December 2011 - openSUSE KDE 3 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-kde3] knetworkmanager
by Ilya Chernykh 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

knetworkmanager should now work with wi-fi. I have just connected my laptop to wlan with knetworkmanager-kde3. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-kde3] kpowersave is Greyed out as normal user??
by David C. Rankin 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

On 08/26/2011 07:26 PM, Larry Stotler wrote: > Hey David, did we ever get a fix for the powersave issue? I just > added 11.4/KDE3 to my laptop and the lack of the power meter is a pain > as you mentioned...... > > Debating going back to 11.0 and giving up on newer versions.......11.0 > still does everthing i need. Althought 11.4 does seems to use > slightly less RAM > > Larry, Never did. Honestly, I haven't checked in a while. I'm on my 11.4/kde3 laptop right now - still no kpowersave battery icon in the tray. Clicking on kmenu -> System -> Desktop -> kpowersave launches and restores the icon to systray. The "battery meter" is working, but looks like it needs to configure itself again to know the proper time left. I think that will happen automatically during the first batter cycle. I needed to configure kpowersave to start on login again. Configure kpowersave -> General Settings -> Miscellaneous -> Autostart [X] KPowersave starts automatically on login. Looks like Ilya worked a bit more magic and got it working again. Great job Ilya. I don't know if this is the old kpowersave or if this is upower with the kpowersave interface on it -- can you fill us in Ilya? Regardless, it seems to be working again. HTH Larry. > > > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:45 PM, David C. Rankin > <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: >> On 04/06/2011 12:36 PM, Robert Xu wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:37, David C. Rankin >>> <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 04/06/2011 08:55 AM, Larry Stotler wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:43 PM, David C. Rankin >>>>> <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Bummer :( >>>>>> >>>>>> How will I know if my laptop battery is about to run out? >>>>> >>>>> Can you do: >>>>> >>>>> cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT#/* >>>>> >>>>> ? Replace # with 0 or 1. >>>>> >>>>> That's how I keep an eye on my battery on my old Thinkpad because it >>>>> reports incorrectly, so it tries to shutdown with 50% power so I have >>>>> to kill powersaved to keep using it. >>>>> >>>>> I open a small terminal and use watch with the above command. >>>> >>>> Thanks Larry, >>>> >>>> That will work in the interim until we get a fix in Trinity. Robert, you >>>> know anything about this in Trinity? >>> >>> Yes, hence the move to upower upcoming as soon as cmake is done. >>> >>> >> >> You da man... :p >> >> -- >> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help(a)opensuse.org >> >> > -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde3] duplicate messages in kmail 1.9
by kanenas＠hawaii.rr.com 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

Still trying to find why on my desktop kmail forgets what it has allready downloaded from the isp mail server (roadrunner, with a windoze pop server) and (re) fetches all that is stored there, almost all the time, on all or on some of the sub accounts i have there!!!! This happens on two different installs of 12.1, the first with both kde4 and kde3 installs, the second with kde3 only. For a while I thought the problem was solved with a different build of kdepim3, that was temporary. To make things worse, the problem is not consistent. Sometimes, there is no duplicate download. Sometimes there is duplicate download only on one or two of the subaccounts. Sometimes the duplicate downloading switches to another account and sometimes all the accounts keep bringing in a copy of all the emails stored in the isp server. And the maddening thing is that the same kmail data and config files that had the duplicate problem on the desktop were copied to the laptop, there they work just fine, there are *no* duplicates!!!!! the laptop has a fresh install of 12.1, with both kde3 and kde4, kde3 was installed from a running kde4. The still operational 11.1 (with kde3 only) on the desktop has no problem either. sooo, where do i look for usual suspects? this issue will soon make 12.1 a no-go if there is no solution. thanks in advance and happy holidays:) demitri -- 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] kmail probs in 12.1
by kanenas＠hawaii.rr.com 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

did a fresh install of 12.1. started with kde4, added the kde3 repo, clicked in the kde3 pattern, added a few more files, things seem just fine.ok, browsing is fine, multimedia is fine, system seems very crispy, adding 32bit hal did the trick for a few things, still can not get to pring to mu usb printer thru the host in virtualbox but can if i allow direct access to it from a vm, libreoffice comes up and seems to work fine, lifer seems fine! time to move kmail. copied the Mail folder from the old home directory, used conqueror as a super user, then changed all the permissions to the correct user. Copied the kmailrc file to the right spot, also the kmail folder from the old .~kde/share/apps location. Things seem to workat first. even the addressbook seems fine; alas, they work too good. The longer kmail stays open, the more duplicate emails i get! some i get more often than others! At this stage i am very reluctant to set the flag to "remove the messages from the server", first need to find out what part of kmail i broke. the setup is reasonably simple. The isp is roadrunner, they run windoze pop servers. my account has a total of 5 sub accounts. i have no local servers installed, just the default setup. the emails are saved in maildir format. The steps described above have worked for many many transitions in the past. any suggestions where to look ? I would hate to go to kmail for kde4 or switch to anything else, it would be too traumatic for my honi. soo, any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance,, d. -- 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] KDE:KDE2
by Zoran Korveziroski 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '11

Ilya thanks for KDE:KDE3. Great job. Recently I have tried http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Medias/images/iso/KDE-Two-Li… very interesting. I'm great fan and user of minimal Linux. IceWM and Openbox are great, but KDE 2.2.2 is full Desktop environment and is amazing fast. What do you think about KDE:KDE2 (I'm serious). For the begining is enough KDE 2.2.2 adapted on OpenSUSE 12.1 with fresh look. Konqueror is not a problem. Today we have a heap good WEB browsers. Suggestion for KDE:KDE3: I hope that KDE:KDE3 is here to stay and continue to grows where KDE 3.5.10 stop. So I think that it is time for number change and time for 3.6.1. Using 3.5.11 is not a good idea because of Trinity Desktop, who used that scheme. Keep good work. -- 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] New packages
by Ilya Chernykh 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '11

The following packages has been added to KDE:KDE3 repository recently: kde3-directkonnect kde3-klogoturtle -- 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] USB camera problem on 12.1
by kanenas＠hawaii.rr.com 26 Dec '11

26 Dec '11

just tried to connect my new camera to 12.1. The camera was not detected on the desktop. switched to suse 11.1, the camera was visible immediately. went back to 12.1, installed hal, made sure hal was running, nothing happened. Tried on the laptop, with kde3 the same problem. switched to kde4, the camera was visible. so kde3 in some way fails to announce the camera when it is plugged in. interestingly, with and without hal, under kde3 the camera was visible in a virtualbox windows vm! as a side note, the laptop will be going back to 11.1 as the built in SD card reader fails to show up in 12.1, works just fine with 11.1. soo, if anyone has any ideas to try on the camera /usb issue, i am willing to keep the system installed for 2-3 weeks and test whatever. -- 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] Switching keyboard layouts
by Mark Goldstein 25 Dec '11

25 Dec '11

Hi, I'm a bit embarrassed, since I've been through this before and thought it was resolved. I'm using a number of KB layouts. For quite a long time I could not manage to get KDE3 switching my layouts (not sure which versions, it was even before SuSE turned to openSUSE :-) ). I always used SaX2 to configure layouts (in xorg.conf) and it worked. Then Sax2 was dropped (in oS 11.3?) and I tried KDE3 mechanism again (using Personal Settings -> Regional -> Keyboard Layouts) and suddenly found it working. But now I've installed 12.1 (64-bits) and what I see is that layout switching works fine from KDE4 and does not work from KDE3. I mean, I can switch layouts using tray icon, but user-defined keyboard shortcuts do not work (I tried defining Alt-Shift or Win keys). Global Alt-Ctrl-K works... I have on this same machine 11.4 (32-bits) with both KDE3 and KDE4, where layout switching works correctly this way. The files ~/.kde/share/config/kxkbrc in 11.4 and 12.1 look the same. xev shows that pressing Win key sends ISO_Next_Group keysym, but layouts are not switched. I thought that some keyboard shortcut conflicts with my definitions, but it looks like there are no such shortcuts. Could someone please advice how to debug it? TIA -- Mark Goldstein -- 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] /opt/kde3/share/applications/kde/printers.desktop ... is an invalid MIME type
by Felix Miata 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

Every 'zypper up MozillaFirefox-3.6....' results in Error in file "/opt/kde3/share/applications/kde/printers.desktop": "print/manager" is an invalid MIME type ("print" is an unregistered media type) Can this be fixed somehow? Again today I can't print from any of my installed Mozilla apps, even after CUPS restart, and rebooting. Other than YaST2 test page, which succeeds, I've not tried other apps in order to prevent more paper waste, and since I rarely print anything from anything else anyway. Trying to print doesn't even wake up the printer from sleep, except from YaST2. Could this problem be related to the recurring upgrade error message? -- "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] multimedia players hang 12.1
by Bob S 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Hello SuSE people, I am running a new install of 12.1 with KDE3. If I run a media player like mplayer or vlc it hangs the OS. Completely unresposnsive. I have to power the sytem off. This does not happen with 11.3 and KDE3. Has to be something in 12.1. Any ideas? Bob S -- 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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