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Linux / Akonadi: The QtSQL driver ‘QMYSQL’ is required by your current Akonadi server configuration.

PROBLEM
Another day brings another bug. This time it’s with the Akonadi server failing or unable to start.  This error followed a recent update I’ve done on my Fedora box.  This is what greeted me each time I started up KDE:

The QtSQL driver ‘QMYSQL’ is required by your current Akonadi server configuration.
The following drivers are installed: [...]

Fedora & KDE: ERROR: Couldn’t attach to DCOP server!

DCOP server is essentially communication software used by various Linux systems to allow applications to talk to each other.  For example, copying and pasting from kword to say firefox would occur through klipper (KDE clipboard) currently and the way the copied data moves between these applications is DCOP.  More recently, DCOP has been started to [...]

F9, KDE 4.X and Konsole: Extra spaces on console command line between cursor and text.

PROBLEM
Following some recent upgrades to my distro the Konsole window cursor was always ahead of the text that was typed.  The problem was compounded when lines of text were longer though this problem wasn't present in other terminal applications.  This really looked horrible using vim, as you can probably imagine.  As you can see [...]


     
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