[opensuse-factory] Things that I would like in openSUSE 11.1
Hi, I have just downloaded the live CD of openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5. I mainly would like a better support for my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 laptop: - The brightness keys don't work at all (but I think that this is fixed in thinkpad-acpi already) - Toggle video internal/external don't work Also: - A visual notification for up/down/mute the volume level in KDE4. - Firefox to use kmail for follow mailto: and send emails (I really don't know if this is fixed or not, I'm posting from my openSUSE 11.0). Thanks, I will waiting your ans. -- Xavier Callejas --- Open Your Mind, Use Open Source. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 20:14 -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
Hi,
I have just downloaded the live CD of openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5.
I mainly would like a better support for my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 laptop:
- The brightness keys don't work at all (but I think that this is fixed in thinkpad-acpi already)
- Toggle video internal/external don't work
Also:
- A visual notification for up/down/mute the volume level in KDE4.
- Firefox to use kmail for follow mailto: and send emails (I really don't know if this is fixed or not, I'm posting from my openSUSE 11.0).
Thanks, I will waiting your ans.
-- Xavier Callejas --- Open Your Mind, Use Open Source.
Xavier, Please check and see if any bug reports have been filed for the items you mentioned. If not, please file them in Bugzilla. Be sure to give detailed information about what is wrong, and what fixes can be implemented if you know of any. Thank you for your helpful comments. -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:14:07PM -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
Hi,
I have just downloaded the live CD of openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5.
I mainly would like a better support for my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 laptop:
- The brightness keys don't work at all (but I think that this is fixed in thinkpad-acpi already)
Fixed where?
- Toggle video internal/external don't work
Plug in your external, and it should automatically show up there.
Thanks, I will waiting your ans.
Please file bugs in bugzilla.novell.com if you want things to change. good luck, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 14 November 2008 22:20:17 Greg KH wrote:
- The brightness keys don't work at all (but I think that this is fixed in thinkpad-acpi already)
Fixed where?
I read this recently in the ibm-acpi devel list. There is a patch, but it is only for recompiling the kernel, I thought it would came merged in openSUSE 11.1 (I don't want to recompile the kernel). Also, a friend gave me, a couple of day ago, a copy of kubungo 8.10 live cd, I run it in my laptop and the brightness keys works (If I remember well it runs kernel 2.6.27-7); also it has a visual notification for changing the volume with the volume up/down/mute keys. If I were not a openSUSE fan, I probably would install it in my laptop. -- Xavier Callejas --- Open Your Mind, Use Open Source. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:15:39AM -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
On Friday 14 November 2008 22:20:17 Greg KH wrote:
- The brightness keys don't work at all (but I think that this is fixed in thinkpad-acpi already)
Fixed where?
I read this recently in the ibm-acpi devel list. There is a patch, but it is only for recompiling the kernel, I thought it would came merged in openSUSE 11.1 (I don't want to recompile the kernel).
Do you have a pointer to this patch? If no one tells the suse kernel developers about such things, how can you expect it to automatically show up in our kernel? :)
Also, a friend gave me, a couple of day ago, a copy of kubungo 8.10 live cd, I run it in my laptop and the brightness keys works (If I remember well it runs kernel 2.6.27-7); also it has a visual notification for changing the volume with the volume up/down/mute keys. If I were not a openSUSE fan, I probably would install it in my laptop.
That's probably using a userspace tool for this, or the think-pad kernel module, which we do offer. Have you tried them out? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 14 November 2008 22:20:17 Greg KH wrote:
- Toggle video internal/external don't work
Plug in your external, and it should automatically show up there.
Yes, it works that way, but I would like to make a fast toggle for a moment when I don't want people look what I'm going to do in my laptop, then toggle it again to continue the presentation. Well, this feature is not critical to me as the other ones I wrote (volume and brightness keys) -- Xavier Callejas --- Open Your Mind, Use Open Source. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:18:48AM -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
On Friday 14 November 2008 22:20:17 Greg KH wrote:
- Toggle video internal/external don't work
Plug in your external, and it should automatically show up there.
Yes, it works that way, but I would like to make a fast toggle for a moment when I don't want people look what I'm going to do in my laptop, then toggle it again to continue the presentation.
Just define the external screen as a "second monitor" then you can do whatever you want on your laptop screen, and no one can see a thing. Best part of this is the openoffice presentation mode plugin works wonderfully, showing the slide on the external screen, and your notes and next slide on your laptop screen. Can't recommend that enough to people, it's wonderful. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 15 November 2008 00:27:57 Greg KH wrote:
Just define the external screen as a "second monitor" then you can do whatever you want on your laptop screen, and no one can see a thing.
Best part of this is the openoffice presentation mode plugin works wonderfully, showing the slide on the external screen, and your notes and next slide on your laptop screen. Can't recommend that enough to people, it's wonderful.
thanks,
Thank you, I will try this out. -- Xavier Callejas --- Open Your Mind, Use Open Source. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 22:27 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Just define the external screen as a "second monitor" then you can do whatever you want on your laptop screen, and no one can see a thing.
Best part of this is the openoffice presentation mode plugin works wonderfully, showing the slide on the external screen, and your notes and next slide on your laptop screen. Can't recommend that enough to people, it's wonderful.
Have you ever had any luck getting your second monitor to run at a completely different resolution? I have a laptop with an ATI Radeon Mobility HD 2600 and I've given up running dual monitors with it because my native laptop LCD is 1680x1050 and my second monitor is 1280x1024 and they just won't play nice together. Of course I have the same problem with LCD projectors and so I end up running "clone" mode at whatever resolution the projector supports. -- John Lange www.johnlange.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:30:02AM -0600, John Lange wrote:
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 22:27 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Just define the external screen as a "second monitor" then you can do whatever you want on your laptop screen, and no one can see a thing.
Best part of this is the openoffice presentation mode plugin works wonderfully, showing the slide on the external screen, and your notes and next slide on your laptop screen. Can't recommend that enough to people, it's wonderful.
Have you ever had any luck getting your second monitor to run at a completely different resolution?
Yes.
I have a laptop with an ATI Radeon Mobility HD 2600 and I've given up running dual monitors with it because my native laptop LCD is 1680x1050 and my second monitor is 1280x1024 and they just won't play nice together.
I use intel controllers, you might want to switch :) good luck, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2008-11-14 at 20:14 -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
- Firefox to use kmail for follow mailto: and send emails (I really don't know if this is fixed or not, I'm posting from my openSUSE 11.0).
I don't think that needs "fixing". Firefox should use thunderbird by default, obviously, as it is the other half of the suite. However, you should be able to change that. What you can request is a method to do that change on a click. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkeiUEACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XqQQCfXRpdm3HesjaD4S8f2WbPcrzz /LIAoJHh0Sc/GkTrPPmMF3fWZf42/8Kf =m8uN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 15 November 2008 09.33.02 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2008-11-14 at 20:14 -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
- Firefox to use kmail for follow mailto: and send emails (I really don't know if this is fixed or not, I'm posting from my openSUSE 11.0).
I don't think that needs "fixing". Firefox should use thunderbird by default, obviously, as it is the other half of the suite. However, you should be able to change that.
I think it should use whatever default e-mail client you configured. In KDE you can set this and I assume you can in GNOME as well.. GNOME come with evolution and KDE with kmail so having firefox to default to thunderbird sounds wrong to me.. /Per
What you can request is a method to do that change on a click.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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On Saturday 15 November 2008 10.16.04 Per Osbäck wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2008 09.33.02 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2008-11-14 at 20:14 -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
- Firefox to use kmail for follow mailto: and send emails (I really don't know if this is fixed or not, I'm posting from my openSUSE 11.0).
I don't think that needs "fixing". Firefox should use thunderbird by default, obviously, as it is the other half of the suite. However, you should be able to change that.
I think it should use whatever default e-mail client you configured. In KDE you can set this and I assume you can in GNOME as well..
You can set Firefox to use "xdg-email" and is should use your configured e-mail client. However, the installed xdg-email script seems to be a bit outdated, at least for KDE. It tries to run kmailservice which which isn't in the path. It is installed in "/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kmailservice" (at least in KDE4.2) Maybe someone running beta5 (and KDE4.1) can confirm that and file a bug. Thanks.
GNOME come with evolution and KDE with kmail so having firefox to default to thunderbird sounds wrong to me..
/Per
What you can request is a method to do that change on a click.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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On Saturday 15 November 2008 10.48.55 Per Osbäck wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2008 10.16.04 Per Osbäck wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2008 09.33.02 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2008-11-14 at 20:14 -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
- Firefox to use kmail for follow mailto: and send emails (I really don't know if this is fixed or not, I'm posting from my openSUSE 11.0).
I don't think that needs "fixing". Firefox should use thunderbird by default, obviously, as it is the other half of the suite. However, you should be able to change that.
I think it should use whatever default e-mail client you configured. In KDE you can set this and I assume you can in GNOME as well..
You can set Firefox to use "xdg-email" and is should use your configured e-mail client. However, the installed xdg-email script seems to be a bit outdated, at least for KDE. It tries to run kmailservice which which isn't in the path. It is installed in "/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kmailservice" (at least in KDE4.2)
Maybe someone running beta5 (and KDE4.1) can confirm that and file a bug.
Found a bug still open for 11.0 regarding this: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377522
Thanks.
GNOME come with evolution and KDE with kmail so having firefox to default to thunderbird sounds wrong to me..
/Per
What you can request is a method to do that change on a click.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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On Saturday 15 November 2008 01:16:04 am Per Osbäck wrote:
On Friday, 2008-11-14 at 20:14 -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
- Firefox to use kmail for follow mailto: and send emails (I really don't know if this is fixed or not, I'm posting from my openSUSE 11.0).
I don't think that needs "fixing". Firefox should use thunderbird by default, obviously, as it is the other half of the suite. However, you should be able to change that.
I think it should use whatever default e-mail client you configured. In KDE you can set this and I assume you can in GNOME as well..
GNOME come with evolution and KDE with kmail so having firefox to default to thunderbird sounds wrong to me..
With Firefox, you supposedly set the mail-to handler. In FF, you type about:config in the url. This brings up a bunch of stuff with config items. In the Filter area, type "mailto" and hit Enter or Tab to make the selection. You'll see all the "mailto" items. If it isn't, double-click on network.protocol-handler.external.mailto and make sure the value is "true". It should be by default. Now, do a right-click again and select New > String. A window will appear, asking you to set the name of the new config item, set it to network.protocol-handler.app.mailto and and click OK to confirm. A second window will appear to ask for the value of the config item. Type kmailservice and click OK. YMMV - I've tried this several times and get nothing for mailto: links. Here's some other info. http://forums.opensuse.org/archives/sf-archives/archives-software/341151-cal... In any case, it is not set by default to KMail. -- kai www.filesite.org || www.perfectreign.com Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Dee Hock -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 16 November 2008 15.26.10 Kai Ponte wrote:
On Saturday 15 November 2008 01:16:04 am Per Osbäck wrote:
On Friday, 2008-11-14 at 20:14 -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
- Firefox to use kmail for follow mailto: and send emails (I really don't know if this is fixed or not, I'm posting from my openSUSE 11.0).
I don't think that needs "fixing". Firefox should use thunderbird by default, obviously, as it is the other half of the suite. However, you should be able to change that.
I think it should use whatever default e-mail client you configured. In KDE you can set this and I assume you can in GNOME as well..
GNOME come with evolution and KDE with kmail so having firefox to default to thunderbird sounds wrong to me..
With Firefox, you supposedly set the mail-to handler.
thanks, I am aware of this, but I don't think this should be needed since you do choose your prefered e-mail client in gnome-default-application-properties and in KDEs system settings..it should respect that or that setting seem kinda useless. It doesn't sound very user friendly that a new user have configured and add keys using about:config just to get his (already default configured) e-mail client to popup.
In FF, you type about:config in the url.
This brings up a bunch of stuff with config items.
In the Filter area, type "mailto" and hit Enter or Tab to make the selection.
You'll see all the "mailto" items.
If it isn't, double-click on network.protocol-handler.external.mailto and make sure the value is "true". It should be by default.
Now, do a right-click again and select New > String.
A window will appear, asking you to set the name of the new config item, set it to network.protocol-handler.app.mailto and and click OK to confirm.
A second window will appear to ask for the value of the config item. Type kmailservice and click OK.
YMMV - I've tried this several times and get nothing for mailto: links.
Here's some other info.
http://forums.opensuse.org/archives/sf-archives/archives-software/341151-ca ll-kmail-firefox.html
In any case, it is not set by default to KMail.
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On Sunday 16 November 2008 06:40:13 am Per Osbäck wrote:
With Firefox, you supposedly set the mail-to handler.
thanks, I am aware of this, but I don't think this should be needed since you do choose your prefered e-mail client in gnome-default-application-properties and in KDEs system settings..it should respect that or that setting seem kinda useless.
Oh, I throughly agree!! This is 2008 and there should be a setting - either in YaST or KDE/GNOME Setup - to activate this. I'm honestly suprised I wasn't told to go to the command line and type something like: sudo setfirefx -mc kmailhandler -x yes --autocheck no | grep y r4ti -x nohandler --setmailto ...which, of course, I'm supposed to know from memory. :P -- kai www.filesite.org || www.perfectreign.com Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Dee Hock -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2008-11-14 at 20:14 -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
- Firefox to use kmail for follow mailto: and send emails (I really don't know if this is fixed or not, I'm posting from my openSUSE 11.0).
I don't think that needs "fixing". Firefox should use thunderbird by default, obviously, as it is the other half of the suite. However, you should be able to change that.
That's completely wrong thinking as there is no suite of those products, they just happen to come from the same community behind it but are two separate applications for either browsing or message handling. They don't even want to be a suite, they both just want to do their own thing as well as possible. If you want a real suite, use SeaMonkey. That said, Firefox uses the default mail application set in GNOME for launching mailto: links, so be sure to have Thunderbird set there if you want it to open instead of kmail, which currently seems to be set there. BTW, does anyone know if default app settings for browser/mail/etc. are standardized in a freedesktop.org manner? It would be so nice if apps from both sides of the large desktop environments (and even more) would just automatically respect the same settings for those default apps and e.g. open the same browser when opening URLs. Robert Kaiser -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Le samedi 15 novembre 2008, à 13:39 +0100, KaiRo - Robert Kaiser a écrit :
BTW, does anyone know if default app settings for browser/mail/etc. are standardized in a freedesktop.org manner?
I don't think it's standardized right now, although it sounds like we could (ab)use the mime type system for this. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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