November 2005 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

X problem
by bob 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Recently i ran YOU and the box locked up totally during download etc of OO.o 2. When I restarted i tried again and it locked up again. Next boot I skipped it and got the other download done. Then the box started locking up and I kept rebooting, but couldn't start kde, or it would start and then lock up. From the cl when I typed startx I got the message: Fatal server error: Cannot move old log file ("/var/log/Xorg.0.log" to "/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old" Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.X.Org for help. and then xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Then I ran sax2 successfuly but that didn't help As su i did: gandalf:/home/bob # startx xauth: (stdin):1: bad "add" command line xauth: (stdin):2: bad "add" command line xauth: (stdin):3: bad "add" command line X Window System Version 6.8.2 Release Date: 9 February 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2 Build Operating System: SuSE Linux [ELF] SuSE Current Operating System: Linux gandalf 2.6.11.4-21.9-default #1 Fri Aug 19 11:58:59 UTC 2005 i686 Build Date: 16 September 2005 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Nov 4 09:54:18 2005 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X driver not found) Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing from list! /etc/X11/xim: Checking wether an input method should be started. INPUT_METHOD is not set or empty (no user selected input method). Trying to start a default input method for the locale en_US.UTF-8 ... There is no default input method for the current locale. /usr/X11R6/bin/kde: line 67: kstartupconfig: command not found I am currently running as root but would like my user back. I added a new user and got the same result running startx: Fatal server error: Cannot move old log file ("/var/log/Xorg.0.log" to "/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old" Anybody have an idea what to do about this? Is it safe to remove all the X log files or what? Bob Rea gapetard(a)stsams.org

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SUSE 10, KDE and GTK fonts
by John Coldrick 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

We've done upgrades on several SUSE systems(from 9.1 to 9.3) to v10 and there's a problem that appears to have been mentioned several times in the past but doesn't appear to have a very elegant solution in this version. It's the issue with GTK/Qt apps not having a direct control over their fonts, with the result that setting fonts in the Control Center doesn't affect them. Thus you have apps like Firefox with overly fat bookmark fonts, while the regular web page displays fine. I've found the solution involving running the gnome-font-properties, which works fine as long as you start up the gnome-settings-daemon with every session. The trouble with that is it appears to do a number of nasty jobs on various aspects of my KDE desktop. For instance, it insists on starting up a screensaver(which I don't use), it takes over a number of peripheral behaviours, such as key-repeats, and it's managed to munge up my Alt-tab windows-switching behaviour. This isn't surprising given you've got two daemons running contended for resources. This solution seems to be the secret solution-de-jour out there for this problem, but I can't believe this is considered to be appropriate. I was under the understanding that gtk-qt-engine(with both 64 and 32 bit versions installed here) was supposed to handle all this without resorting to running two WMs at once. About the only thing I haven't tried is to install Gnome also, log in, config everything the way I want, then log back into KDE, but this isn't a prefereable solution, besides being overkill. Any thoughts, experiences, appreciated. I'm running on an x64 system, if that matters... Cheers, J.C.

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Open file dialogs
by sargon 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

I am running KDE 3.4.3 (SuSE 10). When I open a file or directory, the listing of files/directories always defaults to short view, which I then change to detail view. Is there any way to force this to detail view? I had hoped that changing it to detail view would be remembered, but it isn't. Thanks in advance.

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suse-kde@suse.com-unsubscribe-pdjbarber@gmail.com@opensuse.org
by Patrick Barber 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

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Re: [suse-kde] SuSE 10.0 Eval. and KDE.
by Daniel Eckl 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Hmmmm, I thought, that kcharselect should be clear. Usage is that you can copy special chars to the clipboard in case you don't know how to type them. And this implies the second function: you can see, if a font has those special chars at all. Best, Daniel ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- >Von: "Erik Jakobsen"<eja(a)urbakken.dk> >Gesendet: 05.11.05 16:11:52 >An: "suse-kde(a)suse.com"<suse-kde(a)suse.com> >Betreff: Re: [suse-kde] SuSE 10.0 Eval. and KDE. > >Daniel Eckl wrote: >> kcharselect is part of kdeutils3-extra. Perhaps you have not installed this >> package. >> >> If you have it installed, you find it somwhere in the K-Menu or just fire up a >> konsole and type kcharselect. >> >> I chose Luxi Sans in control center, correct. >> >> Luxi Sans is part of package xorg-x11-fonts-scalable. Check if you installed >> that, too. >> >> Perhaps that could be your problem: Missing font packages. Worth to check >> this. >> >> I've got these packages installed: >> xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi >> xorg-x11-fonts-syriac >> xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi >> xorg-x11-fonts-scalable >> xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic >> >> Best, >> Daniel >> > >Hi Daniel. > >I have kcharset installed ok here, but what can I do with it ? > >Ok where you found Luxi Sans. Also I'll check for the eventually >missing packages for x11. > >Erik > >> Am Samstag, 5. November 2005 11:52 schrieb Erik Jakobsen: >> >>> Daniel Eckl wrote: > [Nachricht abgeschnitten. Tippen Sie auf "Bearb."->"Zum Downloaden markieren", um den Rest der Nachricht abzurufen.]

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Contact Moderator
by bob 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Would the moderator please email me privately about a problem. Bob Rea Atlanta GA

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SuSE 10.0 Eval. and KDE.
by Erik Jakobsen 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Hi. I use the SuSE 10.0 Eval. and KDE here. I have written with another Dane, that is using the official SuSE 10.0. He found that setting Localization to Danmark, it all worked ok. This unfortunately is not the case here with my SuSE 10.0 Eval.. For instance if I click on the KDE Menu, there should stand "Værktøjer", but no. There stands "V rkt jer". The æ and ø lacks, and in general æøåÆØÅ lacks. Erik Jakobsen

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Problems with kdm sessions on suse10.0 different from "kde"
by Rainer Krienke 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Hello, I am running suse10.0 on my system and have some trouble starting sessions different from "kde", i.e. the only session type I can start is kde. In the "session type" menu of kdm I can see all kinds of sessions like "kde", "fvwm" or "WindowMaker". "kde" works but no matter what other session type I select kde is always started. I did not see anything in /var/log/messages or /var/log/warn or /var/log/kdm. Can anyone give me a hint where kdm searches for the list of sessions and where I might look for errors? I looked into /usr/share/xsessions for the sessions offered but even if I delete all ".desktop" files in this directory, restart kdm, the list of sessions for kdm is unchanged. Thanks Rainer -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Krienke, Universitaet Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, Raum A022 Universitaetsstrasse 1, 56070 Koblenz, Tel: +49 261287 -1312, Fax: -1001312 Mail: krienke(a)uni-koblenz.de, Web: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke Get my public PGP key: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Why does GUI start automatically for only root.
by Kelly Choo 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Dear List I just installed SUSE 9.3 yesterday. When I login as root at the GUI user and password it starts kde automatically. When I log in as an NIS user I get a console window Have a lot of fun... Directory: /home/chook Wed Nov 2 09:42:52 PST 2005 linux: /home/chook> I then have to type startkde or kde to start KDE. When I end my session I have to also type in "exit" in the same window to get the login screen back which I don't have to do as root. Does anyone kno whow to change it so that starting and ending kde is automatic for everyone. Kelly

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Re: KDE keyboard lock
by Chuck Davis 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Installed 10.0 boxed set on a users desktop a couple of day ago. This a.m. the keyboard locked up. Signing on as a different user (root) the keyboard works fine. Signing the same user on GNOME the keyboard works fine. So it is a KDE problem. Any ideas how the keyboard could get locked on KDE for this particular user? Thanks for any help. Chuck Davis Seattle, WA

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