August 2004 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] KDE login hang at "Initializing peripherals"
by ti＠amb.org 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Patrick Shanahan writes: > * Ti Kan <ti(a)amb.org> [08-14-04 23:55]: > > I am just about ready to pull my hair out now... it's aggravating > > not being able to log in. > > As a temporary measure, open a console as <your-logon-name> and type: > startx > > note: no logon will be required as you are already logged on when > starting x. The more regular logon, init 5, is started by system, not > a logged on user or root. I finally solved the problem... the brute force way. I created a new user account, established that KDE login works, then I moved all files and directories from my original home directory to the new home directory, except those that are already created in the new account, and making sure the ownership of all files are switched to that of the new account. I then deleted my old account and renamed the new account to the old name. Whatever it was, some file was causing KDE to become wedged. By doing the above I was able to get a fresh start as far as KDE is concerned, and it seems to fix the problem. -Ti

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resetting (sub-) menu structure - and returning to defaults for KDE 3.2 in SuSE 9.1
by Janus Sandsgaard 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

Which file contain configuration for the submenus in KDE3.2? How do I return to default for submenus and the K-menu. What I for sure want to change is the menu entries that comes when right clicking on a picture file. I replaced the default .kde (KDE 3.2, SuSE 9.1) with my old now - but I now realize that I prefer the old one with a primary entry for Kuickshow. Also I now notice that old menu entries now contains old entries from a demo version of CrossOverOffice etc. Janus -- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.

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Moving .kde from KDE 3.1 -> 3.2
by Janus Sandsgaard 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

I have upgraded from SuSE 9.0 to SuSE 9.1 by this from KDE 3.1.x til KDE 3.2.x. I have of a backup of my old .kde-library which I have used to replace the default .kde from the fresh install. The question if if this was a bad move? Are there any features or anything special that I should look out for: Incompatible config-files, overloaded .kde etc? Janus -- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.

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Re: [suse-kde] Running other language X11/KDE on top of English subsystem?]
by Peter 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

Ouch - best leave it for public consumption. Thunderbird is not yet as mailing list aware as, say, Kmail ;-). /// P /// -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [suse-kde] Running other language X11/KDE on top of English Matt T. wrote: > Sorry, no solution (yet), but I had been thinking about exactly the same > problem. It would be great if you could share your success-story, once it is > running. Same language or another? From a technical point of view Thai is both easy (72 characters which fit nicely in the upper part of a 256 character table) and somewhat of a challenge (spaces are, well, optional ;-). > To start with: I didn't see the Thai - kde language files on the kde servers > to download. Where did you get it? You need to go to the international pages of KDE, http://i18n.kde.org/teams/index.php?a=i&t=th. Having said that, there appears to be GNOME support too. It really depends on which support is the most advanced as to what we'll use (I'm starting to do some testing hopefully next week). I might have a word with Novell to see where Ximian stands in this (and maybe they know another source of second hand PCs - I'm 5 short despite quite reasonable marketing potential ;-(. And Thai OpenOffice has a number of sources. They don't appear to be up to 1.1.2 yet but 1.0 and a derivative called (I think) Pladao Office both are native Thai. I've been having some difficulty locating resources that are bilingual, though, but I haven't dug in depth yet so I may have missed it. The ideal situation would be if I could use a dual language setup. If all fails I'll have to build two separate boot options, at least it's not that hard with Linux ;-) >>I'm about to help a small charity with getting some machines online for >>kids to look at web pages in their native country (Thailand), and it'll >>be SuSE Linux based (Pro 9.1, nothing but the best ;-). I have mainly >>one question: >> >>For remote admin purposes I want to run the base OS (i.e. anything done >>from teh command line) in English because that is easier to manage for >>me and for others that might want to help out, but I need the X11 >>platform (i.e what the end user sees) to be in Thai. Keyboards aren't a >>problem because a Thai keyboard is dual US+Thai layout, but will I be >>able to indeed run the whole GUI side of things in Thai (including >>OpenOffice) or am I facing an uphill battle? Regards, /// Peter ///

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KDE login hang at "Initializing peripherals"
by ti＠amb.org 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

Hi all, SuSE 9.1 Pro here. I just did a YOU today and all went well. However after logging out as myself (non-root user) I can no longer log in again under KDE. The login splash screen hangs while at the "Initializing peripherals" stage with the blinking icon, and then after a few moments the splash goes away and all that is left is a blank "welcome" background screen. Interestingly, logging in under KDE as another user, or as root, works fine. So I thought maybe something got munged in my configuration. I deleted all the ~/.kde ~/.mcop* files and directories, as well as all the KDE related stuff under /tmp and /var/tmp. And none of that made any difference. I still get the same login hang. Rebooting the system also doesn't clear things up. I googled the web in search of a solution and tried just about everything, and still no dice. I don't know if the YOU today has anything to do with this, but it did update the kde3-base libraries and some related stuff. Can someone shed some light on this? P.S. The ~/.xsession-errors file contains some stuff, but I am not sure if any of it is telltale. I'll include that below. -Ti ---------- .xsession-errors ---------- <stdin>:1: invalid preprocessing directive #Dtsession xset: bad font path element (#60), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax xset: bad font path element (#60), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax xset: bad font path element (#60), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax xset: bad font path element (#60), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax Creating link /home/ti/.kde/socket-obelisk. Created link from "/home/ti/.kde/socket-obelisk" to "/tmp/ksocket-ti" /usr/bin/X11/iceauth: creating new authority file /home/ti/.ICEauthority Creating link /home/ti/.kde/tmp-obelisk. Created link from "/home/ti/.kde/tmp-obelisk" to "/tmp/kde-ti" ksplash: WARNING: KGenericFactory: instance requested but no instance name passed to the constructor! kbuildsycoca running... Creating link /home/ti/.kde/cache-obelisk. Created link from "/home/ti/.kde/cache-obelisk" to "/var/tmp/kdecache-ti" Reusing existing ksycoca kbuildsycoca: WARNING: Property 'X-KDE-Weight' is defined multiple times (KOfficeFilter) kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : Applications/KBarcode/kbarcode-label.desktop kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/cphone.desktop Invalid entry (missing '=') at /tmp/kde-ti/kconf_updatejMKzBa.tmp:1 Invalid entry (missing '=') at /tmp/kde-ti/kconf_updateR0rFra.tmp:1 <stdin>:491: invalid preprocessing directive #Dtsession kbuildsycoca running... Reusing existing ksycoca kbuildsycoca: WARNING: Property 'X-KDE-Weight' is defined multiple times (KOfficeFilter) kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : Applications/KBarcode/kbarcode-label.desktop kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : /usr/share/applications/cphone.desktop

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Unknown protocol 'devices'
by Leendert Meyer 14 Aug '04

14 Aug '04

Hello list, A few days ago I enabled 'Show device icons' on my desktop. (Control Center -> Desktop -> Behavior -> Device Icons) Since that moment, every time as KDE starts, I get an Error dialog with the following message: Could not start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'devices'. . Yup, that last single dot was also in the dialog. And this was in ~/.xsession-errors: kdesktop: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'devices'. kdesktop: The cause of this error seems to be the reason why I can't get any device icons on my desktop. Does anybody know how to solve this? KDE version: Release 3.3.0 (SuSE supplementary rpms) Thanks in advance, Cheers, Leen

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Kmail filters, where are they stored
by Verner Kjærsgaard 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

Hi group, - I want to copy as many Kmail settings as possible from my old HD to the new one. Among others, I'd like to just copy all the filter settings (all Mails are ok),- but where do I find them? -- ------------------------------ Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Open Source Academy +45 5696 4223 Verner Kjærsgaard ------------------------------

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How to start non-KDE app at startup?
by Cris Perdue 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

Hi, I have recently installed SuSE 9.1 Professional, and am trying to figure out how to start non-KDE applications such as xscreensaver (or perhaps Mozilla) automatically at KDE startup time. In the past I have been able to run apps from .Xclients in my home directory, but SuSE does not appear to use this file. Can someone help me with this? Thanks for your help! -Cris

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kdegraphics3-3.3.0-3.i586.rpm on ftp.suse.com is MISSING!
by Kai Kapp 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

On ftp.suse.com the file /pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.0/applications/kdegraphics3-3.3.0-3.i586.rpm is missing! Could you please put it up? Thanx a lot, Kai

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Running other language X11/KDE on top of English subsystem?
by Peter 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Hi, I'm about to help a small charity with getting some machines online for kids to look at web pages in their native country (Thailand), and it'll be SuSE Linux based (Pro 9.1, nothing but the best ;-). I have mainly one question: For remote admin purposes I want to run the base OS (i.e. anything done from teh command line) in English because that is easier to manage for me and for others that might want to help out, but I need the X11 platform (i.e what the end user sees) to be in Thai. Keyboards aren't a problem because a Thai keyboard is dual US+Thai layout, but will I be able to indeed run the whole GUI side of things in Thai (including OpenOffice) or am I facing an uphill battle? Ideas and suggestions welcome. The end user stations will probably be running in thin client mode unless we run short of server capacity ;-). Kind regards, /// Peter ///

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