Hi List,
... I finally installed SUSE 10.1 on my old and trusty laptop. Everything works great except four little things:
1. The settings for the launch feedback delay have vanished. It works fine but I can't adjust it anymore because there simply is no way to adjust it anymore after I initially adjusted it once. Don't know - i cannot look at my 10.1 install now, bit this is in the look and feel portion of KDE's Control center. But i had a similar failre with Mandriva after a KDE upgrade that i solved by just changing
Paul, Paul Foerster wrote: the KDE configration files manually (a workaround - i admit). Doe it also happen with a newly created user?
2. Is there a way to clone my complete KDE settings to a newly created user? Will copying the ~/.kde directory to the new user's home directory work?
I did this and it will work if you chown all he files to be for the new user. Once i had problems with temporary files (they were stillowned by the ld user) created in the /var directory but hat was when i changed it afterwards. But is shows where you maybe can encounter problems. There is also KDE's kiosk to change settings for all usres. tried tis once, but t is more work than this.
3. I use Gaim for Google Talk. When I log into KDE, it always pops up its buddy list window. It works like a charm but is there a way to prevent it from popping up the buddy list window?
Don't know. Maybe you have gaim in the KDE autostart folder and it also s launched in another way. That causes behaviour like this.
4. I installed Thunderbird and it works fine so far. I installed the English SUSE version because I don't like localized operating systems. Same goes for Thunderbird. My mother tongue is German so I tried to additionally install the German language pack for spell checking in Thunderbird because I also write German mails for obvious reasons. The installation went fine and it didn't spit out any error message. But the spell checking preferences do not show the German dictionary and it hence does not do German spell checking. What went wrong?
Maybe it can work automatically. My experience is that mozilla and thunderbird look at the 'myspell' files in the 'components' directory. I cannot find an rpm for Thunderbird that will do this automatically with suse (there should be international files). Youan do it the all manual way: - You will have to install he proper myspell files (for the german language). - This will put the .aff and .dic files in /usr/share/myspell - Make a symbolic link from this files to (for thunderbird) /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/myspell (don'tknow why it is here. For mozilla it was always in /opt/mozilla/lib/components/myspell) - If you change the '_' in the symbolic link names to '-' (as in de-DE.aff) the name shows nicer when choosing a language. - Restart thunderbird - et voila btw: i like mozilla/thunderbird too. Especially because it works across operating systems (i share my profile partially with windows via smbolic links). And imap support in kmail never did work. What i dislike is the gtk/ font problems that occur now and then.
I'm not new to Linux (been there since Slackware 0.99.15 and later went to SUSE 4.3 and from there onwards always with SUSE), KDE and especially SUSE but these things are just beyond me.
My installation is 10.1 on an Acer Travelmate 621 LV with all current updates including zen, rug and that stuff. I even made the hotkeys work with acerhk and a little self written shell script and made the screen resolution go to 1400x1050 using the XiG X-server. But the above things remain a mystery to me.
Oh, before I forget: Up to and including SUSE 10.0 YOU showed a variety of update sites. Now there's only the installation DVD and the location ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/. Since this can possibly be slow at times or unavailable, are there any mirror sites I can add to the list? Also, sorry, that's more than four questions. ;-)
There should be mirrors. Cannot check it now.
I'd very much appreciate help from you folks. Thanks very much in advance. :-)
No thanks. HTH. Peter