January 2014 - openSUSE KDE 3 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-kde3] openSUSE 12.1 with KDE3 and KDE4 applications
by Gianluca Interlandi 05 May '15

05 May '15

Hi! I am about to install openSUSE 12.1 on a laptop. I want to use it mainly (or entirely) with the KDE3 desktop but I still want to be able to run KDE4 applications under KDE3. In the past, I have done this with openSUSE 11.3 and 11.4. During installation of 11.3 and 11.4, I selected KDE4 as the default desktop. Then I added the KDE:KDE3 repository and installed all the packages to properly run KDE3 following more or less the recommendations given here: HOW-TO: KDE 3.5 on 11.4 This has worked perfectly and I was even able to use the oxygen theme in KDE3. For example, okular and vlc came with the nice oxygen theme even when running under KDE3. My question is: Is this procedure going to work also with openSUSE 12.1 or is there anything in particular I have to pay attention to? Thanks! Gianluca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde3] Problems with screensavers
by Chika 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

Actually, this appears to be a problem that has been an increasing pain since I first ran across it in V12.1. The symptoms go a bit like this. When I try to open the screensaver settings from the "Configure Desktop" right-click option, the window opens for a couple of seconds, showing "Loading..." in the screensaver selection area. It will then crash with no visible error and take the entirety of the desktop with it. The only fix I have to hand at that point is to restart the session. If I try to do the same thing from the control centre, it does almost exactly the same thing except that it doesn't take the desktop with it. I suspect the fault is the same one but the fact that the screensaver setup page is embedded in another program means that it doesn't get a chance to kill the desktop. I have now built KDE3 on openSUSE 13.1 four different times, both by overlaying it on KDE4 or building it on a minimal X Window build, and I have used different systems to do it on, though on each occasion this has been on VirtualBox systems. The only other clue I have to hand is that the kio_sysinfo slave comes up with "Process for the sysinfo protocol died unexpectedly" error when I try to use that (which is very annoying and, before anyone says it, NO I do NOT want to use that overstuffed "infocenter" thing!) Any clues? Ta -- Chika -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde3] konqueror context: Preview in KRPMview "File List" empty
by David C. Rankin 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

Ilya, All, I ran across a curiosity in konqueror. I had never used the context-menu option for 'Preview in KRPMview' and gave it a shot looking at arts-1.5.10-64.2.src.rpm from 13.1. All of the information is present for all of the other tabs (Description, Technical Data, Dependencies, Change Log) but nothing for the 'File List'. I've tried looking at the 'File List' for both .src.rpm and .rpm and same result. This is on a 11.4 box. Can anyone confirm that this same behavior continues in 12.x and 13.x. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-kde3] KDE3 battery status in OpenSuSE 13.1
by Svante Björklund 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

Hello Jay! Thank you for the tips about xfce4-power-manager and nm-applet. Regards Svante Björklund -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde3] not happy with latest Konsole fonts
by Felix Miata 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

In last two 13.2 systems I've updated, line spacing has been changed from normal to about 1.5X normal. Global monospace top priority font via fontconfig set in exact same /etc/fonts/57-post-user.conf file I've been using in all installations for over a year is Droid Sans Mono, but this is not being picked up on account of selection "monospace" in Konsole font settings. To get Konsole to use Droid Sans Mono now requires I set it explicitly, which does get line spacing back to normal. Is this an expected change? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde3] KDE3 battery status in OpenSuSE 13.1
by "Svante Björklund, FOI" 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Hello! I am trying KDE3 on my new laptop computer Dell Lattitude E6230. (I have also tried KDE4 and it has improved much the last years. It is now usable for serious work. But it crashes too often. It crashes twice a day on my computer. I do not loose data but it takes some (expensive) working time to restart the computer.) With KDE3 I have had some problems. Some functions and features which worked earlier do not work any longer. Right now I would like to have a working battery status indicator to see much of the charge (or time) is left and and have low battery level warnings, automatic suspend at low level etc. I can start the old KDE3 applet kpowersave but it does not tell my the battery level. Actually it does not have any of its old functions. I can see the battery level by the command upower -d in a shell. I would like to have the old behavior of kpowersave or the equivalent in KDE4. Does anyone have an idea or tip? Regards Svante Björklund -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde3] Oss 13.1
by Patrick Serru 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

Hi All I installed OSS 13.1 + KDE3 (x86_64). Once again, the bugs of KDE4 rise to the surface: what worked in KDE3 before no longer works today! I tried deleting "libkde4" but then appears a list of dependencies. In this list appears "kate.11.3-48…", that unfortunately, I can not simply delete. There is a problem with sessions: they are not saved… There is also a thing called iBus in the task bar, and I assume responsibility that I can not enter metacharacters of my language. Also, I noticed that the beautiful design of KDE4 begins to be felt on KDE3: it is ever slower. I thank a lot the maintainers of KDE3, and I guess that it is involved in these bugs. I hope that it will forgive me the expression of my hate for KDE4: this software and related choices have only disappointed me. So: I will suppress libkde4, and if the system hangs, I will go back to OSS 12.2. Sorry for my bad caracter. Well. This is supposed to be a bug repport.(?) Thanks to all the people involved in KDE3. Patrick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde3] Watchdog(s)
by Patrick Serru 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

Hi All, I use an 8 cores x86_64 processor (not 4, as I wrote earlyer). And there is some watch dog running. I think that there is one for each core, but I dont remember where this idea commes from. It is not real a problem but: - It looks like Windows, that I have allways seen accessing hard disk every second witout respect to the hardware, - when booting from an USB hard disk, it slowdown the system. It must be the Kernel (vmlinuz-3.4.47-2.38-desktop), because the system do this after having started in mode 3. Starting in mode 3 is the only way I found to escape the hell loop of bad screen size setting of X, loop that appen sometime when the system starts directly in mode 5. A login as root and execute "init 5" works fine. If the size of the screen is bad (ie. 1024x768) I execute "init 3 ; sleep 5 ; init 5" and repeat until the format matches the full screen possibilities (1380x1024). I know the utility of a watchdog. This afternoon, I restarted "by mistake" an oss 12.2 upgraded yesterday to 12.3 (vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-desktop), and that finished with a freezed screen with colored horizontal lines. I dont know if some of you know this, but by luke, the last time I saw that was while fighting with KDE4, X, and other GRUB. During the early tries of this system (12.2 upgraded 12.3), I mentionned that there was no regular access to the hard disk… Did someone heared something about this(these) watchdog(s), and eventualy, the way to remove it(them) ? Cheers Patrick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner(a)opensuse.org

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