November 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] 11.4 FireFox 8.0 - how to turn OFF select of html format for select buffer -- damnit!
by David C. Rankin 27 Nov '11

27 Nov '11

Guys, I HATE the fact that the new browsers and office suites try to think for you but end up totally screwing up functionality. Today with documents/spreadsheets being created from multiple web-based sources, every time I go to copy something from the web and then paste it into a document, even with the select/middle-mouse (select buffer), it pastes the damn source format of the web page totally borking the document I'm working on. Libre office is the absolute worst about this, OO a bit better, but still plagued by it, now firefox is basically useless as a source for document creation. In firefox, if I select anything and then middle-mouse paste using the select buffer, the damn formatting comes along too. How in the heck do I tell it to stop this crap? I'm working on a OO spreadsheet and I'm trying to select/paste model numbers into a column with a spreadsheet font of Sans 9. There is NO way I can find to select/paste into the spreadsheet from firefox without the format being screwed up. I don't want a 64 pt. red font in my spreadsheet. If I use the copy buffer, then I can select the text, use ctrl+c and then use ctrl+shift+v and choose 'unformatted text', but so "the hell much" for efficiency. That requires a 'select' and then an additional ctrl+c to copy, then a ctrl+shift+v to bring up the 'paste special dialog' and then a select of 'unformatted text' just to paste WHAT USED TO BE a simple efficient 'select/middle-mouse' (done). What gives? Surely the developers are not so stupid as to believe every user wants to paste size 64 red text into a spreadsheet and not even leave a simple way to disable the format copy so you can still use the select buffer to get work done. Guys, I hope I'm wrong here, and there is still a simple way to tell FF I don't want the html format, but I need help finding it. I've already bugged Libre and talked with the ApacheOO devs about this issue, but that does me no good today. What is the solution here? I should NOT have to go through 'select', 'ctrl+c', 'ctrl+shift+v', select of 'unformatted text' (or select/middle-mouse paste into kwrite and then select-again/middle-mouse-paste-again) just to paste into a spreadsheet without getting size 64 red text. All of this *utterly destroys* the elegant select/middle-mouse paste efficiency that Linux developers worked so hard to brilliantly create. NEW FEATURES ARE BUGS IF THERE IS NO WAY TO TURN THEM OFF! How do I fix this problem?? </rant> -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Can't use mail - 12.1
by James Knott 27 Nov '11

27 Nov '11

In attempting to set up Thunderbird to use a system email account, I discovered a problem with mail. Thunderbird complained it couldn't find the mail spool. I then tried running mail from the command prompt. After trying to send a message, I got an error "postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory". This is on 12.1. I also tried creating another user, to make sure the problem wasn't caused by something in my home directory, but got the same result. Any ideas? This is the first time I've ever seen mail fail. tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Playing DVDs in Kaffeine - 12.1
by James Knott 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

In a previous version of openSUSE, I was able to play DVDs on my computer, after downloading some codecs from Packman (IIRC). However, I don't seem to have much luck doing that now. I have the Packman multimedia repository added to the software repositories. At the moment, I'm getting an error message "Read error from: Error reading from DVD", though earlier I had seen messages about encryption. Any ideas? tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] openSUSE Weekly News Issue 203 is out!
by Sascha Manns 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

We are pleased to announce: Issue 203 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this Issue: openSUSE 12.1: All green Board Election Kernel Log: real-time kernel goes Linux 3.0 and many more … For a list of available translations see the Translations Section in the actual Weekly News. [0] http://bit.ly/tS50UR (in PDF) [0] http://bit.ly/tmKG35 (in HTML with Bento Theme) [0] http://bit.ly/sw44kE (in HTML with Susebooks Theme)) -- Sincerly yours Sascha Manns Community &Support Agent open-slx GmbH http://www.open-slx.de This mail is written with Balsam Professional 12.1

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[opensuse] change yast2 colors/style in oS 12.1
by Istvan Gabor 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

Hello: I would like to change to color style of yast in openSUSE 12.1. How can I do it? Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Fwd: Re: Avantfax 3.3.3 Stopped Working? require_once(): Failed opening required 'NULL.php' line 22 classes.php
by David C. Rankin 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

Guys, If you use the Avantfax fax server, you will have problems with the recent versions of PHP. The follow is the fix implemented by the Avantfax developer which you will need to incorporate until a new version of Avantfax is released: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Avantfax 3.3.3 Stopped Working? require_once(): Failed opening required 'NULL.php' line 22 classes.php Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:36:59 +0100 From: David Mimms To: David C.Rankin J.D.P.E. Hi David, It's an issue with PHP 5.3. I logged in and changed the following in includes/classes.php: function __autoload($class_name) { if (file_exists($class_name.'.php')) // <------ require_once $class_name.'.php'; } And added " & ~E_DEPRECATED" to the error_reporting function in config.php to stopped all of the warnings about deprecated code from appearing. I need to get a new release out for all of the new PHP 5.3 users! Please let me know if you have any other problems. Thanks! David -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OpenSuse 11.4 on Dell Inspiron Duo - virtual keyboard
by Tazio Ceri 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

Hi all, I have installed OpenSUSE 11.4 (I will try 12.1 soon) on a Dell Inspiron Duo, just like in this blog post. http://www.wonko.de/2011/08/opensuse-114-on-dell-inspiron-duo-1090.html Everything is going fine with the following differencies: -) Touchscreen works out of the box (during installation too!) without problems. Problems will arrive if I try to install the productor's driver. -) I have not had any problem with other hardware (docking station, hibernation and so on). I have two remaining problems though: I can't login or unlock screen saver with a virtual keyboard. Usually I use kvkdb and KDE4, and I have not found a solution to this and I am looking for ideas and alternatives (No, I have not tried plasma yet). Praise -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Disabling EXA and using XAA
by Christoph Bartoschek 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

Hi, I have a big performance problem with newer opensuse versions. One application that runs fine on older XFree86 servers is extremely slow on newer ones. For example showing the first picture on older servers was a matter of fractions of a second. Currently it takes a minute. The profiler says that Xorg spends 95% of its time in pixman_op calculating intersections. Because the pixman routines are called by the EXA module as shown by the debugger, I wanted to disable it: #0 0xb763cc41 in pixman_op (new_reg=0xbfa30738, reg1=<optimized out>, reg2=0x894652c, overlap_func=0xb763c820 <pixman_region_intersect_o>, append_non1=0, append_non2=0, overlap=0xbfa306bc) at pixman-region.c:951 #1 0xb763e7bb in pixman_region_intersect (new_reg=0xbfa30738, reg1=0xbfa30738, reg2=0x894652c) at pixman-region.c:1214 #2 0xb710cda8 in RegionIntersect (reg2=<optimized out>, reg1=0xbfa30738, newReg=0xbfa30738) at ../include/regionstr.h:199 #3 exaCopyDirty (migrate=0xbfa307c0, pValidDst=0x8b29690, pValidSrc=0x8b2969c, transfer=0xb71de410, fallback_index=1, sync=0xb710b170 <exaWaitSync>) at exa_migration_classic.c:186 #4 0xb710ce68 in exaCopyDirtyToSys (migrate=0xbfa307c0) at exa_migration_classic.c:281 #5 0xb710f6cc in exaPrepareAccessReg_mixed (pPixmap=0x8b29630, index=0, pReg=0x0) at exa_migration_mixed.c:254 #6 0xb710b757 in exaPrepareAccess (pDrawable=0x8b29630, index=0) at exa.c:380 #7 0xb7119cbe in ExaCheckPolylines (pDrawable=0x8b29630, pGC=0x8b54ff8, mode=0, npt=2, ppt=0xbfa3090c) at exa_unaccel.c:264 #8 0xb710ffa0 in exaPolylines (pDrawable=0x8b29630, pGC=0x8b54ff8, mode=0, npt=2, ppt=0xbfa3090c) at exa_accel.c:666 #9 0x081af5a2 in miPolyRectangle (pDraw=0x8b29630, pGC=0x8b54ff8, nrects=2044, pRects=0x8f55a0c) at mipolyrect.c:110 #10 0x0812d6b7 in damagePolyRectangle (pDrawable=0x8b29630, pGC=0x8b54ff8, nRects=2044, pRects=0x8f55a0c) at damage.c:1206 #11 0x08071b99 in ProcPolyRectangle (client=0x896f7e0) at dispatch.c:1787 #12 0x080759d7 in Dispatch () at dispatch.c:431 #13 0x080687cc in main (argc=8, argv=0xbfa30b44, envp=0xbfa30b68) at main.c:287 I've added the following to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf: Section "Device" Option "AccelMethod" "xaa" Identifier "Default Device" EndSection Xorg reads the file because it says in its logfile: [ 21.481] (==) RADEON(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 [ 21.481] (II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps) [ 21.481] (==) RADEON(0): Default visual is TrueColor [ 21.481] (**) RADEON(0): Option "AccelMethod" "xaa" [ 21.481] (==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 888 [ 21.481] (II) RADEON(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC) [ 21.481] (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility X300 (M22) 5460 (PCIE)" (ChipID = 0x5460) [ 21.481] (II) RADEON(0): PCIE card detected However EXA is still used. What do I have to do in addition to disable EXA? Thanks Christoph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] best practices? setting up simple opensuse for newbie (sudo/kdesu and passwords, autoupdates)
by cagsm 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

i am no desktop user of linux, so this is rather new to me, i have always been using linux for many years on server side and console. want to give an easy opensuse system to a friend, a total computer newbie themselves. so i installed opensuse 11.4, install process created one user, that users pass did not become the roots pass. simple kde desktop. question is about how to configure opensuse the most simple but still secure way, so that this normal useraccount can do all the onlineupdates and isnt bothered with multiple passes such as root and their own for configuration if once needed. i thought about sudo and kdesu (and found some kderc or such config file in the users homedirectory) which would allow for using the users passwords instead of the rootpassword. only there seems to be some weird app on the kde desktop that comes up from time to time and says that it needs root password for proxy configuration and all that, although nobody is using a proxy anywhere, its some packagekit or such app, and i am rather confused as i have only known about that yast2 online_update module or some other kind of kde notifyer symbol, and this 11.4 system seems to have two distinct things here, the packagekit is the one that creates the problems and hassle. also it sometimes hogs and blocks the system and even zypper up and so on cant progress because of package blocking rpm database or such stuff. anyways, so what is a good way of giving a simple opensuse system to a newby enduser for simple desktop usage, so that a rootpassword is never being needed for the user, but the user should supply their own password once more instead to be able to execute the administrative tasks. or is there any better way to configure a secure and simple desktop for newbie users without confusing them too much? maybe i am too confused and trying too complicated things and there are more elegant ways. thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OS12.1 x64: tuxguitar fails to start
by JC Francois 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

Hi, I installed tuxguitar from the openSUSE repo. When I try to launch it from the console I get the following message: ------------- Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Could not load SWT library. Reasons: no swt-gtk-3730 in java.library.path no swt-gtk in java.library.path Can't load library: /home/jeancf/.swt/lib/linux/amd64/libswt-gtk-3730.so Can't load library: /home/jeancf/.swt/lib/linux/amd64/libswt-gtk.so at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:284) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:193) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.C.<clinit>(C.java:21) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:63) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:54) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:132) at org.herac.tuxguitar.gui.TuxGuitar.displayGUI(Unknown Source) at org.herac.tuxguitar.gui.TGMain.main(Unknown Source) ------------- "locate libswt-gtk-3730.so" returns nothing. However "locate libswt-gtk" returns /usr/lib64/eclipse/libswt-gtk-3735.so /usr/lib64/eclipse/libswt-gtk.so So it looks like tuxguitar is expecting an older version of the swt-gtk library than the one installed. Is there a workaround? Or do I need to file a bug? Thanks, JC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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