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[opensuse-gnome] GNOME Activity Journal
by Adam Tauno Williams 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

When I run gnome-activity-journal I see no events. Possibly this is because if I go to preferences / plugins I see nothing listed? Should I see plugins? Are they required? If so, where to they come from? /usr/bin/zeitgeist-daemon is running. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Fwd: [opensuse-artwork] 12.1 Mokups
by Nelson Marques 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Hi all, It seems that the Artwork Team is mobilizing for the next release branding artwork. Though I'm not fluent in their creative ways, is anything that I should take to their knowledge on behalf of the GNOME team? (hint: maybe avoiding dark backgrounds, defined shaps vs abstract, shiny vs opaque paletts?) And for their delight GNOME:Apps provides one more potent tool for their job... GNOME seems to deliver all the muscle for their work :) NM ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Raul <rauhmaru(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:03 PM Subject: [opensuse-artwork] 12.1 Mokups To: openSUSE Artwork <opensuse-artwork(a)opensuse.org> Hello friends, And then, let's start? The 12.1 is with the same appearance of 11.4. It's time we start to produce the wallpapers, skins, andwhat else is needed. cheers, -- Raul Libório -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] openSUSE Weekly News 177 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 26 May '11

26 May '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 177 comes out at Saturday evening (UTC +2). Until Saturday 08:00:00 (CEST) +0200 UTC you can propose Articles, Links and all such stuff for integrating into the Weekly News. For people who don't want to write it in XML, you can use our Pad: http://os-news.ietherpad.com/2. I've planned to send this Mail each Wednesday to remind on the Weekly News. Have a lot of fun :-) -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] openSUSE Weekly News 176 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 20 May '11

20 May '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 176 comes out at Saturday evening (UTC +2). Until Saturday 08:00:00 (CEST) +0200 UTC you can propose Articles, Links and all such stuff for integrating into the Weekly News. For people who don't want to write it in XML, you can use our Pad: http://os-news.ietherpad.com/2. I've planned to send this Mail each Wednesday to remind on the Weekly News. Have a lot of fun :-) -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] G:Ayatana - a brief update
by Nelson Marques 19 May '11

19 May '11

Hi all, As some people are aware, the base dependencies for Unity and everything around it were already submitted to G:Ayatana. Since GNOME2's future is uncertain, it would be waste to drop all those cute packages and hacks that grinding my mind for countless hours (also the tools that served a cool objective, my learning curve with RPM building and OBS). So even if they useless, I am pretty much pleased with everything I got out of this. I've decided to drop Unity some time ago waiting for better days (hopefully will come when Canonical migrates their stuff to GTK3). Meanwhile I've pretty much prepared Unity-2D, there's a few glitches, sure... but they will be fixed soon and I will submit the packages. Hopefully by 12.1 if I don't have Unity for a spin, I'll have Unity-2D which in my humble opinion is actually nicer and faster than it's big brother (probably less buggy and featured at moment too). No, it's not also a candidate to replace GNOME3, which was a very positive surprise. I'm polishing the stuff and see if I redo a few patches for cmake to upstream and will submit this packages after. Once they are submitted and since GNOME3 release was a success, I'll release the repository with a 1-Click installer for Unity-2D for 11.4 and hopefully 12.1 will bring the real thing, which I've discovered the bloody problem with nux (which shouldn't happen with GTK3). [1] - http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/2031/screenshottcd.png [2] - http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/434/screenshot1dj.png NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Why won't vlc install in oS with Gnome?
by Basil Chupin 16 May '11

16 May '11

I simply cannot install vlc in 11.4 with gnome - but it installs, and behaves, perfectly in 11.4 with KDE. I have used the "1-click install" in Packman and also downloaded vlc from videolan - and both are supposed to install in oS 11.4. However, when installing the rpm from videolan I get the error message: nothing provides libvlccore.so.4 needed by vlc-1.1.9-1.pm.2.4.i586 and the one from packman comes up with the error message: nothing provides libvlc-backend-vlc-0.3.2-1.pm.2.2.i586 Anybody know the story on how to get vlc installed and working under gnome in openSUSE 11.4, please? (Frustration plus......... :-( .) BC -- "The older the violin the sweeter the music." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] How to Darken Evolution default black font
by Marco Calistri 14 May '11

14 May '11

List members, I would like to darken default Evolution font colour which looks as a "light-black" instead to be a "true dark-black". In my opinion this should be better, especially when laptop goes into low power battery stage and screen went less brilliant sometimes is difficult to read email or worse is replying since the reply citation is normally less dark. It is very noticeable for example the difference between Evolution black and Firefox black, the later is undoubtedly darker. Have you any suggestion for this issue? Regards, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 11.4 Celadon - Linux 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 - GeForce Go 6150 Gnome 3.0.1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] My current comments on Gnome #3
by Basil Chupin 12 May '11

12 May '11

I have upgraded my oS 11.4 32-bit installation of Gnome to Gnome #3 and been playing around with it for a day. I like it, and it has potential. It is not yet perfect but if one overlooks the present warts it is still usable in a *productive* environment. I have, since I first installed XP, in them dim, wasted-forever, years, tried to configure my desktop to be "clean" ie, just a plain, clean looking, with nothing on it, desktop with just a wallpaper (but preferably, if possible, wallpaper*s*) of my choice. Gnome #3 gives this to me without any effort on my part. My compliments to the Gnome #3 devs for their effort! There are at least a couple of questions I would like to have answered but I will leave these for now because I can live with the 'annoyances' - unless they will continue into the future for ever more and not get attended to. To be very honest, it is a toss-up at the moment between KDE 4.6.(3) and Gnome #3 but unless I have some VERY bad days over the next weeks then I feel at the that Gnome #3 is quite pleasant to use. BC -- "The older the violin the sweeter the music." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Stranded by GNOME3 (Where else to look for errors?)
by Adam Tauno Williams 12 May '11

12 May '11

So, this morning GNOME3 has left me stranded, with a useless desktop. I have to fail over into a barely working XFCE install, and I'm sending this from Alpine. First - can someone *SHOOT* that dorking cartoony "Ooops! something has gone wrong." crap that pops up when GNOME3 fails. It isn't helpful; and logging out and trying again, of course, is *never* going to actually work [if nothing else changes]. Second - where is a good second place to look for errors, besides .xsession-errors. There is nothing intersting there. It complains about not being able to contact gconf, but looking back it appears it always claims that. Does GNOME3 or its components dump information anywhere else? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] openSUSE Weekly News 175 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 11 May '11

11 May '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 175 comes out at Saturday evening (UTC +2). Until Saturday 08:00:00 (CEST) +0200 UTC you can propose Articles, Links and all such stuff for integrating into the Weekly News. For people who don't want to write it in XML, you can use our Pad: http://os-news.ietherpad.com/2. I've planned to send this Mail each Wednesday to remind on the Weekly News. Have a lot of fun :-) -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] bnc#676360 - could use some help
by Nelson Marques 11 May '11

11 May '11

Hi, I was looking at that bug report from Vincent, and I came up with a patch (see attach) or susepaste[1]. This patch doesn't really solve all the issues and was inspired in some modifications I had to do on GDM for Unity. But I have a few doubts: 1. We want a compiz session for compiz, that''s easy enought... Compiz should provide the window-manager functions and decorator; 2. We want nautilus running just like it happened in GNOME2 ? 3. We don't really have panel's now, should something else be loaded instead? What? I know the patch isn't really the solution but it's a start, please point me in the right direction, I can probably fix this one out myself. Nelson [1] - http://susepaste.org/84673232

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[opensuse-gnome] Zeitgeist again
by Michael Hill 10 May '11

10 May '11

Is anyone running GNOME Activity Journal > v0.5.0? I have installed g-a-j (0.6.0) and zeitgeist from GNOME:Factory and their dependencies are satisfied when I install zeitgeist-datahub from home:federico-mena:zeitgeist. With zeitgeist-daemon running, g-a-j is recognized as an extension, but nothing displays in g-a-j. (g-a-j 0.5.0 seemed to work correctly even with zeitgeist upgrades.) Am I still missing a component? Thanks, Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Evolution 3 - double-click pdf attach failure
by Marco Calistri 10 May '11

10 May '11

Sirs, I noticed a wrong, or at least an unexpected behaviour whenever I try to open PDF attachments into email message with Evolution: Instead Acrobat Reader, Evince or other compliant PDF readers get starting is instead Gedit that starts reporting an error about wrong UTF char-set type then failing to open the attached document. In order to open PDF attachment I must right-click on it and choose the option "open-with". Is it a normal Evolution behaviour? Note: if I try to double-click a PDF file within Nautilus it get open correctly. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- C.A.R. Hoare -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] GNOME Activity Journal
by Michael Hill 07 May '11

07 May '11

Does someone have a recipe for installing this? I updated my Live CD installation with the GNOME 3.0 repository; I've installed zeitgeist from Federico's repository but more recently built and installed it from the Launchpad source... either way it installs and runs. When I try to run gnome-activity-journal it fails with the error below. Thanks, Mike -- mike@himon:~/zeitgeist> ./gnome-activity-journal/gnome-activity-journal Traceback (most recent call last): File "./gnome-activity-journal/gnome-activity-journal", line 25, in <module> import gtk File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 40, in <module> from gtk import _gtk ImportError: could not import gobject (could not find _PyGObject_API object) mike@himon:~/zeitgeist> cd .. mike@himon:~> ./zeitgeist/gnome-activity-journal/gnome-activity-journal Traceback (most recent call last): File "./zeitgeist/gnome-activity-journal/gnome-activity-journal", line 25, in <module> import gtk File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 40, in <module> from gtk import _gtk ImportError: could not import gobject (could not find _PyGObject_API object) mike@himon:~> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] gpick - a featured advanced color picker...
by Nelson Marques 06 May '11

06 May '11

Hi all, I've packaged gpick at the request of a former openSUSE member. Since this application is based on the GTK+ toolkit I would believe the best option was to make it available in Factory through GNOME:Apps, that cool? We want to do this? I've made a test packages (not ready for submission, waiting for upstream to clear out a few things regarding 2 missing files) available on home:ketheriel:gpick[1]. If anyone working with artwork or design wants to give them a test ride, feel free to. I've also enabled builds for Fedora since they don't have this package available and I know Mizmo made a tutorial some time ago about how to install this package... Just burning some time. [1] - https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=gpick&project=home%3Akether… Nelson -- Nelson Marques /* As cicatrizes lembram-nos de onde estivemos, mas não ditam para onde vamos */ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] YaST integration in GNOME3
by Pavol Rusnak 06 May '11

06 May '11

Hi all! You might've read my blogpost[1] about adding YaST menuitem to GNOME 3 Status menu. During today's meeting we agreed that we want to integrate YaST and we'd like to discuss what is the best option. The options are: a) add YaST menuitem to Status menu [+] The easiest way, because it is already implemented[1] [-] Beginner user can be confused about items "System Settings" and "YaST Control Center". We can change them to "Desktop Settings" and "Administrator Settings" or something similar, but that would diverge from upstream which is not very nice. b) add YaST icon to System Settings (new icon under System Category) [+] Easy to implement as well [-] Requires one extra click when compared to option a) c) add YaST modules icons to System Settings [-] Probably ugly and pollutes System Settings with 100s new icons [-] Might require root password after clicking on each item d) create extra tab YaST in GNOME Shell Original suggestion by Nelson[2] [+] Nice openSUSE differentiation point [-] Might require root password after clicking on each item [-] More programming work when compared to options a), b), c) e) create extra YaST category in Applications tab in GNOME Shell [-] Might be confusing [-] Might require root password after clicking on each item Did I forgot any option? Do you have thoughts, ideas, preferences? PS: This is not about porting yast-gtk from GTK2 to GTK3, this should happen anyway so YaST itself would look similar to g-c-c. [1] http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2011/05/adding-yast-menuitem-to-gnome-3-status-men… [2] http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/30/mockup-gnome3-and-yast/ -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9 prusnak[at]opensuse.org Czech Republic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Porting yast2-gtk to gtk3
by Atri Bhattacharya 05 May '11

05 May '11

Hi! I have just posted [1] on the yast2-gtk mailing list [2] regarding porting yast2-gtk, which is presently gtk2 based, to gtk3. If you think you can contribute in any way (code would be great, suggestions or pointers to articles describing how gtk2 -> gtk3 can be done too) please post a reply here or subscribe to the google groups discussion forum and post a reply there. Please note that this is about porting yast2-gtk to gtk3; integration of yast in the gnome-shell itself is a separate issue (something also the openSUSE-gnome team is looking at). Bye, -- Atri [1]: http://groups.google.com/group/yast2-gtk/browse_thread/thread/966d1d58ffb76… [2]: http://groups.google.com/group/yast2-gtk/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Warning: GNOME:Next to be emptied soon
by Vincent Untz 05 May '11

05 May '11

Hi, In case anybody is directly using GNOME:Next: first, you shouldn't :-) But most importantly, as all of GNOME 3 is now in both GNOME:STABLE:3.0 (for 11.4 users) and GNOME:Factory (for Factory users + it's slowly entering Factory this week), GNOME:Next is of no use anymore. We will remove all packages from there as we believe having something there will only confuse users. We'll do that at the end of the week. Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] openSUSE GNOME Meeting - May 5th, 2011, 1530 UTC
by Sankar P 05 May '11

05 May '11

Hi, The next meeting for the openSUSE GNOME Team will happen on May 5th 2011, 1530 UTC Agenda available at: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_meeting This is the first meeting after our GNOME 3 for 11.4 release. We would like to have your feedback. Feel free to add items to the agenda. -- Sankar P http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] package: gnome-video-arcade
by Nelson Marques 05 May '11

05 May '11

Hi all, A quick question, I've packaged gnome-video-arcade[1] from a git snapshot, which already supports GTK3. I need a project for this application which is basically a front-end for MAME (a multi system emulator) and was considering GNOME:Apps for it. This will raise a small problem, we need sdlmame on factory. This does sounds interesting for GNOME in openSUSE ? NM -- Nelson Marques /* As cicatrizes lembram-nos de onde estivemos, mas não ditam para onde vamos */ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] openSUSE Weekly News 174 coming soon...
by Sascha Manns 04 May '11

04 May '11

Hello Mates, don't worry about this mail. I just would like to remind that our next openSUSE Weekly News 174 comes out at Saturday evening (UTC +2). Until Saturday 08:00:00 (CEST) +0200 UTC you can propose Articles, Links and all such stuff for integrating into the Weekly News. For people who don't want to write it in XML, you can use our Pad: http://os-news.ietherpad.com/2. I've planned to send this Mail each Wednesday to remind on the Weekly News. Have a lot of fun :-) -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] For those wondering about GNOME 3 status in openSUSE...
by Vincent Untz 03 May '11

03 May '11

Hi, If you're wondering what's the status of GNOME 3 in openSUSE... Frédéric and Dominique have been working hard to prepare GNOME:STABLE:3.0 and make GNOME 3 available on 11.4. But this is not ready yet. Let me repeat it: this is not ready yet. There is no point in asking on irc, on forums, or on mailing lists when it will be ready (and really do not ask directly fcrozat or DimStar while they're working on it :-)) -- this is just slowing the efforts down. Instead, wait for the announcement or go check http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_3.0 to see the current status. For people who still decide to use GNOME 3 now (yes, it's possible to get it working, but it requires some plumbing as the upgrade process can break your system): we don't accept bugs about it at the moment, especially "I can't login anymore" bugs. As for Factory, we'll merge things in GNOME:Factory very soon now. This means GNOME:Factory will likely be a bit broken for a few days. We'd love to have things already available, but unfortunately, it takes a bit more time than what we'd like :/ But we're nearly there and we mostly need to smooth out the upgrade process to make sure it doesn't break things for users. Thanks for your understanding. Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-gnome] Installing GNOME 3 on openSUSE 11.4
by Adam Tauno Williams 01 May '11

01 May '11

On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 19:17 +0100, Richard Brown wrote: > Are you sure gnome-shell and the correct themes are installed as per the instructions? > zypper in gnome-shell metatheme-adwaita-common > I had exactly this problem when I skipped right past that step while following the instructions on the URL you provided. Verified that I did that (in the command buffer). zypper up / dup listed nothing more to do. So after running an errand I ran the dup again - and it found more packages. Then after another reboot GNOME 3 is working perfectly [except suspend/resume is totally broken. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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