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Local Repository Copies?
by Lew Wolfgang 05 May '24

05 May '24

Hi Folks, Is there a way to maintain local copies of the openSUSE repositories? Maintenance includes keeping the local repos up-to-date by downloading only the deltas between the remote and local repos. I know how to do this using the Red Hat "reposync" program, a part of the yum/dnf package, but it just doesn't feel right having to depend on Red Hat for what would appear to be core functionality. Note: I can't use rsync due to policy constraints. But web ports 80 and 443 are okay. I know, go figure... Any thoughts? Regards, Lew

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kedit
by Carl Spitzer {L Juno} 04 May '24

04 May '24

is there still a version of this for opensuse 15.5 CWSIV

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Early distro update to Leap 15.6
by Darryl Gregorash 04 May '24

04 May '24

The 15.6 release candidate is now fixed, so I am thinking of doing a system upgrade now to resolve two issues with 15.5, one long-standing, the other occurring within the last week. Are there any issues which might make that a bad idea? If not, will another full update be needed when the final version is released on June 12?

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spam
by Dave Howorth 03 May '24

03 May '24

Today I have 5 spam messages, sent yesterday, addressed to users(a)lists.opensuse.org :( They are all sent by User-Agent: HyperKitty on https://lists.opensuse.org/ I've noticed previously that pretty much all the spam I receive from this list are sent in the same way. So if it's too much to ask that the filters for this source be made stricter, can I suggest that we simply ban people from submitting mail to the list in this way? Such traffic makes up less than 1% of the messages to the list, so we won't be losing much.

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VirtualBox and Leap 15.5
by Fred 03 May '24

03 May '24

I finally got around to installing 15.5 on my main machine here (up from 15.0) and with all such changes there are bumps along the way. The latest was trying to get VirtualBox to recognize USB items. I went through all the known and suggested fixes, the obvious ones like permissions and group memberships, etc but absolutely nothing was making a difference, to the point I started thinking "bug". So, I tossed a hail mary <-- American football term - and downloaded the .rpm from Oracle and told it to install and overwrite all. It did and the USB problem disappeared. Bug squished. The VB version on the OS repositories sucks. I have arrived at 15.5 late in the game; everyone else was probably aware of this item but thought I would put it out to the group anyway, just in case someone may have missed it.

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[oS-EN] New zypper question
by Carlos E. R. 02 May '24

02 May '24

Telcontar:~ # zypper install powertop ... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies... The following 2 NEW packages are going to be installed: powertop powertop-lang 2 new packages to install. Overall download size: 231.0 KiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 596.5 KiB will be used. Backend: classic_rpmtrans Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): Huh? What's that? Backend choice? This is Leap 15.5 -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Telcontar, using openSUSE Leap 15.5)

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Mozilla's GUI (non)conformity
by Ben T. Fender 01 May '24

01 May '24

I use Plasma & XFCE depending on the booted distro and most non-KDE apps konform at least to some extent with the KDE desktop when KDE is used examples being Pan, Sylpheed, gftp and even nedit. The ONE set that is almost always problematic is anything Mozilla, Firefox in this particular case. I cannot change the title bar from black which just makes it impossible to distinguish from darker wallpapers, there being no way to select something with a contrasting window border either. How can I fix this?

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Missing window frames on XFCE after update
by Robert Schweikert 01 May '24

01 May '24

Hi, I had to shutdown my machine due to impending power outage. Clever me I figured I'd update before shutdown to pick up whatever was new. Well, whatever is new since my last update on openSUSE Leap 15.5 messed up my XFCE settings. When I start a new application there are no window frames and everything starts in the upper left hand corner. Alt-Tab is not working to switch between apps Since there are no window frames I cannot move windows around. And there is only 1 workspace, albeit the workspace settings dialog shows that there should be 4, which is what I had setup prior to system shutdown. Any ideas? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Distinguished Engineer LINUX rjschwei(a)suse.com IRC: robjo

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a bit OT: how to GIMP:open as layers from dolphin
by Daniel Bauer 01 May '24

01 May '24

Hello, In Gimp I can select various files and open them as layers. I would love to be able to do this from dolphin: select files -> open as -> layers in Gimp. Is this possible somehow? How? Thanks for hints, if possible. Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga Twitter: @Marsfotografo (often explicit nudes) https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com (nudes)

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[oS-EN] [Leap 15.6 Alpha] Laicolasse - Beta
by Carlos E. R. 01 May '24

01 May '24

Hi, After a kernel Oops when attempting to connect via WiFi, on the next boot Network Manager is gone. How do I put it back in the panel? Using XFCE. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.6 Beta (Laicolasse))

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