such Downloadable Content or make any commercial or public use thereof. Downloadable Content shall only include content which Microsoft specifically identifies as being available for download, and you agree not to remove of obscure any copyright notice that appears in the Downloadable Content.
Note the words "Microsoft hereby grants you a limited, non-transferable, nonexclusive license to download such content solely for your personal, noncommercial use in accordance with these Terms of Use." Microsoft granted you a license. They didn't provide a provision which allows them to revoke that license. They don't have the option, once having sold you a license, to take it back. The FTC was out to lunch during the Bush Administration, but they're back in business. [ftc.gov]
So if you have a Zune, and it won't play something you paid for, go to the Federal Trade Commission online complaint page [ftccomplai...istant.gov] and start filling out the form.
The FTC was out to lunch during the Bush Administration years, but that's over. They're back in business. [ftc.gov]
All I could see when I read that was the big honking word "LIMITED".
Limited to time? Sure. Availablity? Why not!
Seems to me they more than met the obligations set forth when in fact the time you could use the content was indeed limited. They told you it would be right there.
All I could see when I read that was the big honking word "LIMITED".
Limited to time? Sure. Availability? Why not!
Because ambiguity in a contract is construed against the drafter of the contract. [ct.gov] Provided you meet the limits explicitly specified ("personal, noncommercial use") you can do anything you want with the content, and Microsoft is barred from imposing further restrictions after the fact.
...over the years, thousands upon thousands of dollars for CDs, LPs, cassettes and even 8-tracks, for God's sake (yes, I'm old). My feeling is (as someone else expressed above) if I bought it once, I can download it as often as I like. I have no idea how close or far away that is from "the law" or fair use, etc. But I really don't care.
In fact, for most of my older favorites over the years I've bought both the LP and CD versions. In which case I really, really don't lose any sleep over downloading a cla
Amazon reps got in contact with the guy.... They simply don't a have a clue of what happens, and may try to change policy. Worth a read...
http://www.geardiary.com/2009/06/21/kindlegate-confusion-abounds-regarding-kindle-download-policy/#more-34458 [geardiary.com]
Most people on
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I think you're giving the slashdot crowd a bit too much patting on the back.
The word "iteration" has been around a very long time - most high school educated people know what the word means. And if they don't, they've got bigger things to worry about. Really.
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It has all the mindlessness of Crackdown with strategy.
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for the sake of wasted free time, I must acquire this game, apparently available for playstation.
Anyone else been taking advantage of Xbox's Games for Gold program? I've picked up Sleeping Dogs, Lara Craft: Guardian of Light, and Dead Island for free. I only wish I had gotten on it sooner. They've made some pretty decent games available for free download.
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My mother had similar glasses and hairstyle. I have no wedding pictures of her. She got married in a college chapel in a suit. Either there were no pictures taken or she destroyed them all during the bitter divorce.ReplyDelete
have a gooder, suzy! :D
The jacket is interesting tooReplyDelete
I miss old pictures.ReplyDelete
We had a trunkful of them FULL.
And after my grandmother died, my aunt came over (she had her own house key) and took the trunk.
She refused to return it, and my mother quit speaking to her sister over it.
My mom's sister died, without having a word exchanged between her and my mother since 1989.
I love how casual she is about the veil.ReplyDelete
A very Diane Arbus image. I suspect the scalloped edged bridal gown was from the house of "Ed", son of Edith Head, looks like the bridesmaids ran up their own, still, a beautiful image.ReplyDelete
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Well, you just killed the pancreas there buddy.
I'd like you to know that all of us aren't nearly
As stuffed and bloated as you are.
This was meant to be a family social event,
But I suppose we can make this all about you.
I'm so sorry to hear your moving back to Ohio
Well, not really, since everyone wants you gone.
You're makeup looks terrible by the way,
Like teardrops speeding past your eyeliner
Racing down the sides of your cheek.
I bet he saved the ring for the other woman.
So, while your filth ruins my brand new sofa
You can share all your pathetic sob stories
And I can try my best to pretend I care.
Please don't bother asking how I've been
Or pretend to act interested in me at all.
Remember, its not about me, its all about you.