August 2002 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Screensavers
by Kevin McLauchlan 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

This is probably just a philosophical question... Why is it that Gnome seems to have so many more screen savers than KDE, and they are mostly much more eye-pleasing and interesting? I'm referring to what "comes with", rather than add-ons. Is it a philosophical choice by the KDE project to resemble Windows in that respect? Is it just that Gnome users, as a group, tend to be more in need of superficial amusement? <grin> Or is it inherently more difficult to code a nifty screensaver to work reliably with KDE? Just curious, really. I'm on vacation this week... :-) /kevin -- "DIRty DEEDS, and they're DONE dirt cheap." [Sing it with me, now...]

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KMail problem
by Bob Rea 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

I had a hard disk crash a while back and reinstalled suse 7.3. When I tried to run mial after getting my dsl connection back, i put in my account seetings and it cant find the pop or smtp servers. The same setings in Mozilla work well. I would prefer kmail. the version is 1.3.1 using kde 2.2.1. Any body got any ideas on why this isn't working. Please help. Bob

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Re: [suse-kde] Font problems
by Joe Sullivan 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

--- Liz Young <liz(a)kandew.net> wrote: > Not sure about Gnome, but for KDE 3.0.2 on 7.3, check /etc/X11/qtrc > for > "useXFT=false" and change to true. There's some crashing with > Xfree4.1.0 and QT3.0.4(5?) where that was disabled. I have long > ago > upgraded X to 4.2.0, and with this fix AA fonts are working. I haven't seen anti-aliased fonts in KDE3 since SuSE started dictating that us 7.3 users shouldn't have them rather than letting us turn them on/off ourselves the old-fashioned Control Panel way. I have changed that line to True. I've got "Use anti-aliased fonts" marked in the control panel. I've got all my fonts set to be fonts that can be anti-aliased, such as Arial. (And yes, I have Arial ttf installed. ;-) Still, I get jagged nasty fonts in everything KDE-related, including the desktop. Now, if SuSE would just stop dictating this in their QT3 RPMs for us and go back to the way QT3 packages were a few months ago, we wouldn't have this problem. Yes, I'm aware of the X 4.1 problem. The solution? Let them upgrade! Don't cut out anti-aliasing for every 7.3 user! Now, you're seeing anti-aliased fonts. I tried what you said you did over-and-over with each QT3 upgrade and still nothing. You must have done something else as well? Joe -- --------------------- I'm too sexy for my desktop. Too sexy for my desktop... ---------------------

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Hello
by wb7woh 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

hello,my name is Bruce , wb7woh(a)pacifier.com / dont under stand why them came back to you ......711..please keep me informed,,,,, thank you PS wb7woh is my ham call ..)) 73 wb7woh/

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Resolution of Can't do anything with JPEG's after upgrading from KDE 3.0.2
by netzener＠netscape.net 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

Thanks for the help! Problem solved and I learned something from your responses in the process. I'll be more diligent in checking the FAQ and newsgroups in the future to avoid "the question that wouldn't die" problem. Thanks again, Jerry

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[suse-kde] KDE 3.0.3 and Background
by Markus Kohli 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

Hullo List Just updated my KDE to V3.0.3. Now: I can only use png images as desktop background, jpg's don't work anymore... Anybody else got that problem? Any solution? (Except converting my pictures ;-). And, after all, KDM seems to have overwritten my entire configuration... Not so nice... Thanks in advance Markus -- J'aimerais assez que mon oeuvre soit publiée a titre pré-posthume. -- Philippe Geluck, Le Chat

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Anyone tried 3.1-beta?
by Joe 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

Hey, Just wondering if anyone has tried the SuSE 8.0 RPMs for KDE 3.1-beta yet. If so, how have they been stability-wise? Noted any serious issues that aren't seen in the 3.0 version? Thanks, Joe

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Can't do anything with JPEG's after upgrade from KDE 3.0.2
by netzener＠netscape.net 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

I recently upgraded KDE 3.0.1 that came with the SuSE 8.0 distribution. The upgrade path included installing RPM's for 3.0.2 earlier this month and then 3.0.3 late last week. I had no problems with the 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 transition. Everything seemed to work just fine. However, after upgrading from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3, everything works fine except I can no longer apply JPEG's to my desktop background, display JPEG's in the preview portion of the file dialog box, or open JPEG's with the Kpaint or Kview. Sounds like KDE isn't aware of the JPEG libraries in some way. Is there anyone that is experiencing this problem? Anybody know what to look for? Jerry

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HP-UX and Linux/ Filesystems/ How's 3.0.3?
by Carl 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 . Has anyone ever been able to mount an HPUX filesystem directly under Linux? I know about Samba and NFS, but I need to mount a disk directly, due to a 'crash'. Tried all the current fs modules including vxfs, to no avail. So tried to rip the disk with dd, but it's 4.3GB and reiser in 7.3 can't cope. (2GB max) and Win2k couldn't cope. (stopped at 2GB) So I've lost an opportunity I will not have again. When I try Suse8 again, I want to use a filesystem that CAN cope with =large= files. Ext3 is too slow. Is JFS stable yet? When will Reiser handle large files? You guys running Suse8/K3.0.3, any problems? Any at all? - -- The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1qiAkACgkQnQ18+PFcZJuGmwCZAYlDA0tk2yfCOrk9rOM0kDWD hTMAn3cU6jrubRgU+rLd08lIBlPWXM/P =tQfC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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File associations
by Jens Hatlak 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Using KDE 3.0.3 on SuSE 7.3, I want to rearrange my file associations. Example: Start Kaboodle for MP3s and WAVs instead of XMMS. I know that can be done using KControl > File assoc., finding the MIME type and making Kaboodle the topmost of the list entries for the selected MIME type. The problem is that after rearranging the list and clicking Apply, the arrangement is set back to what it was before when I close and reopen KControl. Now my question is how does that come? It has been like that for me for some time, at least it was the same in KDE 3.0.2 (I know because I updated today). I thought it could be a privilege problem but all files in ~/.kde belong to me (the KDE user I'm having problems with). Where does KDE save the order of the list anyway? And while I'm with that, where does Knotes save which notes are open (I ask because it doesn't remember it on my system)? Bye, Jens

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