December 2004 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Good screensavers...? Specifically an aquarium/fish one.
by Steve Kratz 26 Dec '04

26 Dec '04

I co-worker has a powerbook running OSX, and it has this fancy little aquarium screen saver that's extremely realistic. He claims that's one thing his machine can do better than Linux... I want to shut him up :) Running KDE 3.3.1 and SuSE 9.2.

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Re: [suse-kde] KDE not Starting
by William Lugg 26 Dec '04

26 Dec '04

Well, thanks for all the help. I tried the things suggested, but none of them seemed to get me any further. So, I decided to scratch the installation and try again. It isn't as bad ass it sounds, I just built the thing a couple of weeks ago, so I didn't have time to do any sigificant amount of work on it. The up side is that I learned to be very careful about kernel and video driver updates in the future. Thanks again for all the helpful suggestions. Hope y'all had a Merry Christmas and have a happy New Year. -- Bill Lugg Milstar Software Support Peterson AFB, CO On Fri, 24 December 2004 12:02 pm, BandiPat wrote: > On Friday 24 December 2004 02:04 am, William Lugg wrote: > > You may be on to something. In perusing the log files I found one > > that stated the nvidia driver 'tainted' the kernel. > > > > Now, this is a new installation - only about a week old. after > > installing, I got YOU going and in the process downloaded the nvidia > > driver. All went well ... until today. > > > > So I guess my next question needs to be how do I disable the nvidia > > driver and fall back to something that works so I can get in and > > manually get this beast back on its feet? > > > > I tried running sax2, but all I get is a blank screen with an > > outlined X in the middle of it. I looked in SaX.log and found a long > > litany of information, but nothing that jumped out at me as a > > problem. > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > ============ > > Will, > Not sure I can be of much help with this, as I don't run the Nvidia > cards any longer for just this reason. It continually seems as though > you have to deal with this with each new nvidia driver, as you will > notice on the list. > > Patrick gives you some good info and his suggestion about running YOU > again to download & install the newer Nvidia driver to your new kernel > would be best. Of course, getting some graphics back is the first > thing. You can boot to init 3 or the text terminal, so from there you > can run the text version (ncurses) version of YaST2 to remove the > Nvidia install and fall back to the original SuSE installed "nv" > driver. Once you get your graphics, you can attempt YOU again and get > the new Nvidia driver installed, so you can get your 3d going. > > Hope that is a bit helpful, > Lee

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KDE not Starting
by William Lugg 24 Dec '04

24 Dec '04

This morning I started my SuSE 9.1/KDE 3.2 box and it goes through the boot process but leaves me at the 'linux login:' prompt in a text console when it should have started KDE. I logged in a root and did an 'init 5' and it put several things up on the screen, displayed the nvidia splash screen and returned to the text console. What do I need to do to get KDE running again? I'm not seeing any errors during the boot that would lead me to the problem. -- Bill Lugg Milstar Software Support Peterson AFB, CO

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KDE vs. Gnome: Putting KDE In Charge
by Heberto del Rio 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

Hi I just upgrade my system to SuSE 9.2 Pro, and I am having trouble with GTK application who used to work flawlessly. To fix the problem I've being running the following command at the beginning of my session /opt/gnome/lib/control-center-2.0/gnome-settings-daemon & I read this thread and it seems that this is not the best thing to do, it has been suggested to create a link between some files I runned env|grep GTK and this is the output GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/opt/gnome/share/themes/Qt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/heberto/.gtkrc-2.0-thinkeramik:/home/heberto/.kde/share/config/gtkrc GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/opt/gnome/gtk/gtkrc:/opt/gnome/share/themes/Geramik/gtk/gtkrc:/home/heberto/.gtkrc-thinkeramik:/home/heberto/.kde/share/config/gtkrc GTK_PATH=/usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0:/opt/gnome/lib/gtk-2.0:/usr/lib/gtk-2.0 as you can see there is no .gtk-2.0-qtengine listed in the RC_FILES, on the other hand I have installed the following apps: (rpm -qa |grep gtk) gtksourceview-doc-1.0.1-3 libgtkhtml-devel-2.6.1-3 gtk-1.2.10-882 gtklp-0.9u-2 gtkam-0.1.12-2 gtkmm-1.2.10-301 libexif-gtk-0.3.3-308 gtkdoc-1.2-62 gtksourceview-devel-1.0.1-3 gtk2-themes-0.1-636 gtkglarea-1.2.2-893 gtk2-devel-2.4.9-10 gtk2-2.4.9-10 gtk2-doc-2.4.9-10 python-gtk-2.2.0-3 gtkhtml2-3.2.2-3 gtkspell-2.0.5-58 gtk2-engines-2.2.0-400 gtksourceview-1.0.1-3 libgtkhtml-2.6.1-3 gtkhtml2-devel-3.2.2-3 gtk-devel-1.2.10-882 gtk-engines-0.12-960 gtk-qt-engine-0.5-9.2 and the only .gtk* file that I have in my HOME directory is: (ls .gtk*) .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 which contains the following: # Autowritten by gnome-settings-daemon. Do not edit include "/opt/gnome/share/themes/Raleigh/gtk/gtkrc" include "/home/heberto/.gtkrc.mine" I have tried to link some gtkrc files to some .gtkrc-SOMETHING but this does not produce any effect. I have no idea whatsoever what to do to fix the problem, I need help. Hebertp

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Refreshing desktop
by Davor Cengija 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

After copying a file to ~/Desktop using shell cp command, or moving it, renaming, whatever, KDE desktop doesn't reflect the changes. I recently switched from Mandrake to SuSE and I really miss that feature. I believe Mdk uses some file change listener daemon, I cannot remember how it's called right now. Is there anything similar for SuSE (9.2)? I see fam daemon installed but there's no script in /etc/init.d to start it at boot. Regards, Davor

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Re: [suse-kde] KDE not Starting
by William Lugg 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

I don't find this file in either my directory or in root's home folder. Please note that it isn't even getting to the point of displaying the KDE login screen, so I'm not sure I understand how a file in my home directory would affect it anyway. That's why I decided to look in the root folder. Any other thoughts? Thanks. -- Bill Lugg Milstar Software Support Peterson AFB, CO On Thu, 23 December 2004 10:10 am, Matt Kirk wrote: > > What do I need to do to get KDE running again? I'm not > > seeing any errors during the boot that would lead me > > to the problem. > > Check for a .xinitrc in your home directory and rename it something else > and see if the problem is in your startup file. > > -- > > Matt Kirk - mkirk(a)sonic.net Sonic.net, Inc. > Business Development Manager 2260 Apollo Way > 707.522.1000 x244 (Voice) Santa Rosa, CA 95407 > 707.547.2199 (Fax) http://www.sonic.net/

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kde-druckdaemon nicht gestartet
by Gödecke, Sebastian 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

hallo liste, ich habe ein problem mit dem drucken als user unter kde 3.2.1 : ich kann als user nicht drucken. jedes programm, das auf eine druckinstanz zugreift, stürzt ab und muss beendet werden . beim suchen nach fehlerquellen stoße ich immer wieder im kontrollzentrum unter kde-komponenten und dann diensteverwaltung auf den eintrag, das der kde-druckerdeamon nicht gestartet sei. wie kann ich dieses denn beheben?? suse 9.1 pro mfg sebastian

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Applications dying randomly in KDE 3.3.2
by Branimir Vasilic 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

Hi all, I am running KDE 3.3.2 on SuSE 9.2. Recently I noticed that applications abruptly just die, no error, the KDE crash handler doesn't show up and I didn't notice any correlation with keyboard, mouse or hard disk events. I have seen this happen with kmail, amarok and kdetv. The window just closes without warning. Has anybody else seen this? This is very disturbing and I hope limited to my instalation. Brana

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kmail folder sorting
by Volker Kuhlmann 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

In SuSE 9.2 kmail sorts some of the mail folders in the folder list window alphabetically and with a blue older icon, like in SuSE 9.1. The problem is that a number of other folders are lumped in with kmail's private folders like inbox/outbox, and they have the same blue folder icon but with a green arrow underneath it. Why does kmail arbitrarily decide not to sort some folders in with the rest of them? Is there a fix? Thanks, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.

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How to copy contacts between address-books in Kaddressbook
by Franky Goethals 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

Hi, I've defined serveral address-books in Kaddressbook, and would like to know how i can copy & sort my contacts between those folders, but i cannot find any information about this. All help appreciated. Greetz, Franky. -- _________________________________________________________ GOETHALS Franky Driegaaienstraat 104 B-9100 SINT-NIKLAAS B E L G I E Verantwoordelijke MVS Support voor Euroclear Bank Secretaris GSE Z/OS Systems Working Group Privaat doeleinden & GSE Workgroup : Tel. : 32 - (0)3 / 776.65.17 GSM : 32 - (0)473 / 98.90.24 Mail & MSN : franky.goethals(a)telenet.be http://gsezos.dyns.cx Professionele doeleinden : Tel. Werk : 32 - (0)2 / 224.15.92 Mail werk : goethals_franky(a)euroclear.com http://www.euroclear.com _________________________________________________________

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