December 2003 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

kdesktop_lock unlock with root passwd
by Stefan Wengi 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

Hi, I've been searching the web for this topic but haven't found an answer... When a regular user locks his screen I would like the administrator to be able to unlock it using the root password. I know about the virtual console but I'd prefer to have this feature right in the screenlock. thanks for any hints Stefan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/

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Version x.0 version ./. x.01 or x.1 version
by hwm＠onetel.net.uk 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

It is my experience with new versions (x.0), and this includes Linux, that they normally contain a fair amount of bugs. May I remind you of version 8.0 which provoked quite a number of complaints until things were put right in the following ones, especially in v. 8.2. In anybody's experience, is this also valid for version 9.0?? I carefully looked at the correspondence in this forum and there seems to be little complaints, except that the one or other program gives some trouble. I would like to receive your opinion. I am new to Linux and after having suffered enough from Windows incl. XP I have to decide either to buy now or better wait until bugs, -- if there are any, -- will have been eliminated. Regards, hwm

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KDE 3.2beta2 and Konqueror
by Jose Thadeu Cavalcante 14 Dec '03

14 Dec '03

Hi, After I install kde-3.2beta2 konqueror crash if I use a http protocol, it work normally with ftp. Somebody knows how to avoid these? Thanks Thadeu

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File associations
by Andrew Williams 14 Dec '03

14 Dec '03

Over the years, suse have chopped and changed packages a lot. With my machine now running 9.0, a lot of the file associations are obsolete (trying to play .MPG files with kmplayer is rather optimistic because kmplayer no longer exists. The obvious solution: - fire up 'Control Centre' - go to 'KDE components' - select 'File Associations' and start editing. It would be good if there was an entry for 'remove all associations where the target program no longer exists', but there ain't. Now the fun starts. I removed a large number of duplicate and dead entries by hand before finally hitting 'apply'. A short wait and back it came. Clicking on a .MPG gave me an error-message that kmplayer no longer exists (doh, I *knew* that) ok, exit kde and restart Clicking on a .MPG gave me an error-message that kmplayer no longer exists (doh, I still *knew* that) Going back to 'Control Centre' -> 'KDE components' -> 'File Associations' showed that: - changes I had made in the 'known types' column had worked, some entries there had been duplicated - changes I made in the 'Application Preference Order' had all vanished into thin air. Trying to repeat a few of them even caused the Control Centre to abort. There are a couple of other problems I have with the kde configuration (the tabs at the bottom for the 4 virtal desktops have vanished) where I am starting to wonder if it is not best to completely rebuild the kde configuration files for this user. Is this a sensible way forward and which files/directories should I nuke? A full backup of /home will obviously be my friend ;-) The kde version is what comes with 9.0 but with all updates applied. -- opinions personal, facts suspect. http://home.arcor.de/36bit/samba.html

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KwinTV and screensaver
by Mark Goldstein 14 Dec '03

14 Dec '03

Hi All, I got used to kwintv when worked with SuSE 8.2. The nice feature of this program is that it allows disabling of screensaver when the kwintv is running or when its main window is visible. It worked fine. But after switching to SuSE 9.0 I've found that this feature is broken somehow. Screensaver works whatever option is chosen in KwinTV. As long as I can see the version of KwinTV is the same (08.12) Does anybody know what happened and how to fix/bypass the problem? Thanks, Mark __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/

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Envelope sender address and KMail
by Sven Wahl 13 Dec '03

13 Dec '03

Dear folks Does anybody know if there is a possibility to influence the choice of the envelope sender address in KMail? I googled a bit on this topic today and found out that KMail (and probably many other mail user agents) creates the envelope sender address according to the FROM address specified by the user. However, it would be a big benefit if one could specify the envelope and from addresses individually, especially when posting to mailinglists like this. I'm aware of, that one could configure the sending MTA to rewrite the mail headers, but I'm rahter looking for a solution on the MUA-level. Thanks for your suggestions! /Sven

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File extension: help with embedding krpmview in konqueror when previewing *.rpm ?
by Jaan Kold 12 Dec '03

12 Dec '03

Hi list. I broke something while doing light tinkering: Previewing of *.rpms inside Konqueror? Can someone give me a tip how to restore this embedding/ service using 'krpmview'? Current setup: File extension: *.rpm [General Tab] Application preference: 'File Manager' (executes: kfmclient openProfile filemanagement) [Embedding Tab] (show file in embedded viewer checked) Service Preference Order : 'none' ..thats the problem: 'Add...' shows me "services" (also called plugins?) to use, but krpmview is not listed as an available service to choose from? ...ideas? All I know is that 'krpmview' is indeed in /opt/kde3/share/apps/krpmview/ But I disabled this service BY MISTAKE.. -- Suse Linux 9.0 | 2.4.21-144-smp4G | KDE 3.1.4 | XFree86 v4.3.0.1

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KDE 3.2b2 issues -- no KJSemded?
by Vitaly Shishakov 12 Dec '03

12 Dec '03

the KDE 3.2 b2 packages from kde.org for SuSE 9.0 work great mostly, except for that there is no kjscmd -- i tried to run sample scripts from http://xmelegance.org/kjsembed/ do i miss something?

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Kmail Error
by Jon Schwartz 12 Dec '03

12 Dec '03

Hello! I've created a symbolic link from my network drive to the /home/mail directory (This is where Kmail normally stores it's mail). I'm trying to be able to backup the mail directory from the network. However, when I try to compose a new message I get the following error: KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now The error was: Not enough free disk space Two things I've checked 1. There is enough disk space on the network drive 2. There are sufficient rights (at least what I checked) Any thoughts on why Kmail would do this? Thanks, Jon

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RE: [suse-kde] KDE 3.2 beta 2 and libtag dependancy
by Dan Freed 12 Dec '03

12 Dec '03

Thanks. Someone else also pointed out that the libtag libraries are part of the TagLib project (confusing isn't it?). Knowing this I dug up this RPM for SUSE 9: ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.0/base/taglib-0.95-5.i586.rpm Dan -----Original Message----- From: sebastien [mailto:scorot@libertysurf.fr] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 11:12 AM To: dfreed; suse-kde Subject: Re:[suse-kde] KDE 3.2 beta 2 and libtag dependancy I found this with the help of rpmfind.net : http://ktown.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib/ I may be what your are looking for. ---------- Initial Header ----------- >From : "Dan Freed" <dfreed(a)epicsystems.com> To : <suse-kde(a)suse.com> Cc : Date : Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:54:41 -0600 Subject : [suse-kde] KDE 3.2 beta 2 and libtag dependancy Does anyone know what libtag is and where I can get it? I don't mind = compiling it and creating my own RPM for it, but I can't even find it. = I did find libtaged.sourceforge.net, but when compiled it doesn't = produce any libtag.so files, just libtaged.* files. One of the KDE multimedia packages in the latest KDE 3.2 beta require = this library, and I am uncomfortable installing with --nodeps. I did search with Yast the install CD for any packages that contain this = file, but there where no hits. Thanks for any help anyone may be able to offer. Dan Freed -- 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 ********** L'ADSL A 20 EUR/MOIS********** Avec Tiscali, l'ADSL est à 20 EUR/mois. Vous pourrez chercher longtemps avant de trouver moins cher ! Pour profiter de cette offre exceptionnelle, cliquez ici : http://register.tiscali.fr/adsl/ Offre soumise à conditions.

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