June 2002 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

kdialm and SuSE8.0
by Graham Murray 16 Jun '02

16 Jun '02

Has anyone got kdialm working with SuSE 8.0? I cannot get it to see diald. I have added the line "tcpport 7002" to /etc/diald.conf, and I see the tcp session established between diald and kdialm, but kdialm always displays "Awaiting First Message", none of the control buttons do anything and no status information is displayed. Both diald and kdialm are the versions shipped with SuSE 8.0. Looking at the connection with ethereal, all I can see is kdialm sending a tcp packet containing the 2 characters 'U<LF>' which does not look any of the commands listed in 'man diald-control'.

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RE: [SLE] KDE 3.0.1 for 7.3
by Chuck T 15 Jun '02

15 Jun '02

I tried this and I still get 2.2.2 what the heck? ____________ Chuck T chuck(a)chucktewksbury.com -----Original Message----- From: Anders Dahlqvist [mailto:dahlqvist@sundsvall.mail.telia.com] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 7:30 AM To: Chuck T Subject: Re: [SLE] KDE 3.0.1 for 7.3 fredagen den 14 juni 2002 13.03 skrev du: :: if i use Yast as you describe, can I point to the .rpms that I have :: already downloaded? :: No problem! Just choose "directory" instead of "ftp" as Installation Medium. See attached screenshots. Or if you want to make it really simple: cd <path to where you downloaded your RPMS> rpm -Uvh *rpm SuSEconfig Best regards Anders -- If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.

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list down today?
by Chuck T 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

____________ Chuck T chuck(a)chucktewksbury.com

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SuSE KDM backgrounds
by Ron Cordell 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

After upgrading a clean SuSE 7.3 install to KDE3.0.1, the KDM login background has gone to a plain grey background with "Linux" in the upper left corner. I've tried to get the background reset from within the KDE control center (as root), but those settings don't change anything. Does anyone know how to get back the old settings? Thanks, -ronc -- 8:29am up 7 days, 23:32, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.07, 0.02

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Re: [suse-kde] looking for url
by Andreas Bank 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

Thx a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Am Freitag, 14. Juni 2002 14:22 schrieben Sie: > www.links2linux.de > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andreas Bank" <AndreasBank(a)gmx.de> > To: "Suse-KDE-MailingList" <suse-kde(a)suse.com> > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:25 PM > Subject: [suse-kde] looking for url > > > G'day at all. > > > > Ich heard from a friend that there shall be a Page called > > www.linkstolinux.org > > > But that page does not exitst. Does anybody the correct url?? > > The page is supposed to contain a hell lot of rpm pakages. > > > > Thx Andi > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, email: suse-kde-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > > For additional commands, email: suse-kde-help(a)suse.com > > Please do not cross-post to suse-linux-e

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looking for url
by Andreas Bank 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

G'day at all. Ich heard from a friend that there shall be a Page called www.linkstolinux.org But that page does not exitst. Does anybody the correct url?? The page is supposed to contain a hell lot of rpm pakages. Thx Andi

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Logout Problems
by DarkStar 14 Jun '02

14 Jun '02

Hello, I'm having serious logout problems. When I logout, I get a blank screen instead of a dialog box to log back in. When I logout with reboot option selected, I get the same thing. I'm forced to either shutdown -r to logout or push the reset button. I'm using SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional. Thanks in advance "To resent is to give control to the object that you despise" Ed Brown - darkstar(a)toad.net _________________________________________________________________________ This mail sent via toadmail.com, web e-mail @ ToadNet - want to go fast? http://www.toadmail.com

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Tooltips with a mind of their own
by Kevin McLauchlan 13 Jun '02

13 Jun '02

G'day all. According to YOU, I should be up-to-date... Using KDE3 3.0.1 on SuSE 8.0. The little yellow tooltip boxes seem to lose their grip on the application, and get stranded on the desktop. They are not just visual artifacts, because a right-click on one of these orphan tooltips (usually "Close") does not have the same reaction as right-clicking immediately beside it. They can't be selected, and they prefer to reside in front of all other desktop objects that were open when the tooltip lost it's little mind. That is, opening a new application window sometimes lets the new window cover the errant tooltip box... sometimes. Sometimes, they disappear spontaneously, but most often, they just slowly collect until I have a small herd of them, or I exit X. Anybody else? How did you fix it? -- ** Spammers: By initiating contact from fictitious or modified addresses you agree to accept this fictitious amount $___ (fill in appropriate number), drawn on a fictitious account, as Payment in Full, for any of your services or products, and to relieve me from all further obligation.

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KDE 3.0.1 for 7.3
by Chuck T 13 Jun '02

13 Jun '02

I have SuSE 7.3 installed and would like to use Yast2 to install the newest version of KDE. Is this possible? If so how? thanks! ____________ Chuck T chuck(a)chucktewksbury.com

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Install icqlib and kicq??
by Kim Dagerud 12 Jun '02

12 Jun '02

Hi! I have recently installed SuSE 8.0 Personal and was going to install kicq! And the first thing it said was that i needed icqlib, no problems i thought, but now it needs "ld.so.1" what is this, where to find, how to install?? And why doesnt SuSE have ports or something like it so it can fix dependencies over the net?? Greetings //Kim

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kopete & k3b
by mchristoph.eckert＠t-online.de 10 Jun '02

10 Jun '02

Hi, today I got the rpms from the SuSE-Server and installed these programs. Unfortunately when I want to start them, I get the following messages: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". QObject::connect: No such slot KFileTreeView::slotMouseButtonPressed(int,QListViewItem*,const QPoint&,int) QObject::connect: (sender name: 'unnamed') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'unnamed') k3b: relocation error: k3b: undefined symbol: addColumn__9KListViewRC7QStringi Can anyone say, what I have to do to get it working? Gruß ce ====== Installation von SuSE 8.0 auf einem Dell Inspiron 8200 http://home.t-online.de/home/mchristoph.eckert/inspiron8200/ ======

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Backups
by Jose Thadeu Cavalcante 10 Jun '02

10 Jun '02

Hi, How can I do to backup and restore my e-mails, addressbook and bookmarks. Thanks Thadeu

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Latest RPM killed Anti-aliasing (7.3)
by Joe Sullivan 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Hey, I've been using the SuSE RPMs for KDE 3 since the first release, and keeping up with new builds when posted on the SuSE FTP. I recently added the new builds kdelibs3 and qt3, put on the FTP server June 4th and June 1st respectively. On startup the next day, I found anti-aliasing was gone. I checked the KDE control center, and it was marked for anti-aliasing. It had also worked fine from the first KDE3 builds and on up until I "upgraded" the builds on the two previously mentioned RPMs. I tried turning anti-aliasing off, and back on, using the control center "just in case" but to no avail. I've done nothing else to my system this month, so it had to be one of those two RPMs. Questions are: 1) Which one would be causing this? 2) Any way to get a previous RPM build for 7.3 for the offending RPM? The previous ones worked fine. Or any chance we'll see a new build to fix this? Otherwise, is there a way for me to get anti-aliasing working again in KDE? Using: SuSE 7.3 Pro XFree86 4.2 (latest builds from SuSE FTP) KDE 3.0.1 (latest builds from SuSE FTP) And I'm using the latest updates available from Online Update on all other programs. Later, Joe "Flame" Sullivan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Firechild Web Design and CGI Scripting Services http://firechild.net Secretary, World Association of Internet Marketing http://waim.org Webmaster, Amerikanska - For Americans In Sweden http://amerikanska.com Meta-editor, Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Browsing NFS in Konqueror
by Matt Sheffield 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

I've set up lisa to browse my LAN and have been able to check SMB, FTP, and HTTP services but can never get a listing of NFS shares, even on my own computer. When I go to lan://localhost/localhost and then click on NFS I get the message: "Authorization failed, localhost authentication not supported." When I try it on my other computers, it doesn't work and I get the same error message. Is there some other daemon I need to start here? Thanks for any help.

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Re: [suse-kde] chinese characters
by Philip Amadeo Saeli 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Hi, Edward, On Sunday, 9 Jun 2002 14:34:25 +0100, Edward F. Howson tapped out: >How does one get to type chinese characters in KDE? I see keyboard layouts >for japanese, vietnamese and thai but nothing for chinese. It is kind of >frustrating because I have a chinese friend and everytime she wants to use my >system I have to boot into Windows so that she can type chinese characters. >I am using SuSE 8.0 and KDE 3.0.1, mostly use konqueror for browsing. A couple of useful resources in this area are Mike Fabian's web pages at SuSE and the SuSE m17n mailing list: 1. http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/ 2. mailto:m17n@suse.com Hope this helps! Phil -- Philip A. Saeli SuSE Linux 8.0 psaeli(a)zorodyne.com

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chinese characters
by Edward F. Howson 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Hi all How does one get to type chinese characters in KDE? I see keyboard layouts for japanese, vietnamese and thai but nothing for chinese. It is kind of frustrating because I have a chinese friend and everytime she wants to use my system I have to boot into Windows so that she can type chinese characters. I am using SuSE 8.0 and KDE 3.0.1, mostly use konqueror for browsing. Thanks Eddie

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Want suse menu on KDE3 with 7.3 try this!!!
by Teratam Bunyagul 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Hello everyone, If you are using SuSE7.3 with KDE3, now you can have all the menu like you have in KDE2.2.2. I just did it 5 mins ago. It works fine but use at you own risk!!! This is what I did. 1) uninstall susewm and susehelpcenter with YaST1 2) go to ftp.suse.com find the SuSE8.0 ftp version which came out 2 days ago. 3) download rpm files: susewm susehelpcenter and kdebase3-SuSE 4) install first susehelpcenter then susewm then kdebase3-SuSE each installation run SuSEconfig (you can install with command rpm -Uhv *.rpm see if you have dependencies, install what it's required. Or using YaST1) Do all these in mwm twm or fvwm2 but not in KDE3. 5) start KDE3, you will see welcome note form SuSE8.0 but never mind. 6) Now you can config everything with the control center. I'm just trying out. Haven't faced any problems yet, if you find out something or know any better ways. We can help each other out. have fun with KDE3 Teratam Bunyagul

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fxred for logitech trackball fx in KDE3
by Teratam Bunyagul 08 Jun '02

08 Jun '02

Hello, Has anyone know how to config "fxred" to use logitech trackball fx's 4th botton mouse in KDE3. I could make it work in KDE2.2.2 but after I updated to KDE3 it couldn't work anymore (it doesn't scroll, just shows the arrows) thanks Teratam Bunyagul

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Kmail
by bob barish 08 Jun '02

08 Jun '02

Good Morning Everyone: Is there a keyboard short cut (keyboard entry) that will delete an entire email thread all a once? Thanks for your help. -- Bob Barish B.M.T Solutions http://www.bmtsolutions.com Go confidently into your dreams 9:02am up 3 days, 17:09, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.40, 0.68

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KDE Desktop howto question
by Kevin McLauchlan 06 Jun '02

06 Jun '02

Hi, all. I have dual-boot on my office laptop (NT and SuSE 8), which, in addition to ReiserFS and NTFS partitions also has a small DOS partition for safe writing from Linux (I've been told that I can do damage if I try to write directly to NTFS from Linux). Anyway, SuSE sensed my partition scheme and gave me a nice little icon in my KDE desktop, that mounts the DOS partition and automatically launches Konqueror, to view it. Well, I have an smb connection to several network partitions (which I currently mount by hand, from a console command line). It occurs to me that a similar icon for mounting each smb drive -- and launching the browser -- would be just peachy. So, I copied the script behind the original icon, and began editing it to see what makes it work. (I thought I could just tweak it a bit so it would work with smb...) Here's the original script: [Desktop Entry] Comment=Mount and browse a Windows filesystem Comment[cs]=Pøipojení a prohlí¾ení systému souborù Comment[de]=Ein Windows Dateisystem mounten und öffnen Dev=/dev/hda9 FSType=Default Icon=windows_harddrive_mount MountPoint=/windows/E Name=Windows_E Name[en_US]=Windows_E ReadOnly=0 Type=FSDevice UnmountIcon=windows_harddrive_unmount So, right away, I'm getting lost. What would replace "Dev="? I looked in /dev, and I don't see a /smb device, nor anything else that I recognize as appropriate. Since smb connections are temporary, is there another directory where the devices would live? Could I just leave that out? Is it necessary to declare anything there? Then, there's "FSType=Default". What should go there? The icon can stay. I like it. The "MountPoint=" will be one of my smb mountpoints, so that's ok, too. The "Name=" and Name[en_US]=" will obviously change, and I'm ok there, too. "ReadOnly=0" will be unchanged. Now, how about "Type=FSDevice"?? what should that be for an smb device, and again is it even a necessary setting? AND THE BIG QUESTION... should I be trying to do it this way at all? The two reasons that I wanted to re-use the existing script are: 1) it looked like a working example from which I could learn something, but have a chance of getting it right... 2) there's nothing actually IN the script that actually launches the browser, yet the browser gets launched, therefore, I assume that there's something that KDE recognizes from the script, or from its name, or from it's icon, or... that causes Konqueror to launch automatically once the script has mounted the alien partition. If there's an existing FAQ or HowTo, just point me. If not, then if somebody can explain what would work AND what my misconceptions are, you'll probably help some other people who were too /s/m/a/r/t/ shy to ask the same questions. Thanks very much. /kevin PS: Yes, I could just automate the smb connections at startup, but they often change, or are temporarily unavailable, and I'd be getting error messages and slow startup and... like that. Besides, I want to understand how that script does what it does, and what equivalent declarations and settings would be needed for the smb version of it.

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KDE 301 Address Book: importing KDE2 addresses
by Pep Serrano 06 Jun '02

06 Jun '02

Hi there, So I applied the KDE 3.0.1 patch (this time with YOU) and yet I can not import the addresses I had in the KDE2 Address Book. Any tips?

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Re: [suse-kde] Setting KDE defaults for new users...
by Alessandro Orsi 06 Jun '02

06 Jun '02

El Mié 05 Jun 2002 19:54, michael stone escribió: > I am implementing a new Linux lab at my University and would like the > default KDE setup to be a little different than the SuSE default. More > specifically, I want to alter some stuff in the K menu, add/delete some > panel buttons and change the desktop image. Is there a way that I can use > a user account to alter everything how I want it, then copy some config > files somewhere? I tried putting the .kde* folders in /etc/skel, but they > still got overwritten when KDE started for a new user. > > Thanks. Hi Michael, To change the menu for all users you have to modify the general kde menu that is in /opt/kde3/share/applnk. If you want to add a new icon that is not present there, you have to create a new .desktop file and you may specify the following fields: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name= #name of the application in menu GenericName[i18n]= #text within brackets in menu, i18n is the code of the # language you're using, [en] I suppose... :-) Exec= #name of the application o execute, you can specify full path Icon= #name of the icon of the applicatio, you can specify full path. !! If #you don't put anything here you're entry won't be displayed in the menu Type=Application Terminal=0 #whether the application has to be executed in a console. 0 for #none To add a new menu or submenu, simply create a new folder and assign it an icon you like. For the folder to be displayed you must at least put a .desktop file in it. The /opt/kde3/share/applnk is merged with the personal user-kde directory to generate the menu for each user. If the ~/.kde/share/applnk doesn't contain any entry, the whole /opt/kde3/share/applnk menu will be displayed. If it contains different entryes, this ones will be displayed next to the ones of the general kde menu. If it contains an entry that is in the same folder or subfolder of the general menu and has the same name, the entry won't be displayed in the menu. For exemple, if you have: /opt/kde3/share/applnk/Applications/[empy] and ~/.kde/share/applnk/Applications/xmms.desktop The xmms entry will be displayed in the folder Applications of the Kmenu but if you have: /opt/kde3/share/applnk/Applications/xmms.desktop and ~/.kde/share/applnk/Applications/xmms.desktop The xmms entry won't appear in the menu. Note: I did this by eliminating the Suse menu and using the Kmenu, if you want to use the Suse menu you'll have to change the enries in the Suse menu. I've uninstalled it and now I can't remember where it was stored but if you can find it, things works the same as for the Kmenu. Respect to the icons on the desktop, I don't know hot to add new ones. Ther's a script in /opt/kde3/bin (startkde) written for suse that substitute the original (opt/kde3/bin/startkde.original) that do the job of creating the new desktop icons when a user login for the first time. But as I don't know very well bash script programming I decided to create my own icons manually and I uninstalled the suse theme. This way only a Trash icon is created on the desktop. If you know bash programming I think it wouldn't be difficult to understand the suse script and change it to create your own desktop icons. Hope this help. -- Chau, Ale. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, email: suse-kde-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, email: suse-kde-help(a)suse.com Please do not cross-post to suse-linux-e _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Setting KDE defaults for new users...
by michael stone 06 Jun '02

06 Jun '02

I am implementing a new Linux lab at my University and would like the default KDE setup to be a little different than the SuSE default. More specifically, I want to alter some stuff in the K menu, add/delete some panel buttons and change the desktop image. Is there a way that I can use a user account to alter everything how I want it, then copy some config files somewhere? I tried putting the .kde* folders in /etc/skel, but they still got overwritten when KDE started for a new user. Thanks. -- Michael Stone Linux / High Performance Computing Administrator The University of Texas at Austin Mechanical Engineering Department ETC 3.130 ph: 471.5951 agentsmith(a)mail.utexas.edu

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kscd: can't enter email address
by Paul W. Abrahams 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

I've been trying to run kscd to upload data to the freedb database of information on the contents of music CDs. kscd does this by sending an specially constructed email message to freedb.org. But in order to send the message you have to have kscd properly configured - and there's the problem. The relevant configuration is in the SMTP tab, where there's a place to specify an email address. The problem is that I can't enter anything there; it's not greyed out but if I click on it I don't get the cursor that indicates I can now enter text. If I plow ahead anyway I get a message that freedb submissions have been disabled because the email configuration is incomplete. (This is with version 2.2.2, not version 3.) Any advice? Paul

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K-Mail early disconnect from POP
by Kevin McLauchlan 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

I'm not sure if this is: a) operator error b) working as designed c) a bug d) other. On the company POP3 server, we have "inbox" and several other folders. After I start K-Mail, a click on the server name (or on the server's "inbox" folder) causes K-Mail to request authentication, and then to commence download of my mail. However, if I select another folder before the download has finished, the process stops and I get an error message saying that it died unexpectedly before completion. In other words, while downloading 300 messages from the POP server, I can't go read my already-sorted mail without unintentionally (often) killing the server connection. Is that the way it's supposed to work, and what other people experience? My impression is that this is not 100%, but it has happened several times. I'm reluctant to repeat for verification, because a premature disconnect means the messages do not get deleted at the server. I already have many hundreds of duplicates. /kevin

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