March 2005 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

KDE Desktop Usability Survey
by Randall R Schulz 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Hi, This showed up in the KDE Dot News RSS Feed: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- The HASE (Human Aspects of Software Engineering) group at the University of Maryland Baltimore County is conducting two online surveys for KDE users. They expect to obtain results that will lead to useful discussions about the overall usability of KDE. The results of this research will be shared with the KDE community. The surveys take about 15 minutes to complete. -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- See <http://dot.kde.org/1112059768/> Randall Schulz

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*Newbie* Dictionary on the panel?
by Andy Yankovich 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi all, At one point during my several reformats and reinstalls, I was able to get a dictionary placed on my panel. After updating to KDE 3.3, I can no longer find the dictionary by right clicking the panel. Does anyone know how I should be able to get a dictionary on my panel again? In my old age of 70 I guess I am getting soooo senile that ....and I forgot what I was going to say. Thank you, Andy

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Re: [suse-kde] KDE 3.4 translucency problem
by Jim Frost 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

On 27-03-05 20:46, Carl Luescher wrote: >> I cannot assist you, but I hope you don't mind me adding this to the thread >> using the same subject line since my issue is not being able to run >> translucency / shadows at all. Turning this option on will crash X and I >> find myself back at the login prompt again. I had to re-login twice before I >> was able to turn it back off. Using SuSE 9.2, KDE 3.4, 2.6.8-24.13 kernel >> (custom re-compile for smp and scsi raid) on the latest Nvidia drivers. >> Nothing found searching the web and until now, nothing mentioned in this >> mailing list. I understand the warnings, this option gives by turning on, >> but all I've seen on the web, seems to work everywhere. Maybe the video card >> lacks memory (only 64Mb)? KDE windows _really_ slow for the time before >> crashing. >> >> Anyone else? >> > > I have a nVidia Go5200 with nVidia driver and the same Kernel and SuSE version you have but didn't have crashing after I added the "Composite" extension to the xorg config. It was very slow but after turning the "RenderAccel" on that is gone now and it is wroking normally now. Still it is buggy somehow I think (specially the translucency) but it is really beautiful and amazing. I'm really impressed. cheers Hamid I seem to find that the desktop in Gnome (2.6) appears so much sharper than in KDE 3.4, or is it my eyes?

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KDE 3.4 translucency problem
by Ohadi, Hamid 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hello all, I have a problem in KDE 3.4 with the translucency enabled. It seems that it happens only with Konqueror. If you open two windows which one of them is Konqueror and you move the Konqueror window it stays translucent and doesn't recover from it. Has anybody else come across this problem or is there something faulty in my Konqueror config? All the best Hamid

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KDE 3.4 / KMail 1.8 Wallet Hell and Authorization Failures
by Randall R Schulz 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi, I upgraded to the KDE 3.4 supplementary packages. I'm running a SuSE 9.1 that was upgraded along the way with all the supplementary KDE releases, meaning just prior to this I was running KDE 3.3 and KMail 1.7. Up til now, everything was working swimmingly. Since the upgrade, KMail is badgering me to use the wallet contraption to store my passwords. I don't want to do this. How can I get it to leave me alone and just store the passwords obfuscated in its settings file the way it has all along? Secondly, some of my mail servers require an authentication or security mode that KMail no longer seems to be able to supply. I'm getting alerts when transferring mail with some servers that state: "Authorization failed, An error occured during authentication: SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found authentication not supported" [ By the way, everything between those quote marks is exactly what's in the alert I see, bad spelling and poor punctuation included. ] Can anybody tell me what's up and how I can fix it? I have both logged out and back in and rebooted and these symptoms persist. Thanks. Randall Schulz

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beagle
by Georgi Ivanov 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi, Anyone installed beagle ? I can't install it from red-carpet as described on http://www.beaglewiki.org/index.php/SuseInstall There is dbus-sharp dependancy that can't be resolved. So i installed everything from red-carpet (mono,gecko-sharp etc.) and compiled dbus and beagle from source(Tried with diferent version of beagle and dbus). When i start the beagledi get : --------------------------------------------------------------------------- rat@joro:~> beagled --fg --debug INFO: Starting Beagle Daemon (version 0.0.8) DEBUG: Command Line: /usr/local//lib/beagle/BeagleDaemon.exe --debug --fg DEBUG: Initializing D-BUS DEBUG: Acquiring com.novell.Beagle D-BUS service DEBUG: Found index helper at /usr/local/lib/beagle/beagled-index-helper DEBUG: Launching helper process! DEBUG: D-BUS registered obj=Beagle.IndexHelper.RemoteIndexerImpl path=/com/novell/BeagleIndexHelper/Factory owner=(none) DEBUG: Helper Size: VmRSS=9.3 MB, size=1.00, 0.0% Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in <0x00000> <unknown method> in (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Application:gtk_main () in <0x00007> Gtk.Application:Run () in <0x002c1> Beagle.IndexHelper.IndexHelperTool:Main (System.String[] args) DEBUG: Connecting to com.novell.BeagleIndexHelper DEBUG: Waiting for com.novell.BeagleIndexHelper... DEBUG: Waiting for com.novell.BeagleIndexHelper... DEBUG: Waiting for com.novell.BeagleIndexHelper... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- and so it loops. Anyone have ideas what is the problem ?

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sux not working after kde update
by Michael Schmuker 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi all, after an upgrade of KDE to version 3.4 via Yast the "sux" script seems broken. The typical error looks like that: micha@Moehre:~> sux Password: Moehre:/home/micha # xeyes Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Protocol not supported by server Error: Can't open display: :0.0 An "xhost +" remedies this problem, but the purpose of the sux script is to avoid disabling acces control, I suppose. I'm using Suse 9.1. After the update I cleaned up /tmp and ran the genkdmconfig script. Anybody has a similar problem and knows how to solve it? Thanks in advance, Michael -- Michael Schmuker University of Frankfurt Chair of Cheminformatics

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Kmail does not delete email from server
by James Mohr 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hi All! I am using Kmail 1.5.4 (part of KDE 3.1.4) with several POP3 accounts. With a couple I a shell account, I can see that the email is not being deleted. Other than checking the box "Delete mail from server" should I be doing something else? Could this be a server problem? This problem has been going on for a long time and I have posted to lists before but have never gotten an answer. I have googled many times and the answer has always been to set it in Settings->Configure KMail->Network, which I have. Either this bug has been there for years or I am doing something wrong. I know not which. Any help is greatly appreaciated. Regards, jimmo -- --------------------------------------- "Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden --------------------------------------- Be sure to visit the Linux Tutorial: http://www.linux-tutorial.info --------------------------------------- NOTE: All messages sent to me in response to my posts to newsgroups or forums are subject to reposting.

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KDE 3.4 on SuSe 9.1
by dpamar 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Can anyone send me instructions how to install kde 3.4 on suse 9.1? -D PS : I'm new to Linux and Suse.

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disabling kde 3.4 kdm login window messages
by Gabor Istvan 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Dear list members: I've just upgraded my kde 3.3.2 to 3.4 on SuSE 9.2. I do not like the messages window under the user list in the login screen. Is there any way to disable it? I could not find such an option in the login manager. Thanks, IG

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