February 2018 - openSUSE KDE 3 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-kde3] Missing writing accents
by Helga Fischer 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Hello List, how can I get back the ability writing accents on my KDE3-desktop? My System is openSUSE 13.1 with KDE3 (3.5.10 release 262) from inofficial Suse-repos. I'm using the keyboard layout with dead keys. Under KDE4 all applications can work with accents. Under KDE3 there is no application writing accents. Writing accents is active (kcontrol). Any hints (or is this behaviour a bug)?. Thanks, Helga -- ## Technik: [http://de.opensuse.org] ## Privat: [http://www.eschkitai.de] -- 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] TW kdebase3-kdm requires obsolete libIlmImf-2_2-2*
by Felix Miata 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

(Filing KDE3 bugs hasn't produces any apparent results in a very long time.) I went ahead and installed the newer libIlmImf-2_2-2* that was available, then force installed kdebase3-kdm, and it seems to have no problem doing its job. I use it with useTheme=no, so maybe that's why it works. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (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] Where to Request KDE3 build for 15?
by David C. Rankin 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

All, I did my monthly update to the latest master of FW5 (17.12) and Plasma (5.12) and it continues to be horrendous. I don't know why I keep hoping that desktop will become usable -- only to be repeatedly disappointed with each latest and greatest version. Simple things don't work, the pager takes up 1/4 of the taskbar, there is no way to tell it to use 2-row that is a simply mouse-click in KDE3, there is no way to control the damn clock and calendar font size leaving it looking like an awkward blob of text at the lower-right of the desktop, and on, and on, and on...... Which makes KDE3 and imperative for 15. Otherwise, it fluxbox, xfe, galculator and geany (not a bad combo at all, but not KDE3, and no tabbed konsole!) It is time to raise our collective voices to the packagers of KDE3 and say "We want to help! We will code for KDE3 on 15!" It is desperately needed, especially for older laptops that don't have 4G and 4cores (and for all the other reasons I've documented here and on the suse list) Let us know what stumbling blocks there are to the build, show us where the build service project is and we can help. Let's make this work for 15. -- 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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[opensuse-kde3] "failed" display-manager service works as expected
by Felix Miata 10 Feb '18

10 Feb '18

# journalctl -u display-manager -- Logs begin at Mon 2016-11-28 04:06:57 EST, end at Wed 2018-01-31 04:15:02 EST. -- Jun 30 23:06:36 kdm[12087]: :0[12087]: pam_unix(xdm-np:session): session opened for user ##### by (uid=0) -- Reboot -- Jul 19 07:02:19 systemd[1]: Starting X Display Manager... Jul 19 07:02:19 display-manager[1647]: /etc/vconsole.conf available Jul 19 07:02:19 display-manager[1647]: KEYMAP: us Jul 19 07:02:19 display-manager[1647]: Command: localectl set-keymap us Jul 19 07:02:19 display-manager[1647]: I: Using systemd /usr/share/systemd/kbd-model-map mapping Jul 19 07:02:19 display-manager[1647]: Starting service kdm..done Jul 19 07:02:19 systemd[1]: PID file /var/run/displaymanager.pid not readable (yet?) after start. Jul 19 07:02:20 kdm_config[1672]: Multiple occurrences of key 'AllowRootLogin' in section [X-*-Core] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Jul 19 07:02:20 kdm_config[1672]: Multiple occurrences of key 'ShowUsers' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Jul 19 07:02:20 kdm_config[1672]: Multiple occurrences of key 'UseTheme' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Jul 19 07:03:47 kdm[1691]: :0[1691]: pam_unix(xdm-np:session): session opened for user #### by (uid=0) Jul 19 07:03:49 systemd[1]: display-manager.service start operation timed out. Terminating. Jul 19 07:03:49 systemd[1]: Failed to start X Display Manager. Jul 19 07:03:49 systemd[1]: Unit display-manager.service entered failed state. ... -- Reboot -- Jan 30 23:04:00 systemd[1]: Starting X Display Manager... Jan 30 23:04:02 display-manager[1770]: /etc/vconsole.conf available Jan 30 23:04:02 display-manager[1770]: KEYMAP: us Jan 30 23:04:02 display-manager[1770]: Command: localectl set-keymap us Jan 30 23:04:03 display-manager[1770]: I: Using systemd /usr/share/systemd/kbd-model-map mapping Jan 30 23:04:03 display-manager[1770]: Starting service kdm..done Jan 30 23:04:03 systemd[1]: display-manager.service: PID file /var/run/displaymanager.pid not readable (yet?) after start: No such file or directory Jan 30 23:04:03 kdm_config[1816]: Multiple occurrences of key 'AllowRootLogin' in section [X-*-Core] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Jan 30 23:04:03 kdm_config[1816]: Multiple occurrences of key 'ShowUsers' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Jan 30 23:04:03 kdm_config[1816]: Multiple occurrences of key 'UseTheme' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Jan 30 23:05:04 kdm[1825]: :0[1825]: pam_unix(xdm-np:session): session opened for user ##### by (uid=0) Jan 30 23:05:30 systemd[1]: display-manager.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating. Jan 30 23:05:30 systemd[1]: Failed to start X Display Manager. Jan 30 23:05:30 systemd[1]: display-manager.service: Unit entered failed state. Jan 30 23:05:30 systemd[1]: display-manager.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. I see no evidence of KDM failure using the PC. I'm typing this in a KDE3 session started from KDM3. Why are these putative systemd failure messages in the journal? -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (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] Still Finding New Efficiency Features after More than a Decade of Use
by David C. Rankin 10 Feb '18

10 Feb '18

All, This is truly a testament to the team approach and depth of thought that went into the KDE3 desktop design. After more than a decade using KDE3, I am still discovering little gems you wouldn't normally think about, but when you see them implemented you think "You know, that was a damn good idea!" Take today, clicking on my 'Konsole-Restore Sessions' menu item to run the script to launch konsole and restore my 9 konsole tabas with ssh connections established, I looked at the tip-window (the "Show Tips on Startup"). To my surprise it was one I had not seen before. The tip widow is always captioned Did you know? ... pressing Ctrl while pasting the selection with the middle mouse button will append a carriage return after pasting the selection buffer? Thinking... well yes, if I have a non-newline terminated command in the select buffer, and I want to run it with the least possible disturbance to the position of my left hand on the keyboard and right hand on the mouse, the most efficient way to do that would be to utilize a control key available on the left side of the keyboard... It is that thoroughness that is totally missing in the latest incarnation of KDE. From what I have observed, probably the result of KDE development being fractured into many little camps with only 1, at most 2 people working on any app and absolutely no level of overall desktop use efficiency coordination between them. You cannot go back and build this type of efficiency and good design into a desktop after you port all the apps to your newest gotta-have widget library, it is either something built into the design of the desktop from the beginning, or it is lost forever. That is why there will never be another desktop with the sheer use efficiency that KDE3 has. -- 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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[opensuse-kde3] BUG in KDE3 ? (Oups !)
by Patrick Serru 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

Hello all, I have a problem difficult to specify. I made a backup of my home directory yesterday. Today, after a few hours of operation, the processor started heating. This is not the first time this has happened (known solution!). A launch of ksysguard allows me to see that "systemd-coredum" uses 100% of the resources and renews itself permanently. Then, I kill X, and things calm down. When I log in as kde3 root, there is no problem. But every time I log in as a user: thermal runaway. Once restored my personal directory from yesterday, NO MORE PROBLEM. After the last restoration of my personal directory, I went back to where I was, considering the incident as closed. All of today's work was concentrated in a repertoire. So, I copied this directory as root, out of X and with the help of rsync, and then, again thermal runaway once the kde3 user cession re-opened:! For information, yesterday's repertoire (on which I worked) was 15.4 MB (16,164,103) and after today's work it was 50.1 MB (52,510,297). The system partition is 58.9 GB and is 87% occupied. I am conviced that a deamond like ksysguardd is invloved, but i'm really not sure. If you have an idea on how to find where it comes from, tell me, please. Thank you for the attention you paid to this mail. Patrick Serru Edit: < NO MORE PROBLEM > in stead of < MORE PROBLEM > -- 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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