Semiautostart

I always had the problem that I couldn’t decide if I should use autostart to start things like kmail and kopete. On the one hand I don’t want to start 10 apps manually at 7am but on the other hand I really hate that everything autostarts in other situations like restarting KDE because of debugging [...]

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KDE notifications + MPD

To get mpd to show the currently playing song, one can easily use kdialog: which triggers a KDE notification popup for 3 seconds. Not very pretty, but it’s simple and can be triggered via xbindkeys or something similar.

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KDE 4.1.0

I’ve already written about KDE 4.1 Beta but now, since 4.1 is released for good, some updates: Quickstart for Gentoo users If you have a beta version installed, you will have to delete everything first! Some ingenious maintainer has changed the slot names of all packages and so portage thinks it has to install everything in a [...]

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KDE 4.1 Beta

Finally, I switched to KDE 4! I said goodbye to my KDE 3.5, which served me well over the years, and now I enjoy it’s more futuristic successor. After failing to make friends with the KDE 4 alpha/beta/.0 releases, 4.1 (4.0.82 to be exact) meets my needs. Plasma is almost stable, only crashes once a day [...]

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Delete the currently playing song in Amarok

A little bash script takes care of deleting the current song, you just have to setup a shortcut somewhere. And set the config variable where you want to move your trashed music files: File: .bashrc bash is so powerful, it’s always a pleasure ;)

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