May 2003 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Sound on second screen
by NeoFax 31 May '03

31 May '03

I have a dual screen setup without Xinerama. I have sound working on Screen 1 but not Screen 2. Is there anyway to fix this? Is it a ARTS problem? NeoFax

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How do I fix clock applet?
by bespincity＠citlink.net 29 May '03

29 May '03

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: KDE clock applet acting crazy and driving me nuts Date: Tuesday 27 May 2003 06:15 pm From: bespincity(a)citlink.net To: suse-kde(a)suse.com Greetings, I recently installed SuSE 8.2 and I am having a preplexing problem with the popular KDE clock applet. There is a major problem with it keeping the proper time that appears to have something to do with timezones. Everytime I reset the clock the to the correct time it seems to have a mind of its own and jumps ahead like 19 hours. To some other time zone? I have a dual boot system and have the system clock set to local time rather than UTC to avoid problems so UTC can't be the problem. It should be noted that when I run other clock apps, or when I open Yast to set the time and date or log in as root, the time is correctly displayed while it is incorrectly displayed on the kde clock applet (by the way does anyone know the name of this applet?) I have checked the time zone settings over and over in the clock applet setup and they are correct. I also removed all the additional checked timezones in this programs zone chooser ... which I guess is new with KDE 3.1.1 and I dont really understand the need for all the other timezones in its context menu (right click.) It seems to me, because the clocks time is off in units of hours and not minutes too, that this is some sort of timezone conflict problem. Also when I right click clock applet, then select show timezones, then click configure timezones, and just press the apply button without even changing the time zone the clock chages by jumping ahead so many hours or some amount of hours back. What is going on. Please sages here, I need your advice. Cheers -- 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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Re: [suse-kde] FTP as install source fails SuSE 8.2
by Richard Andrews 28 May '03

28 May '03

Hi Jeff, thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately the IP address made no difference. Could it be that the FTP update route is only available for the actual original setup of SuSE since the error below seems to point to the absence of some Install Src record in the FTP directory. Perhaps FTP alternative sources for updates aren't available for DVD/CD installed versions of SuSE?? For info I tried the following entries in the YaST dialog for alternative installation source... Server name: ftp.suse.sk (as well as 147.175.1.23) Directory: i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/yast-source (with various combinations of leading trailing slashes etc.) All ended up with the same error message :-( Regards Rich On Tuesday 27 May 2003 22:01, Jeffrey Ivins wrote: > I would suggest you find the IP number of the FTP server.. I was able to > install via FTP using the IP number instead of the server name.. > > Jeff Ivins > Au Naturel Productions > > > Richard Andrews <richard.andrews(a)otyx.com> wrote: > I haven't had any luck either with ftp as an alternative installation > source. SuSE 8.2 and with every attempt at installing an FTP site in YaST2 > the following error: > > "Unable to create installation source from URL > 'ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/suse/i386 etc etc etc. > DETAILS: > ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media)" > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. -------------------------------------------------------

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Upgrade to KDE 3.1.2 lock ups
by NeoFax 28 May '03

28 May '03

I updated KDE using SuSE's Supllementary RPMS. Now, I have been having problems with Kmail and Konqueror locking up. Is there any way to fix this problem? Do I need to rpm -e --force the base KDE rpms(kdelibs,kdebase,kdenetwork...) and then reinstall them? NeoFax

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Fwd: KDE clock applet acting crazy and driving me nuts
by bespincity＠citlink.net 28 May '03

28 May '03

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: KDE clock applet acting crazy and driving me nuts Date: Tuesday 27 May 2003 06:15 pm From: bespincity(a)citlink.net To: suse-kde(a)suse.com Greetings, I recently installed SuSE 8.2 and I am having a preplexing problem with the popular KDE clock applet. There is a major problem with it keeping the proper time that appears to have something to do with timezones. Everytime I reset the clock the to the correct time it seems to have a mind of its own and jumps ahead like 19 hours. To some other time zone? I have a dual boot system and have the system clock set to local time rather than UTC to avoid problems so UTC can't be the problem. It should be noted that when I run other clock apps, or when I open Yast to set the time and date or log in as root, the time is correctly displayed while it is incorrectly displayed on the kde clock applet (by the way does anyone know the name of this applet?) I have checked the time zone settings over and over in the clock applet setup and they are correct. I also removed all the additional checked timezones in this programs zone chooser ... which I guess is new with KDE 3.1.1 and I dont really understand the need for all the other timezones in its context menu (right click.) It seems to me, because the clocks time is off in units of hours and not minutes too, that this is some sort of timezone conflict problem. Also when I right click clock applet, then select show timezones, then click configure timezones, and just press the apply button without even changing the time zone the clock chages by jumping ahead so many hours or some amount of hours back. What is going on. Please sages here, I need your advice. Cheers -- 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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How do I fix Clock applet
by bespincity＠citlink.net 28 May '03

28 May '03

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: KDE clock applet acting crazy and driving me nuts Date: Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:44 pm From: bespincity(a)citlink.net To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Greetings, I recently installed SuSE 8.2 and I am having a preplexing problem with the popular KDE clock applet. There is a major problem with it keeping the proper time that appears to have something to do with timezones. Everytime I reset the clock the to the correct time it seems to have a mind of its own and jumps ahead like 19 hours. To some other time zone? I have a dual boot system and have the system clock set to local time rather than UTC to avoid problems so UTC can't be the problem. It should be noted that when I run other clock apps, or when I open Yast to set the time and date or log in as Root, the time is correctly displayed while it is incorrectly displayed on the kde clock applet (by the way does anyone know the name of this applet?) I have checked the time zone settings over and over in the clock applet setup and they are correct. I also removed all the additional checked timezones in this programs zone chooser ... which I guess is new with KDE 3.1.1 and I dont really understand the need for all the other timezones in its context menu (right click.) It seems to me, because the clocks time is off in units of hours and not minutes too, that this is some sort of timezone conflict problem. Also when I right click clock applet, then select show timezones, then click configure timezones, and just press the apply button without even changing the time zone the clock chages by jumping ahead so many hours or some amount of hours back. What is going on. Please sages here, I need your advice. Cheers -- 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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Re: [suse-kde] How to update KDE 3.1.2
by Julius Chrobak 28 May '03

28 May '03

> Konq. will "get there," but Yast errors out. > > Fred try another SuSE mirror site... (ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/yast-source) Julo.

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Re: update KDE3.1.2
by Tomas Willebrand 27 May '03

27 May '03

Hi! I have installed SuSE8.2 from a local ftp-server on two machines. It works great as long as RAM is not tiny (<50 MB I believe). I have used apt4rpm and synaptic to update KDE earlier. I saw Julius tip on using YAST. I had some trouble at first but then put the KDE-server before the server I used in the original installation in the yast-list. Now is seem to work just fine. /Tomas

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Re: [suse-kde] How to update KDE 3.1.2
by Julius Chrobak 27 May '03

27 May '03

> > Julo wrote: >> 1. add new Instalation Source > > (example: > > ftp://ftp.suse.sk/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/yast-source) > > Fred wrote : > Nope......get an error when I enter this address. > Hm, I don't know where is the problem... I did it this way, and I have to say, it's very comfortable. Julo

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[suse-kde] KDE config
by Jim MacLeod 26 May '03

26 May '03

I get the following error message on boot-up : Unrecognized section name Desktop0 @ /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc:1 It doesn't stop KDE running but I'd like to correct it. Could someone tell me what the proper section name is so I can edit it. Thanks Jim MacLeod

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Re: [suse-kde] KMail as applet
by Julius Chrobak 26 May '03

26 May '03

Hi Stefan, > Simply write a new email to suse-kde(a)suse.com I did so... thanx... Now my filters are working fine, thanks a lot.. But, is it possible to apply filters automaticly for new messages ?...not just after pressing Ctrl+J ...( manualy applying filters...) Julo.

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How to update KDE 3.1.2
by Julius Chrobak 26 May '03

26 May '03

Hi, I have one question... How can I update my KDE 3.1.1 to KDE 3.1.2 ..I tried before just download packages and use rpm -U .... but there were problems with dependencies, and file conflicts....so what is the easiest way how to update ? I just want to update only pakcages which I have installed now....nothing more...is there any way how to do it with YAST ? (I have SuSE 8.2) thank you, Julo Chrobak

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Re: [suse-kde] How to update KDE 3.1.2
by Julius Chrobak 26 May '03

26 May '03

> rpm -Fhv --force --nodeps *.rpm > > Jeff Ivins > Thanks ... I found a way, how to do it with YAST..it's very simple and nice... 1. add new Instalation Source (example: ftp://ftp.suse.sk/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/yast-source) and this will automaticly detect new updates for KDE... 2. just turn on Instal / remove software ..and new updates will be available that's all... Julo

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KMail as applet
by Julius Chrobak 26 May '03

26 May '03

Hello, 1) I am using KMail 1.5.1, and I would like to ask, if it is possible to use KMail as kapplet...and not in minimized form....(to permanently check emails) 2) I use filter in KMail for this mailling list..but I have a problems with it... I just want to move the emails from this mailling list to another folder (SuSE KDE folder), this is my configuration filter for : TO - equals - suse-kde(a)suse.com is it ok ? thank you, Julo Chrobak

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mozilla-like tabbed browsing in Konqui
by Ernesto Marquina 26 May '03

26 May '03

Hello all, I was wondering if there is a way to configure the Konqueror tabbed browser, so I can close a tab without having to right click on each tab or press CTRL+W?. Also...it seems that the only way to load a web page on a new tab is if it's already linked on a previous page and right click selecting "open in new tab". What if I need to load a different URL?, the only option I see is to press CTRL+SHIFT+N or right click on the tab-bar (where all the tabs are visible). I like the mozilla approach, to create a new tab, you can do the shortcut key, or go to the most logical place "File/New Tab", or better then, there is a small button that is used to create a new tab, very handy. Same thing if you want to close a tab, there is an X button at the right side of the browser to close the current tab. I've been trying to navigate through all Konqueror options but haven't seen any to have control over tabs. Am I missing something? or are those features not available yet? Thanks :) Ernesto

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Stopping Fan, disk, .... in power save mode
by Fulup Ar Foll 26 May '03

26 May '03

I would like my PC to stop and enter in full power save mode, stopping FAN, DISK, ... when unused for more than 1h. Question: setting value under KDE stop the screen but not the computer. Any idea ? Fulup PS: My board use ACPI and not APM.

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DPMS screen saver on SuSE 8.2
by Fulup Ar Foll 25 May '03

25 May '03

Question: Since I move to SuSE 8.2 my screen does not enter in Power-Save mode anymore, To me more accurate it enters in Power-Save but exit this mode every 60 seconds for half a second, which is probably the best way kill a screen !!! Checking for "xset" options with "xset -q" I found out that both "DPMS" and ScreenSaver option was set, it this normal ? extract from (xset -a) ---------------------------- Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 600 HOTFIX, remove xset save screen option and only validate dpms. xset -s 0 0; xset +dpms; xset dpms 600 600 0 How to reproduce set your DPMS timeout to a very short value, either from KDE menu or from a shell example "xset +dpms; xset dpms 10 15 0" In my case the screen is blank after 10s and enter in power-save more in 15s, but it wakes up after 60s, and this until I change xset screen-save value with "xset s 0 0". Question: 1) Can someone explain me what is this "Cycle" in the xset option ? 2) Did someone else already face this problem, did I made a error somewhere else ? Note: I installed SuSE 8.2 on more than one computer and only find out the problem when using a Nvidia GForce-4 graphic board, I also only see the error when running X11 but the error is present with KDE and in Failsafe mode. Fulup

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Keyboard modification (mapping ñ to alt-gr+n) on SuSE 8.2
by Fulup Ar Foll 25 May '03

25 May '03

Keyboard mapping changed from 8.0 to 8.2 In 8.0 to map "ñ" to Alt-gr+n using xmodmap was enough xmodmap -e "keysym n = n N ñ Ñ" In 8.2 I had to hack the /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/fr and add following line key <AB06> { ^n, N, ntidle, Ntilde ] }; Question: Is their a way to hack the 8.2 for getting "ñ" that would be: - independent of the keyboard layout - could this patch be attached to a user config and not the host X11 config Thank you Fulup PS: I need "ñ" because Breton language use it.

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Konq Tabs
by David Herman 24 May '03

24 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Is there a method to configure the tabs (tabbed web browsing) in Konqueror so that they appear on the left side (or right or bottom) rather than accross the top? I keep alot of tabs/pages open and it would be more convenient (allow more tabs to be viewed at once) if they were on the side. Thanks for your ideas - -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+z7sEBwgxlylUsJARAnWUAKCPL+KJ5kkawdwuqkcP12m/fPAbhgCeKIYw eLH9SME1xxat15y+pDaeK7E= =os/6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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upgrading 8.1 laptop to 3.1.2 for vncserver-ing
by David T-G 23 May '03

23 May '03

Hi, all -- [I've read the FAQ and see that SuSE does not maintain searchable list archives, and that makes sense since there are other places for that. Is there anywhere where I can pull down posts in original format, however, as is common on many mailman lists?] I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop with a fairly fresh 8.1 install with KDE 3.0.5, and most things are great (and those that aren't don't really have to do with KDE :-) I see, though, that KDE 3.1 includes vncserver support so that I can use vncviewer to get to my running KDE desktop, which is something I've wanted for a long time. I also see that ftp.suse.com has 3.1.2 RPMs loaded up, so I'm ready to go! I usually use Y.O.U. to keep my system up to date, but that doesn't seem to include the supplementary packages, the "Yast2 can do that automatically" answer from support@ notwithstanding. That's fine; I can pull it down and install it myself. Unfortunately, the amount of space involved is quite nontrivial. I've gotten the applications, base, development, experimental, and int'l dirs of RPMs and shoehorned them here and there on the box, but I'm out of room for sources (but should those be needed for a straight rpm install?). What do I need to have on hand to do the upgrade, and what pieces do I need to install for it -- particularly to get the vncserver functionality? [I really only use KDE as a multiple-desktop window manager and rarely use the menuing system or the office tools, preferring to do the sorts of things I do from an xterm command line); the only thing I *might* bring into play is a palm pilot synchronizer.] If it's possible to only upgrade one piece, that would be of interest. Then, again, I also don't mind uninstalling all of the 3.0.5 RPMs to ensure that I have free space on the drive (currently about 250M of 4.1G free with 3.0.5 installed as from the DVD) if it comes to that. Once I have the right pieces on hand, then what do I need to do? Are there upgrade instructions anywhere? TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg(a)justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork(a)justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!

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Status of PCs in LAN
by Markus Hochmann 22 May '03

22 May '03

Hi, I am looking for a little tool which is siting in the panel (near the clock). I should be able to add eg 4 IPs and this tool will check them every x seconds, if they are reachable make a part of the icon green, else red. A kind of ping with a KDE frontend. I already asked google, but I havent found anything! Thx Markus PS: I am using SuSE 7.3 with KDE 2.2.2.

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root-tail for KDE
by Markus Hochmann 22 May '03

22 May '03

Hello, I read an article about this tiny tool and I found it really usefull. Does anybody know a tool doing the same? Coz root-tail is not working with KDE! Regards Markus PS: SuSE 7.3 + KDE 2.2.2

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Kmail Cannot create Imap Folder
by Fulup Ar Foll 22 May '03

22 May '03

Get upgraded from 8.0 to 8.2 and realize that I cannot create folder from Kmail under Imap. Bug looks like this bug is know cf: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57562 Patch to kdenetwork3-3.1.kdenetwork3-mail-3.1.1-781-78 does not change anything, kmail is still lock to root for folder creation. Any hot fix. Fulup

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Re: [suse-kde] Early experience with KDE 3.1.2 from SuSE RPMs from KDE web site
by Paul C. Leopardi 22 May '03

22 May '03

Hi all, A quick update. It turns out I did need to update qt3* from http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/kde/stable/3.1.2/SuSE/ without the update I experienced disappearing vertical scrollbars. See KDE bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55848 I am still seeing what seems to be an unrelated problem - kdeinit occasionally takes up over 80% CPU when preloading I don't know how to reproduce this, so I'll let it go a day or two before filing a bug report. Best regards

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cannot save kde-session
by Felix Hammer 21 May '03

21 May '03

Hello I had some problems with kde and i have to delete "/home/user/.kde/tmp-linux"; "/home/user/.kde/socket-linux" and all files in /tmp to run it again. But now I can't save any session-properties of kde. No open programm while shutdown kde will be restored after a new kde-start. what can i do? thanx felix _________________________________ mailto:f.hammer@web.de ~ NO HTML http://www.das-duo.net - veni, vidi, linux - _________________________________

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Re: [suse-kde] customizing KDE menu (closed)
by Kay Zumbusch 20 May '03

20 May '03

Hi there. The tip that the shown menu is the SuSE menu helped. Unfortunately the menu is sorted by the file name of the link. It will take sometime to get the menu into the order I like it. Thanks for your help. Kind Regards Kay Zumbusch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anders Johansson" <andjoh(a)rydsbo.net> To: "Kay Zumbusch" <suse-kde(a)zumbusch.info> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 11:49 PM Subject: Re: [suse-kde] customizing KDE menu > On Sunday 18 May 2003 23.46, Kay Zumbusch wrote: > > created links (I found them in /root/.kde/share/applnk) to > > /opt/kde3/share/applnk and restarted KDE. But nothing helped a bit. > > Try copying them to /etc/opt/kde3/share/applnk > > The menu you see in the K menu is the "SuSE" menu. In the menu editor you see > it as a submenu called SuSE. If you browse the submenu SuSE I think you'll > recognize it >

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kdebindings-mozilla
by ovidiu pascui 20 May '03

20 May '03

Hi I installed kdebindings-mozilla package which is supposed to allow me to use mozilla instead of khtml in konqueror, but I was not able to find from where I can change these settings. Can someone help me, a hint, anything? Thank you.

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Re: [suse-kde] KDE 3.1.1 Konsole displays empty window
by Matt T. 20 May '03

20 May '03

On Monday 19 May 2003 13:18, eimann(a)informatik.uni-bonn.de wrote: > Hi, > > I've got two machines with a SuSE 8.1 distribution installed. The > distribution was shipped with KDE 3.0.3 and XFree 4.2.0. I've updated both > machines with XFree 4.3.0 (rpms provided by SuSE) and KDE 3.1.1 (rpms > privided by SuSE as well)... > > On bot boxes /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts hung for ages, so that I had to > terminate the fc-cache process manually. This resulted in no longer being > able to login with KDM. The screen showed the usual Xfree background with > the mouse cursor as watch-symbol and kdm_greeter took 99% CPU-load. > I've solved this problem, too, by deleting the > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*/fonts.cache-1.gz files and running > /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts again (this time without problems). Now I > can log in again, but certain fonts have vanished: opening a konsole > window brings up an empty window,for example, at least, when I use the > default fonts (small, medium, large, huge...). The cursor moves when I > type, so I suppose it's just a fonts problem... sax2 has no fonts either. > > Can anybody help me with this? Didi anyone solve the problem before? > > Cheers, > Raimund Hi, I had the same problem, I think I solved it by installing the same qt which came with XFree 4.3 on Suse's ftp. The later qt which came with kde3.1.1 from suse was apparently not the right one for XFree 4.3. Also it might help to delete the .font.cache file in your home directory. HTH, Matt

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konqueror display a local file instead of the original target
by Fabio De Francesco 20 May '03

20 May '03

When I click on a URL to be opened by konqueror (for example in the body of a e-mail), it seems to download the original target to the local directory '/root/.kde/share/apps/kfmexec/tmp/' and then it displays from here. In fact this is what I can see on the 'Location bar': file:/root/.kde/share/apps/kfmexec/tmp/30092.0 instead of http://www.google.it. Does someone know how to modify this strange behaviour? Thank you in advance. Fabio De Francesco.

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Early experience with KDE 3.1.2 from SuSE RPMs from KDE web site
by Paul Leopardi 20 May '03

20 May '03

Hi all, I started with a SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional Update system, installed as an update to SuSE 8.1. I downloaded and installed KDE 3.1.2 from SuSE 8.2 RPMs from the KDE mirror web site http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/kde/stable/3.1.2/SuSE/ The files I downloaded were: noarch/kde3-i18n-en_GB-3.1.2-0.noarch.rpm ix86/8.2/arts*.rpm ix86/8.2/kde*.rpm ix86/8.2/quanta*.rpm I looked at ix86/8.2/lib*.rpm and the libart* and libxslt* files were older versions than the ones I already had. Also, I already had slightly older qt3*, so I decided to download these later if it turns out to be necessary. I logged in as root, ran init 3 and then rpm -Uvh *.rpm resulted in multiple clashes with ktamago, so I uninstalled ktamago: rpm -e ktamago and then rpm -Uvh *.rpm ran without problems. Running init 5 gave me the KDM login prompt, which looked unchanged. I'll check the kdm configuration next. So far, KDE 3.1.2 seems to be running OK. I will need to check kghostview. Best regards

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Bad signatures in XFree86 4.3.0
by Filip Pistovcak 19 May '03

19 May '03

Hi, I'm am newbie with SuSE 8.0. I downloaded KDE 3.1.1 and XFree86 4.3.0 as rpm-files from ftp.suse.com <ftp://ftp.suse.com/> and somehow installed it. Unfortunately too late, I read that it is possible to check the internal signature with rpm -checksig *.rpm The KDE files were OK, but XFree86 4.3.0 files failed. Did anybody notice it too? Regards, Filip

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[suse-kde] Non-MIME messages with kmail?
by Markus Kohli 19 May '03

19 May '03

Hi list Is it possible to send non-mime-messages with kmail? Haven't found any way so far... :-( Kind regards Markus -- Cash value of this tagline: 1/20 of 1 cent.

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KDE 3.1.1 Konsole displays empty window
by eimann＠informatik.uni-bonn.de 19 May '03

19 May '03

Hi, I've got two machines with a SuSE 8.1 distribution installed. The distribution was shipped with KDE 3.0.3 and XFree 4.2.0. I've updated both machines with XFree 4.3.0 (rpms provided by SuSE) and KDE 3.1.1 (rpms privided by SuSE as well)... On bot boxes /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts hung for ages, so that I had to terminate the fc-cache process manually. This resulted in no longer being able to login with KDM. The screen showed the usual Xfree background with the mouse cursor as watch-symbol and kdm_greeter took 99% CPU-load. I've solved this problem, too, by deleting the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*/fonts.cache-1.gz files and running /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts again (this time without problems). Now I can log in again, but certain fonts have vanished: opening a konsole window brings up an empty window,for example, at least, when I use the default fonts (small, medium, large, huge...). The cursor moves when I type, so I suppose it's just a fonts problem... sax2 has no fonts either. Can anybody help me with this? Didi anyone solve the problem before? Cheers, Raimund

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customizing KDE menu
by Kay Zumbusch 18 May '03

18 May '03

Hi there. I'm using KDE 3.0 on my SuSE 8.1 system. I just installed a development IDE and some other software on it and tried to show links to these apps in my KDE menus. The new entries are shown in the KDE menu editor (as root user) but they do not appear in the menus. My KDE menu editor shows a lot more entries then the menu shows. Are the links shown in the menu and in the menu editor stored in different locations? I already tried to copy the created links (I found them in /root/.kde/share/applnk) to /opt/kde3/share/applnk and restarted KDE. But nothing helped a bit. What do I have to do to make my new entries visible in the menu? Where is the menu layout stored on the hard disk? Can anyone please help me? I hate to continue starting my programs via a shell or via the "execute" menu item. And I don't want to have lots of icons on my desktop. Thx in advance. Kind regards Kay Zumbusch

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KPilot sync question
by sargon 18 May '03

18 May '03

When I attempt to configure sync options in KPilot, all options except "sync files" are greyed out. I have deleted the kpilotrc file to force a force setup, but that doesn't help. KPilot 4.3.9 KDE 3.1.1 All are latest RPMs from SuSE. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

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konqueror locks up as user
by Tony Orrino 17 May '03

17 May '03

Hi all Sorry for the newbie question- I was using Konqueror to try and browse my files as user, and for some reason it just locks up and it wont show any files what so ever. This only happens when I am trying to look at my home dir. I can see files in the root directories just fine. And everything is ok if I log in as root. I poured of all the browser settings and I cant see anything Has anyone else seen this before? If so, how do I fix it? Btw, Im using SuSE 8.2 on a Dell Inspiron 8200 with kde 3.1 Much thanks Tony

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konqueror error
by Fabio De Francesco 15 May '03

15 May '03

I think I created some confusion using 'Control Center'. When I try to browse the internet writing a URL on the Konqueror command line I get the following message: There appears to be a configuration error. You have associated Konqueror with text/html, but it can't handle this file type. Can someone Help me to put the things back in order? Thank you in advance, Fabio

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grab movie error
by ody-5100109032 15 May '03

15 May '03

hello all, How to take a snapshot of a movie I play on Xine or Mplayer ?, I am using Ksnapshot but it only get a blue screen picture. (just info : My VGA is Sis 315pro) thx ===== --------------- indonesian newbie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

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Re: [suse-kde] KMail and Spam
by Markus Kohli 15 May '03

15 May '03

On Thursday 15 May 2003 12:53, Konstantinos Georgokitsos wrote: > just a sec. one dot matches any character but does it maybe match one and > only one character? It does match exactly one character, but at any position in the string to match. Check this out: (it's tcl regexp): kohli@karlchen:~> tclsh % set string "From:Markus Kohli <kohli(a)webdeko.com>" From:Markus Kohli <kohli(a)webdeko.com> % regexp -- {.} $string 1 => 1 means it matches But I guess we're getting off topic here ;-) -- I am overqualified? Allow me to remove some lies from my resume...

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KMail and Spam
by Konstantinos Georgokitsos 15 May '03

15 May '03

Is there a spam filter I can integrate into my KMail client? I am using KMail to directly receive mails from my pop3 server (couldn't get the combination with postfix and fetchmail to work according to the SuSE SDB description, but that's another story). Maybe Spamassassin? Kostas

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No access to CD-ROM after upgrade to KDE 3.1 with SuSE 8.0
by Kjell-Einar Ofstad 14 May '03

14 May '03

So what could be wrong? * The CD-ROM drive shows up when probing the HW * It shows up in boot.msg (<4>hdb: SONY CD-RW CRX160E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive) * As root I can access it, but not as an ordinary user * It all worked perfectly well before I upgraded to KDE 3.1 Can anybody help? -- ||||||| \\ - - // ( @ @ ) +--------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo--------------+ Kjell-Einar Ofstad Mobile : +47 900 86 827 E-mail : Kjell-Einar.Ofstad(a)keo.no +------------------Oooo-------------------+ oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_)

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RE: [suse-kde] imap server
by Balsom, Michael 14 May '03

14 May '03

Himba I'm guessing this is probably something to do with the fact that the imapd in 8.2 is now using imaps. Unfortunately, though I know this, I still have yet to work out how to correctly configure the secure options to allow connections from outlook, or even a local copy of k-mail. If/When I work this out, I'll let you know If anyone else has more ideas or pointers on this I would be quite happy to hear them. Mike -----Original Message----- From: himba [mailto:himba@siol.net] Sent: 13, May , 2003 17:23 To: suse-kde(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-kde] imap server hello I need of mail server under Suse 8.2. I tried to use imapd, under xinetd, and runs fine, but when try to login with windows outlook client, existing user on linux is not recognised as valid logon for imap account. I haven't set up any users for imap. Do I have to? regards, himba -- 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 ********************************************************************** If you have received this e-mail and it was not intended for you please let us know, and then delete it. Please treat our information in confidence, as you would expect us to treat yours. HM Land Registry checks all mail and attachments for known viruses, however, you are advised that you open any attachments at your own risk. **********************************************************************

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imap server
by himba 14 May '03

14 May '03

hello I need of mail server under Suse 8.2. I tried to use imapd, under xinetd, and runs fine, but when try to login with windows outlook client, existing user on linux is not recognised as valid logon for imap account. I haven't set up any users for imap. Do I have to? regards, himba

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Kmail POP filters
by Bill Wisse 13 May '03

13 May '03

Haia Is there anybody on this list using the pop filters in kmail? I set them all up but they don't seem to work. Thanks -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. My holy cow is a penguin.

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local LAN browser in konqueror
by himba 12 May '03

12 May '03

Hello I'm using Suse 8.2 distribution, and I must say that it has some great capabilities in contrast to RH8.0 I used previously. I have few minor problems, though. In konqueror I can't access local network with lan://localhost/. I get blank right panel, no error, no shares. I used to get FISH and SMB for shares, and clicking on FISH would take me to my home dir (being shared with samba2.2.7), clicking on SMB would result in an error stating - "This is a KDE bug..." If I manually enter hostname eg. lan://some_hostname/, i get list of shares, on that host, so I would need to manually enter every hostname on the LAN to access it. Is there a solution to this? regards ,himba

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Cool Suse 8.2 Theme messed up ISO-8559-2 encoding in GTK 1.x
by Branko Tanovi 12 May '03

12 May '03

hello I have a big problem with suse 8.2 i looks like the suse did some thing to kde that iso-8559-2 encoding do not work and uses iso-8559-1 insted. This only manifest in kde when i run say evolution. Yes and one more thing it looks like for the gnome-applitions the keramic theme is always on under kde so I can not swithch to other under. I look like that keramic is on top of the other themes nice trick but its not good for custimization. And when I am in failsafe or gnome.gnome apps work perfectly and the theme and encoding Any ideas tnx

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KDE unable to change configurations
by Ian David Laws 12 May '03

12 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have am using SuSE 8.0 with KDE The thing is I have wish to have more users on one PC. The main user is me. but sometimes one of my children wish to use it and I have noticed that when I change something in the configuration a programme (i.e kmail, konquerer). The next time it is opened everything is set back to the original configuration (not been saved). I do not have this problem I can change configuration on programmes and these are being kept the next time I use it. Has anybody got a clue as how to solve this problem. Where is that child of 5 when you need him. ;-.) Ian - -- A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx - ---------------------------------------------------- This mail has been scanned for virus by AntiVir for UNIX Copyright (C) 1994-2003 by H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH. PGP ID: 589F8449 Fingerprint: EB1C FACF 6BEB 540E 8AC0 F04E 2A25 A2F1 589F 8449 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+v7/YKiWi8VifhEkRAh7MAJ4uScUBdmobFt1x1kujH9s9jqUagACeJOEC 5MAHqczNy+FJgYFeRwsVljg= =iCTV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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fonts in gtk2 applications
by ovidiu pascui 12 May '03

12 May '03

Hi there I have SuSE 8.2 Pro under KDE 3.1.1 running the default keramik style and gtk and gtk2 applications running the geramik theme. When I start an application based on gtk2 (gaim-0.62, etc.) under KDE the fonts are very ugly (I use default sans fonts under gnome2 and the "apply fonts&colors to non-kde appplications" is checked. Now if is start the gnome controlcenter and click the font box all gtk2 applications which are running get their correct fonts. Second problem related to gtk2: I want to compile some programs based on gtk2 but running "./configure" fails saying that gtk2+ libraries are not installed. I installed all the packages available for gnome from the CD's and everything else that contained gtk but I still get the same error. Could somebody help, please!

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From Header in kde-mail
by Renatus Lütticken 11 May '03

11 May '03

Hallo, in yast my FROM Header is renatus.luetticken(a)epost.de my linux machine has the hostname re now, when I send e-mails out of k-mail, the mails automatically get a "double"header: re@renatus.luetticken@epost.de Some mailsystems do not accept e-mails, when the FROM-Headers are syntactically wrong. So the mail is sent back to me, but I recieve it on the root-account, so it took a long time until I notoced it,- and for many months I had no idea that my e-mails did not arrive. This does not occur when I use pine on the console,- it must be a problem with k-mail. My question: I must have a wrong entry in some place. Where do I have to search for it? All the obvious places I checked without finding the mistake. Thanks, Renatus Luetticken

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Wildcards in KMail
by cmachmeier＠t-online.de 11 May '03

11 May '03

Hallo Liste! Ich versteh' nicht ganz, ob und wie ich in KMail in den Filtereinstellungen einen Filter, wie z.B. "*(a)ebay.de" erstellen kann, so dass der auch funktioniert. Weiß das jemand von euch? mfg > christian -- Strong Bad: "On a scale from one to awesome, I'm supergreat." <http://www.homestarrunner.com>

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Re: [suse-multimedia-e] mplayer / xine does not show DVDs smoothly on 8.2
by Sean Keane 11 May '03

11 May '03

On Sunday 11 May 2003 17:28, John poked randomly at a keyboard and came up with: > On Sunday 11 May 2003 10:17, Ulrich Guenther wrote: > > Under SuSE 8.2 neither xine nor mplayer runs DVDs smoothly. > > > > This is clearly a kernel problem. Under the old kernel (2.4.19) > > everything was fine. Unfortunately SuSE 8.2 can't build the old kernel > > with gcc 3.3 (pre-release). > > > > Was anybody able t watch movies under SuSE 8.2? > > Yessir, I've watched my first DVD movies *ever* on my computer with > SuSE 8.2 and Xine, but I didn't use the Xine that comes on the 8.2 CD's, > I downloaded all the necessazry rpm's from > http://packman.links2linux.de/index.php4 andinstalled those and it worked > like a charm. I'm lovin' the heck out of 8.2!! It's a DMA problem. Check the setings on your DVD ROM... especially if it's an IDE pretending to be SCSI. I had the same problem under 8.0... -- ___ _ __ Public Key @ www.eon.demon.co.uk/keane.asc / __| ___ __ _ _ _ | |/ /___ __ _ _ _ ___ \__ \/ -_) _` | ' \ | ' </ -_) _` | ' \/ -_) |___/\___\__,_|_||_| |_|\_\___\__,_|_||_\___|

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Autostart
by Johannes Rieken 11 May '03

11 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I using SuSE8.1 and KDE3.1. Mostly everything is fine. Regrettably, the Autostart does not work. I just want a program in /usr/local/bin to start when KDE starts. So created a link in ~/.kde/Autostart. The command ps -ef shows the link running but does not. Maybe someone can help me or show me alternatives. Johannes Rieken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+vnhxy+8V4IIumQ8RArjWAJwLt15ggQpbMpq/AoFXldl8yNqqHgCfWnCV z6WN3qE7zaYCL7/GJJClGJs= =0ngj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Issue with kdesu?
by Stan Green 11 May '03

11 May '03

After a year with SuSE 7.2 Pro, I have just SuSE 8.1 Pro. I have one issue with the new install. When I start kfmclient with kdeus, I cannot right click on a file and open with kwrite. I get the error: KDEInit could not launch 'kwrite'. If I do an su from a commad line, I get: command not found. If a do a su -m, I can launch kwrite, but not programs that are in /sbin. I think there might be a path issue, but I cannot seem to find where to correct this. Now this all worked fine in 7.2, so I know it can be done. How do I fix this in 8.1? Thanks, Stan Green

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RealVNC under SuSe 8.0
by Jianyu Wang 09 May '03

09 May '03

Now I using SuSe 8.0 and KDE 3.0, and I want use the VNC server, but when I start the server, I get always the info that starting a new X window, and from client with VNC viewer only a xterm is showed, what is the problem? Thanks Jianyu Wang

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kinternet in sys tray
by Sven Krause 08 May '03

08 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, previously I've seen kinternet appear in the system tray. Since my last configuration via YaST it runs in a standard applicartion window only. Is there a general way to move an application window into the system tray? Sven -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+uAGpLwoqCCHiteIRAr7PAJ4y+/0CGkFr1mnUd3A2mt3o3VQHxwCeLLHJ KqPXBlx8p5v64eBJcdbIzzg= =BM7O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SuSE 8.2 KDE 3 and GNOME 2
by Volker Sturm 07 May '03

07 May '03

Hi, ich arbeite eigentlich mit KDE 3 auf SuSE 8.2 Professional. Leider musste ich feststellen, dass (wahrscheinlich) die Verwendung von Ximian Evolution KDE 3 ins Stolpern bringt. Wenn ich Evolution beende, verwandelt sich der KDE-Desktop manchmal in den von Gnome 2. Allerdings nur der Desktop an sich. Die Werkzeugleiste unten ist weiterhin KDE 3. Ein Rechtsklick auf die Arbeitsfläche erzeugt das Gnome-Kontextmenü... Ein Ausloggen und Wiederanmelden behebt dieses Problem. Nach einigen KDE-Sessions öffnen sich jedoch gleich beim Start von KDE hunderte von Nautilus-Fenstern, die das System natürlich auslasten und später (vermutlich) zum Absturz bringen würden. Wenn ich Gnome 2 starte, stelle ich fest, das dort dieses Problem nicht auftritt. Wie KDE auf die Idee kommt, ungefragt den Gnome-Dateimanager massenhaft zu starten, ist mir unklar. Das Problem konnte ich durch einen mv der Verzeichnisse ~/.kde und ~/.kde2 lösen. Allerdings währte die Freude nur etwa 10 KDE-Sessions lang. Dann trat das Nautilus-Problem wieder auf. Wo wäre nun ein guter Ansatzpunkt, konkrete Informationen über die Hintergründe zu bekommen? Bis jetzt konnte ich keine Anomalien in den (verschobenen) .kde*-Verzeichnissen feststellen. Allerdings muss ich sagen, dass ich kein Crack in der Analyse der KDE-Systemdateien bin. Leider machen einen (bis jetzt) vier Semester Informatik nicht gerade schlauer.

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"KDM remote shutdown" ändern
by Thorsten Kampe 06 May '03

06 May '03

[SuSE 8.2] Hallo zusammen ich möchte deaktivieren, daß remote über den grafischen Anmeldedialog der Rechner heruntergefahren werden kann. Dazu habe ich in "/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager" 'KDM_SHUTDOWN="local"' gesetzt. Dies hatte keine Wirkung. Dann habe ich im KDE-Kontrollzentrum unter Systemverwaltung > Anmeldungsmanager > Sitzungen > Herunterfahren erlauben/Von Fremdrechner geändert. Dies hatte die erwünschte Wirkung. Kann mir jemand sagen, warum die SuSE-Sysconfig Einstellungen gar keine Wirkung zeigen - höchstens die KDE-Einstellungen? Danke im Voraus, Thorsten

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KDE 3.1 update for 8.0 : How ???
by Kjell-Einar Ofstad 06 May '03

06 May '03

I have downloaded all the available rpms to my local HD. * Hoped I could do the update automagically with Yast..(?) * Tried manually with RPM only to receive lots of failure/dependencies messages. So my question is: Where do I start and how do I complete the job? mvh Kjell-Einar -- ||||||| \\ - - // ( @ @ ) +--------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo--------------+ Kjell-Einar Ofstad E-mail : Kjell-Einar.Ofstad(a)keo.no +------------------Oooo-------------------+ oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_)

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Making login manager work with grub?
by Lennart Börjeson 06 May '03

06 May '03

Greetings, fellow suse:rs, I've successfully upgraded from SuSE 8.0 to 8.1 and then from KDE 3.0 to 3.1.1. I've successfully switched from lilo to grub. Now, the only remaining issue with all this is that the login manager can't properly select the reboot target (from the restart menu), since it still tries to use lilo for that purpose. I've peeked in kdmrc, but the only properties I can find are lilo-options. Is it possible to make the restart menu wotk with grub, and how, then? -- !++ ! Lennart Börjeson ! Partner, Developer ! Cinnober Financial Technology AB ! Industrigatan 2A ! S-112 46 STOCKHOLM ! Sverige/Sweden/Schweden/Suède ! mailto:Lennart.Borjeson@cinnober.com ! phone:+46-8-50304700 ! fax:+46-8-50304701 ! http://www.cinnober.com !--

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7.2 QT packages
by Matt Gibson 03 May '03

03 May '03

Hi, Does anyone know why the QT3 rpm for SuSE 7.2 (in supplementary/updates/... on the ftp servers) doesn't have xft configured? That is, it doesn't seem to have support for antialiased fonts. It took me ages to track down where my nice smooth KDE fonts had gone; eventually I just compiled QT from source... As a side-issue, if I've done something like this, i.e. rebuilt QT but am still using the KDE RPMs, does anyone know if there's a way of fudging the RPM database so that it doesn't moan about QT being missing? You know, something that'll tell rpm,"look, it's all right, I've built something that's exactly compatible with this missing RPM, so please stop whining..." Cheers, Matt -- "It's the small gaps between the rain that count, and learning how to live amongst them." -- Jeff Noon

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Re: UPDATE [suse-kde] Multiple Monitor Problems after KDE 3.1.1 Upgrade
by Jasmine Davis 02 May '03

02 May '03

Hi all I have just found that this error only occurs when opening Konqueror from a icon on the taskbar, menu or desktop, if I open it from a bookmark or url link on either two of the secondary monitors, it opens on the screen it was selected from. I hope this helps, Jasmine On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 12:33, Jasmine Davis wrote: Hi all I just upgraded my KDE from version 3.1.0 to the suse packages 3.1.1 & have a small problem with my multiple monitor setup. I run 3 monitors on my system & if I try to open Konqueror on either monitor 1 or 2 (second & third screen) it opens on monitor 0, the primary monitor. Every other program I have tried opening works correctly & opens on the screen it was run from, it is just the Konueror thats playing up. I did not have this problem with KDE versions upto & including 3.1.0 so this must be related to this new release. Look forward to the reply's. Regards, Jasmine -- Jasmine Davis - Photo Girl www.photo-girl.com Registered Linux User Since August 1999, No: 218292 -------------------------->> Welcome to SuSE Linux 8.0 i686 - Kernel 2.4.18-64GB-SMP -- Jasmine Davis - Photo Girl www.photo-girl.com Registered Linux User Since August 1999, No: 218292 -------------------------->> Welcome to SuSE Linux 8.0 i686 - Kernel 2.4.18-64GB-SMP

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Can't start konqueror from user account.
by Curtis Rey 02 May '03

02 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just had kde take a burp on me. When I try to execute the Konqueror symlink/icon for the kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing it won't execute. The app tray shows it with a spinning hourglass. When I execute the following command from the console I get this: crrey@Crusher-1:~> kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing ERROR: Couldn't start konqueror from konqueror.desktop: KDEInit could not launch 'kfmexec' However, in the root kde account I have no problem getting it to execute using the icon/shortcut symlinks. Likewise, in either kde account I can alt+F2 and enter a URL and then it comes up. Running the following querry for the permission sets of kfmexec returns the following: crrey@Crusher-1:~> la /opt/kde3/share/applnk/konqueror.desktop - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3415 2003-01-16 12:40 /opt/kde3/share/applnk/konqueror.desktop I have gone to telinit 3 and clear the /tmp file, and I have also rm'ed the .mcop, .mcoprc. and the tmp-Crusher-1 and sockets-Crusher-1. This would usually clear and confounding files and presents now change. Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this occurred and how to correct it. TIA, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+scRg7WVLiDrqeksRArx5AJ9iI+thw/Z/tj5bluJvtWJcl6f9KgCglekO Nh8SNGFCpfthaAZNIcbjxdg= =03wU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Multiple Monitor Problems after KDE 3.1.1 Upgrade
by Jasmine Davis 01 May '03

01 May '03

Hi all I just upgraded my KDE from version 3.1.0 to the suse packages 3.1.1 & have a small problem with my multiple monitor setup. I run 3 monitors on my system & if I try to open Konqueror on either monitor 1 or 2 (second & third screen) it opens on monitor 0, the primary monitor. Every other program I have tried opening works correctly & opens on the screen it was run from, it is just the Konueror thats playing up. I did not have this problem with KDE versions upto & including 3.1.0 so this must be related to this new release. Look forward to the reply's. Regards, Jasmine -- Jasmine Davis - Photo Girl www.photo-girl.com Registered Linux User Since August 1999, No: 218292 -------------------------->> Welcome to SuSE Linux 8.0 i686 - Kernel 2.4.18-64GB-SMP

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