March 2003 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE menu instead of KMenu... rather not :-(
by Ron Wehrens 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

Hi, I have the SuSE menu ("Start Applications menu") instead of the KMenu in my Panel, and I'd like to see that the other way around. One of the disadvantages is that I cannot use kmenueditor to change the menu. Adding a new KMenu by right-clicking in the panel does not work, either: it adds a second SuSE menu... Any hints? -- Ron Wehrens Dept. of Chemometrics University of Nijmegen Email: rwehrens(a)sci.kun.nl Toernooiveld 1 http://www-cac.sci.kun.nl/cac/ 6525 ED Nijmegen Tel: +31 24 365 2053 The Netherlands Fax: +31 24 365 2653

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Fwd: Re: [suse-kde] KDE Address Book is sloooowwwww!...
by Panos Platon Tsapralis 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

Believe me, I know... Maybe you should have waited a little bit longer to allow it to complete. I, myself, interrupted it a couple of times, before I let it take its time through the process. Did you check with "top" to make sure it had hung? Regards, > when i did the same the import would neither be complete! > > Am Mittwoch, 5. MΞ΄rz 2003 12:33 schrieb Panos Platon Tsapralis: > > I imported my Outlook Express address book into the KDE Address Book > > today, by first exporting the data into a file of type CSV. While > > importing the data, I noticed that it took a whole five minutes to import > > the data file (300 lines) and, at the same time, KDE System Guard > > indicated exceedingly high CPU usage (close to 100%). However, the import > > was successful. > > > > Is this normal? Am I missing something that will hit back on me down the > > road? > > > > Regards, -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, SAP-R/3 specialist, ABAP/4 developer, Registered Linux User #305894, Athens, GREECE, e-mail: panosplaton(a)in.gr, panosplaton(a)hotmail.com ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Αποκτήστε τη δωρεάν @yahoo.gr διεύθυνση σας στο http://www.otenet.gr

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XFree86 4.3 - The Experience
by Joe Sullivan 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

Hey, Most have been having trouble with the XFree86 4.3 RPMs. As did I, but picking at it eventually got it working. And the new changes are very noticeable. System: AMD Duron 800Mhz, Generic Trident video card, Samtron 76E 17" monitor. KDE 3.1 with liquid. All problems I had involved the fonts, as has been noted here. Clean, Helvetica, etc. still don't work actually. But switching these to other working fonts in various places like the control center, Konqueror, etc., took care of that. And the initial install causing no fonts to show on anything and superhuge windows was a bit scary. ;-) That is apparently the only problem I've had, though. Probably because of the generic video card. I highly recommend this upgrade for generic video card users, if you're willing to go through and adjust all your font settings, and have other fonts like Arial and such installed to fall back on. Why? Changes I've noticed: - I can now use 24bit color. (Could only get 16bit with 4.2, 24bit caused white lines and such.) - I can now use 1280x1024 screen size. (4.2 wouldn't handle this, though it worked fine in Win98SE. Max 1024x768 with 4.2) - The new Sax2 actually recognized my Samtron 76E monitor. Had to do a lot of fine tuning to adjust the screen properly before. Default settings for the monitor worked perfectly. Never had an easier time with monitor/resolution settings. - Full screen games and such would seriously mess up the screen when turned off before. Now I can use full screen games without that happening. (Not sure if that was my own fault, and Sax2 recognizing my monitor now set it up properly or what.) - Faster, faster, faster. It seems like all programs are generally running faster. Some slightly noticeable, others... Well, Clanbomber and Pingus didn't work well in 4.2. I can actually play them now. That's a definite improvement. Overall, the experience is just plain breathtaking. :-P Okay, that's exaggerating, but it's very sweeeeeeeeeet. The only problems I have now are just font issues: - Several fonts not working at all (everyone seems to be reporting this). - Can't seem to get KDE help files text to show, not in the Help Center or in KDevelop's user manual... and I've changed all the settings I can find. But it's online so I'm not concerned about it. Everything else is working fine, and as noted above *much* better than before. YMMV. Obviously those with "fancy" graphic cards will have more problems, but since the majority of posts have been negative, I thought I'd chime in with some positive results from 4.3. Of course the whole Font issue is just... someone should have noticed that before publishing the RPMs. But griping over unsupported RPMs is just... eh. Joe

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RE: [suse-kde] Yast2
by Roman Gabriel-P54989 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

I had to figure this out a few days ago also. Red means that the version that is installed in *your* machine is a later version. -gabe Gabriel Roman CipherNET Team General Dynamics Decision Systems -----Original Message----- From: Bill Hogsett [mailto:bhogsett@wideopenwest.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:48 AM To: suse-kde(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-kde] Yast2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am confused. I am running 8.1 and KDE 3.1 and Yast2. My question is when I see a file highlighted in red on Yast2 I see that the installed version has a higher version number than the available version. Is the installed version, the version on my machine or on the server to which Yast2 has attached? I thought I had read somewhere that the color blue meant a new version was available, but the words confuse me. Installed where? Thanks! Bill Hogsett - -- University, n.: Like a software house, except the software's free, and it's usable, and it works, and if it breaks they'll quickly tell you how to fix it, and ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ZeQRg96htUYc/p8RAu9qAJwIlKBsBQQXmNimXvZ8L95mzCEZLgCfRaUP phTUylY+SBGLCiroJty5oJA= =5/9C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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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kpilot & palm m130
by Daniel Ditgens 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, I've tried to sync a palm m130 with kpilot but it fails ditto with coldsync. The palm was succesfully detected by the usb-subsystem but I cant sync it at any /dev/ttyUSB* or /dev/ttyUSB*. I am using visor.o and the driver tells me, that the device lies about the number of ports when I press the sync button!? Does anybody know what this actually means? JPilot doesn't work, too! Please help me! - -- linux is like a wigwam... ... no gates, no windows but an apache inside. note: this email was signed automatically. send an email to public-key.dooz(a)dooz.de to get my public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ZhJ4425kh8zwkRwRAg6rAKCDlDVVtMYGPMnlkKsOJV9wCWPjVACgx+EK 6UTxoNRJShHmhhkix+ygzck= =VVNC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re:[suse-kde] SuSE menu instead of KMenu... rather not :-(
by Sven Reinhardt 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

Hello Ron, > I have the SuSE menu ("Start Applications menu") instead of the > KMenu in my Panel, and I'd like to see that the other way around. You have to access Control Center -> Look and Feel -> Menu Settings. There you can apply your changes. At least this works for me with SuSE 8.1 Sven -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage! -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage!

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KDE Address Book is sloooowwwww!...
by Panos Platon Tsapralis 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

I imported my Outlook Express address book into the KDE Address Book today, by first exporting the data into a file of type CSV. While importing the data, I noticed that it took a whole five minutes to import the data file (300 lines) and, at the same time, KDE System Guard indicated exceedingly high CPU usage (close to 100%). However, the import was successful. Is this normal? Am I missing something that will hit back on me down the road? Regards, -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, SAP-R/3 specialist, ABAP/4 developer, Registered Linux User #305894, Athens, GREECE, e-mail: panosplaton(a)in.gr, panosplaton(a)hotmail.com ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Αποκτήστε τη δωρεάν @yahoo.gr διεύθυνση σας στο http://www.otenet.gr

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Re: [SLE] XFree86-4.3.0 and SuSE 8.1 request for assistance
by ovidiu păşcui 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

Hi have the same problem but for the moment I set the LINUX fonts in the konsole settings and at least I have access to it. For me also the xterm dissappeared from the SuSEaccess_menu after upgrading to XFree4.3.0.

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Encoding of message lines in KMail.
by Panos Platon Tsapralis 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

I am using Kmail as my e-mail client. Being in Greece, I have configured Greek (iso-8859-7) as my default encoding. Greek characters are correctly displayed in the bodies of my messages, but they do not display in the lines (subjects) of the messages list. I have also tried Greek (windows-1253) encoding, getting the same behavior. I am running SUSE Linux, Rel.8.0, Professional. What is it that I have to do in order to resolve this problem? TIA, -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, SAP-R/3 specialist, ABAP/4 developer, Registered Linux User #305894, Athens, GREECE, e-mail: panosplaton(a)in.gr, panosplaton(a)hotmail.com ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Αποκτήστε τη δωρεάν @yahoo.gr διεύθυνση σας στο http://www.otenet.gr

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Partial Solution to Missing Fonts Problem with XFree86 4.3.0
by Georg Wittenburg 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, setting the option "enableXft" in the [General] section of ~/.qt/qtrc to "false" brings back all fonts, alas, without antialiasing. Doing the same for /root/.qt/qtrc makes YaST and SaX work again. Not the real fix, but at least the system is usable again. Hope this helps, Georg - -- Georg Wittenburg http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~wittenbu/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ZRqZSnxlDbf49fMRArLrAJ44oOdSxd1lJQABU25dmX/T2MmwmgCeLkpE bxYoPBu/YuHsx0D9HHb72wk= =dEd4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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