August 2002 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [suse-kde] Knotes forgets which notes are open
by Matthew W. Sheffield 02 Nov '02

02 Nov '02

I've had the same problem, too. It also happens with knotes 2.2x under kde 3.01. I hope you get an answer on this. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

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KDE 3.0.2 does not start
by Andreas Unterkircher 23 Sep '02

23 Sep '02

I'm using SuSE 8.0 with KDE 3.0.2 updates installed. When I try to start KDE via "startx" the KDE initialisaion screen appears but after "system resources" have been initialized KDE crashes. I'm quite new to KDE - maybe somebody can give me a hint what might be wrong or how to interpret the following error messages (this also happens with KDE 3.0 and cleaning the /tmp directory also is of no use): DCOPServer up and running. DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy QObject::connect: No such slot KWrited::block_in(const char*,int) QObject::connect: (sender name: 'unnamed') QObject::connect: (receiver name: 'unnamed') /usr/lib/qt3/plugins/imageformats/libqjpeg.so: Feature JPEG already defined in /usr/lib/qt-3.0.3/plugins/imageformats/libqjpeg.so! [similar messages repeated multiple times] DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-1047' to 'korgac' ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 1050, errno = 2 DCOP aborting call from 'applet_proxy-1043' to 'kicker' DCOP aborting call from 'applet_proxy-1042' to 'kicker xinit: connection to X server lost. Thanks, Andreas

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kioslave sftp
by Christian Benitz 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Hello ! i've got a problem connecting my webhoster using the kioslave sftp. he doesn't use the standart ssh port 22. There is no problem if i connect via commaline. sftp -oPORT=1234 user@hostname how can i tell the sftp kioslave to connect to another port? -- Christian Benitz Tel. : +(49) 2165 - 91 13 53 Kölnerstraße 51 Fax : +(49) 2165 - 91 31 66 41363 Jüchen Mobil: +(49) 177 - 8 91 13 53 Germany Email: christian(a)benitz.de http://www.benitz.de ICQ : 5832138 =============================================================== Einfach mal reinschauen, auch für Dich ist was dabei http://www.hobby-total.de

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Can't Change "Look & Feel" of Desktop
by Richard Court 02 Sep '02

02 Sep '02

Hi All, I'm a newbie to SuSE 8.0 and I'm a little bit befuddled why, when logged in as root, my changes to the look and feel of the desktop(s), namely backgrounds, does not take. I can change the bsckground while in a KDE session but my changes disappear and revert back to the default "red exploding bomb" background when I logout and return. I've never experienced this with debian, mandrake or redhat. Also, when trying to turn on the SuSE menus it doesn't take and all I get are the default KDE menus. Any help appreciated. Richard -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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HP-UX and Linux/ Filesystems/ How's 3.0.3?
by Carl 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 . Has anyone ever been able to mount an HPUX filesystem directly under Linux? I know about Samba and NFS, but I need to mount a disk directly, due to a 'crash'. Tried all the current fs modules including vxfs, to no avail. So tried to rip the disk with dd, but it's 4.3GB and reiser in 7.3 can't cope. (2GB max) and Win2k couldn't cope. (stopped at 2GB) So I've lost an opportunity I will not have again. When I try Suse8 again, I want to use a filesystem that CAN cope with =large= files. Ext3 is too slow. Is JFS stable yet? When will Reiser handle large files? You guys running Suse8/K3.0.3, any problems? Any at all? - - -- Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1xJBYACgkQnQ18+PFcZJut3ACbBos7oF2bxm7bqY2WGmFETXyY 11cAn1hla1xl26/LlN3/RZVIZKKQFe8J =zG0v -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Kbear, Quanta in KDE 3.1b - crash and burn
by Joe 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Hey, With the 3.1b of KDE installed on SuSE 8.0, Quanta and Kbear have both decided they'd rather crash than run. Anyone else had this problem? I'm using the latest RPMs for both programs that were released by SuSE in supplementary/KDE. Joe

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kioslave sftp
by Christian Benitz 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Hallo ! ich verusche per sftp einen connect zu meinen webhoster aufzubauen, der nicht den standart SSH-Port benutzt. von der comandline komme ich per sftp -oPORT=1234 user@hostname auf den Server. Meine Frage ist jetzt: Wie kann ich dem kioslave den Port mitteilen ? -- Christian Benitz Tel. : +(49) 2165 - 91 13 53 Kölnerstraße 51 Fax : +(49) 2165 - 91 31 66 41363 Jüchen Mobil: +(49) 177 - 8 91 13 53 Germany Email: christian(a)benitz.de http://www.benitz.de ICQ : 5832138 =============================================================== Einfach mal reinschauen, auch für Dich ist was dabei http://www.hobby-total.de

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KOffice
by Ben Hills 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Hi all, I am new to this group and have been lurking for a few weeks so I hope that my question hasn't been asked many times before or exists in a FAQ that I have missed. When I start the KOffice workspace the list of icons are doubled, i.e. I have two KWord icons, two KSpead icons etc. Does anybody know why this has happened and how I can remove one set of the icons? This is not a major problem by any means it's just slightly irritating. I am running SuSe 8.0 Pro. Thanks, Ben Hills. _____________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by the WorldCom Internet Managed Scanning Service - powered by MessageLabs. For further information visit http://www.worldcom.com

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Fwd: HP-UX and Linux/ Filesystems/ How's 3.0.3?
by Carl 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 . Has anyone ever been able to mount an HPUX filesystem directly under Linux? I know about Samba and NFS, but I need to mount a disk directly, due to a 'crash'. Tried all the current fs modules including vxfs, to no avail. So tried to rip the disk with dd, but it's 4.3GB and reiser in 7.3 can't cope. (2GB max) and Win2k couldn't cope. (stopped at 2GB) So I've lost an opportunity I will not have again. When I try Suse8 again, I want to use a filesystem that CAN cope with =large= files. Ext3 is too slow. Is JFS stable yet? When will Reiser handle large files? You guys running Suse8/K3.0.3, any problems? Any at all? - -- Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1udcsACgkQnQ18+PFcZJuchQCbBCOoAhpcgmjKtPUrIJIbyUZ8 0twAn102od1XYOcsAgEWkunIdvgM2Wr4 =dEAc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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kdm after upgrage to KDE3.0.3
by Ian Powell 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

Hi, I'm running Suse8.0 with latest patches and have just upgraded to KDE 3.0.3 from KDE 3.0.2. Most things seems to that I've tried so far except..... 1. The kdm login window now displays all the users instead of just the ones I have selected. The changes I make do not take effect. The only change that did work was to change the icon displayed. I've checked the "kdmrc" file in /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm and it appears to have the changes I selected but "kdm" seems to have a mind of its own as to what it does: PreselectUser=None SelectedUsers=ian, SessionTypes=kde,default,failsafe, ShowUsers=Selected SortUsers=false I also changed the Logo to display the clock instead of the logo and it still diplays the logo: LogoArea=Clock The original "kdmrc" file has been saved by the upgrade process. Is "kdm" using another "kdmrc" file for its configuration? Am I checking the correct files? 2. YAST2 online update has stopped working. I get the Yast2 has started message and then it just sits there with a blank screen. It was working reasonably ok under KDE 3.0.2 but also had the same problems when upgrading from KDE 3.0.0 to KDE 3.0.1 but seemed to be cured after upgrade from KDE 3.0.1 to KDE 3.0.2. Thanks in advance of any assistance. regards Ian

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Screensavers
by Kevin McLauchlan 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

This is probably just a philosophical question... Why is it that Gnome seems to have so many more screen savers than KDE, and they are mostly much more eye-pleasing and interesting? I'm referring to what "comes with", rather than add-ons. Is it a philosophical choice by the KDE project to resemble Windows in that respect? Is it just that Gnome users, as a group, tend to be more in need of superficial amusement? <grin> Or is it inherently more difficult to code a nifty screensaver to work reliably with KDE? Just curious, really. I'm on vacation this week... :-) /kevin -- "DIRty DEEDS, and they're DONE dirt cheap." [Sing it with me, now...]

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KMail problem
by Bob Rea 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

I had a hard disk crash a while back and reinstalled suse 7.3. When I tried to run mial after getting my dsl connection back, i put in my account seetings and it cant find the pop or smtp servers. The same setings in Mozilla work well. I would prefer kmail. the version is 1.3.1 using kde 2.2.1. Any body got any ideas on why this isn't working. Please help. Bob

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Re: [suse-kde] Font problems
by Joe Sullivan 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

--- Liz Young <liz(a)kandew.net> wrote: > Not sure about Gnome, but for KDE 3.0.2 on 7.3, check /etc/X11/qtrc > for > "useXFT=false" and change to true. There's some crashing with > Xfree4.1.0 and QT3.0.4(5?) where that was disabled. I have long > ago > upgraded X to 4.2.0, and with this fix AA fonts are working. I haven't seen anti-aliased fonts in KDE3 since SuSE started dictating that us 7.3 users shouldn't have them rather than letting us turn them on/off ourselves the old-fashioned Control Panel way. I have changed that line to True. I've got "Use anti-aliased fonts" marked in the control panel. I've got all my fonts set to be fonts that can be anti-aliased, such as Arial. (And yes, I have Arial ttf installed. ;-) Still, I get jagged nasty fonts in everything KDE-related, including the desktop. Now, if SuSE would just stop dictating this in their QT3 RPMs for us and go back to the way QT3 packages were a few months ago, we wouldn't have this problem. Yes, I'm aware of the X 4.1 problem. The solution? Let them upgrade! Don't cut out anti-aliasing for every 7.3 user! Now, you're seeing anti-aliased fonts. I tried what you said you did over-and-over with each QT3 upgrade and still nothing. You must have done something else as well? Joe -- --------------------- I'm too sexy for my desktop. Too sexy for my desktop... ---------------------

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Hello
by wb7woh 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

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Resolution of Can't do anything with JPEG's after upgrading from KDE 3.0.2
by netzener＠netscape.net 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

Thanks for the help! Problem solved and I learned something from your responses in the process. I'll be more diligent in checking the FAQ and newsgroups in the future to avoid "the question that wouldn't die" problem. Thanks again, Jerry

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[suse-kde] KDE 3.0.3 and Background
by Markus Kohli 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

Hullo List Just updated my KDE to V3.0.3. Now: I can only use png images as desktop background, jpg's don't work anymore... Anybody else got that problem? Any solution? (Except converting my pictures ;-). And, after all, KDM seems to have overwritten my entire configuration... Not so nice... Thanks in advance Markus -- J'aimerais assez que mon oeuvre soit publiée a titre pré-posthume. -- Philippe Geluck, Le Chat

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Anyone tried 3.1-beta?
by Joe 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

Hey, Just wondering if anyone has tried the SuSE 8.0 RPMs for KDE 3.1-beta yet. If so, how have they been stability-wise? Noted any serious issues that aren't seen in the 3.0 version? Thanks, Joe

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Can't do anything with JPEG's after upgrade from KDE 3.0.2
by netzener＠netscape.net 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

I recently upgraded KDE 3.0.1 that came with the SuSE 8.0 distribution. The upgrade path included installing RPM's for 3.0.2 earlier this month and then 3.0.3 late last week. I had no problems with the 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 transition. Everything seemed to work just fine. However, after upgrading from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3, everything works fine except I can no longer apply JPEG's to my desktop background, display JPEG's in the preview portion of the file dialog box, or open JPEG's with the Kpaint or Kview. Sounds like KDE isn't aware of the JPEG libraries in some way. Is there anyone that is experiencing this problem? Anybody know what to look for? Jerry

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HP-UX and Linux/ Filesystems/ How's 3.0.3?
by Carl 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 . Has anyone ever been able to mount an HPUX filesystem directly under Linux? I know about Samba and NFS, but I need to mount a disk directly, due to a 'crash'. Tried all the current fs modules including vxfs, to no avail. So tried to rip the disk with dd, but it's 4.3GB and reiser in 7.3 can't cope. (2GB max) and Win2k couldn't cope. (stopped at 2GB) So I've lost an opportunity I will not have again. When I try Suse8 again, I want to use a filesystem that CAN cope with =large= files. Ext3 is too slow. Is JFS stable yet? When will Reiser handle large files? You guys running Suse8/K3.0.3, any problems? Any at all? - -- The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1qiAkACgkQnQ18+PFcZJuGmwCZAYlDA0tk2yfCOrk9rOM0kDWD hTMAn3cU6jrubRgU+rLd08lIBlPWXM/P =tQfC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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File associations
by Jens Hatlak 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Using KDE 3.0.3 on SuSE 7.3, I want to rearrange my file associations. Example: Start Kaboodle for MP3s and WAVs instead of XMMS. I know that can be done using KControl > File assoc., finding the MIME type and making Kaboodle the topmost of the list entries for the selected MIME type. The problem is that after rearranging the list and clicking Apply, the arrangement is set back to what it was before when I close and reopen KControl. Now my question is how does that come? It has been like that for me for some time, at least it was the same in KDE 3.0.2 (I know because I updated today). I thought it could be a privilege problem but all files in ~/.kde belong to me (the KDE user I'm having problems with). Where does KDE save the order of the list anyway? And while I'm with that, where does Knotes save which notes are open (I ask because it doesn't remember it on my system)? Bye, Jens

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Konqueror locks up browsing network mounts
by Nova Fire 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Whenever I browse mounted NFS or SMB shares with konquerer I tend to lock up those mounts before too long. The first one or two directory listings work ok, but if I refresh once or twice or move to a different mount the window will lock up and I will no longer be able to list that mount in any other application -- not even a console. Killing that konqueror window does not being back the mount, only a reboot will. On fresh boots I can browse those mounts perfectly within a console or even in other apps or other file managers. At first I thought it was a problem with my mounting methods, but seeing that it occurs on both smb mounts and nfs mounts I sort of ruled that out. For what it is worth when I browse out to SMB shares using the "smb://server" syntax I can get to everything just fine, but this is less useful as it cannot run files directly from the server. I am running KDE 3.02 on a SuSE 8.0 install. My other computers with pre KDE 3.0 installs all seem to be fine when browsing these mounts. Thanks for any help you can offer. bjz

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konqueror view settings.
by Michael McGibben 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Hello. Can anyone tell me how to change the default 'view' settings for konqueror please. I would like to set the default to 'tree' but have to do this each time I use konq. Thanks. Michael

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Update von KDE 3.0.2 auf KDE 3.0.3
by Jens Hofheinz 24 Aug '02

24 Aug '02

Hallo Liste, habe gerade gelesen, dass es ein Update fuer KDE gibt. Meine Frage: Wuerdet Ihr unbedingt updaten? Falls ja, welche Pakete muessen unbedingt installiert werden? Habe bei http://developer.kde.org/build/compile_kde3_0.html nachgeschaut und auch mal auf dem FTP-Server unter http://download.kde.org/stable/3.0.3/SuSE/i386/8.0/ Muss ich KDE 3.0.2 erst deinstallieren oder kann ich die Pakete runterladen und einfach drueberinstallieren? Will mir mein System nicht zerschiessen. Wenn es nicht unbedingt notwendig ist, lass ich naemlich das Update. Gruß Jens Nutze Suse Linux 8.0 Prof.

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newbie question: upgrading
by Antoni Mont 24 Aug '02

24 Aug '02

Hi all, I've bought suse 8.0 and want to upgrade from suse 7.2, and so doing to upgrade to kde 3 from version 2.1.2. The question is: Is there any help literature -or can someone give some guidelines- about how to do it without loosing the configuration of kde and avoiding make a mess with new and old files?. Thanks, Toni

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Fonts, round 2
by Joe Sullivan 24 Aug '02

24 Aug '02

Hmm... Something weird this way comes? SuSE 7.3, KDE 3.0.3, QT 3.0.5 - All SuSE RPMs I've noticed that in KFontInstaller, inside the "preview" box, the font gets anti-aliased, but nowhere else! This tells me that I *can* get anti-aliased fonts. Maybe? But something is set up wrong. Well, besides SuSE intentionally shutting off anti-aliasing in the QT RPMs... I'm totally confused and frustrated at this point. Why would fonts show up anti-aliased in the preview box for KFontInstaller, but nowhere else? I've got "Use anti-alias" marked in the Control Panel, useXft=true and enableXft=true in /etc/X11/qtrc . All fonts are set to Arial or some other anti-aliasable font. Yet I still get no anti-aliasing except in the KFontInstaller font preview box. What's missing? Joe --------------------- I'm too sexy for my desktop. Too sexy for my desktop... ---------------------

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SUSE, this has gone on long enough!
by Joe Sullivan 23 Aug '02

23 Aug '02

Dear SuSE, We the users of SuSE 7.3 are tired of you forcing no anti-alias support in QT3 packages. This has been going on long enough. You did this because there was problems with it in XFree86 4.1 Who in their right minds is upgrading KDE without upgrading X as well? People downloading the latest KDE3 RPMs have already most likely upgraded X to 4.2 . Yet we're still getting no anti-alias support in the QT3 packages. How about letting US make that choice instead, and cut out this nonsense now? Put out a new QT3.0.5 package for 7.3 users. WITH anti-alias support. I didn't purchase SuSE just so you could dictate that my desktop has to look nasty. Let US decide about anti-aliasing, rather than you dictating it for us. Joe --------------------- I'm too sexy for my desktop. Too sexy for my desktop... ---------------------

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scroll bar problem in terminal window
by Krisztian Gyoerffy 23 Aug '02

23 Aug '02

Hi! I realized now that my scroll bar in the terminal window in kde is not working. It stays grey, blocked and the bar fills the gap between the up and down arrows of the scroll bar even if lines are shifted out of the top of the terminal window. So I cannot go up to see e.g. the output of a command, which gave me more lines that it fits to the window. I can also not go up by pressing the SHIFT+ PGUP or SHIFT + UP keys. I checked now everything I could. I clicked with the right mouse button and I checked the status of the history switch in the options on the pop up panel. It was on. Then in the contents of the help menu of the terminal I read the info about the history, and it also didn't say more to set as the history in the pop up panel options I already checked. I have also beside kde the gnome window manager. The terminal there has also a scroll bar and it is working perfect. Can anybody tell me, how can I get my scroll bar up and running again under kde as well. My versions: Suse 7.1 Kernel 2.4.16 KDE 2.0.1 Many thanks in advice Regards Krisztian

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kmail appends hostname to "local" mailaddress
by Martin Knoblauch 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

Hi, is there a way to tell kmail (1.4.2) not to append the hostname when sending mail to "user", where user doesn not contain the "@" sign? My setup connects to a SMTP server for outgoing Mail. I could of course configure sendmail on my notebook and let it do correct name translation and then talk to the other SMTP server. But I don't want to ... Netscape has the nice property that it appends my domain name to plain user names. Would be a nice enhancement. Martin -- Martin Knoblauch Senior System Architect MSC.software GmbH Am Moosfeld 13 D-81829 Muenchen, Germany e-mail: martin.knoblauch(a)mscsoftware.com http://www.mscsoftware.com Phone/Fax: +49-89-431987-189 / -7189 Mobile: +49-174-3069245

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SQL Plugins
by Andreas Scherf 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

Hello, i compiled the postgres plugin with QT3.0.5 and installed the rpms of 3.0.5. Then i copied the sqldriver in the /plugins/sqldriver dir. But my app didn't load the plugin. strace told me that i could be loaded but it didn`t. Are there any rpm's or something for postgres 7.2 and 3.0.5 (i386) ?? When will they released ?? Thanks Andreas -- Andreas Scherf ICQ: 52910964 scherfa(a)web.de

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Re: [suse-kde] SuSE 8.0 and kvim
by Sebastian Huber 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

Hello, thank you for your RPM. Now I can use kvim, but the command completition doesn't work. This means that if I type for example ':e <Tab>' I get ':e ^I' instead of the first file in the current directory. Ciao On Tuesday 20 August 2002 13:13, Mathias Homann wrote: > Am Dienstag, 20. August 2002 21:55 schrieb Mathias Homann: > > Am Dienstag, 20. August 2002 21:50 schrieb Patrick: > > > On Tuesday 20 August 2002 23:28, Sebastian Huber wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > was someone able to install the kvim.rpm from > > > > http://www.suse.de/us/private/download/linuks/i386/update_for_8_0/ext > > > >ra.html? I installed the rpm (with no error message) but afterwards > > > > kvim didn't work. This means that the command 'kvim' resulted in > > > > 'bash: kvim: command not found'. > > > > > > > > Ciao > > > > > > ===================== > > > > > > Sebastian, > > > I too find that Kvim no longer works since 3.0.3 update. I didn't get > > > any errors from the new program either, yet I cannot get anything when > > > trying to run it from a console. > > > > that *might* be possible that the kvim command (to be found in > > /opt/kde3/bin) is a softlink that points to /opt/kde3/bin/vim which > > should be in the kvim rpm but isnt. (which can easily be found when doing > > rpm -ql kvim) > > > > seems to be a bad package. > > and btw, grab the corrected rpm package I made from > ftp://ftp.eregion.de/pub/ > > it's linked against kde 3.0.2 but you could rebuild the src.rpm. > > bye, > MH ______________________________________________________________________________ E-Mail-Adressen als Markenzeichen und fur alle Lebenslagen! Ganz neu! Interesse? Klicken! http://digitaledienste.web.de/MyAdress/?mc=021107

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Font problems
by Matthew W. Sheffield 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

I've been using 7.3 for about a year now, and it seems that when it comes to fonts, that when I get them anti-aliased in KDE, then GNOME apps can't see my TrueType fonts. I just updated (though not through YOU) to KDE 3.0.2 and have found my anti-aliasing missing from KDE but now GNOME apps seem to be able to see my TT fonts. My anti-aliasing was working perfectly (at least in KDE) under 3.0.1 and before and after the upgrade, I did not change any anti-aliasing settings. Now TT fonts show up, but in regular jagged fashion. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? I am also a user of the xft hack found on kde-look.org. Is there a possibility it may have to do with this? TIA for any assistance. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com

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mouse
by Hans Krueger 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

does anybody know how to get the 4th and 5th buttons on a optical mouse -- Hans Krueger hans007(a)prexar.com "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

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SuSE 8.0 and kvim
by Sebastian Huber 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

Hello, was someone able to install the kvim.rpm from http://www.suse.de/us/private/download/linuks/i386/update_for_8_0/extra.htm… I installed the rpm (with no error message) but afterwards kvim didn't work. This means that the command 'kvim' resulted in 'bash: kvim: command not found'. Ciao

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kde3rc -- how to change it?
by Vitaly Shishakov 21 Aug '02

21 Aug '02

In a SuSE with KDE3 installed there is a file /etc/kde3rc with the only entry: [Directories] prefixes=/etc/opt/kde3/ How can i specify additional prefixes to it (say: /usr/local/kde) ? What else can i do here?

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KMail - "feature"=?iso-8859-1?q?=BF?=
by Kevin McLauchlan 20 Aug '02

20 Aug '02

G'day all. I'm running KMail 1.4 on KDE 3.0.2 on SuSE 8. I'm using our company IMAP server. In the "Folders" panel of the KMail interface, I see a folder for each of my local folders, plus an entry for the server (panda). Panda has sub-folders for all the usual Exchange Server folders (such as inbox, Calendar, Contacts, Deleted Items, Sent Items...) When I open KMail, I have to click the 'panda' folder and then the 'inbox' folder, in order to trigger the retrieval of my mail from the server. All the new mail pours into the local "picture" of the server's "kevin's inbox". So, at this point, I believe I have a local copy of what exists in my folder on the server (i.e., hundreds or thousands of e-mails that have come in since the last time I checked). Or, maybe it's just titles and I don't actually have complete copies... not sure how that works. My filters, apparently are not triggered by this arrival. I have to do "Edit > Select all" and then "Message > Apply Filters". The system churns for a few minutes, and my server-reflection "inbox" is emptied into my various folders. Then, a progress bar appears at the bottom right corner of the KMail window, while (presumably) KMail cleans up all the messages that have just been filtered. This takes a bit of time (a few seconds, to a couple of minutes, depending on the number of messages). If I click on any folder while that cleanup is proceeding, the process dies with an error message, leaving behind any messages that had not been cleared from my local server-inbox copy folder. If I don't clean them up manually, they will be RE-copied, along with any new arrivals, the next time I invoke my filters, and my archive folders will receive a bunch of duplicates. Is this the way it's supposed to work? To my way of thinking (usually incorrect, if it's about Linux) I should be able to click on another folder without killing an active process. Either *nothing* should happen (the click should be ignored), or else my click should be cached until the current process is done. I don't see the utility of having a valid process be ungracefully killed by the mere act of selecting another folder within the KMail folder's panel. If it's going to kill the "cleanup after filtering" process, then I think KMail should present an "are you sure?" dialog, and give me the option to say: "whoops! continue cleaning up... I didn't mean to interrupt." This has been consistent since I've had SuSE 8 and KMail on this laptop. Does anybody else's setup work like this? (I previously had SuSE 7.3 and Evolution, so I don't have a history against which I can compare.) It's not a big deal, just a little annoyance that I'd like to understand better. Maybe my folders or my server connection need to be specified differently. Any insights? /kevin -- ** DIR-ty DEEDS, and they're DONE dirt cheap. (Sing it, now...)

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KDE 3.0.3?
by Mathias Homann 20 Aug '02

20 Aug '02

Hi, anyone seen kde3.0.3 rpms for suse yet? bye, [L]

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OpenOffice 1.0.1 install can't get X server
by Kevin McLauchlan 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

Hello all. I had OpenOffice 1.0.0 successfully installed on my system for a couple of months. On Saturday, I removed it, to do a clean install of OpenOffice 1.0.1. I followed the instructions on the OO.org site, which have not changed since the previous successful installation. You download the package into /tmp, su to root, untar the package, which creates a /tmp/install directory and dumps hundreds of files in there. Then, you cd to /tmp/install and run the install script. When I do that, this is the result: mybox:/tmp/install # ./install --prefix=/opt Installation starting, please be patient ... glibc version: 2.2.5 Initializing installation program.......... Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified cannot connect to X server Installation Completed mybox:/tmp/install # I tried earlier suggestions in the OpenOffice[users] list, but they assumed that I was using a terminal without X. In fact, I tried several different ways of running a terminal from withn KDE, and the result was the same every time. I'm making the assumption that if I have invoked a Konsole from the KDE menu of the desktop panel, then I am probably using X... yes? So, I searched the last few months of this list (SuSE-KDE) and found the suggestion by Ben Rosenberg: > You would need to do this... > > ssh -X -l root localhost > > The -X lets you exectute X programs as root :) Again, I got exactly the same result as above.... though now, at least, "localhost" is in the database of trusted callers <grin>. So, the questions are: X is working, why is it refusing to acknowledge OO1.0.1 install? Or, why would OO1.0.1 install script be failing to get itself properly ingratiated with the X server? Is there some sort of link I could create, to fool somebody as to who they are talking to? Is there something like that "source" bash command that was used to fool OpenOffice1.0 into believing that I was running its favorite version of Java? Currently using SuSE 8.0, KDE 3.0.2, and XFree86 version 4.2.0. One difference between now and when OO1.0.0 was successfully installed, is that I probably had KDE 3.0.1 installed then. However, it still worked after I "upgraded" to KDE 3.0.2, so that's probably not the problem... (or is that a bad assumption?)_ There may be other differences, because I run YOU every couple of weeks. Thoughts? Suggestions? If it's RTFM, which FM do you mean? I've been searching FAQs and finding nothing related to this situation. The "Installation Guide" PDF ignores this issue. Thanks, /kevin (who needs an office suite to work, but doesn't have one)

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OT: Traceroute Tip
by Carl 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 . Check out this amusing utility: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/fakeroute.html - -- "Every group has a couple of experts. And every group has at least one idiot. Thus are balance and harmony (and discord) maintained. It's sometimes hard to remember this in the bulk of the flamewars that all of the hassle and pain is generally caused by one or two highly-motivated, caustic twits." -- Chuq Von Rospach, about Usenet -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1hSIsACgkQnQ18+PFcZJvjEgCdEGA149OkOk7OvcrX8wK7aAAn 2GgAn03RSYYVhlHWrmB2OvRiyRZhw3Zv =nSe8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SOLVED: Problem with X and OpenOffice1.0.1 install script
by Kevin McLauchlan 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

Woohooo!!! Success! This is crossposted to the two lists where I received different, but related answers. For others who might encounter the same problem, I reproduce the two solutions below, because they are worded differently and they approach the problem from different directions. It is always very helpful for understanding, to see two viewpoints. Sincere thanks to both Wolfgang Fritz and Anders Johansson, respectively. Also, I had forgotten about "sux", which I had used before, but which is not mentioned in general-audience mailing lists, because not all distros have the command available. To summarize, I was attempting to install OpenOffice 1.0.1, but the install script kept reporting "cannot connect to X server". Here are the solutions -- On Monday 19 August 2002 20:11, Wolfgang Fritz wrote: > > Initializing installation program.......... > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > It's what the message means: The X connection (the install program tried > to open) was refused by the X server. In SuSE 8.0 only the user logged > in via KDM is able to open connections to the X server by default. > > Solution: > Open a terminal from the task bar and enter the command > xhost + > Then open a root window and enter the command > export DISPLAY=:0 > Then start the install script in this window. AND, FROM Anders Johansson On Monday 19 August 2002 20:39, Anders Johansson wrote: > Here's the deal: X doesn't know about root, it know only about the user that > started it. That user has all the permissions to run programs that use the > running X. As that user you need to grant permissions to other users to run > programs. There are several ways to do this: > > As the user that started X, run "ssh -X root@localhost" > > As root after "su", run "export XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority" > where "user" is the user that started X. > > As the user that started X, run "sux" instead of "su" to go to root. This will > essentially do the XAUTHORITY thing I mentioned, but you won't have to know > about it :) > > As the user who started X, run "xhost +inet:localhost". This will allow *all* > users logged in to the local machine to run X programs. > > I'm sure there are other ways, but these should be enough to be getting on > with -- "DIRty DEEDS, and they're DONE dirt cheap." [Sing it with me, now...]

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KDevelop
by Steinar Saetre 18 Aug '02

18 Aug '02

Hi. Anybody out there that knows a tool for, or have a guide on how to convert a M$-visual studio makefile, into a KDevelop makefile? I'm trying to import sources into KDevelop, but keeps on getting these messages that the makefiles are missing. When I try to create the makefiles, I get the message that config is missing. What am I missing? (Ok. It's the first time I'm writing anything for linux pltfrm. Hope anyone can help to kickstart me...) The code is not M$ code (it's written for multi platform, and I'm trying to compile a prj to a suse box (PC-104 controller with suse 8)) Any? Regards, S.Saetre Project manager. Industrial Control Design as

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Here the configuration of KDE3 in Suse 7.3
by Ruud van Damme 18 Aug '02

18 Aug '02

INSTALLATION OF KDE 3.0.2 IN SUSE 7.3 *********************************************************** PACKAGES: xf86-4.2.0 (several packages) | sax2-4.3-403.i386.rpm | Install with yast saxident-1.1-152.i386.rpm | arts-1.0.2-2.rpm audiofile-0.2.3-67.rpm kdebase3-3.0.2-7.rpm kdelibs3-3.0.2-4.rpm kdebase3-nsplugin-3.0.2-7 kdenetwork3-3.0.2-41.rpm kdebase-ksysguardd-2.2.1-36.rpm koffice-1.1.1-139 liblcms-1.08-58.i386.rpm libmng-1.0.3-105.i386.rpm libogg-1.0rc2-92.rpm libvorbis-1.0rc2-91.rpm libxml2-2.4.22-21.rpm libxslt-1.0.7-41.rpm ppp-2.4.1-34.rpm qt3-3.0.4-3.rpm wwwoffle-2.7b-1.rpm Additional packages: time courage persistence endurance nerves of steel BETTER INSTALL WITHOUT KDE2-COMPAT-2.2.2 !!! -------------------------------------------------------- First install the basic installation of suse 7.3. Then, if you want, replace XF86 and new sax2 + saxident Then, add the KDE3-packages At last, change the configuration-files. -------------------------------------------------------- When you save the new packages on cdrom, you can install with yast1 via "source: none" and then the directory /media/cdrom/ (or what your /etc/fstab says; don't forget the last slash). Change all configuration-files at once. Make a backup before you change a file. In the virtual console (ctrl+alt+F2) you can use "vim" (see man vim; first learn how to change files with vim). -------------------------------------------------------- CONFIGURATION-FILES: - /etc/init.d/xdm Change second and third kde to kde3 - /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc [X-*-Greeter] -> SessionTypes=: Change kde to kde3 - /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Here should be a copy or a link from the former file - /etc/opt/kde2/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Delete the file - /opt/kde2/share/config/SuSE/config Delete all - /etc/SuSEconfig/profile Change KDEDIR and QTDIR to kde3 and qt3 keep WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde - /etc/SuSEconfig/csh.cshrc Do the same. - /opt/kde2/bin/SuSEconfig.customized.kdm /opt/kde2/bin/SuSEconfig.kdm2 Delete, to prevent changing back to kde2 - /usr/X11R6/bin/wmlist Add above: kde3 - /etc/ld.so.conf Add "/opt/kde3/lib" and run # ldconfig - /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.profiles Change kde2 and qt2 to kde3 and qt3 Add to PATH: $r/opt/kde3/bin: - /opt/kde3/bin/startkde Just the startfile for kdm or startx. Don't change. - /usr/X11R6/bin/kde3 A link from /opt/kde3/bin/startkde. Don't change. - /root/.xinitrc Add: elif test -x /opt/kde3/bin/startkde ; then WINDOWMANAGER=/opt/kde3/bin/startkde (KDE-STARTUP FOR THE COMMAND "startx") - /home/.xinitrc /home/.xsession Do the same for every user. ********************************************************************** SUSE-MENU: Copy or make a link from /etc/opt/kde2/share/applnk/SuSE to /opt/kde3/share/applnk. You can do the same with the work-menu. You can link any program to it that you want. WWWOFFLE: - /etc/wwwoffle/ # chmod 777 /etc/wwwoffle/ (make accessible) - /etc/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf # chmod 666 /etc/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf (make accessible) StartUp { bind-ipv4 = 0.0.0.0 bind-ipv6 = none AllowedConnectHosts { 127.0.0.1 - Configure Konquerorbrowser: Don't use Cache Use Proxy --> http://localhost https://localhost ftp://localhost Don't mark "Proxy only use for ...." ********************************************************************** Unfortunately the Konqueror-support for java-applets is insufficient for many websites yet. Hopefully Suse will decrease the amount of configuration-files drastically. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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Mounting Zip Drives
by Mike McCallister 16 Aug '02

16 Aug '02

Folks, I have been lurking here almost from the beginning of the list. You are a great group. I realize this question is only peripherally related to KDE, but I hope you can help anyway. How can I get my system to recognize my external Iomega Zip drive? I have read the SuSE Help topics on mounting file systems, "using Zip floppies" and the "Iomega Zip Drive" and this has not been very helpful. I have added the following lines to my fstab file: /dev/sdb /zip ext2 rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sdb /zip msdos rw,user,noauto 0 0 but when I try to "mount zip" from Konsole, it complains that it can't find zip in fstab or mtab. When I type "mount /zip", it says /dev/sdb is "not a valid block device." Any help much appreciated! -- Mike McCallister ProTek Writing Services workingwriter(a)prodigy.net "Translation from the Geek a specialty" Phone: (303) 554-7533 Fax: (248) 282-0532

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Keystroke codes in Linux/KDE?
by Kevin McLauchlan 16 Aug '02

16 Aug '02

Hi all. In Windoze, in almost any program, I can hold down the [Alt] key and type a three-digit code to produce characters that are outside the ASCII 128. For example, [Alt]-[1]-[3]-[0] is the "e-accent-aigu" character. I use it all the time to type french accented characters or characters from other European languages when attempting to respect people's (and places') proper names. This saves me the bother of loading (and learning...) various keyboard mappings that I don't normally need or want. It's also a great deal more convenient than mouse-based pick lists. Is there an equivalent keyboard-based function in Linux or in KDE (since I'm running most of my apps in KDE, now)? Thanks, /kevin -- ** DIR-ty DEEDS, and they're DONE dirt cheap. (Sing it, now...)

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Intro unter KDE
by Bernd Langehegermann 16 Aug '02

16 Aug '02

Moin-Moin, ich habe da mal 'ne Frage und das Listenarchiv (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ bzw. http://lists.suse.com/) brachte mich ebenso wie google mal nicht weiter, oder ich habe nicht alle moeglichen Wort auspropiert. Na wie dem auch sei, ich stelle sie jetzt einfach mal! Es geht darum, dass ich auf Dauer das Eingangs-Hintergrundbildchen (das bei der Benutzeranmledung) langweilig finde, na und nun wollte ich dieses ersetzen, allerdings nicht durch ein anderes Bild (dies steht ja in der Liste beschrieben) sondern ein kleines Intro (eine Katze die ueber den Bildschirm rennt oder eine andere Spielereien), dass ich mir dann selbst zusammenbasteln wuerde. Ich weiss allerdings nicht, welches Format in diesem Fall erlaubt ist und wie dies dann einzubinden ist, geschweige denn, ob das ueberhaupt moeglich ist. Fuer Sachdienliche Hinweise wende man sich bitte an obige E-Mail Adresse, weiter wird eine Belohnung in Hoehe von einem herzhaften Dankeschoen ausgesetzt. so long MfG Bernd -- Die Antwort ist 42

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K Menu and SuSE upgrade and now Konqueror
by Chris C 15 Aug '02

15 Aug '02

I write from my Windows PC as I can not get on to the internet since the Yast2 online update! Original install 8.0 Pro My problems form the beginning. 1. K Menu could not be edited and did not match the correct listing in K Menu Editor. Another list recommended running kbuildsycoca which appeared to do nothing other than produce error messages but then I found that it has deleted / lost all the contents from my KMail Inbox! An Update was needed I thought so I did this a few days ago using YaST2 online update. 2. Now Knoqueror says An error occurred while loading .... Unknown host .... Now I need to fix Konqueror or internet connection. Possibly retrieve Mail Inbox if possible and get K Menu so that it shows what is set in K Menu Editor. Please can someone help this newbie to trouble shoot these issues. Thanks Chris

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Mounting NTFS (XP) Partition (disk) in SuSE 8.0
by Anthony Gunia 14 Aug '02

14 Aug '02

Hello, I'm a newbie to SuSE 8.0, and would like to know the appropriate entry to mount an NTFS disk via fstab. Could someone out there share with me the entry to make in the fstab file? Thanks! Anthony aggunia(a)urisp.com

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Mounting NTFS (XP) Partition (disk) in SuSE 8.0
by Anthony Gunia 14 Aug '02

14 Aug '02

Hello, I'm a newbie to SuSE 8.0, and would like to know the appropriate entry to mount an NTFS disk via fstab. Could someone out there share with me the entry to make in the fstab file? Thanks! Anthony aggunia(a)urisp.com

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dcop problems (suse 7.3) and more
by Oliver Henshaw 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

Hi, My computer (AMD 1000Mhz, 40gb IDE drive) has recently been moved from the UK to germany, and on starting up I encountered several problems with my linux system. So I'm trying to track down the source of these (spontaneous - I'd made no changes or updates to the system for a few weeks before) problems. There's a lot I don't know about linux so some of this will be a little clumsy, but my problem fits none that I've been able to find so far. My first question is whether there are any searchable forums or other resource that are appropriate for this type of problem. A good few hours have been wasted on google and around the suse/kde sites looking for information, but without much success. First off, lilo works fine. If I boot windows me (which has 30gig of the disk) it works fine and nothing seems to be wrong. Then if I try to boot linux (suse 7.3 out of the 7.3 personal distribution and the last time I used the online update package tool with yast2 was maybe mid-June) it works fine and I reach the login screen. If I try to log in as either user 'henshaw' (me) or 'root' with kde then it gives me the basic suse background and after a few seconds, I get "Could not read network connection list /home/henshaw/DCOP_server_linux_:0 Please check 'dcopserver' program is running" before being returned to the login screen. If I try to login with 'failsafe', 'fvvm' or 'tvm' I'm returned straight back to the login screen. If I try to login with 'windowmaker' I do get somewhere, but if I try to launch any process (ie the xterm icon or anything from the suse application menu I can reach by right-clicking on a blank area of screen) then a message tells me that that process cannot be launched. Booting first from the suse intallation disk and then "..from an existing partition" works and gives the same result. Choosing the linux - safe settings option from LILO gives me stranger problems - the output as I'm loading: (STUFF) SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 request_module[scsi_hostadaptor]: Root fs not found request_module[scsi_hostadaptor]: Root fs not found (MORE STUFF - 3-5 LINES) RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0 Freeing initrd memory: 558k freed FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to write root fs on 03:07 (BLINKING CURSOR, NO RESPONSE TO INPUT) Exploring a little with the installation disk, I can see that all the packages that should be installed are, and that I have 3 linux partitions (as I expected) /hda5/ (no type) ~500mb - is the boot partition (I think) /hda6/ (swap) ~300mb - is swap /hda7/ (ext2) ~5gb - is my home directory (These sizes I set manually, as the installer wanted to use a lot more space but linux can read from a windows partition so I thought it only fair to give WinMe the bigger slice - that arrangement has worked hitch free for over a year) So what can i do to fix/further diagnose this problem. Ways to check the condition of the disk would be quite useful, and in particular the boot partition (LILO lives there, I think, but it should have a filesystem type shoulsn't it?) and to reach /home/henshaw/ so that I can try out something of the dcopserver problem. Any ideas? Oliver

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[suse-kde] Kmail 1.4.2 & GPG 1.0.6
by Markus Kohli 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

Hallo Liste! Habe ein groooosses Problem mit meinem Kmail 1.4.2. Es erkennt keine PGP-verschlüsselten Nachrichten, und lässt mich auch keine schreiben. Mit 1.3 hat's noch geklappt, seit 1.4.x ist essig... Kann mir jemand helfen? Die Schlüssel und alles funktionieren, hab's mit Sylpheed ausprobiert. danke im voraus Markus -- Just roadkill on the royal road to mathematics.

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Problem with Konqueror 3.0.0
by James Mohr 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

Hi All! When I try to view the source of a web page from Konqueror, it tries to reload the page from the web site. This same things happens when I try to save the file to look at it locally. I am trying to debug a cgi script and it appears to be a run-away. Therefore, anytime something tries to download the page it keeps going and going and going. To me the logical behavior when you save the file is to save what the browser currently has in memory. Saving the entire file is what should happen when you click "Save link as". Is there anyway to get Konqueror just to save what I have in memory and not reload the page each time? Any help is greatly appreaciated. Regards, jimmo -- --------------------------------------- "Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden --------------------------------------- Be sure to visit the Linux Tutorial: http://www.linux-tutorial.info --------------------------------------- NOTE: All messages sent to me in response to my posts to newsgroups or forums are subject to reposting.

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Virus Scan Software
by Bill.Stephens＠sungardrs.com 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

Hi ... Can anyone suggest a (free) downloadable virus-scan product for Suse 7.3? I think my distro is passing around the klez virus ... Regards, Bill Stephens Sungard Availability Services Phone: (215) 351-1099 Fax: (215) 451-4436

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Kinternet will not log me on to my ISP
by Matt Prastein 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

I've just fired up SUSE 8 and KDE 3, and it looks good. But I have an access problem with kinternet. I dial up, get connected, but fail to login. I use Earthlink as my ISP, and Earthlink tells me to I login as ELN/myid. This works fine with kppp or wvdial, but the Yast2 configuration of kinternet (SUSE 8.0, fully updated) insists on changing this to ELNmyid, which of course doesn't work. FWIW, this was a manual configuration of the modem. It's a PCI-based unit on ttyS4 and could not be identified by YAST2 configuration (though it shows up properly on the hardware lists). After some rooting around, I was led to look at /etc/sysconfig/network/providers, and discovered a configuration file ELNmyid. I tried renaming the file from the console, but attemts to insert the "/" character were rejected, presumably because it is unacceptable in a file name. When I explicitly identify my ISP in the YAST2 configuration (US, Earthlink Net), YAST2 creates an entry in /etc/sysconfig/network/providers called earthlink_net. It doesn't work, either. I don't recall having this problem in SUSE 7.3, which I haven't used for a while. Is this a SUSE 8 problem? A KDE 3 problem? Is there a work-around, or do I just have to use kppp? Thanks for your help. Regards, Matt Prastein

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Installing F-PROT Virus Scanner
by Bill.Stephens＠sungardrs.com 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

Hi, guys ... Here is a mini-HOWTO describing my experience in installing F-PROT. Obtaining and Installing the Product -------------------------------------------- Go to "http://www.f-prot.com/download/getfplinfree.html". Select the download site and type of download; I selected the rpm install. Konqueror offered to install the package using "Package Manager", and I let it go ahead. The files wind up being installed under "/usr/local/f-prot". Configuring the Product ----------------------------- The product installs with two scripts: "f-prot.sh" and "check-updates.sh". "f-prot.sh" runs the virus scanner, while "check-updates.sh" checks for and downloads updated virus signature files (which all end in a ".DEF" extension; there are 3 of these). Basically, the product is ready to go at this point, so what I did from here on was some local tweaking. I wanted "f-prot.sh" and "check-updates.sh" to be run by cron at specific times each day. In particular, I wanted "f-prot.sh" to write a report file in my home directory, but the problem is that cron runs as root, so the report file would not be readable from my userid unless I got into superuser. So, what I did was write a "wrapper" script around "f-prot.sh" to chown the report file after it was created so that I could read it. I called this script "vscan", and it looks like this: #!/bin/sh # # This is a shell script to invoke the F-Prot OnDemand Scanner for Linux. # It creates a report file called "f-prot.rep" in the subdirectory of # "/home" corresponding to the specified userid. It then chowns this # report file so that the user can look at it without being superuser. # /usr/local/f-prot/f-prot / -report=/home/$1/f-prot.rep chown $1:users /home/$1/f-prot.rep I then did a "crontab -e" and created a pair of entries that look like this: 30 19 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/check-updates.sh -cron -quiet 30 07 * * * /usr/local/f-prot/vscan bill When "vscan" runs, $1 in the script is replaced by "bill", so the report gets written to (in this case) "/home/bill/f-prot.rep". So this way, at 7:30am every morning, f-prot is invoked to do the virus scan, and at 7:30pm every evening, I check to see if there are any new virus definition files to download. f-prot, when it runs, tells you the date and time of the virus signature files it's using, so you know indirectly that "check-updates.sh" is running. The only other thing I did was to define an icon on the KDE desktop to open the report file with "kwrite"; this way, all I have to do to check the virus scan log is to click on the icon. Regards, Bill Stephens Sungard Availability Services Phone: (215) 351-1099 Fax: (215) 451-4436

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books?
by Carl William Spitzer IV 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

I am looking for a good comprehensive book on SUSE 7.2, 8.0 both PRO Sams Publishing last published a book related to SUSE 6.x but has not updated since then. English only CWSIV ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

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tabs
by Hans Krueger 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

does any body know when tabs for Konqueror will be ready. -- Hans Krueger hans007(a)prexar.com "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither libKonquerorerty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

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Re: [suse-kde] Suse 8 kde 3 Crash
by Sebastian Vogelsang 11 Aug '02

11 Aug '02

Hi, > > The whole system just freezes (very randomly). Most of the times it does > > that in the first minute, after I've logged in with my default user > > account. > > It hasn't happened as root so far, but with every user account I've > > created. > Check file permissions on all files in the home dir and /tmp , making sure > they are appropriate. I did that and recognized that the link .Xresources -> .Xdefaults was owned by root, also group root. But could that possibly crash the whole system? Funny thing is that it really does not happen as root, but only as a normal user. So if anyone has any other recommendations, I'd be very very happy... Thanx in advance, Sebastian ________________________________________________________________ Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13

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desk top icons
by Hans Krueger 11 Aug '02

11 Aug '02

does any body know why my desk top icons dissaper and how to get them back with out logging out of kde. kde 3.0.2 thanks -- Hans Krueger hans007(a)prexar.com "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

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Koffice 1.2rc1
by Graham Murray 10 Aug '02

10 Aug '02

I have recently upgraded to this from the supplementary/KDE/updatefor_8·0 directory at ftp.gwdg.de. Since doing this, I am missing most of the menus and toolbars in kWord. Only the 'file', 'insert' (which only has an option 'scan image'), 'Setting', and 'help' menus are shown. *None* of the formatting menus or toolbars are shown. I upgraded (these and other kde packages) using kpackage, selecting to update the packages, stopping KDE (init 3), running SuSEconfig and restarting KDE (init 5). My first suspicion was that there is a configuration file which needs regenerating, but I could not find one. Any hints as to how to rectify the situation?

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LinuxWorld
by Carl 10 Aug '02

10 Aug '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 . Will Suse be at LinuxWorld? Seems no one's heard from them lately. Sun Casts Shadow Before Linux Gathering http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=BYDYIM05IPVV4CRBAEKSFF… -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1VBc0ACgkQnQ18+PFcZJvFpgCaA1oMZH11cVv3EXC6vvSmbJLv rj8AniIea9Lct+BNc7PDtmVwNi8wp6I7 =EGGM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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KMail Q - changing font with a filter action?
by K Pfeiffer 08 Aug '02

08 Aug '02

Hallo liebe Leute, (ihr konntet auch auf Deutsch antworten) I'm using KMail with a non-monospaced font. But when I read messages in the Perl Beginners mail list for example, I'd like to switch automatically to a monospace font. Is there any way to do this with the filter actions (all mailing list messages get filtered)? -Kevin (Using KDE 3.02) -- Kevin Pfeiffer International University Bremen

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Fwd: Problems with KDE3.0.2
by Federico Damonte 08 Aug '02

08 Aug '02

at Randall's request, i forward his mail to the relevant lists. As for the comments that my original post generated, I would like to point out that many people failed to realize that I did NOT upgrade to KDE 3.0.2 intentionally. I only installed it beacuse the patches were on YOU and I did an automatic update (which i will never do again, I learned my lesson). That upgrade was supposed to fix bugs and security holes and left me with a very broken system - not a nice surprise. federico ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Problems with KDE3.0.2 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 20:07:09 -0400 From: Randall Wood <rsw22(a)cornell.edu> To: federico.damonte(a)unipd.it Hello Federico: You saved my Linux system. Thanks so much. I was surfing the SuSE Linux suse-kde mailing list archives on line, and your message about KDE3.02 problems on SuSE were an exact match for the problems I've had with my machine, and I've been tearing my hair out trying to fix them. So thanks for your detailed message with gave me the info I needed to fix my problems: Yast2, kppp, and kinternet. Do me a favor and help me help the rest of the SuSE community by posting my message to the mailing list, to reaffirm that yes, other people are having the same troubles as you describe. I visited the SuSE support database daily in search of new articles describing why Yast2 had choked; nothing. I sent in support requests by email; nothing. I tried applying to the mailing list myself but was unable to (which is why I'd appreciate your posting my message on my behalf; I couldn't get subscribed). Nothing I tried found me the answers. I even tried removing and reinstalling the KDE3.0.2 RPMs to see if that would help. Tonight I was planning on reinstalling SuSE 8.0 to get a functioning Yast2; last night I even backed up all the home directories in preparation for tonight's ordeal. Thanks for the info. Help me help the rest of the group by posting this message, confirming your experience and mine were the same. I suspect SuSE's in trouble, but I don't know why. Their support lines are unresponsive, their servers seem to be perpetually DOSed, and their latest SDB articles include one about how to send a proper help request email so that their spam filters don't weed it out. I think someone's either DOSing them or something; don't know what, but I agree with you: I can forgive SuSE for putting out bad RPMs, given the immediate demand users have for the latest software. But I resent the lack of communication on SuSE's part. I have no reason to believe they even read my email; I've heard nothing from them. Best wishes, Randy Wood -- My Home Page: http://www.therandymon.com -------------------------------------------------------

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kmail addressbook mailing list...
by Alexander Beck-Ratzka 07 Aug '02

07 Aug '02

Dear KDE users, I have two problems with kmail of kde 3.0 on SuSE Linux 8.0. first ... If I got an entry in my addressbook <adresse1(a)tt.com>, <adresse2(a)tt.com> always the SECOND(!!) address is used, if I enter an name to this addressbook entry, under which it shall be used afterwards. The problem still exitsts, even if I change the entry in the email field to: adresse1(a)tt.com, adresse2(a)tt.com or <adresse1(a)tt.com, adresse2(a)tt.com> If I try to use the entry for the second or third mail address, only the last email address will be used, if I click afterwards on the addressbook entry So my question is? How can I create a mailing list in the kmail addressbook of KDE 3.0. I never got this problem with a KDE 1.** version! ------------------------------------ my second problem ... How can I import addressbooks from kde 1.** (I mean the KDE version, which was delivered with SuSE Linux 6.4) into the addressbook of kmail of kde 3.0?? Hoping for a lot of answers ;-) Alexander

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kmail Adressbuch Mailingliste...
by Alexander Beck-Ratzka 07 Aug '02

07 Aug '02

Liebe KDE-Freunde, ich habe gestern Abend gleich zwei Probleme mit dem Adressbuch von kmail bei kde 3.0 (SuSE 8.0). zum ersten ... Wenn ich im Adressbuch einen Eintrag der Art <adresse1(a)tt.com>, <adresse2(a)tt.com> so wird immer nur die ZWEITE(!!) Adresse verwendet, wenn man dieser Liste einen Namen gibt, unter dem diese eingetragen werden soll. Das Problem bleibt bestehen, wenn ich im email-Feld einen Eintrag adresse1(a)tt.com, adresse2(a)tt.com oder aber <adresse1(a)tt.com, adresse2(a)tt.com> anlege. Versuche ich bei die Felder für zweite email und dritte email zu verwenden, so wird auch immer nur die LETZTE email-Adresse verwendet. Wie erzeuge ich im Adressebuch Mailaliase??? Damit meine ich Adresseinträge, hinter welchen mehrere email-Adressen stehen. Wohlgemerkt, ich rede vom kmail für kde 3.0. Mit einer 1er-Version gab es diese Probleme nicht. ------------------------------------ zum zweiten ... Wie importiere ich Adressbücher von kde 1.** (ich meine die kde-Version, welche mit SuSE 6.4 daherkam) ins Adressbuch von kmail des kde 3.0?? In der Hoffnung auf jede Menge Anworten ;-) Gruß Alexander

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KDE International characters does not work now...
by Alberto Curro 07 Aug '02

07 Aug '02

Hi again, after upgraded from KDE 2.x to KDE 3.0.1 (and to X 4.2.0) I have now a very annoying bug that is getting me crazy. I'm spanish and use the spanish keyboard, and have everything configured in KDE Control Panel. In our language, as in some others too, we use quoted characters (á, é, etc) and now I can only see some of them. For example, the quoted 'e' does not appear now, in its place I can see (and print) an strange character, everytime different depending of the previous character, or even no character at all. Some other characters, as, i.e. quoted 'u', is shown different (bigger or smaller, it depends) than the rest of them.... You can see a sample of what I should see and what I see really in the attached bitmap. It's very annoying, since I cannot use any word-processor to write my documents. I have this problem on every KDE (and non-KDE, but running over KDE) application, including code editors, mail clients, etc. The most annoying in this )%(%&/&"·" thing is that in some apps I can see the characters perfectly. If I go to any wordprocessor and try to change the font, I can see in the 'previous' panel (if available) the sample phrases perfectly. I can see the characters if you send me a mail with them, or any document. That's : I can see them if someone (different of me, of course) write them in some place, and I read it. This happens not only with my common user, also with root and every user (two more) on my system. I have tested every font installed on my system (I have xfstt with 50 TTF fonts and some APF fonts too), and now I have configured as keyboard : spanish, country : spain, codepages : tested with iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15, and my keyboard is a 105-keys (Intl) PC one. Any idea????? Regards Alberto Curro

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KDE 3.0.2 sources kstyle??
by jochen issing 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

Hi List, I have compiled the complete KDE 3.0.2 sources and installed them successfully after a a while. Now I want to use another KDE style and installed Acqua for KDE 3. The colors, the wallpaper, the icons and the window decoration are available, but I cannot activate the acqua widget-style. Has anyone fixed the problem, or any hint?! I really don't have the time to fix the bug in the source, but if there's no other way... Greetings, jochen -- jochen issing mailto:jochen@nrpl.de GPG ID: 210442F5

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Re: [SLE] Problems with KDE 3.0.2 upgrades
by Federico Damonte 04 Aug '02

04 Aug '02

> On Sunday 04 August 2002 16:45, Federico Damonte wrote: > > 3. Kinternet does not work. > > > > Solution: to the file with the name of your provider in > > /etc/sysconfig/network/providers add the line "STUPIDMODE="yes"" (mind > > the quotation marks around "yes") > > This has absolutely nothing to do with the kde upgrade. Stupid mode is > sometimes needed because of the way some ISP server software is > implemented. It is a feature of wvdial. If you need it after the kde > upgrade you needed it before the upgrade > indeed, i did not use kinternet before kppp stopped working. THanks for pointing that out. > It is a bug, however, that there is no way to set Stupid Mode through the > YaST2 internet setup. it is indeed

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Problems with KDE 3.0.2 upgrades
by Federico Damonte 04 Aug '02

04 Aug '02

Dear all, It seems a lot of people have been having problems after upgrading their SuSE 8.0 to KDE 3.0.2. I would like to comment on these briefly, since I am thinking of wrting a serious compliant letter to SuSE and I would like to hear your opinion. But first, since some of these problems have been reported here more than once, it is perhaps useful to list them again, together with the solutions that worked for me: 1. Yast2 cannot be accessed through a GUI, only through its clumsy text interface. If you try to start the GUI interface Yast2 does fire up (but some people even experienced some segfaults), but the interface does not show up. Solution: I downloaded and installed qt3-non-mt-3.0.4-87 2. KPPP does no longer work. Solution: create the file /etc/ppp/peers/kppp and add "plugin passwordfd.so" to it. 3. Kinternet does not work. Solution: to the file with the name of your provider in /etc/sysconfig/network/providers add the line "STUPIDMODE="yes"" (mind the quotation marks around "yes") 4. Apps handbook no longer work. Solution: none that i know of (correct me if I am wrong) Now, in my opinion these are very serious defects for a relatively minor upgrade version. You would expect such problems when upgrading to a X.0 version, not from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2.. And since KDE 3.0.2 is mainly a maintance release i cannot but conclude that SuSE did a poor job of packaging the upgrade files. Now, this can happen, nobody is perfect, but where SuSE really disappointed me is in its reaction to these problems, namely there was no reaction, just silence, and this is simply not acceptable. Speaking for myself, I cannot allow any serious fault in my box: I work on it and I very much want it to be stable (for instance, right now i have on it the 60 abstracts of a conference I am organizing). That's why i keep it always updated with YOU and I never launch myself into upgrading from source or install any development package. Finding myself unable to launch Yast2 and connect to the internet (another thing I need for my job) was really upsetting. Furthermore, none of these problems were solved by support at SuSE, but only by experimenting and by all the helpful people here on this list (thanks again, folks!). These hassles certainly cost me lot of time and effort. All this is surprising, since SuSE was not obliged to put those KDE 3.0.2 upgrade packages in YOU to start with. SuSE is very clear about not providing update patches, but only bugfixes, so there was no reason to include KDE 3.0.2 in YOU. It was already available on their LINUKS page so those who wanted it could get it there, but those of us who prefer a stable system could keep on updating with YOU. Since then, SuSE's behavior only got worse: the KDE 3.0.2 packages were silently removed from YOU and then (silently) put back again, with no word from SuSE warning people of the problems found in the original upgrade packages. We don't even know whether the "handbook" bug has been solved at all. This not the way any serious firm, be it big or small, behaves. So, to conclude, i was going to send SuSe a feedback letter asking for: 1. the removing of all the unstable or broken pacakges from YOU, including KDE 3.0.2 and any other eventual broken package, and an open disclosure of all the problems those pacakges had. 2. new, patched packages of KDE 3.0.2 that those of use that already installed the original ones should upgarde to - again. Only these patches should appear in YOU, not the general KDE 3.0.2 packages. 3. A major cleanup of the "linuks" update packages. From what i can see, the old KDE 3.0 packages are still there, end even some KDE 2.x packages all of them mixed up in the same place. In my opinion, exactly as the "Linuks" page is divided into SuSE version it should also be divided into KDE version so that, for instance, a 7.3 user that did not upgrade to KDE 3.0 before can do it now. All these corrections are very simple to implement, and it is surprising that SuSE did not already do them. SuSE is certainly a great distribution and the problems with KDE 3.0.2 or the deficiencies of the Yast2 text interface do not change this simple fact. But SuSE's reaction to the KDE 3.0.2 problems is managing to do this. It is in SuSE own interest to provide KDE updates, and that's the reason they do it, but we have the right to expect those updates not to break anything in our systems and to be replaced by pached one if they do. It' as simple as that. Let me know wht you think. fred

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Re: [suse-kde] Problems with KDE 3.0.2 upgrades
by Carl 04 Aug '02

04 Aug '02

. On Sunday 04 August 2002 09:45 am, you wrote: > Now, this can happen, nobody is perfect, but where SuSE really disappointed > me is in its reaction to these problems, namely there was no reaction, just > silence, and this is simply not acceptable. Speaking for myself, I cannot > allow any serious fault in my box: I work on it and I very much want it to > be stable (for instance, right now i have on it the 60 abstracts of a > conference I am organizing). That's why i keep it always updated with YOU > and I never launch myself into upgrading from source or install any > development package. Finding myself unable to launch Yast2 and connect to > the internet (another thing I need for my job) was really upsetting. > Furthermore, none of these problems were solved by support at SuSE, but > only by experimenting and by all the helpful people here on this list > (thanks again, folks!). These hassles certainly cost me lot of time and > effort. I have to agree, except we only made it to K3.0.1 . Overt, complex failures, on PRODUCTION machines cost my company 3 weeks of downtime due solely to our 'upgrade' to Suse8. And it wasn't just problems with K... numerous problems and bugs owing to the packager (Suse). We were forced back to 7.3 in order simply to get anything done. My boss is furious. Of course 7.3 has its problems (right now we have only TWO FONTS in K, and cannot PRINT nor FAX) but at least we can function to a degree. I've noticed in postings to this list that at least two members of the Suse *team* are still running 7.3, as of two weeks ago. I realize that since the layoffs Suse is short of manpower, and we sympathise with that. But major instabilities in this "stable" shipping product effectively shift hidden costs to us, and we can't (shouldn't) afford that, particularly since no one on this list has been able to answer my questions. (the most urgent is reproduced below) I can only conclude that those who say they're not having problems with 8 are simply not using their machines very much. And you're right: Suse doesn't say a word. Which is in keeping with the current cultural view that admitting mistakes (and/or apologising), is only a sign of weakness. (a cultural view which is negative and ossifying, but which has become pervasive) We are waiting for Suse8.1 . If this release is nearly as bad as 8.0 we must abandon Suse altogether. It's a question of survival. Please do better Suse. We hope to see 8.1 soon. Carl

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Kmenue, KDE3.0.2
by Michael 04 Aug '02

04 Aug '02

Hello, since I updated my system, SuSE 7.3 pro, to KDE 3.0.2 I had a problem with kmenu. For me it works, I got the new kmenu and also the new icons. But for all other users it didn't work. They got still the KDE 2 icons and also the programs. The button "Menueditor" is gone. Also it is impossible to at new programs to the menu, like OpenOffice or StarOffice. If I hit in kmenu "Kontrolleiste einrichten --> Hinzufügen --> Knopf" I see all the new stuff and it's able to take them to the Kontrolleiste, but not to kmenu. Does somebody knows whats going wrong and how I can repair it? Michael

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Konqueror 3.0.2.
by Hans Krueger 03 Aug '02

03 Aug '02

I'm having trouble with Konqueror 3.0.2.remembering passwords does any body have a fix ? thanks -- Hans Krueger hans007(a)prexar.com "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

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AW: AW: [suse-kde] Fwd: screensaver fails password check
by Monaghan, John 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

I agree but you originally could not "see" the shadow file with kcheckpass and the fix was to set ownership to root, group to shadow and setgid shadow. The latter of which I thought was just as much a security risk or am I totally wrong? Regards / Mit freundlichem Gruß / Salutations John Monaghan BSc (hons) Computer Science - Software Engineering (AIRS) Software Engineer Front Office Development Hogatex Software GmbH Baldhamer Straße 39, D-85591 Vaterstetten Tel: +49 / (0)8106 / 321-0, Fax:+49 / (0)8106 / 321 -111 mailto:monaghan@hogatex.de http://www.hogatex.com -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Martin Knoblauch [mailto:martin.knoblauch@mscsoftware.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 2. August 2002 12:13 An: Monaghan, John; suse-kde(a)suse.com Cc: 'Anders Johansson' Betreff: Re: AW: [suse-kde] Fwd: screensaver fails password check On Friday 02 August 2002 12:06, Monaghan, John wrote: > I thought that the shadow file only had to be root-only writable? > > Regards / Mit freundlichem Gruß / Salutations > why would you need "shadow" then at all? You could just keep the password hash in /etc/passwd, which also is writable only by root. The whole reason for the shadow exercise is to keep "passwd" readable by everyone and hide the password hash from the evil users :-) Martin -- Martin Knoblauch Senior System Architect MSC.software GmbH Am Moosfeld 13 D-81829 Muenchen, Germany e-mail: martin.knoblauch(a)mscsoftware.com http://www.mscsoftware.com Phone/Fax: +49-89-431987-189 / -7189 Mobile: +49-174-3069245

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KDE 3 Start zu langsam
by Simon Bauschulte 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

Hi ! Ich hoffe diese Liste ist "multi-lingual", ich schreibe deshalb der Einfachheit halber auf Deutsch. Ich bin Besitzer einer SuSE 8.0 und auch soweit zufrieden. Nur KDE 3 macht mir Kopfschmerzen. Da mein Rechner nicht gerade der schnellste ist (AMD K62-400, 128 MB) dauert das hochfahren des Desktops superlange. (ca 2Minuten) Im Vergleich zu KDE1(SuSE 7.0) (ca 30 sek) ist mir das ein bischen viel. Außerdem erhalte ich im logfile während des Hochfahrens sehr viele "linux kernel: buffer empty" Meldungen, die meistens zu einem "einfrieren" anderer Software führen. (Fernsehkanal auf DVB-S Karte friert ein.........) Am liebsten hätte ich wieder KDE 1. Ist das irgendwie möglich ? Ich kenne mich mit anderen WM´s nicht so aus. Gibt es KDE-ähnliche, die bei 8.0 dabei sind ? Andere Lösungs- oder Hilfe-möglichkeiten ? Viele Grüße, Simon Bauschulte

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AW: [suse-kde] KDE 3 Start zu langsam
by Monaghan, John 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

I hope you understand English. I don't think it is a good idea to be "multi lingual" as there will be a lot of people who don't understand the post and may be having similar problems - most people understand if you post in English. I have a K6 200 with 128MB; KDE3 and Gnome2 are slow but bearable, but I would probably recommend that you try one of the faster (smaller) window managers - it may save you a lot of money on aspirins. I can't recommend any at the moment as I have concentrated on the above WMs recently. Regards / Mit freundlichem Gruß / Salutations John Monaghan BSc (hons) Computer Science - Software Engineering (AIRS) Software Engineer Front Office Development Hogatex Software GmbH Baldhamer Straße 39, D-85591 Vaterstetten Tel: +49 / (0)8106 / 321-0, Fax:+49 / (0)8106 / 321 -111 mailto:monaghan@hogatex.de http://www.hogatex.com -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Simon Bauschulte [mailto:semischwabe@brutzel.de] Gesendet: Freitag, 2. August 2002 12:09 An: suse-kde(a)suse.com Betreff: [suse-kde] KDE 3 Start zu langsam Hi ! Ich hoffe diese Liste ist "multi-lingual", ich schreibe deshalb der Einfachheit halber auf Deutsch. Ich bin Besitzer einer SuSE 8.0 und auch soweit zufrieden. Nur KDE 3 macht mir Kopfschmerzen. Da mein Rechner nicht gerade der schnellste ist (AMD K62-400, 128 MB) dauert das hochfahren des Desktops superlange. (ca 2Minuten) Im Vergleich zu KDE1(SuSE 7.0) (ca 30 sek) ist mir das ein bischen viel. Außerdem erhalte ich im logfile während des Hochfahrens sehr viele "linux kernel: buffer empty" Meldungen, die meistens zu einem "einfrieren" anderer Software führen. (Fernsehkanal auf DVB-S Karte friert ein.........) Am liebsten hätte ich wieder KDE 1. Ist das irgendwie möglich ? Ich kenne mich mit anderen WM´s nicht so aus. Gibt es KDE-ähnliche, die bei 8.0 dabei sind ? Andere Lösungs- oder Hilfe-möglichkeiten ? Viele Grüße, Simon Bauschulte

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AW: [suse-kde] Fwd: screensaver fails password check
by Monaghan, John 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

I thought that the shadow file only had to be root-only writable? Regards / Mit freundlichem Gruß / Salutations John Monaghan BSc (hons) Computer Science - Software Engineering (AIRS) Software Engineer Front Office Development Hogatex Software GmbH Baldhamer Straße 39, D-85591 Vaterstetten Tel: +49 / (0)8106 / 321-0, Fax:+49 / (0)8106 / 321 -111 mailto:monaghan@hogatex.de http://www.hogatex.com -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Anders Johansson [mailto:andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net] Gesendet: Freitag, 2. August 2002 11:30 An: suse-kde(a)suse.com Betreff: Re: [suse-kde] Fwd: screensaver fails password check On Friday 02 August 2002 11:22, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > The question is now: should the shadow file be world readable, No, no, no, the whole point of having a shadow file is that it should be root-only. > or > chould kcheckpass be made setuid-root. kcheckpass should be owned by root, group shadow and be setgid shadow. chmod g+s /opt/kde3/bin/kcheckpass Also, check your security settings in /etc/sysconfig/security, variable PERMISSIONS_SECURITY. Edit permissions.{easy|secure|paranoid}, depending on your settings, and make sure that the line for kcheckpass has 2755 as the mode. //Anders -- 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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Fwd: screensaver fails password check
by Martin Knoblauch 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

Hi, resend, asthis never showed up on the list. The same happened on a second system. It was not the SuSE update, but the KDE 3.0.2 images. This time I checked when it happened :-) Martin ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: screensaver fails password check Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:42:03 +0200 From: Martin Knoblauch <martin.knoblauch(a)mscsoftware.com> To: suse-kde(a)suse.com Hi, today I installed the latest online update for SuSE-8.0 and additionaly upgraded to KDE-3.0.2. Since then the scrensaver locks me out. Logging in to the console or via KDE login works OK. Just the screensaver. Calling "kcheckpass" manually yields: mknoblau@knobi:~> kcheckpass Password: authentication failure for user mknoblau [uid 15833] mknoblau@knobi:~> This is found in /var/log/messages: Jul 29 15:40:27 knobi kcheckpass[1237]: pam_unix2: pam_sm_authenticate() called Jul 29 15:40:27 knobi kcheckpass[1237]: pam_unix2: username=[mknoblau] Jul 29 15:40:27 knobi kcheckpass[1237]: pam_unix2: wrong password, return PAM_AUTH_ERR Any idea what has gone wrong? Thanks Martin -- Martin Knoblauch MSC.software GmbH Am Moosfeld 13 D-81829 Muenchen, Germany e-mail: martin.knoblauch(a)mscsoftware.com http://www.mscsoftware.com Phone/Fax: +49-89-431987-189 / -7189 Mobile: +49-174-3069245

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Webdesign
by Thomas Kihlberg 01 Aug '02

01 Aug '02

Hi! Im new user in Linux and I love Suse but: Can someone give my a suggestion for a "easy-to-handle" designprogram for websaits in Suse? It OK if I have to use html code but I also like "what you see is what you get". Thanks from Thomas Kihlberg, Sweden

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