February 2003 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

KMAIL - ooohhh this is really starting to...
by David Herman 16 Mar '03

16 Mar '03

I love kmail but I'm really starting to get frustrated. Every once in awhile Kmail will magically mark all the mail in certain folders as NEW. That wouldn't be a big problem except I spend a fair amount of time Marking messages that I find particularly fascinating as "Important". When kmail marks all the messages as new then it is easy to change the status of all messages to "Read" but I lose the visual cue I so lovingly created. Another curious effect: occasionally long deleted messages are returned to their orriginal folder (I empty the trash frequently and actually quit the program in hopes of preventing this). Kmail is not marking the mail in all folders as new, it seems to me that it is only doing this to folders that recieve unread mail (ie my filters send the incoming mail to the desired folder before I read it) Is there any way to restore the folders previous states rather than the unsatisfactory and ham fisted "folder-->mark all messages as read" menu? nb. I'm not interested in switching to evolution or mutt right now. Thanks for your ideas -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!

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Konstruct
by David Herman 15 Mar '03

15 Mar '03

I've compiled a few programs and patched and installed my own kernel so I'm kind of interested in a new adventure... I'm just downloading Konstruct and I'd love to hear others experiences and tips about using it to build kde3.1 on SuSE8.1. And now back to your regularly scheduled mailing list... -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!

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Sprache, Icons Einstellung
by Ronnie Gaensli 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

Hallo zusammen! Ich habe seit eineiger Zeit eine SuSE 8.1 Prof. Installation laufen, ohne 20 weitere Probleme. Vor einigen Tagen ist mir etwas unerklärliches widerfahren. Nach dem ich einige Programme die auf meiner HD rumliegen ausprobierte, war die Sprache des KDE von Deutsch auf Englisch (bzw. Default) umgestellt, weiter waren die Icons geändert (Von Crystal auf Standard KDE [oder so]). Nun kann ich die Sprache und Icons zwar im KDE Control Center ändern, aber zu keiner änderung. Das letzte Programm das ich vermutlich ausprobiert hatte war Kwatch (Log File überwachung). Bei anderen Benutzern hat sich nichts geändert, und dort kann ich wie zu erwarten die Sprache ändern wenn ich will. Wer weiss Rat? Danke im voraus! R. Gaensli

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KDE 3.1: kpackage
by Tobias Crefeld 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

After an update of a SuSE-8.0-installation from KDE 3.05a to 3.1 (rpm from supplementary) kpackage of KDE-3.1 doesn't find the files in the rpm-directories in "options" any more. I think this problem already existed with an early KDE3-Version but after some updates it disappeared. Now kpackage shows only the actually installed packages from the rpm-database. i glad that an old kpackage of KDE2 still works fine.

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Settings for real-player messed up
by Klaus Vink Slott 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

Hello One of my users cant start realplayer anymore. If a link is pressed in konq. or he just try to run it from promt - the CPU load goes to 100% until the process is killed. No realplay window. Other users on the same machine have no problems. I guess some settings for realplay is messed up - how do I restore these without loosing the entire desktop -- Regards Klaus Vink Slott

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Knotes & Kalarm Lost The Plot
by Dave Barton 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

Can someone explain how Knotes & Kalarm can suddenly lose all my previous notes & alarms? My ~/.kde/share/apps/knotes/notes directory still contain the knote_data files, but they are zero byte files and my ~/.kde/share/apps/kalarm has the ".ics" files but they contain no valid data. This appears to have happened after ooo.org's calc program caused my system to freeze (which it does with monotonous regularity) requiring a hardware reboot. Anyone else having a problem like this with Knotes or Kalarm? Dave SuSE 8.0 KDE 3.0.5 -- Registered Linux User #288562 http://counter.li.org

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Konqueror & RPM downloads
by Graham Murray 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

Sometimes (often) when clicking on a web page to download an RPM, konqueror downloads the file to a temporary directory, showing progress in a separate window, and displays a page offering to show details of the RPM and to install using YaST. Other times the window just goes black, the file is fetched but there is no indication of where it (or if) it has been saved and no option to install or examine it. How do I configure konqueror to always offer to install the RPM rather than 'silently' transferring apparently to /dev/null?

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.xsession-errors eats entire free space
by Vadym Krevs 27 Feb '03

27 Feb '03

Hi there I am using Suse Linux 8.1 Professional on IA32 with KDE 3.1 rpms from Suse's ftp site. Since I had installed KDE 3.1 rpms, Konqueror and Kopete fill ~/.xsession-errors file with repeated warnings such as shown below until the file eats up all free space on my partition. I have tried using rpm -ivh *.rpm --replacefiles --replacepkgs, but that didn't help. konqueror: WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) \x08 Major opcode: * bitBlt: Incompatible destination pixmap kopete: WARNING: 14:30:14 [WRN] List event 0001 not found kopete: WARNING: 14:30:14 [WRN] Various event ID 0004 not found (A) Any ideas? Regards, Vadym

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KMail rpm
by kbb0927＠cs.com 26 Feb '03

26 Feb '03

Hello, Can someone tell me which rpm contains KMail for KDE3.1. I upgraded initially from the KDE site and all went well. I then used the newly released KDE3.1 from SuSE's ftp site and now KMail won't work. It segfaults. I want to go back to KDE site and use that rpm only to fix KMail since it worked from that site, unless someone can give other suggestions. Thanks in advance, Keith B.

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Keyboard group toggle in KDE 3.1
by Konstantinos Georgokitsos 26 Feb '03

26 Feb '03

I have problems with my keyboard group toggle. With KDE3.04 I had used /etc/X11/XF86Config to set the toggle keys to alt-shift (to toggle between keyboard language settings, greek - US in my case). Now, I saw the Keyboard Settings dialogue in the Control Center, and set there the "Group Shift/Lock behaviour" to "Alt+Shift changes group". As soon as I applied it, the nice mini-US flag in Kicker showed up, but the toggle keys didn't work anymore... I can change the keyboard, clicking the flag, so that at least works. I commented out the setting in XF86Config for possible interference problems, but that didn't help. Any ideas? Kostas

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kmail - illegal character in input stream!
by brunft 26 Feb '03

26 Feb '03

Hi all, i am using KDE 3.1 on SuSE 8.1. I've problems with KMail, it seems that Emails with german charsets are not displayed correctly. I got the following msg in the console WARNING: QuotedPrintableDecoder: ü illegal character in input stream! Ignoring. WARNING: QuotedPrintableDecoder: ß illegal character in input stream! Ignoring. for every character in the viewed email which is not part of the us-ascii (?) charset. The charset int the content-type in the message header is correctly set ... Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 'Set encoding' in the 'View' menu is set to Automatic, but if i set it manually to ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15 the problem is the same. I've set up SuSE (and KDE) with english language maybe that's the problem? Strange is, that i got a HTML email, which is displayed correctly. (Content-Type: multipart/alternative; ...) May i've to set a certain environment variable or could that be a kde bug? thx in advance brunft

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8.0 KDE 3.1 pkgs VS 8.1 KDE 3.1 pkgs...why is 8.0 lacking?
by Ben Rosenberg 26 Feb '03

26 Feb '03

Question for any SuSE people on the list. Why weren't all the KDE 3.1 pkgs that were made for 8.1 made for 8.0? I hope it's not as lame as the font smoothing and icons smoothing excuse between 7.3 and 8.0. Mainly because 8.1 and 8.0 have pretty much the same XFree86 version and many other libs are the same. Could someone shed some light on this? -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.

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login manager
by marconi barbosa 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

Hi folks, On a suse 8.0/KDE 3.1 machine. Since the somewhat discussed move to 3.1 the login manager on the control center won't implement changes. Heard someone saying that there is a bug preventing the manager to write to the config. Is there a way to sort this? Got used to my old settings.... can't be blamed by that, I guess... Thanks to all Ps. My kde graphic Yast2 still not working. Doesn't seems to be a qt3/qt3-non-mt issue as I tryed both. Getting along with the terminal. Marconi

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Using KMail with netscape
by Torsten Foertsch 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello How can I configure KMail to start a browser other than konqueror e.g. netscape or something like 'netscape --remote ...'? Is it possible to have netscape/mozilla start 'kmail --compose' on mailto: links? If yes, how? Thanks Torsten -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+WdjlwicyCTir8T4RAhoHAJ4kR4TWNnsw2vT8ByXV50amJBOvlQCglYmn BStpwjFDFOFnKjB02m/1eUw= =s7c8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SuSE 8.1 + KMail 1.5
by Thomas.Satzinger＠t-online.de 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

Hi to all after updating to KDE3.1, and so to KMail 1.5 i do have the following thing: When deleting an mail from a folder it does not appear in the trash, it's simply gone. Where can i change this? Thanks Thomas

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messed up login (KDE 3.1 on Suse 8.1)
by Andreas Bauer 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

Hello together I just moved to Kde 3.1 on a new installed suse 8.1. I was playing around with the settings of the Loginmanager (put a clock, my user should be preselected etc.) Now what i got is a list of many users (dialup,.....) and of the possible sessions KDE is gone :( (in the kcontrolcenter it says that it should be there) When login now i just get a xterm from where I can start Kde, and then everything works fine. I putted all settings back to defaults, but nothing :( Anyone an idea how to get this thing back. I would have no problem with reinstalling the rpm containing the loginmanager, etc. Thanks for your help Andi

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Html export in korganizer 3.1
by Jeroen Leijen 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

Hi, A lot of things seem to be broken on my 3.1 installation on Suse 8.1. Can anyone confirm that the export to html option in korganizer 3.1 is still available? Thanks. Jeroen from Amsterdam ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ check www.21exposed.net

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Listen up - konq fix!
by Curtis Rey 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok, word has come down from on high that many of the issues people have experienced has been fixed, e.g. the KDE Crash Handler presenting itself each time at shut. One of the workarounds was to delete the .kde folder in the <user> directory. This was not very favorable concerning settings, files and desktop customization being lost. Seems there was a short time a kdebase3 package didn't have the kdebase3-konqeror package in it. So a YaST installed (or manually installed) kdebase3-konqueror packages weren't available - this is now fixed NOW to FIX this you'll need to do rpm -e kdebase3-konqueror and then reinstall the "kdebase3" package provide on the SuSE ftp site for kde. You can do this manually by downloading the package, or if YaST is set up and accessing the alternative ftp "yast-source" directory then you can go this route. Just a reminder. SuSE has created a "yast-source" directory on the public ftp server under the parent directory of kde supplementary updates of 8.1 (I haven't looked at the other versions to see of this is there - ? don't know if it is ). Anyway, to be able to use YaST via install and remove software you start YaST - ->Change source of installation -> add ftp. Server: ftp.gwdg.de Directory: pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.1/yast… Be sure that the kde 3.1 is the first source (button up/down - move to top). Start Yast: add/remove software and you should see the kde3.1 package. This system has just been put in place and has only been officially tested with two machines. Others had noted that they can use this while some have had little success - this issue, if your experiencing it, should be resolved in due course. Cheers and hope this helps. Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Wo2o7WVLiDrqeksRAuBIAKDehNkOqgUiLxe9t9/+z7KNKwjx5wCfX5eq OlChg5slWIbH1eB2g/NTL6I= =Sv9K -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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transparent kicker ?
by Thomas Goetz 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

anyone knows if it's possible to have kicker background transparent ? I saw this in several screenshots on http://www.kde-look.org. -- Thomas Götz ICQ 22643485 pgp-key available, just ask ;-)

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desktop icons dont stick
by Richard 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

I am using Suse 8.1 with KDE 3.1 After doing an upgrade with apt-get, any icons I add to the desktop or any icons I move on the desktop, disappear or simply move back to original position. I know I have seen the answer to this question but after 2 hours of searching the mail lists, google and the faqs, I give up and beg for help. What am I missing? Thanks, Richard

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Alt+F2 behaviour
by sven.ehret＠gmx.de 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is there any sense in, having installed a program from the command line or kpackage like, let's say, netscape, and afterwards hitting [Alt]+[F2] to have "kdesu /sbin/yast2 'i* *netscape'" popping up? I already have this proggie installed! This is especially annoying when I install versions from the bleeding edge. Having them installed properly, I have to install the default package and then upgrade again to have [Alt]+[F2] working. I can't find what causes this where. - -- Sven Ehret - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+WXab5dQOSMtmKR0RAopsAJ9rf30fYcgRJAaHH7inENA/9wpdsACeOARc xlAbFaq77ciJaBbwv7jHGTs= =lKmK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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YAST text input not working.
by pnunn＠pncomputing.biz 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

Hi guys, I've recently upgraded my laptop to KDE 3.1 running Suse 8.1 and most things seem to be fine. I'm currently trying to setup profiles so that I can use it at work and home on the networks, but have discovered that I can't enter any text from the keyboard into the edit fields in YAST. I can past in text I type in say Eterm, but can't directly enter anything. Any ideas where to look? BTW, the profiles don't seem to be working too well either, but the two things might be related I guess. Thanks. Peter.

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3.1 and kuickshow
by Neville Cobb 23 Feb '03

23 Feb '03

Has anyone ben able to get kuickshow working under 3.1. According to nthe documentation it should be there under kdegraphics and the rpm provides also say this. Nev

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Need Help Getting Kpilot Working in SuSE 8.1
by Ralph De Witt 23 Feb '03

23 Feb '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI All: I have just installed KDE 3.1 and Kpilot 4.3.6 on SuSE 8.1. I seem to have several problems getting the Palm Pilot to sync. The first problem I have is that I can not find a /dev/pilot anywhere on my system to point to the usb hot sync cradle. The second problem is that when Kpilot is started it complains about not being able to open the addressbook database etc.. This I believe is caused by the fact that a hot sync has not been proformed so they have not been created. Can someone help me straighten out the /dev/pilot problem and get it pointing to the usb hot sync cradle. Thanks for your help. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE-Linux 8.1 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key id = 3097 3BC4 Kernel version 2.4.19-4GB Current Linux uptime: 5:31, days users hours minutes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+WOj3mmsm1DCXO8QRAq1DAJ4yif0hzALkIwrJSE336SMuKcUARwCgsMD6 lGu4heRhvbYSbTXMl884y2U= =PxZw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Konqueror right-click context menu
by Jeroen Leijen 23 Feb '03

23 Feb '03

Hi, I upgraded from KDE 3.0.5 to 3.1 on my Suse 8.1 system using yast with the 3.1 packages that Suse provides on their site. In konqueror 3.0.5 I used to have a 'Copy to' and a 'Move to' entry in the context menu when right-clicking a file or directory. Now it's gone although it should be there according the 3.1 documentation. Anyone on restoring the 'Copy to' and 'Move to' entry in the right-click contect menu? Thanks Jeroen from Amsterdam ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ check www.21exposed.net

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