June 2002 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

chinese characters
by Edward F. Howson 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Hi all How does one get to type chinese characters in KDE? I see keyboard layouts for japanese, vietnamese and thai but nothing for chinese. It is kind of frustrating because I have a chinese friend and everytime she wants to use my system I have to boot into Windows so that she can type chinese characters. I am using SuSE 8.0 and KDE 3.0.1, mostly use konqueror for browsing. Thanks Eddie

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Want suse menu on KDE3 with 7.3 try this!!!
by Teratam Bunyagul 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Hello everyone, If you are using SuSE7.3 with KDE3, now you can have all the menu like you have in KDE2.2.2. I just did it 5 mins ago. It works fine but use at you own risk!!! This is what I did. 1) uninstall susewm and susehelpcenter with YaST1 2) go to ftp.suse.com find the SuSE8.0 ftp version which came out 2 days ago. 3) download rpm files: susewm susehelpcenter and kdebase3-SuSE 4) install first susehelpcenter then susewm then kdebase3-SuSE each installation run SuSEconfig (you can install with command rpm -Uhv *.rpm see if you have dependencies, install what it's required. Or using YaST1) Do all these in mwm twm or fvwm2 but not in KDE3. 5) start KDE3, you will see welcome note form SuSE8.0 but never mind. 6) Now you can config everything with the control center. I'm just trying out. Haven't faced any problems yet, if you find out something or know any better ways. We can help each other out. have fun with KDE3 Teratam Bunyagul

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fxred for logitech trackball fx in KDE3
by Teratam Bunyagul 08 Jun '02

08 Jun '02

Hello, Has anyone know how to config "fxred" to use logitech trackball fx's 4th botton mouse in KDE3. I could make it work in KDE2.2.2 but after I updated to KDE3 it couldn't work anymore (it doesn't scroll, just shows the arrows) thanks Teratam Bunyagul

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Kmail
by bob barish 08 Jun '02

08 Jun '02

Good Morning Everyone: Is there a keyboard short cut (keyboard entry) that will delete an entire email thread all a once? Thanks for your help. -- Bob Barish B.M.T Solutions http://www.bmtsolutions.com Go confidently into your dreams 9:02am up 3 days, 17:09, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.40, 0.68

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KDE Desktop howto question
by Kevin McLauchlan 06 Jun '02

06 Jun '02

Hi, all. I have dual-boot on my office laptop (NT and SuSE 8), which, in addition to ReiserFS and NTFS partitions also has a small DOS partition for safe writing from Linux (I've been told that I can do damage if I try to write directly to NTFS from Linux). Anyway, SuSE sensed my partition scheme and gave me a nice little icon in my KDE desktop, that mounts the DOS partition and automatically launches Konqueror, to view it. Well, I have an smb connection to several network partitions (which I currently mount by hand, from a console command line). It occurs to me that a similar icon for mounting each smb drive -- and launching the browser -- would be just peachy. So, I copied the script behind the original icon, and began editing it to see what makes it work. (I thought I could just tweak it a bit so it would work with smb...) Here's the original script: [Desktop Entry] Comment=Mount and browse a Windows filesystem Comment[cs]=Pøipojení a prohlí¾ení systému souborù Comment[de]=Ein Windows Dateisystem mounten und öffnen Dev=/dev/hda9 FSType=Default Icon=windows_harddrive_mount MountPoint=/windows/E Name=Windows_E Name[en_US]=Windows_E ReadOnly=0 Type=FSDevice UnmountIcon=windows_harddrive_unmount So, right away, I'm getting lost. What would replace "Dev="? I looked in /dev, and I don't see a /smb device, nor anything else that I recognize as appropriate. Since smb connections are temporary, is there another directory where the devices would live? Could I just leave that out? Is it necessary to declare anything there? Then, there's "FSType=Default". What should go there? The icon can stay. I like it. The "MountPoint=" will be one of my smb mountpoints, so that's ok, too. The "Name=" and Name[en_US]=" will obviously change, and I'm ok there, too. "ReadOnly=0" will be unchanged. Now, how about "Type=FSDevice"?? what should that be for an smb device, and again is it even a necessary setting? AND THE BIG QUESTION... should I be trying to do it this way at all? The two reasons that I wanted to re-use the existing script are: 1) it looked like a working example from which I could learn something, but have a chance of getting it right... 2) there's nothing actually IN the script that actually launches the browser, yet the browser gets launched, therefore, I assume that there's something that KDE recognizes from the script, or from its name, or from it's icon, or... that causes Konqueror to launch automatically once the script has mounted the alien partition. If there's an existing FAQ or HowTo, just point me. If not, then if somebody can explain what would work AND what my misconceptions are, you'll probably help some other people who were too /s/m/a/r/t/ shy to ask the same questions. Thanks very much. /kevin PS: Yes, I could just automate the smb connections at startup, but they often change, or are temporarily unavailable, and I'd be getting error messages and slow startup and... like that. Besides, I want to understand how that script does what it does, and what equivalent declarations and settings would be needed for the smb version of it.

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KDE 301 Address Book: importing KDE2 addresses
by Pep Serrano 06 Jun '02

06 Jun '02

Hi there, So I applied the KDE 3.0.1 patch (this time with YOU) and yet I can not import the addresses I had in the KDE2 Address Book. Any tips?

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Re: [suse-kde] Setting KDE defaults for new users...
by Alessandro Orsi 06 Jun '02

06 Jun '02

El Mié 05 Jun 2002 19:54, michael stone escribió: > I am implementing a new Linux lab at my University and would like the > default KDE setup to be a little different than the SuSE default. More > specifically, I want to alter some stuff in the K menu, add/delete some > panel buttons and change the desktop image. Is there a way that I can use > a user account to alter everything how I want it, then copy some config > files somewhere? I tried putting the .kde* folders in /etc/skel, but they > still got overwritten when KDE started for a new user. > > Thanks. Hi Michael, To change the menu for all users you have to modify the general kde menu that is in /opt/kde3/share/applnk. If you want to add a new icon that is not present there, you have to create a new .desktop file and you may specify the following fields: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name= #name of the application in menu GenericName[i18n]= #text within brackets in menu, i18n is the code of the # language you're using, [en] I suppose... :-) Exec= #name of the application o execute, you can specify full path Icon= #name of the icon of the applicatio, you can specify full path. !! If #you don't put anything here you're entry won't be displayed in the menu Type=Application Terminal=0 #whether the application has to be executed in a console. 0 for #none To add a new menu or submenu, simply create a new folder and assign it an icon you like. For the folder to be displayed you must at least put a .desktop file in it. The /opt/kde3/share/applnk is merged with the personal user-kde directory to generate the menu for each user. If the ~/.kde/share/applnk doesn't contain any entry, the whole /opt/kde3/share/applnk menu will be displayed. If it contains different entryes, this ones will be displayed next to the ones of the general kde menu. If it contains an entry that is in the same folder or subfolder of the general menu and has the same name, the entry won't be displayed in the menu. For exemple, if you have: /opt/kde3/share/applnk/Applications/[empy] and ~/.kde/share/applnk/Applications/xmms.desktop The xmms entry will be displayed in the folder Applications of the Kmenu but if you have: /opt/kde3/share/applnk/Applications/xmms.desktop and ~/.kde/share/applnk/Applications/xmms.desktop The xmms entry won't appear in the menu. Note: I did this by eliminating the Suse menu and using the Kmenu, if you want to use the Suse menu you'll have to change the enries in the Suse menu. I've uninstalled it and now I can't remember where it was stored but if you can find it, things works the same as for the Kmenu. Respect to the icons on the desktop, I don't know hot to add new ones. Ther's a script in /opt/kde3/bin (startkde) written for suse that substitute the original (opt/kde3/bin/startkde.original) that do the job of creating the new desktop icons when a user login for the first time. But as I don't know very well bash script programming I decided to create my own icons manually and I uninstalled the suse theme. This way only a Trash icon is created on the desktop. If you know bash programming I think it wouldn't be difficult to understand the suse script and change it to create your own desktop icons. Hope this help. -- Chau, Ale. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, email: suse-kde-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, email: suse-kde-help(a)suse.com Please do not cross-post to suse-linux-e _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Setting KDE defaults for new users...
by michael stone 06 Jun '02

06 Jun '02

I am implementing a new Linux lab at my University and would like the default KDE setup to be a little different than the SuSE default. More specifically, I want to alter some stuff in the K menu, add/delete some panel buttons and change the desktop image. Is there a way that I can use a user account to alter everything how I want it, then copy some config files somewhere? I tried putting the .kde* folders in /etc/skel, but they still got overwritten when KDE started for a new user. Thanks. -- Michael Stone Linux / High Performance Computing Administrator The University of Texas at Austin Mechanical Engineering Department ETC 3.130 ph: 471.5951 agentsmith(a)mail.utexas.edu

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kscd: can't enter email address
by Paul W. Abrahams 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

I've been trying to run kscd to upload data to the freedb database of information on the contents of music CDs. kscd does this by sending an specially constructed email message to freedb.org. But in order to send the message you have to have kscd properly configured - and there's the problem. The relevant configuration is in the SMTP tab, where there's a place to specify an email address. The problem is that I can't enter anything there; it's not greyed out but if I click on it I don't get the cursor that indicates I can now enter text. If I plow ahead anyway I get a message that freedb submissions have been disabled because the email configuration is incomplete. (This is with version 2.2.2, not version 3.) Any advice? Paul

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K-Mail early disconnect from POP
by Kevin McLauchlan 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

I'm not sure if this is: a) operator error b) working as designed c) a bug d) other. On the company POP3 server, we have "inbox" and several other folders. After I start K-Mail, a click on the server name (or on the server's "inbox" folder) causes K-Mail to request authentication, and then to commence download of my mail. However, if I select another folder before the download has finished, the process stops and I get an error message saying that it died unexpectedly before completion. In other words, while downloading 300 messages from the POP server, I can't go read my already-sorted mail without unintentionally (often) killing the server connection. Is that the way it's supposed to work, and what other people experience? My impression is that this is not 100%, but it has happened several times. I'm reluctant to repeat for verification, because a premature disconnect means the messages do not get deleted at the server. I already have many hundreds of duplicates. /kevin

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