August 2005 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Laufwerke nach KDE-Update verschwunden
by Kai Straube 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Hallo alle, nach einem Update auf KDE 3.4.2 sind bei die Laufwerke unter media:\ im konqueror nicht mehr so wie vorher. Z.B. das CDROM-Laufwerk ist verschwunden, das DVD-Laufwerk zeigt auf die falsche Gerätedatei. Auch kann ich mit AmaroK kein CD-Rom-Laufwerk mehr zu Abspielen benutzen. Weis jemand, wo die Einstellungen für den kioslave media:\ abgelegt sind oder was da sonst los ist? Danke! Kai

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sendImages
by Richard Bos 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Can someone shine light on the possibility to use 'sendImages'. Somehow this seems possible, see e.g.: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91596 http://commit-digest.org/index.php?issue=sep102004&type=Bugfixes (look for sendimages). However, how is it used? I have it around: > rpm -qa | grep kipi libkipi-0.1.1-5 kipi-plugins-0.1.0beta2-6 > rpm -ql kipi-plugins | grep -i send /opt/kde3/lib/kde3/kipiplugin_sendimages.la .... /opt/kde3/share/services/kipiplugin_sendimages.desktop Now how is this service called/executed? If I e.g. hoover above a picture in konqueror, it does not offer me to sent this picture when using the LMB. Nothing in the action submenu e.g. :(( Neither is it around in one of the showfoto menu's :(( I'm still looking for the possibility to decrease the size of multiple images and have them sent on the fly.... -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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fehlende User-Liste beim grafischen login / missing User-List in graphical login-screen
by olaf-linux＠gmx.de 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Hallo ! Unter Suse 9.1 Personal hatte ich beim grafischen Einloggschirm eine Liste der Usernamen. Unter Suse 9.3 Professionell ist diese liste verschwunden, dort habe ich nur zwei Eingabefelder für Namen und Passwort. Wie bekomme ich die Liste wieder? Gruß Olaf Hi! In Suse 9.1 personal I have a list with the User-names in the graphical login screen. In Suse 9.3 professional thers is no list. How can I get the list ? bye Olaf

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Diff betn Kate and KWrite
by Shriramana Sharma 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

I asked this question on another forum but didn't get a satisfying reply so I feel I should ask the wise (*no* sarcasm intended) people here: What's the difference between Kate and KWrite? Someone said Kate = KEdit + KWrite. If Kate then supersedes KWrite, why did my default install come with both Kate and KWrite? I first thought that Kate was like Notepad and KWrite was like Wordpad on Windows. Apparently that's not the case. (Right?) If Kate can handle only pure text, is there anything below KOffice Writer (or whatever it's called) and OOo Writer that handles rich text, like Windows' Wordpad which is "greater than" Kate but "lesser than" M$ Word? Thanks, all. -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org

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Where is KOffice?
by Shriramana Sharma 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

I have no KOffice on KDE 3_4 on SuSE 9.3. Does it not exist or is it just not installed by default? I don't remember ever having a YaST option to install it during the system setup and yes I selected individual packages for games, office and multimedia myself, which is why I ask. Thanks. -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org

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Newbies & questions
by BandiPat 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Hi all, Since we are on the discussion of new users asking questions on the list, let's make some suggestions on how to do it without getting your head chopped off! ;-) I know many more users are moving over to Linux now and that's a good thing, but everybody is going to need help sometime, even the more experienced "newbies" on the list. All of us will have questions from time to time, but it only means we are all still learning. That is good. What we need, I suppose, is a way to distinguish the differences between the very new and the not so new. It was suggested sometime back by someone on the main list, I believe, that a very new user specify in the subject, "Newbie alert", so the old guys/girls, well I mean old linux guys/girls, no that doesn't sound right either, well you get my drift, would know your level before answering a question. ;-) That way most here will know how to approach the user with the answers to their questions. Many new users don't know immediately that these lists are here or where to look for answers or even what questions to ask right away. You'll find that many here realize that when they know your level, so they can guide you to the correct places to look. It's just a matter of knowing a little about the questioner, so those people are able to offer help, can. Help us and we'll help you. Lee -- --- KMail v1.8.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! ...Calvin & Hobbes

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Burning SUSE intallation ISO to CR-R with K3B
by Henk A.M. Weebers 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Hello, Ther is something going wrong with burning. On my SUSE 9.3 box I have installed KDE 3.4.2. The rights op cdrdao and cdrecord are 4755 root burning. The burning device is of type ATAPI. What should I alter? Can someone help me out? Henk Devices ----------------------- HP CD-Writer+ 8100 1.0g (/dev/hdd, ) at /media/cdrecorder [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM] [Fout, error] [SAO; TAO] JLMS XJ-HD165H CH11 (/dev/hdc, ) at /media/dvd [CD-ROM; DVD-ROM] [DVD-ROM; CD-ROM] [Geen, none] System ----------------------- K3b Version: 0.11.24 KDE Version: 3.4.2 Level "a" QT Version: 3.3.4 Kernel: 2.6.11.4-21.8-default cdrecord ----------------------- scsidev: '/dev/hdd' devname: '/dev/hdd' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 /usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (okir(a)suse.de-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-resmgr-patch '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). SCSI buffer size: 64512 Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 JÃ¶rg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://www.suse.de/feedback Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'HP ' Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 8100 ' Revision : '1.0g' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO Drive buf size : 1040128 = 1015 KB Drive DMA Speed: 8064 kB/s 45x CD 5x DVD FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 696 MB Total size: 799 MB (79:11.41) = 356356 sectors Lout start: 799 MB (79:13/31) = 356356 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP start of lead in: -12369 (97:17/06) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 69 Manufacturer: Moser Baer India Limited Manufacturer is guessed because of the orange forum embargo. The orange forum likes to get money for recent information. The information for this media may not be correct. Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 3493 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 2 seconds. 1 seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Caught interrupt. /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 0 puts and 0 gets. /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 1 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 0%. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... Writing time: 54.721s cdrecord comand: ----------------------- /usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/hdd speed=4 -dao -dummy -eject -overburn -data -tsize=356356s - mkisofs ----------------------- 356356 INFO: UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings. Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem, use -input-charset to override. Size of boot image is 1424712 sectors -> /usr/bin/mkisofs: Error - boot image '/tmp/kde-root/k3buU584a.tmp' has not an allowable size. mkisofs comand: ----------------------- /usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -volid K3b data project -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.24 (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer K3b - Versie 0.11.24 -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-root/k3bArBPHa.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-root/k3bTcMX2a.tmp -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-root/k3btJDKfb.tmp -eltorito-boot boot/SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD1.iso -eltorito-catalog boot/boot.cataloge /root/.kde/share/apps/k3b/temp/dummydir0/

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Latest KDE disables graphical login as root?
by Shriramana Sharma 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Is this true that the latest version of KDE disables logging in via the graphical interface as root? If yes, 1. why has this been done? 2. how do I circumvent this? -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org

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Re: [suse-kde] Latest KDE disables graphical login as root?
by Daniel Eckl 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

I'm sorry, I remembered wrong. I didn't want to offend you. Best, Daniel Am Samstag, 13. August 2005 04:39 schrieben Sie: > Daniel Eckl wrote: > > To remember the beginning, the newbie just asked how to do a bad thing. > > The techies said, "Don't do it that way, it's bad. Better do it this > > other way." > > > > After that, the newbie asked "why is that bad? I want to do it anyway! > > Show me a way how to do the bad thing!" > > The newbie included the question "Show me how to do it" only in the > first posting of "Why has this thing been disabled". After being > informed that it has been disabled because it is a bad thing, he only > wanted to know why it was bad. Please check mail history. Thank you.

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Please fill up www.susewiki.org with your knowledge
by Shriramana Sharma 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

I posted this to SLE by mistake, and am reposting to SKDE, not having got much of a response on SLE and hence wondering if it reached its target audience. People who subscribe to both please forgive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All right, guys: This new thread is a propos issues raised in the "Latest KDE disables graphical login as root?" thread. I think that if there are questions that newbies like me repeatedly ask, the knowledgeable techies around here should save themselves both the trouble of: 1. retyping oft-typed sentences or paragraph (for the patient ones) 2. getting irritated at the naivete of the newbies (for the impatient ones). The solution, use your excellent knowledge to fill up the webserver of www.susewiki.org. As a small step in this direction (and that too from an ignorant rookie like me), I have created an article on the topic of "security issues with logging into X-Windows as root" at: http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=SUSE_FAQ#Security_Issues If Wikipedia is such an excellent encyclopaedic trove of the knowledge of the world, why don't you gurus of the SuSE distro-queen (or king) pour your knowledge into www.susewiki.org and make it the biggest repository of SuSE (maybe even Linux) knowledge? Heck, you can beat Micro$oft's "Know-falling-off-the-ledge Base" anytime, seeing as half of M$'s KB is about bugs and security issues and we already have Bugzilla to address that! If a simpleton like me can do it, you people of well developed frontal lobes can certainly do the same. :) I trust this action meets with the approval of all the good people here. -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org

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