August 2005 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

kmail procedure
by B. Stia 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hello SuSE-KDE people. Kind of a basic question but escapes me. How do I have a mailing list using Kmail with "blind copies" ie: the recipient only sees him/herself as receiving the mail and none of the others. Been poking about in Kmail for quite awhile without finding the answer. Bob S.

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how 2 change SystemTray icons?
by OpenMacNews 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

hi all, i've SuSE 9.3 + KDE 3.4 i've changed icon themes to Everaldo's CrystalClear. my default app/desktop icons, of course, changed to the theme's icons. BUT, the SystemTray icon for, e.g. Kopete, is still the 'old' KDE default ... i'm going slowly nuts trying to find where to change it to the new theme! how/where do i change the silly thing? somewhere obvious, i'm sure ... tia! richard

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KDE only starts in failsafe mode after login from KDM
by David Henderson 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

I have a major problem in that under runlevel 5 I can log in via KDM (to ANY WM) and I always end up in failsafe mode. From the xterm in failsafe mode, I can startx/startkde and KDE starts up mostly fine (missing hcolor icons for evolution). I have been wracking my brain trying to fix this over the weekend, but to no avail. None of the log files in /var/log/ show any warnings or errors, .xsession-error in my home directory stays empty, so I have no where to start. A google search shows that I'm not the sole individual with this problem, but also shows no one has found a solution... I'm currently doing a search over the entire filesystem for ANY file that has changed from last Thursday night to Friday Night (system was fine Friday morning and problem appeared after booting up the laptop at home). System is SuSE 9.3 upgraded rather painfully from 9.2 via ftp. 1.66GHz AMD Athlon XP-M with 1GB RAM. I have performed all YAST updates available up to this morning, but have not changed the system otherwise... Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!! Dave H

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FW: FW: [suse-kde] What app in KDE to autosync my system clock with NIST? -- solved
by John Schwartzman 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

It seems that on my SuSE 9.3 system, Yast corrupted /etc/ntp.conf a little more each time I used it to alter my ntp configuration. I emptied the file and used Yast to set up ntp again, upon which /etc/ntp.conf contained only the server line. The traffic is now greatly reduced. Thanks for your help. Regards, John -----Original Message----- From: Carl Hartung [mailto:suselinux@cehartung.com] Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 1:37 AM To: suse-kde(a)suse.com Subject: Re: FW: [suse-kde] What app in KDE to autosync my system clock with NIST? On Sunday 21 August 2005 00:04, John Schwartzman wrote: > When I setup xntp using Yast there is a tremendous amount of traffic. > Using tcpdump I see the following continuously repeated: > > 20:44:53.282811 arp who-has Intrepid.Forte tell 192.168.2.1 > 20:44:53.282842 arp reply Intrepid.Forte is-at 00:80:ad:c1:35:41 > 20:44:54.226757 IP Intrepid.Forte.ntp > louie.udel.edu.ntp: NTPv4 client, > strat 0, poll 6, prec -18 > 20:44:54.253991 IP louie.udel.edu.ntp > Intrepid.Forte.ntp: NTPv4 server, > strat 2, poll 6, prec -22 > 20:44:56.228501 IP Intrepid.Forte.ntp > louie.udel.edu.ntp: NTPv4 client, > strat 0, poll 6, prec -18 > 20:44:56.259432 IP louie.udel.edu.ntp > Intrepid.Forte.ntp: NTPv4 server, > strat 2, poll 6, prec -22 > 20:44:58.230146 IP Intrepid.Forte.ntp > louie.udel.edu.ntp: NTPv4 client, > strat 0, poll 6, prec -18 > 20:44:58.279255 IP louie.udel.edu.ntp > Intrepid.Forte.ntp: NTPv4 server, > strat 2, poll 6, prec -22 > > As you can see, I'm using the server louie.udel.edu.ntp and I seem to be > submitting my request again and again at 2s intervals. <snip> Hi John, Did you read the "Where to Start" and various readmes in /usr/share/doc/packages/xntp? Did you go to the maintainer's website to look over any of the topical information available there? I only mention this because I did just that and seem to recall this process is not as cut and dried as it might appear to be at first glance. Your system needs to be brought into sync with the remote server incrementally. This is done to avoid having adjustments to the local clock disrupt other processes that are run automatically based upon time calculations. To accomplish these incremental adjustments, xntp has to perform a few chores: - determine the latency between the two systems; what's the delay between polling the server and receipt of it's response. - determine the actual time difference between the two systems. (Am I ahead or behind and by how much?) - adjust for drift in the local hardware (Am I running fast or slow and by how much). - resolve all of the above into some number and frequency of acceptably small incremental adjustments I suspect the traffic you're observing will probably drop off over time. I think on my system it ultimately ended up only polling the server at boots and maybe once per hour thereafter. regards, - Carl

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KDE, Kate - editing remote files
by devosc 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

Hi, Recently performed a fresh install of 9.3 from previously using 9.1... Now when opening a remote file with Kate, the file is being cached locally *but* it will no longer keep the original remote path ? i.e. when wanting to hit save it wants to save the file downloaded into the temp/cache directory instead of back to the remote site.... this did not happen in 9.1.... Is there some configuration setting that needs setting to get back the orginal functionality ? Also, the FTP directory in the KDE File Manager... in 9.1 I could edit an existing ftp_file by right clicking, open with editor, edit for the new site, and save as a new ftp_ file, close KDE FileManager and then reopen and click the the ftp-site icon... Now.... in 9.1 I can't even right click to edit.... Is there a formal way of adding new ftp sites to the FileManager ? -- devosc

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$HOME seems to be wrong
by Stefan Adamczyk 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

Hi! The Icon on my desktop (KDE 3.4.2; SuSE 9.3) to my homedirectory leeds to an old directory on a (no more existing) Win partition (/windows/I). Now i tried to redirect this link to my homedirectory but i didn't get it. Please help :-( Thanx Best regards Stefan P.S.: Sorry for this bad english!

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Xvnc does not start KDE anymore after update to KDE 3.4
by Thomas Börkel 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

HI! Since updating my Suse 9.2 to KDE 3.4, Xvnc (started via xinetd) does not start KDE anymore. When I connect to the specified port, I get a grey screen and an X mouse pointer, but no KDE login. I get nothing in .xsession-errors (I guess because Xvnc is being started by user nobody) and nothing in /var/log/messages. vncserver works OK. Any hints? Thanks! Thomas

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[suse-kde] Compiling kernel 2.6 for AX.25
by Stefano Kueng 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

Hi all, is anyone a "guru" in this list? I have to include AX.25 and Soundmodem into my kernel 2.6 so I readed that I should compile my kernel.. ;-( I have no idea and I don't want to make problems on my laptop that works fine. Do you have some experiences on it? Suggestions? Links? Howto? Many thanks in advance for your kind answer and sorry for my english, I usually speak/write italian! Stefano

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FW: [suse-kde] What app in KDE to autosync my system clock with NIST?
by John Schwartzman 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

When I setup xntp using Yast there is a tremendous amount of traffic. Using tcpdump I see the following continuously repeated: 20:44:53.282811 arp who-has Intrepid.Forte tell 192.168.2.1 20:44:53.282842 arp reply Intrepid.Forte is-at 00:80:ad:c1:35:41 20:44:54.226757 IP Intrepid.Forte.ntp > louie.udel.edu.ntp: NTPv4 client, strat 0, poll 6, prec -18 20:44:54.253991 IP louie.udel.edu.ntp > Intrepid.Forte.ntp: NTPv4 server, strat 2, poll 6, prec -22 20:44:56.228501 IP Intrepid.Forte.ntp > louie.udel.edu.ntp: NTPv4 client, strat 0, poll 6, prec -18 20:44:56.259432 IP louie.udel.edu.ntp > Intrepid.Forte.ntp: NTPv4 server, strat 2, poll 6, prec -22 20:44:58.230146 IP Intrepid.Forte.ntp > louie.udel.edu.ntp: NTPv4 client, strat 0, poll 6, prec -18 20:44:58.279255 IP louie.udel.edu.ntp > Intrepid.Forte.ntp: NTPv4 server, strat 2, poll 6, prec -22 As you can see, I'm using the server louie.udel.edu.ntp and I seem to be submitting my request again and again at 2s intervals. I'd like to use xntp -q to set the time on startup and then quit, but I'm not sure how to accomplish this. Would I need to change NCPD_OPTS="" to NCPD_OPTS="-q" in /etc/sysconfig/plptools so that it will be used by /etc/init.d/ncpd? Another option would be to change minpoll, but I thought the default was 64s, not 2s. Can anyone explain how to accomplish this using both methods? Thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: Alvin Beach [mailto:abeach@deepvision.ca] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 11:52 AM To: suse-kde(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-kde] What app in KDE to autosync my system clock with NIST? > On Saturday 20 August 2005 8:22 am, Shriramana Sharma wrote: >> In Windows, I used to obsessively keep my system clock synchronised >> with the NIST servers. I would like to know what app is available for >> the same in KDE, or if not inbuilt into KDE, then for Linux. >> > > xntp does the job. Don't know why you are looking for > a KDE app, KDE is itself just an app running on the OS, xntp > syncs the clock independent of whatever window manager > you are running. Just to make it really clear. You can use Yast to setup xntp. Yast->Network Services->NTP Client Just enter the same URL that you use in Windows. I use pool.ntp.org. Alvin -- To unsubscribe, email: suse-kde-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands, email: suse-kde-help(a)suse.com Please do not cross-post to suse-linux-e

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Making KGet integrate into Mozilla
by Shriramana Sharma 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

KGet itself offers to integrate into Konqueror, but it doesn't offer (nor can I see a way to make it) to integrate into Mozilla (SeaMonkey) [and maybe Firefox too]. How can I accomplish this? Thanks.

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