Indeed that is one of the questions, why in GNOME do I have a KDE product? I have some distros that I am using LXQT as the DE, and that apparently is using some KDE products . . . .
Anyway, thanks for the advice, that was my question here . . . which choice, “Blowfish” or “GPG” . . . . It does seem like many services are requiring more and more security . . . so perhaps leaving kwallet in until the system decides whether it wants to change it to something else . . . ???
Can’t seem to get my foot off of the banana peel . . . . I tried to set up the wallet thingie, by selecting the “GPG” option, but it replied “you don’t have any keys set up, so you need to do that.”
I tried to grab a screen shot of it and somehow clicked on something on the Jabref window, after which “no content in table” showed in the area that would show the list view of citations . . . all was gone. I fiddled around and managed to get the citations back, but now they are highlighted in blue when the “All entries” is selected. And, now problem is when adding a new citation, the new citation does not bubble to the top of the list and it stays blue . . . .
When I click on a group the citations show as white, as they should . . . but going back to All entries . . . all are highlighted in blue?? And then trying to add citation to group is again acting up.
I tried closing and launching Jabref several times . . . I must have clicked on something while trying to get the screenshot snapped???
Sorry, I am very busy right now, but I found documentation for kwallet:
If you need to add an gpg key, then have a look at What is GPG / PGP and how do I use it?.
About the blue entries in the main table … without screenshot it is hard to know what you mean, but maybe by accident you activated the floating mode search option. To disable floating mode, click the denoted button in my screenshot and enable “filter search results”:
Just use blowfish. GPG is a bit more complex with the key setup
Thanks for taking the time, indeed based upon your screenshot that is what I have done to myself, “activated the floating mode search option,” unknowingly.
I did click on that “golf tee” looking button to the right of the search bar . . . as I was frantically trying to get rid of the blueish highlight . . . didn’t seem to make a change, but I’ll try it again.
What was/is “odd” is that this “floating mode” appeared in two of my library/databases, but not the third? All of this triggered by trying to snap a screenshot that then brought the Jabref window to the front instead of the “Kwallet” error window . . . comedy of errors . . . while at work, talking to numerous folks.
Anyway, thanks kindly for the time on it, I’ll check it in a bit. Thanks for the “Blowfish” recommend, I saw that recommend earlier in this thread . . . just wanted those 4 windows to go away, couldn’t get “creative” on it to “O, try Blowfish and see if that works” . . . . : - )
So I got the wallet thing straight with the Blowfish option . . . .
But, the blue highlights for all of the citations still continues, I did enable the “filter” icon in the two libraries that have the problem, the third library has the same filter icon setting but the citations are white, not blue. So I can’t figure out why the two databases are having this problem.
There are or have been some issues with the search bar, like I wasn’t able to right-click from the clipboard and get that to show up in the search bar, I had to ctrl -V, but now that isn’t working consistently . . . . And then the new entry isn’t bubbling up to the top of the table, so I have to scroll down into the list to confirm the new entry is “highlighted” to then add to the group. Attaching the screenshot to show the blue on blue . . . but I can’t get the blue to go away, only the wallet window has now gone.
Hi regarding the blue highlight, in the groups panel there is this drop icon (third one from the left) “Invert groups” . This enables you to show entries that are not part of the group
I think that is probably stored per library.
Unfortunately, our user documentation is not always up to date with the newest features…
OK, thanks for the reply. That might make sense if pondering how it was that a single click to try to get a screenshot was all it took to “accomplish” this condition, which would then continue even after quitting the app . . . .
I was madly clicking on everything I could, but perhaps seeing “invert groups” was something that I thought I wouldn’t want to do??? Did I want my groups “inverted”??? I thought, “No, I did not, who would??”
But, in sheer desperation I am willing to “Do anything” . . . even group inversion. If it works I will mark this thread as solved, as the wallet snafu has been dismissed via the selection of Blowfish . . . .
Okay great to hear!
Just open a new thread if you encounter any other problems or things we can improve. Helps other users to find the relevant info as well
