November 2005 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Can't see the ok-button in the adress window of kmail
by alexander.beck-ratzka 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

Hello list, I've a strange problem. Dont ask me why and how, but I have achieved to change the size of the popup window for selecting Email adresses in kmail (the three dots ... at the right hand site of the "to" and "copy" field, in a manner that I dont see the ok and the cancel button any more. I can change the window's size with the mouse as I want, but I never see the "ok" and "cancel" button again. They remain below the lower border of the window? Has anypne an idea, how I can get rid of the problem? I am running SuSE Professional 9.2 with it's KDE. Alexander

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Completely black menus in GTK applications
by Lennart Börjeson 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Since upgrading to SuSE Linux 10.0 my GTK application have got menus with black backgrounds. Very annoying since the default font colour is black, too... I've seen this in acroread, gimp and eclipse. If I run acroread from a konsole and activate a menu, I get the following error on stderr: (acroread:5291): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_back_pixmap(): pixmap must have a colormap I've tried various settings in the ControlCentre, under "GTK Styles and Fonts", but to no avail. I've removed all .gtkrc* files in my home directory, didn't help either. I googled the error, and found something releated to gtk2 2.8, but I've checked and the indicated patch is already applied to the SuSE gtk2 version, 2.8.7. Any hints on how to resolve this? -- !++ ! Lennart Börjeson ! Partner, Developer ! Cinnober Financial Technology AB ! Industrigatan 2A ! S-112 46 STOCKHOLM ! Sverige/Sweden/Schweden/Suède ! mailto:Lennart.Borjeson@cinnober.com ! phone:+46-8-50304717 ! gsm:+46-70-3394717 ! fax:+46-8-50304701 ! http://www.cinnober.com !--

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Re: [suse-kde] keyboard frustration
by airdvd 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

> I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this but in order to get quotes > (single or double) I have to press the key twice. > Eddie I had the exactly same problem which was fixed by changing the keyboard variant from 'intl' to 'basic' in yast/hardware/keyboard layout. _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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keyboard frustration
by eddieleprince 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this but in order to get quotes (single or double) I have to press the key twice. If I only press the key once then the next character either doesn't appear or comes out with an accent or something like that. Other keys may be misbehaving as well but I've only experienced it on the quote keys so far. I only noticed it following upgrading to the latest version of KDE (KDE 3.5) via YAST. Interestingly enough, it does not happen with my system at work just the one at home. I'm running SUSE 10.0 with the various security updates etc. I'm wondering if anyone else is having this problem. Is anyone aware of it or have any idea what is going on and how to fix it. By the way, if I go to a virtual console e.g. ctr-alt-f1 I don't experience this problem, but I do if I use konsole. Would be grateful for any help? Thanks in advance. Eddie

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KDE 3.5 Final Missing python-qt = 3.5.0-7
by harryc 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

While doing a kynaptic upgrade to KDE 3.5 final, the following was recorded. error: Failed dependencies: python-qt = 3.5.0-7 is needed by kdebindings3-python-3.5.0-7 I can't locate python-qt = 3.5.0-7 Harryc --

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Odd behaviour with crtl-taste in KDE 3.5.0
by K. Elo 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Hi, I have encountered an odd phenomena with KDE 3.5.and SL 9.3 Pro. When I press crtl-taste in Konqueror (and maybe in KMail, too), several yellow boxes with one digit or alphabet in each appear. When I press the crtl once again, these boxes disappear. I have absolutely no idea what these boxes are supposed to mean. The only clue is, that these boxes seem to be related to the URLs in the active window... Any ideas? Can someone reproduce this behaviour? Thanks in advance! Kimmo

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KMail, Quoting REd Message
by Langsley 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Hi all. I'm running KMail 1.8 on SUSE 9.3. Is there no way to globally turn off quote previous message when REing. -- LTR Registered Linux user #280295 itisi(a)kvremcwb.com

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How to? - KDEWallet and Firefox - more than one uname/pwd for a site
by Shriramana Sharma 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

In SeaMonkey and Firefox on Windows I had the convenience of saving more than one username/password for a site and when I visited that site again I would get a popup with the list of usernames from which I could select the one I want. I thought only KDEWallet didn't have this but now I see that even Firefox on Linux doesn't have it. So can anyone tell me how to get this functionality? Shriramana.

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KDVI problem
by Robert Cabane 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hello. I just updated my KDE to 3.5. Everything worked (it seems) except for KDVI. It says: [File Type error / can't load... No Multipage supporting mimetype application/x-dvi found] It also says that I'm using KDVI 1.4 under KDE 3.5 Level a SUSE 9.3 UNSUPPORTED. Any idea ? Robert

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KDE 3.5:icons on desktop move despite locking
by Juergen Lennefer 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hi KDE community, I'm running SuSE 9.3 with KDE 3.5.0 level "a", upgarded with apt. I like it, it's much better than the 3.4.x version before. After I found the new "Lock in Place" switch in the desktop menu under "Icons" I hoped to get rid of the moving icons after very restart of the KDE desktop caused in the two top panels I'm using. The icons move downwards on desktop with the pixelsize of the two panels. But the new lock does not really help with the icons positions. With 3.4.x apps windows (kwatch, konsole, xosview) also did move in the same way, if they had contact with the panels on one or more sides. This is fixed with 3.5.0. Very cool! Any hint? Or is this still a bug? Regards, Juergen -- ### Juergen Lennefer ### Kuerten ### Germany ###

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suse window theme/style
by Istvan Gabor 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hello all: I like(d) very much the default kde window and color style/ theme that was included with suse 9.0/9.1/9.2. In 10.0 the deafult style is different that I do not like as much. How could I install the style/theme of the above versions onto 10.0? (Currently I'm runnig 10.0 x86_64). Thanks, IG ______________________________________________________________________ KGFB 2006 - Garantáltan a legjobb ár! Nyerje meg az új Swiftet + garantált 10,000,- Ft értékű ajándék. WWW.NETRISK.HU

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Re: kdar problem
by B. Stia 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

On Thursday 24 November 2005 01:51 am, Bob Stia wrote: > Hello SuSE users, > > Posted this on the KDE list but nobody repled. Maybe some of my > fellow SuSE people can help me out here. > > Hello KDE people. > > Have been using kdar to back up some of my directories and saving the > slices to a hard drive rather than burning them. The last two times I > made backups I cannot view them or open them. This is the error > message: > > Extracting contents of the archive... > too large elastic buffer or elastic buffer incoherent structure > Error: unable to open the archive. > > Anybody have an idea about what is wrong? > > Also, I open and run kdar as root, yet when I want to view or restore > I am asked for the password again. How can that be when I am already > running as root. > > Bob S.

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backing up email and folders across a reformat & install
by -=j=- 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Hi, I looked through the archives and found that I need to save ~/.gconf and ~/.evolution to backup my email and folders [or so it appears] but I don't know how to get at these folders or email messages once I've done a fresh install [equivalent for reformatting the hard drive, etc.]. I have to take a suse 9.3 box and roll it back to suse 9.2 for dev reasons. Unfortunately there's a lot of email on it as it was upgraded, semi unsuccessfully, so suse 9.3. I want to back up the email on this suse 9.3 box now, do a fresh install complete with reformatted drive and then either load or recreate the folders and restore the old email. If I could just restore the folders that would be best sas they won't exist on a new install anyway but at the worst just getting the old messages in there will suffice. How do you do it? I've seen no references to re-opening old messages or foders, just people talking about saving the afore-mentioned directories. Sorry if this has been clearly answered, but how do you get at the old messages and folders of you saved off ~/.gconf and ~/.evolution directories? tia... Jack

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DCOPserver problem
by K. Elo 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Hi, what causes the DCOPserver to crash? In the last couple of days I have several times been forced to restart my kde session, because the DCOPsever has crashed. After this I have neither been able to start any applications by clicking the panel icons nor to browse any www-sites with konqueror and so on. My system is SL 9.3 Pro with all YOU-updates and with kde 3.4.3. I haven't had this problem before, so I am curious to find out, if such a problem is well-known and if there are solutions for it. This problem is a bit nervy. Thanks in advance, Kimmo

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Printer installation
by Jean-Pierre Abgottspon 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hi, I am using YAST to connect an old EPSON LQ-500 printer to my PC. This printer has a needle printing head. It works with this ESC/P printer language. I intend to use it only to edit text. The connection works fine and I manage to get the test page issued on paper with no trouble. However when printing an e-mail message for instance, the printed characters are not in the 'roman', 'sans serif', 'slot' or 'draft' fonts my printer offers by pressing option buttons on this device. They come in an exotic 'shadow' style. It makes it rather hard to read. The only thing I know is that somewhere if I could drive this command ESC &, I might give my printer the right to print accordingly to the 'r', 'ss', 'sl', 'd' options it offers. Watch out ! I am a newbie. I guess I may not be able to activate this thing outside the YAST options. Tks in advance. JP. Using Linux pro 9.3. My Pc is a Compaq Deskpro. -- Libérez vos bits. Laissez-les paître sur le turf de Linux. Setzt Ihre Bits frei und lassen Sie diese auf Linuxturf herumgrasen. Set your bits free. Let them graze on Linux turf.

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DVB-Antenna not found
by Ralph Robinson 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hello Linuxens Glad to see so many people helping people and doing it with good hearts too. I would love to help to but my knowledge at this time with Linux is not so special. I can only help so far as what I have experience in the way of my failures and wins . Now I need help because of my failure in lack of knowlege in this new DVB-T TV antenna wave. Xaw TV , KDE TV, TV Times, Kaffeine, Xzine. Nothing works right with my SuSE 1.0. I am useing a PCI Technisat -T card. In Hardware adjustments Yast, My Technisat is Identifyed. but as I continue on to adjust tuner it tells me No tuner to be found. And as far as the tuner goes I start to wonder were is the antenna adjustment which is hooked up to the TV card. I am not sure if anyone understands my description of my Digital Video Band- Terresteral or so, but if anyone does please please help me to get this pressing problem out of the way so that I can do something else with the cool possibilitys that Linux has to offer. At the present I am trying to learn as much as I can with the SuSE help center. Thanxs ahead of time for the bold one that can tackle my problem. -- http://gmx-partner.de/RalphRobinson Regards Ralph Robinson Yahoo im rrobinsoon52 AOL Rorobinson1 ICQ 26003826 Cell: 0163-772-8258 http://www.hanau-cyber-city.de postmaster(a)robinson-online.info ---------------------------------------- Love is like an Full Eclipse, You might see it one or two times in a life time

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Update on clock problem
by Christian Reppel 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

To those who remember: the hardware clock that runs late thanks to summer/winter time change has been fixed thanks to the removing of /etc/adjtime... On a new startup it works fine again. Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters

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is it possible to hear www.languageguide.org in kde
by Richard Bos 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

is it possible to hear http://www.languageguide.org in kde? It's a nice site for learning a foreign language it seems, but sofar I don't get it to work in kde nor firefox. Does anyone know a way to get it to work? It seems to seems quicktime from apple..... I have installed mplayer (plugin), but no luck sofar :( -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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Ask About CorelPhotoPaint 9 For Linux !!
by Ronny Widjaja 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

i already install a new application called CorelPhotoPaint 9 under SUSE LINUX 10. After installing process is done, i try to run my application with a shell script "photopaint". But after i run that command... one error message is coming in my konsole. The error message is like this one : /usr/lib/corel/wine-graphics9/bin/wine: relocation error: /usr/lib/corel/wine-graphics9/lib/libwine.so: symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file LIB.so.6 with link time reference Could someone explain me what is this about ? What this error message said ? and What am i have to do to run my application ? I am sorry because I am a Newbie in This World Thanx A Lot Ronny Widjaja

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QT3 problems
by sargon 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

I installed the updated RPMs for QT3 last weekend, and promptly lost almost all of my styles. I don't remember what version those RPMs were. :( Has anyone used 3.3.5-17? Are these the ones which break styles? Thanks in advance.

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Clock Problems in KDE
by Christian Reppel 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Hi everyone! Some time ago, I have changed the clock of my SuSE Linux 9.3 Pro running on KDE, since the transition from summer to winter time did not go automatically. After that, the clock is late - even my hardware clock! So, I bought a new battery, but the problem is still there. Then I altered the time on my laptop, which has the same system, but is completely different on a hardware level and the same problem is now seen there too! I synchronise my clock everytime I am in KDE with an atomic clock server, but somehow it always runs late the next day. This sounds like a programming bug to me. Maybe there goes something wrong with logging out, when SuSE sets the hardware clock to the system time. Does anybody have a solution or know about this bug? Thx. _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters

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screensaver problems
by Edward Dunagin 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

hi mates, i;m running suse10.0 and with the kde that came with it.3.4.2 level b on a p4 with 122gb hd and 1gb memory. when i try to run the screensaver in random, it only reflects a single screensaver and then goes blank. that's not too awful bad, but i have noticed that the screen will go black and not come back, by depressing another key. i thought i had a monitor going bad on me, but i shut the screensaver deamon down, and no longer have a problem with the monitor going black. i seem to remember other comments about problems with the screensaver. but nothing definitive. Peace...............ed Edward M Dunagin 4646 Glenwood Drive Bozeman, MT 59718 Mobile 406.570-0992 Skype-phone +1 406 322 2566 Digital 406.556.7282 __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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How To Access Drive C From Linux !!
by Ronny Widjaja 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

hi all... nice to see u all i am a newbie in this world... So Forgive me if my question is to easy for u all ! i use Suse Linux... Right now if i want to access my Drive C from Linux i will type media:/hda1 but it is not friendly because it is too difficult to remember it. So my question is How to make my Linux can access Drive C through media:/DriveC Because right now if i type that in Konqueror, it said Malformed URL. Thanx A Lot Ronny Widjaja

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Re: [suse-kde] How do I change the kdm background - SOLVED
by Frank Holt 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

On Wednesday November 16 2005 18:41, Synthetic Cartoonz wrote: > On Wednesday 16 November 2005 19:00, Synthetic Cartoonz wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 November 2005 18:28, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > > > Frank Holt wrote: > > > > I checked the file and the YAST editor correctly changed it to "" > > > > already. > > > > > > > > You say it worked for you. Does that mean that you were able to get > > > > the small panel on a custom background or were you referring to the > > > > config file edit? > > > > > > It does work, but you probably never restarted kdm for it to take the > > > new settings into account. Drop to a console (Ctl-Alt-F1), login as > > > root, issue init 3, and after it is done, init 5, which will take you > > > into your new kdm session. Hit (Ctl-Alt-F1) again, logout, Alt-F7 to > > > get back, and you are done. > > > > I'm having problems with this seemingly simple thing too. > > > > /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager has DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME="" > > > > I've done the directions above, and I've also completely rebooted. > > > > I still get that new full screen blue login display. > > > > I have also gone into the KDE control panel as administrator and set up > > the kdm behavior there. I set an alternate backdrop for kdm, and for a > > moment it does appear on the screen before the blue screen appears. > > I found another post about this general subject and a writer stated that > manually running SuSEconfig was required to > update /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm files. I ran it manually and it > coughed up more verbose information including: > > ATTENTION: You have modified /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Leaving > it untouched... > > Well I don't recall editing that myself, so I assume the KDE control panel > for kdm manipulated that file. > > In that file I found a line: > > Theme=/opt/kde3/share/apps/kdm/tmemes/SUSE > > I changed it to > > Theme= > > And the old panel now appears. ding ding ding...... We have a winner! I knew it had to be something obscure. To Joe and Steven: I did reboot and/or restart the X server after making the various changes but to no avail. To all: Thanks for taking the time on such a trivial matter. Frank -- Frank Holt University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee I&MT Technical Services Senior Dept. of Technical Solutions Phone : (414) 229-2982 Fax : (414) 229-6389 e-mail: frankh(a)uwm.edu

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Help with FORTRAN compiler
by Ricardo Franklin Mergarejo 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi all: I recently installed the SuSE 9.2 and I can't find the g77 compiler for this version, my question is: Exist this compiler for this version or in case not where I can find one? Thanks in advance ******************************************************* Ricardo Franklin Mergarejo. Instituto Superior de Tecnologia y Ciencias Aplicadas Quinta de los Molinos Ave. Salvador Allende y Luaces Ciudad de la Habana. Cuba Apartado Postal 6163 Telef : (537) 785018 y 797858 email: franklin(a)info.isctn.edu.cu mergarejo1981(a)yahoo.com rfmergarejo(a)gmail.com *******************************************************

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