January 2006 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

What controls "autostart"?
by Lennart Börjeson 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

Whenever I insert a CD or DVD in my reader/burner, two things happen: 1) An application is automatically launched (kaffeine for DVDs, kscd for CDs etc) 2) A popup window asks me what to do. These two things are seemingly totally independent, because no selection I make in the second case changes the first. What settings control the autostart feature? Where are they stored? What GUI:s exist? -- !++ ! 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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Worst Feature EVER!
by Randall R Schulz 05 Feb '06

05 Feb '06

Hi, Please allow me to vent. What the hell good is overstrike mode in KMail? I claim less than none. (Apparently Piers Anthony disagrees...). I hate it! Can I disable it somehow, somewhere? I couldn't find anything via Web searching. Well, that really wasn't much venting, was it? Randall Schulz

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Use of kontruct for offline installation
by Karaoulis Marios 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Hi, I want to install the latest kde on my computer which has not a broadband connection.... I want to use kontruct, and i can download the neccessary parckages on my other computer. If i use cd konstruck/kde make fetch It does download the packages i want (not all , why?). If i copy this file tree on ly other compouter and use make install it will try to download again the packages. Is anyway to force the kontruct to use the packages i allready downloaded? . __________________________________________________ �� Yahoo!; �� (spam); �� Yahoo! Mail �� http://mail.yahoo.gr

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How to get Klipper to autoload?
by Shriramana Sharma 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

I had Klipper to autoload first (from the default install) and then I removed it from the system tray telling it not to load every startup because I did not find much use for it. But now I am feeling the need for it and I cannot get it to startup everytime. I can start it using KMenu > System > Desktop Applet > Klipper but there seems to be no option in its configuration settings to make it autoload. Please tell me how I can get it to autoload upon session login. Thank you. (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=suse-linux-e&m=101798186829611&w=2 has something about /usr/X11/bin/kde but there's nothing regarding Klipper in there.) -- Penguin #395953 resides at http://samvit.org subsisting on SUSE Linux 10.0 with KDE 3.5

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Acess to Psion machines in KDE?
by Kenneth Aar 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Has anyone gotten the plptools-kde working in SUSE 10.0? This package provides support for a new protocol prefix "psion:/" for KDE. Any KDE application which uses KDE-conforming URLs, can access files on the Psion. Furthermore, a plug-in for Konqueror's file-properties dialog provides access to the Psion's proprietary file attributes and information about the Psion's drives as well as generic machine information. But I just cant seem to get it working. Regards, Kenneth Aar http://min.virkelighet.net

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Re: [suse-kde] kdesktop strange behavior
by Sabine Konhaeuser 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

On Friday 20 January 2006 02:10, Joshua Raphael Fuentes wrote: > funny.. I never had that problem on my SUSE 10. But if those cases happen, > it's always good to do a refresh on you KDE, or if not, you can always > revert back to it's first run by deleting .kde inside your home. You will > be left with defaults by then, so which means you will be spending time > configuring and making adjustments to meet your desires. Well, deleting .kde is not really an option for me, since I have way to many things configured the way I want it, and bringing it all back is just not something I want to deal with (unless it's absolutely necessary). Deleting single config files is a different thing though. The days when I didn't mind fiddling hours with my computer are gone ;-). Cheers, Sabine

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playing vcd
by Joshua Raphael Fuentes 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

I'm trying to play a regular vcd on SUSE 10 64bit, but I can't seem to get things going. I recalled having no problems with this on my SUSE Linux Professional 9.3. I tried manually mounting /dev/cdrecorder to /media/cdrecorder, and it managed to see the disk, meaning it was able to read the disk. However when I tried playing the files avseq.dat, it was still not able to play it. So what do I lack here? what do I need to do or to install in order for me to play a normal VCD -- REGISTERED LINUX USER # 393260 there are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't

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amarok & other audio stuff
by Bob S 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hello SuSE people, Running 10.0 on 64 bit with recently upgraded KDE3.5. Don't know if these problems are related or separate. Stupid question I guess. Does amarok play CDs? I can't seem to load the CD into the playlist. (Can't do it in XMMS neither) Used to work. Yet if I put a music CD into my dvdrecorder KsCD opens it and plays it. (Would like to change that behavior though - Autostart somewhere I guess?) More info; If I put the CD into my cdrecorder Kscd opens, seems to be playing, but I get no sound, And yes I have the little cable from the cdrecorder to the mobo. No cable on the dvdrecorder which plays the music CD OK. AND, Kmidi I can load that and it seems to be playing but I get no sound, yet I can play midi files in Timidity.Would like to get that working so I can hear the midis on web pages and emails. All suggestions, comments, and ideas welcomed. Bob S.

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kdesktop strange behavior
by Sabine Konhaeuser 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Hi All, Today I noticed a strange behavior when I tried to change my desktop wallpaper. When I try to browse for a new image file it will not show me any jpg files, unless I remove the .jpg file extension (then they show up). I do not have this problem with other applications. I know for sure that everything worked normal before Christmas. I made sure that the JPEG image settings are correct in the file associations menu, and I also checked that those wallpaper images are readable. Other images types do not have this problem (png, tif, xcf, etc, they all show up). I use SUSE 10 and KDE 3.5.0 Level a (latest files from the ftp supplements folder). Does someone else have those problems? Is this some glitch within the SUSE RPMs? A problem with one or more config files? I couldn't find anything in KDEs bug tracker. Google did not reveal anything useful either. Thanks, -- Sabine Konhaeuser

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new email address
by John Boyle 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Please, in future, send all email to : oldsarge(a)harbornet.com

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Work Offline mode in Konqueror?
by Shriramana Sharma 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Is there a work-offline mode in Konqueror? -- Penguin #395953 resides at http://samvit.org subsisting on SUSE Linux 10.0 with KDE 3.5

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Akregator fails after kernel update
by William E. Shotts 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Based on a YOU update alert, I updated my kernel last night to 2.6.11-4.21.10. Afterwards Akgregator (within Kontact) no longer works. All other Kontact functions (mail, summary, contact, calendar....etc.) work fine. Anyone else have this problem? Any ideas on how to fix? (I've already tried reinstalling KDEPim. Thanks in advance, Bill SuSE 9.3 / KDE 3.5 / x86_64

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Lost "Extract" in konqueror context menu
by Thomas Börkel 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

HI! After updating to the newest KDE 3.5 packages, I lost the "Extract" context menu entry in Konqueror for archives. How can I get that back? I think, in older KDE versions, you needed /opt/kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/arkservicemenu.desktop But apparently this is not needed anymore in KDE 3.5, because I do not have this on another KDE 3.5 machine either and there I still have the menu entry. Using Suse 9.2. Thanks! Thomas

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Re: [suse-kde] "Nice" users?
by David Herman 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 7:10 am, Joshua Raphael Fuentes wrote: > it would also be cool if SUSE will have PAM sessions like how > FEDORA or REDHAT has.... > > > I'm curious, how do you draw the line between inactive and active > users? would that be measure on how often a user logs in? or > what ? In my case it is a family computer w/ 1 physical monitor and keyboard but 3 users logged in on diferent virtual terminals, it seems that if the "Kmenu->switch user" item was used (rather than the key combination) to switch sessions, that kde could notify a subsystem to adjust the nice value to give the new user the highest priority. For my family, desktop response (web surfing, e-mail, time it takes to open an application) are the slowdowns that are most noticed. Since I am the main culprit in causing the slowdowns I guess I could manually adjust the nice value of my processes but that seems like more administration than should be nescessary. It seems that there would need to be a preferences system to allow some users nice values to remain unchanged (root, system processes) while allowing specific users nice values to be increased or decreased when switching. Apparently this is not currently possible, so I guess its time to file a request w/ the kde developers / kernel developers. Thanks to this list for helping me clarify to myself what it is that I am looking for. See ya -- dh

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VERY slow click reation in Kmail
by Gracia M. Littauer 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

for some reason after holding down L button to highlight a lot of posts I wanted to delete, my reaction time has slowed to the point madness!!! How do I fix this??? There was a beep & a quick unreadable something about change...I thought I had gotten out before is did anything...no such luck ;^(. I have looked high & low for some kind of setting section. -- Gracia...Cooleemee, NC Registered Linux user #263390 - SuSE 10 Pro My country, right or wrong. If right, to be kept right, if wrong, to be put right.

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"Nice" users?
by David Herman 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

for years my family has been using virtual terminals so that each of us may be logged into the same machine and switch between our sessions using the ctrl+alt+f... key function. KDE added a menu entry awhile back that has the same functionality, but I've seen no preferences available in relation to this function. What I wonder is whether it is possible to increase the priority (reduce the nice value) of the user being switched to in relation to the inactive users on the other virtual terminals, or to reduce the priority (increase the nice value) of the user being switched away from. I know that technically only root is allowed to reduce the nice value of a process (giving it higher priority) but it sems that it would be convenient if the active users session had a higher priority than the inactive users. Sometimes I am compiling numerous programs, ripping a cd and have other background processes running. If I switch to my wife or daughters session they have to put up with a less responsive system than they might like. If this isn't possible then where should I go to suggest this feature? Thanks for your Ideas -- dh

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update broken firefox & thunderbird?
by suselists＠adammcauley.com 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

Hello all. I hope this is the correct place to post this issue. I am running opensuse on AMD x86_64. I have updated my KDE installation by adding the following yast installation source, and have been running 3.5 for some time with no problems. www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/supplementary/KDE/… Yesterday (15th Jan) I updated my GNOME installation by adding the following to my installation sources in yast. www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/supplementary/GNOM… I updated all the KDE components first, then all the gnome components. I was using KDE at the time and everythign seemed fine. I logged out of KDE and started the gnome desktop to see if it worked etc. and everything seemed fine there too. I ran firefox and thunderbird with no problems. once I had checked it was working I logged out and started KDE again. everything seemed normal, until i tried to run firefox. It would not run, neither would thunderbird. I tried to run applications from the command line which resulted in an error about 'unable to find libmozjs.so'. as a quick fix i added the thunderbird dir (/usr/lib64/thunderbird i think) to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/thunderbird.conf and ran ldconfig. the only result was thunderbird segfaulting. can anyone think of a reason that this would happen in KDE but no gnome? please help, gnome is nice, but i use KDE every day and without my favourite browser and email i'm going to have to switch to gnome, or do a complete re-installation! thanks, adam.

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Problems with A4tech Outlook 8k Optical mouse
by Joshua Raphael Fuentes 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

I have this mouse ( A4tech Outlook 8k). It's an 8 button mouse. I've got it running on my suse 10, and the scrolling is working fine but not the other buttons. It's back and forward buttons doesn't seem to work properly, and when I tested it using YAST, it seemed that these other buttons are having duplicate functions as the main ones (left , right, scroll, and pressing the scroll). According to what I've read, some logitech mouse can properly work on linux, which means that there is a big chance for this to work on suse. Now, how can I do this ? how do I use an 8 button mouse properly on suse 10. I'd like to bind these mouse keys with functions that are usefull such as copy and paste, or zoom , etc.. Please posts your replies here. THank you

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Can "Kat" handle KMail mail folders?
by Malte Gell 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hello, just switched from Beagle to Kat because it´s much more flexible. But, can Kat coming with SUSE 10 handle KMail mail folders? I could try it on my own, but it seems to take a long time to scan hundreds of MB´s... TIA Malte

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Kde 3.4.2 on Suse 10.0 retail
by Thomas G Land 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Kongueror navigation panel shows archived web pages in the panel listing. in prior suse kde versions only the folders were listed. there is no problem with the display in the main window. I have looked at the KDE site FAQ. How do I configure the panel side to list only the folders. Thanks Tom

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superkaramba and SUSE
by Malte Gell 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hi there, what I have wondered for a long time: is there a special reason why the popular "superkaramba" program has never made it into SUSE´s KDE packages to the present day? Malte -- _regards__gruesse__shalom_salam__________ |::PGP:: 0xABBA7881 see header for more |::ICQ:: available |By reading this signature, you have agreed.

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Reply-to list (was: Re: [suse-kde] amarok & CDs)
by Ingo Strauch 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:34:02 +0100 "Robert Graf-Waczenski" <rgw(a)lsoft.com> wrote: > I would personally opt for "yes", but some time ago there > was a discussion on the list and the agreement was rather > "no" instead. > > We may want to resurrect this issue once again and get > new opinions. I guess some people already start to groan about this topic ;-) I have no strong opinion about the issue and whatever is the standard for this list is fine for me. If I was the list maintainer, I'd simply decide to _not_ put the Reply-to header. Better to resend a message to the list than to have real private stuff going public accidentally. I've seen this happen so often and it wasn't always entertaining. Just my 2 cents ;-) Ingo -- Ingo Strauch ---- Registered Linux User #227900 (http://counter.li.org/) GPG Key Fingerprint = DEC8 1B12 9573 6BE7 7A99 C33F 809C 8C2C 772E 66A1 http://www.the-one-brack.org/linux/

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Re: [suse-kde] amarok & CDs
by Ingo Strauch 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hi! Should I have set the Reply-to header to the list? I received several replies in private. Which should have been sent to everyone or at least to the original poster ;-) Cheers, Ingo On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:15:36 +0800 Joshua Raphael Fuentes <joshuarpf(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I think all you need is the support for mp3s. I t was removed when they had > suse linux 9.3 professional and onwards.Since you are using suse 10, you > will need to download some packages to get your mad plugins. Here's a guide > on how to do it... > > http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/ > > or you could also search for some other tips on how to intsall mp3 support > on suse 10. You can use keywords sucfh as "mad plugins". > > I hope that helps... good luck > > On 1/11/06, Ingo Strauch <brack(a)the-one-brack.org> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:48:46 -0500 > > Bob S <usr(a)sanctum.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello SuSE people. > > > > > > Just upgraded to 10.0 from 9.2 Used to use Xmms to listen to my CDs' > > mp3s' > > > etc. Couldn't load any music into it so I decided to try amarok. First I > > had > > > to change the engine from helix to xine (whatever the helix engine is) > > Now I > > > can load and play my mp3's wav's etc. from the hard drive. > > > > > > Cannot however, make it find and play a music cd. Will it do that? or is > > it > > > just me? Must have spent an hour exploring the menus without any > > success. > > > Somebody put me on the right track here? > > > > Just a guess: do you have set something like "digital signal > > extraction" somewhere in the preferences? IIRC most if not all linux > > media players don't have that enabled as default and thus require a > > cable between the CD drive and the soundcard. At least for xmms I had > > to do this on my SUSE 10.0 installation. > > > > Cheers, > > Ingo > > > > -- > > Ingo Strauch ---- Registered Linux User #227900 (http://counter.li.org/) > > GPG Key Fingerprint = DEC8 1B12 9573 6BE7 7A99 C33F 809C 8C2C 772E 66A1 > > http://www.the-one-brack.org/linux/ > > > > > > > > > -- > REGISTERED LINUX USER # 393260 > there are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and > those who don't > -- Ingo Strauch ---- Registered Linux User #227900 (http://counter.li.org/) GPG Key Fingerprint = DEC8 1B12 9573 6BE7 7A99 C33F 809C 8C2C 772E 66A1 http://www.the-one-brack.org/linux/

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amarok & CDs
by Bob S 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hello SuSE people. Just upgraded to 10.0 from 9.2 Used to use Xmms to listen to my CDs' mp3s' etc. Couldn't load any music into it so I decided to try amarok. First I had to change the engine from helix to xine (whatever the helix engine is) Now I can load and play my mp3's wav's etc. from the hard drive. Cannot however, make it find and play a music cd. Will it do that? or is it just me? Must have spent an hour exploring the menus without any success. Somebody put me on the right track here? Bob S.

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kmail change ??
by Bob S 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hello SuSE people, After upgrading from 9.2 to 10.0 and KDE 3.5 I see some changes in kmail. (Really wish they would stop "improving" it. Worked great in 9.2. It used to be that when I was in a folder eg: suse-kde, I could click new message and the new mail format .would come up from me, the sender, and be addressed to the list automatically. All I had to do was write the message and send it. Very convenient and easy. Now there is no "New message to Mailing List" The old "Reply to Mailing List" is still functional. Is it just me? Am I missing something? Or have they broken a great function in kmail ? Hmmmmm.. do I need to file a fix-it report to kde? And what is this new "via" thing they have added. Not necessary with the old and proper setup. Anyway, thoughts, advice, shape up buddy-you're missing it ideas? Bob S.

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Re: [suse-kde] Unable to find settings in 10.0 KDE
by Per Kustemo 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Hi Thanks for the answers. Im a newbie at linux so I cant edit files and so on but have I understood you right that for example firefox and azureus is best suited for GNOME?? If that is the case maby it is better to run the GNOME at least until Im more used to the linux enviroment. Have only run it for about 2 veeks and there is not alot of lab time when I have small children running around :).... Regards /Per On 1/10/06, Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) <netmask(a)webset.net> wrote: > Em Ter, 2006-01-10 às 18:40 +0100, Per Kustemo escreveu: > > > and so on at the top becomes smaller, like for example in FireFox with > > the tabs and all above or like in Azureus that I installed today also, > > Those are GTK apps, and their appearance is controled by the GNOME > settings, thus you have two options: > > a) Install gnome-control-center, configure fonts/icons/etc, and place a > link to gnome-settings-daemon on ~/.kde/AutoStart > > b) Install gtk-qt, which should make GTK "inherit" QT configs. Some say > it's quite unstable, and won't work always, but I would go with that > first, since it needs less packages installed. > > -- > % Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) > % mteixeira{a}webset{d}net <> Maceio/AL/BR > % TI+Telecom Analyst <> Linux Specialist > % http://mteixeira.webset.net <> http://pmping.sf.net > % [D0CE 6BD4 526B B7D1 6F4E 85FA A7A0 1A6F B23A A9EE] > > -- ******************************************************************************** This is Linux country, on a quiet night you can hear Windows Reboot. ******************************************************************************** The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners. ******************************************************************************** Your mouse has moved. Windows must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [ OK ] ********************************************************************************

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Re: [suse-kde] Unable to find settings in 10.0 KDE
by Per Kustemo 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Hi Have tried that but there is little or no difference. The cange becomes most visible in the (Blue) list at the top in my firefox right now but the meny field and bookmarks toolbar and the tabs are still with verry large fonts. And if I start Azureus all the fonts in the program is verry large still. Regards /Per On 1/11/06, Duff Mckagan <mckagan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 1/10/06, Per Kustemo <per.kustemo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Have a laptop with 17" screen so the resolution is 1920* 1200 so I > > like the fonts, icons to be pretty small so I can have multiple > > windows beside each other. > > The problem I have is to find the setting so that all programs meny > > and so on at the top becomes smaller, like for example in FireFox with > > the tabs and all above or like in Azureus that I installed today also, > > there all text and icons are really big. > > Is there a setting so it changes for all the applications? > > Only see settings for separate programs and not all the settings I want. > > Used the GNOME before (and there all settings was OK) but I wanted to > > try the KDE so I installed it today. > > Would really want to find this setting cause I like the KDE better so far. > > Regards > > /Per > > > > > > Have you tried the KDE Control Center? (Click on the Green SuSE Icon on the > Desktop -- the Start Menu) > > > Then Go to Appearance -- Fonts. > > Click on Adjust all Fonts. > Set the default font, according to your requirements. > Hope it helps. > > > > -- > Take a look at > http://copperskull.blogspot.com/ > http://www.tekcities.com/copperskull/

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Update to KDE 3.5 fron Suse 9.3 fails with kpdf package
by Matthias Pospiech 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

I use apt with synaptic to update my system. When I select the package: kdegraphics3-pdf: (kpdf) I get the following error: kdegraphics3-pdf: Benötigt: xpdf-tools but it is not installable So it requires 'xpdf-tools' which is not available. what is going wrong ? Matthias

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Re: [suse-kde] Music playing problems
by Bob S 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 02:37, Juan Ehrenhaus wrote: > I don't know if this is the same case as for suse 9.3 > but to play mp3 files you need to install / update the > multimedia package 1 using Yast. > > Regards Juan > Thanks for the reply Juan, but I have upgraded everything. See my new post on amarok. Bob S.

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Unable to find settings in 10.0 KDE
by Per Kustemo 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Have a laptop with 17" screen so the resolution is 1920* 1200 so I like the fonts, icons to be pretty small so I can have multiple windows beside each other. The problem I have is to find the setting so that all programs meny and so on at the top becomes smaller, like for example in FireFox with the tabs and all above or like in Azureus that I installed today also, there all text and icons are really big. Is there a setting so it changes for all the applications? Only see settings for separate programs and not all the settings I want. Used the GNOME before (and there all settings was OK) but I wanted to try the KDE so I installed it today. Would really want to find this setting cause I like the KDE better so far. Regards /Per

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Music playing problems
by Bob S 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Hello SuSE people, Very recently upgraded 9.2 to 10.0. Playing music in xmms, amarok, etc. worked well before the upgrade. That included any CD popped into the player and any and all mp3s on the hard drive. Now when I put in a music CD I get some kde daemon that asks me if I want to open it in kscd. I can reply "yes" and it does not play. I can open either amarok or xmms and try to load either with a playlist which does not work. No playlist is loaded. Any clues/hints as to what is going on here?? Bob S.

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Re: [SLE] NEw kde 3.5 problems
by Stephan Binner 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

On Saturday 07 January 2006 20:55, António Rodrigues Tomé wrote: > I searched the internet and nobody seems to be having this problem. You didn't search well: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=131322 Testers for the proposed kernel fix are wanted there. > any help is welcome. Next kdelibs-3.5 revision will also disable inotify for broken old kernels. Bye, Steve

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NEw kde 3.5 problems
by António Rodrigues Tomé 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi, I'm using opensuse10, i386, with kde3.5 , binary release downloaded from a Suse Mirror ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/suse/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_10.0 After a new upadates one or two weeks ago I started to observed strange behavior in kate and Kile. I'm permanently getting the message "file has changed on disk" without that being true! choosing the view difference option it gives a difference of one blank line at the bottom of the file. In kile choosing the view difference option is a very bad idea because the system starts building some databases and stays freeze for about 5 minutes. After that kile aborts. I searched the internet and nobody seems to be having this problem. any help is welcome. my best regards, -- António Rodrigues Tomé artome(a)ubi.pt <---official e-mail address artome(a)gmail.com <---alternative security e-mail address http://www.dfisica.ubi.pt/~artome http://www.cgul.ul.pt/curric/cgul_tome.htm

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Nvidia no 3D
by Ian Laws 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hi All, I wonder if someone has the same problem or can help me. I am using SuSE 10.0 and the nvidia driver from YaST, but I do not have 3D I cannot even play TuxRacer :(. CPU: Pentium 4 2,4GHz RAM: 768 graphic card: GeForce2 GTS/Pro I have also tried running the nvidia run script. It complains that the source is not install. (This is not true). Looking into the log everything works upto the point of the module needs to be loaded.! The fun thing is that, glxinfo is reporting a SGI. And help would be apppricated. Regards Ian

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kdvi error
by rcab＠free.fr 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Hello to the list Some friends told me they had the same error as me as a consequence of updating KDE to 3.5. It seems that this is a packaging error. Reloading kdegraphics3-tex from another source solved the problem. I can't say more to the respect. Happy new year Robert

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Problem with KStars and coordinate systems; non-astronomers too help please
by Shriramana Sharma 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Does anyone else see the following bug on KStars 1.20 on KDE 3.5? With Settings > Configure KStars > Guides > Coordinate Grid switched on, Try changing the coordinate system by View > Equatorial Coordinates and View > Horizontal Coordinates. It does not work. Do you see this too? For those not into astronomy, you probably don't have KStars installed, but if you do, please test whether it works or not. The test is: if the grid has its pole at the star labeled Polaris in both coordinate system then the bug exist. Expected behaviour: Only when you select Equatorial Coordinates must the pole of the grid be near Polaris. When you select Horizontal Coordinates the pole of the grid must be at the zenith (a different point from Polaris except at the North Pole). I see another bug, that the settings are not immediately implemented even when Apply or OK is hit. Only when a cursor movement or other change causes a redraw of the chart are they implemented. For example, try Settings > Configure KStars > Solar System > Select None and Apply, and check whether you still see the sun and other planets or not. (Try Ctrl+F > Sun and it will center on the sun.) -- Penguin #395953 resides at http://samvit.org subsisting on SUSE Linux 10.0 with KDE 3.5

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[suse-kde] Transparency in kde 3.5
by Chaitanya Chalasani 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hi, I wasn't getting transparent background in kopete chat window while i was using kde 3.4.2. When i have upgraded to kde 3.5 , even my panel doesn't show transparency. Is there any setting to enable transparency or is it intentionally disabled. ---- Chaitanya Chalasani

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Missing "Red Eye Reduction" and "Aspect Ratio Crop" in SuSE rpm of digikam(imageplugins)-0.8.0
by Jan Scheller 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hi, my last version of digikam was 0.7.2. Everything was fine. A few days ago I downloaded digikam-0.8.0-3.i586.rpm and digikamimageplugins-0.8.0-3.i586.rpm from ftp.suse.com (I use SuSE Linux 9.3) and installed the packages. Everything seems to be fine. But I am missing "Red Eye Reduction" and "Aspect Ratio Crop" in the imageviewer/imageeditor. Of course I activated all possible kipi- and imageplugins, I find in the preferences. I use this packages from my DVDs or from ftp.suse.com: digikam-0.8.0-3 digikamimageplugins-0.8.0-3 kipi-plugins-0.1.0rc1-3 libkipi-0.1.2-3 libkexif-0.2.2-3 When I downgrade to digikam-0.7.2 and digikamimageplugins-0.7.2 the missing tools are available. At the list digikam-users(a)kde.org I was told that the SuSE rpm packages my not contain not all plugins. Does anybody know, if there are missing some plugins in the SuSE rpm packages? Jan Scheller

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Mouse
by Jean-Pierre Abgottspon 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

I lost my mouse. Better said it froze. Is there a key combination to regain hold of a frozen mouse ? Optionally is there a 'Unix command' to get it going again ? Newbie. Don't knock. (I had to go thru a painful 'reinstall' to get hold of it again and to manage to issue this message). Linux pro 9.3 - Compaq Deskpro PC. TKS for yr help. JPA -- Libérez vos bits ! Laissez-les placidement paître sur le turf de Linux ! Setzt Ihre Bits frei ! Lassen Sie doch diese gemütlich auf Linuxturf herumgrasen ! Set your bits free ! Let them quietly graze on Linuxturf !

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Adding session types to kdm?
by Curtis Rey 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. Frustrated a bit and need some help. I want to add a "SessionType" to kdm but can no longer do so in the login manager via the ControlCenter because the "sessions" section is no longer there. Can't find any reference to "SessionType" in the kdmrc file in the /etc sub-dir, not in xsessions/Xsession files either. Where the hell is it now??? I took out Gnome and wanted to add it in again. But, I took the Gnome ref out before I upgrade KDE and now I am at a lose about just how to add a session type to kdm. Any session type. I might have overlooked something and searching the web only gives old advice or refers to a deb or RH config. Any help would be appreciated. TIA, Curtis - -- Spammers Beware: Tresspassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! Warning: Individuals throwing objects at the crocodiles will be asked to retrieve them! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDua0S7CQBg4DqqCwRAre5AKCd8caLDAPenNsGFJU033pzBKsnCACgiBCb lFgjIHEOBdeuRA2FDr3GXBY= =UCZ8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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kmail problem
by Bob S 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hello SuSE-kde users, Just upgraded (new install) from 9.2 to 10.0. Had previously saved my old /home directory which included .kde (hidden directory) and my existing /home/bob/Mail. After the new install I attempted to restore my /home/bob/Mail directory into the new kmail. It is there but kmail doesn't see/use it. Anybody can tell me how to fix it. I have several thousand saved emails in there that I need access to. Bob S.

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Error while minimizing windows
by b9b9b9＠email.it 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

When I try to minimize 'any' window, instead of appearing on the taskbar, it simply disappears. I can cycle through them with alt-tab, and they are shown if I select the 'show tasks list' button (well, I've configured the mid mouse button to show the active tasks). It is really strange as this problem occurs ONLY in my wife's lxbox, while in mine it doesn't (all works fine... and, as always, I'm blamed... she's a Mac user, and I don't want to buy another pc at home...) I've installed SUSE 10 OSS, with all the updates available, with KDE same version which comes with Suse 10: only security fixes installed. Thx, Luca -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Meetic, il primo sito di incontri in Europa con milioni di single iscritti. Iscriviti, consulta i profili e chatta con le persone in linea. Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=4050&d=30-12

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CD-Rom ejects by the "system"
by Rainer Hammerschmidt 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Hello, I have installed Suse Linux 9.2 on a 800 MHz Pentium and all works fine. But every 20 to 30 seconds there come a kde dialog that informs me that the CD-Rom could not be ejected and I have to click on Ok. I see 2 processes with ps ax: 4750 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/sh /opt/kde3/bin/kdeeject /dev/hdc 4753 ? S 0:00 kdialog --title KDE Eject --error Eject /dev/hdc fail The CD Rom works fine and even could be ejected from the command line by "eject". Has anyone an idea where these processes are coming from and how to prevent them? Thanks for any idea Rainer ______________________________________________________________ Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193

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