openSUSE KDE March 2005

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SuSE 9.2 Pro and Touchpad Issues
by cms 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Hello all, Just received my copy of SuSE 9.2 Pro and completed a clean install on my Toshiba Satellite 2435 laptop. For whatever reason, the laptop's touchpad was not detected/installed correctly. Using the laptop has become extremely difficult. The mouse opens *almost* every window and app that it trails over and hardware clicking/tapping doesn't work. I don't recall what driver I've used in the past with SuSE and this laptop--truth is, I never looked. Currently I'm using the generic PS/2 Mouse (Aux-Port) driver as indicated in the Hardware section of YaST's Control Center and the touchpad is somewhat functional, albeit with irritating side effects. With previous versions of SuSE the touchpad was detected/configured correctly and without my intervention. Anyone using SuSE 9.2 with a similar machine? Searches on SuSE's Support Portal turned up zero articles related to ALPS Touchpad devices. This is a snippet of dmesg, related to the mouse/touchpad: ------- SNIP ------- mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64 alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 0a alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64 alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 0a alps.c: Status: 15 01 0a ALPS Touchpad (Glidepoint) detected Disabling hardware tapping alps.c: Status: 11 01 0a input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad on isa0060/serio4 input: PC Speaker md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 ------- SNIP ------- Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. TIA Chris Shanahan

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Re: [suse-kde] where are the dpi values in KDE3.4
by Michael Riess 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

i tried: in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (which is used, i did a "ll -u /etc/X11/xorg.conf") Section "Monitor" [...] DisplaySize 336 270 [...] AND in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -br vt7 -dpi 97 but a ll -u /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers shows me that it is never used BUT the result is always the same > xdpyinfo | grep -n5 dot 54-number of screens: 1 55- 56-screen #0: 57- print screen: no 58- dimensions: 2560x1024 pixels (678x271 millimeters) 59: resolution: 96x96 dots per inch 60- depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 61- root window id: 0x188 62- depth of root window: 24 planes 63- number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1 64- default colormap: 0x20 because /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers isnt used it is clear that it is no effect but why it does ignore the DisplaySize (i even tried DisplaySize 200 270 -> also ignored) is it because of i am using TwinView?

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Missing Packages / Wrong Versions in KDE 3.4 Supplementary
by Donald Grayson 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

After installing KDE 3.4 Supplementary from SuSE's ftp server via Yast I have noticed a few inconsistencies in the installation. First, there are several packages missing: akregator-1.0_beta8-5.i586.rpm bookcase-0.11-3.i586.rpm kdegraphics3-3.4.0-13.i586.rpm qmatplot-0.4.2-297.i586.rpm There are simlinks in yast-source/suse/i586 pointing to these packages but they do not exist. Also, the kdepim3-organizer package is version 3.3.2-3 which is causing conflicts with the other pim packages. This seems to be the case in the supplementary updates for 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2. -- Donald Grayson Systems Administrator SportPaint, Inc. Phone: 1 (502) 964-5353 x515 Fax: 1 (502) 966-0931 www.sportpaint.com

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*Newbie* How to increase print fonts?
by Andy Yankovich 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

A week or so ago I started (on SLE) the thread:"Deskjet printer app has a bug? Signal 11". Many of you helped. Thru the 'above and beyond the call of duty' help from Joe Morris, a lot of it off list, he got me going fine. I am using this list instead because BandiPat recommended it. BUT, I wanted to increase *margins* for email and did so from Kmail Menu toobar: Message/Print/Properties?Margins/ I fixed the margins but now my font size is so small I can hardly read it. I am running SuSE Pro 9.2 using KDE version 3.3.2 Level 'a' with kernel 2.6.8-24.11 default. My machine is listed as i686. ANOTHER QUESTION: should I try to update to version 3.4 at this time or wait until a later date? I am mostly interested in getting Version 2 of Open Office Org (wordprocessor part) but will gladly take anything that comes in addition. Thank you for any help you may be able to give. I would need more detailed instruction since this is my first month on Linux. Andy

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start new session and get kdm login screen
by Mario Streiber 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi all, I want to be able to start a second X session out of my current session. I know this question has been raised several times, and the start itself is not my problem. I have multiple entries in the Xservers files, and the second session comes up. No problem. But I am already logged in as the user under which I started the session. What I want is to start the new session as root (e.g. via some SUID program), and want the kdm login screen to appear so that I can choose which user and session type I want to start the session under. And I want to be able to do this out of any session type I am currently running (kde, gnome, xfce...) Any idea how to achieve that? Thanks in advance Mario

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Sub-folders and File extentions
by Andy Yankovich 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

This is something I should know by now, but I don't. Question 1: How do I create a *sub-folder* in: file:/home/andy/Documents/Christianity? I was able to do so when I created a sub-folder named "Christianity" for the main folder called "Documents". But I forgot how I did it. (It's called senility). Question 2: I guess the suffix for a created document - whether it be created originally in OOo, or by copying a web zine site to OOo - is .swx. It is my understanding that .swx documents can not be read in Microsoft Word (any version). If that is true, and I want to be able to email some of my created documents to other people who have Windows only, how can I create a document on Linux with an MS ",doc" suffix? Thanks guys. You provide an invaluable source of knowledge. Andy

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Migration to KDE 3.4: kmail configuration?
by Timur 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Dear All, by reading other people messages on this mailing list I understood that - when migrating to a new KDE version - it is always good to start with a fresh new .kde directory. For this reason my intention in migrating from KDE 3.3 to 3.4 is to rename my current .kde to .kde_old and slowly move only the old files/directories that I really need. Now, I have a question: in order to allow Kmail (Kontact) to use the settings that I currently have, what are the files that I need to copy? (.kde/share/apps/kmail and .kde/share/config/kmailrc ?) Regards, Timur __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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KDE packages for SuSE 8.2
by Stefan Schlörholz 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Hi, after figuring out that the directory hierachy for SuSE rpm on the KDE-server 8and its mirrors changed) I was surprised that there are no bas, development, etc folders any longer. Instead everything is put into one folder except the i18n pachage. However I did not find a lot of applications from the former applications folder. Where did they go? Are ther no longer SuSE application rpms available? Already during my last update I was wondering why there e.g. is no kdebase3-3.4.x package and was assuming that the files might have gone into other packages instead. After having a look into the 9.2 brach I did find kdebase3-3.4.x packages. Why are there no such packages for 8.2? Best regards Stefan

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Re: [suse-kde] KDM problem after upgrade to 3.4 one user won't log in
by Michael Eichstädt 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Am Dienstag, 29. März 2005 17:52 schrieben Sie: > > I know it's not very elegant but it works. has anybody an idea what might > have been the reason? > > Chris Mager Hello everybody, I experienced a strange behavior of KDE the last times I started it. After having logged in as user and reboot it went up and automatically logged in as the user I couldn't log in any more. Unfortuanately the keyboard wouldn't work. After rebooting several times I managed to log out the session and came again to kdm login. After logging in as another user and restarting the system again kdm appeared justb normally and now I can log in as any user again. Strange. Well synaptic told me there is some kde update - so what junkies! keep updating :-) Thanks evreybody for the suggestions made. Have fun ! Michael Eichstädt

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KDM problem after upgrade to 3.4 one user won't log in
by Michael Eichstädt 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Hello everybody, I face the problem that after upgrading to 3.4 on a 9.2 SuSE all users can log in, only one won't do. I do really need to log in this one because most of my mail accounts work with him. Please help me. I already tried : -deleting temp directories -deleting kdm config files (only effort is different look and root not allowed to log in any more :-( ) -run genkdmconf Is there any other suggestion? Greetings to all of you Michael Eichstädt

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