KDE Prepares Smarter KRunner, Steam Scaling Better Under Plasma Wayland

[skeevy420]

Small world!

No, I ended up with three Pentax XW eyepieces which I'm very happy with: 40mm, 10mm, and 3.5mm. These are good focal lengths for my 120mm Orion EON. Your telescope being slower than mine, I think more or less any eyepiece would work well in it, and the choice comes down to comfort factors based on the geometry of your face, whether you use glasses to observe, etc. I like my Pentaxes precisely because they're so comfortable; I can move up eyecup up or down to reach the perfect height for glasses-on or glasses-off viewing. One thing I'll mention is that where I live, on most nights the seeing isn't good enough for the 3.5mm to show more than a 10mm barlowed to 5mm or even alone. I might suggest the same for you -- that the 10mm providing 203x magnification in your telescope will be more useful most of the time than a 7mm providing 290x. But maybe you live in Florida where the seeing is consistently excellent and that advice doesn't make sense!

Arkansas; around 30 miles to the east of blue and grey skies, but my home skies are orange with yellow to the north and red to the south.

40MM XW with your scope setup seems really nice. Much, much wider than widest view I can get with a 1.25 diagonal with my ultrawide setup -- a 24mm Panoptic and an f6.3 focal reducer. 3.11 FOV to my 1.27. I'm jealous.

I might just get a 2x barlow and a Nebustar filter. Sucks trying to decide between those two accessories to aid the Panoptic with Nebulas and various DSOs or better eyepieces to replace the crappy ones I bought because I didn't know any better.

Telescoping is an addictive, expensive hobby ............

[skeevy420]

I actually use X, because the experience with Wayland and NVIDIA is still not mature enough.

ROFL. Now that's funny right there.

I didn't even consider NVIDIA since I have an AMD card and have been mostly on Wayland for the past year and a half.

[ngraham]

Totally off topic: Did you ever buy the Astro Tech 10mm UWA? I just happened to come across your post on Cloudy Nights earlier today asking about it. My cat passing triggered something that pushed me away from my PC and back into my other hobbies and I'm trying to decide between the AT UWA 10mm and the 7mm as a high powered, wide-field eyepiece to compliment my low-powered 24mm Panoptic. Scope setup is a Nexstar 8SE.

Small world!

No, I ended up with three Pentax XW eyepieces which I'm very happy with: 40mm, 10mm, and 3.5mm. These are good focal lengths for my 120mm Orion EON. Your telescope being slower than mine, I think more or less any eyepiece would work well in it, and the choice comes down to comfort factors based on the geometry of your face, whether you use glasses to observe, etc. I like my Pentaxes precisely because they're so comfortable; I can move up eyecup up or down to reach the perfect height for glasses-on or glasses-off viewing. One thing I'll mention is that where I live, on most nights the seeing isn't good enough for the 3.5mm to show more than a 10mm barlowed to 5mm or even alone. I might suggest the same for you -- that the 10mm providing 203x magnification in your telescope will be more useful most of the time than a 7mm providing 290x. But maybe you live in Florida where the seeing is consistently excellent and that advice doesn't make sense!

[Steffo]

That almost sounds like a KWin or Wayland issue.

I actually use X, because the experience with Wayland and NVIDIA is still not mature enough.

[skeevy420]

I have 22.08.3. I can narrow the problem: I see only a blank page with a maximized window, but when I make the window smaller, I see the content. When I maximize again, I have the same problem.
Anyways: Next week my MacBook Air arrives. --> Problem solved.

That almost sounds like a KWin or Wayland issue. I had similar issues with the Firefox Flat on SUSE Tumbleweed KDE Wayland last week. I never bothered trying X since the random blank window seems to only happen to me on Wayland environments.

I'm currently in-between Linux installs (migrating to Void) so that's as much as I can help. I had a rather traumatic experience happen a month ago and I'm just now getting to the point to where I can sit down and concentrate enough to do anything more than rant about something that pisses me off. I adopted a kitten, Jo Jo, and a few hours later my cat Poppy was ran over. I loved her so much and I'm still really messed up over it.

Hopefully this time next week I'll have rewritten these Void ZFS root scripts I've come across to get back into the Linux game. There's just too much hardcoded stuff in those scripts for me to run them as-is...locales, pool names, and whatnot...

ngraham

Totally off topic: Did you ever buy the Astro Tech 10mm UWA? I just happened to come across your post on Cloudy Nights earlier today asking about it. My cat passing triggered something that pushed me away from my PC and back into my other hobbies and I'm trying to decide between the AT UWA 10mm and the 7mm as a high powered, wide-field eyepiece to compliment my low-powered 24mm Panoptic. Scope setup is a Nexstar 8SE.

[Steffo]

What versions?

I have 22.08.3. I can narrow the problem: I see only a blank page with a maximized window, but when I make the window smaller, I see the content. When I maximize again, I have the same problem.
Anyways: Next week my MacBook Air arrives. --> Problem solved.

[user1]

Your PDF is broken is the generic bullshit response that the KDE maintainers give out.

This is unfortunately a pretty common behavior I observed among open source devs. When you present them with a bug, the first thing they do is prove as hard as humanly possible that it's not a bug and/or an issue on your side. I don't know why they do this (probably lazyness), but yeah, it's annoying.

[skeevy420]

I use KDE Neon and by an update, I can't open PDF files anymore with Okular. I get following error:

Does anyone know how to fix it? The bug report gets ignored.

What versions? If you're on an old enough version, 20.08 or earlier, this NixOS fix might work since Neon had the same issue at one time. You can find the XMLs here.

If you're on a newer version then I don't know.

What I can tell you is that your PDF is probably just fine. Your PDF is broken is the generic bullshit response that the KDE maintainers give out.

Bug reports are littered with "My PDF works on Chrome, Firefox, LibreOffice, and 17 other programs except Ocular."

"Your PDF is broken."

"Are you sure? It works everywhere else."

"Yes. It's broken. PDFs work just fine on my system running a completely different and newer Linux distribution and Ocular version."

[Steffo]

Your PDF is broken. Your report is ignored because there's no bug to begin with...

So, I have hundreds of PDFs on my computer. If I test several PDF, I get the reported problem. Same, when I download somewhere a PDF. Firefox and Chrome can display them. Before the KDE Neon update: no problem with Okular. But MY PDFs are broken!!!
I have no words, when I encounter arrogance and stupidity at the same time!

[mirmirmir]

I use KDE Neon and by an update, I can't open PDF files anymore with Okular. I get following error:

Does anyone know how to fix it? The bug report gets ignored.

Your PDF is broken. Your report is ignored because there's no bug to begin with...