June 2006 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Mounting Floppy Disks
by Henry C McFadyen Jr 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Hi All I have been using GNU/Linux since RH 5.0, switched to SUSE 9.0, and have used all SUSE versions with KDE since. I have operated a small lawoffice with only free software for 3 years---but I'm still a newbie at administration. So please pardon me for bringing up the primitive subject of mounting floppies. I used to mount all my moveable filesystems from the command line, and it was obvious that an automount system would be needed before GNU/Linux could rule the desktop. Next I used the KDE kwikdisk tool in SUSE 9.0---a big step in the right direction. By the time I got to SUSE 10.1, full automount seemed to work out of the box. Now I'm migrating to 10.1, and it appears I must mount a floppy from the command line or use the kwikdisk tool again. I think I installed all the standard KDE stuff and the file autofs 4.1.4-23 is installed. My file /etc/fstab lists "auto" as the file system fd0, but has "noauto" as one of the options. I looked at the documentation on automount in the system help pages, but what I saw there was too technical for me----automounting is complicated. The SUSE manual that came with 10.1 says nothing about all this except to give a few hints about mounting from the command line. Is this the way to treat a newcomer to GNU/Linux? Now to my questions: Can anyone give us an explanation of the SUSE/KDE approach to automounting generally? Was there something in the installation about automount that I missed? Is there a simple explanation to my situation---like editing /etc/fstab to change "no auto" to "auto" ? Or should I just relax and continue to use the kwikdisk tool? Thanks! Hank McFadyen Dallas Texas

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Problems with Kstart
by Johannes Kastl 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Hello, I have a small problem with kstart (SUSE 9.3 with KDE 3.5.3). I want to use it to pop up a konsole when I log into KDE. In that Konsole I want to mount my TRUECRYPT images, and after that the rest of the script should go on. But not before the Images are successfully mounted. I start that konsole with > kstart --alldesktops --window "Truecrypt" --windowclass "konsole" konsole -T "Truecrypt" -e \ > truecrypt ... The problem is that I find no way to tell the script to wait until that truecrypt command is finished. "Normal" commands show that behaviour, if you call them with "COMMAND &", kstart automatically has this &. How to solve this? I found no manpage to kstart, and the "kstart --help" output is not to long ;-( Thanks, OJ -- Für den Optimisten ist das Glas halb voll, für den Pessimisten halb leer. Der Realist verdrückt sich beizeiten, damit er nicht abwaschen muß. (aus de.talk.jokes)

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knotes and 10.1
by Paul Foerster 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Hi, ... does anyone here know whatever happened to knotes (aka stickies) in 10.1? It should be part of the kdepim3 package but at least on my DVD it's not there. :-( I love this little helper... -- cul8er Paul paul.foerster(a)gmx.net

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kthememanager
by Paul Foerster 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Hi, ... I know about the kthememanager. It lets me clone a theme, select and modify it. The modification part is what bothers me. All it does is change everything I can change with a normal theme. But I want to create my own theme with my own images for window decorations, styles, progress bars, and so on. I got the .kth file and it turned out it only is a gzipped file. So, is there any editor or tool that lets me put in single components like images for the window close button and such things? I looked at kde-look.org and kde-apps.org but found nothing? Google also showed up with nothing. I can't believe nobody has addressed the by now. How do all those themes get created and how do people fill the kth files with their own images? The thememanager is a nice add-on for loading, cloning an existing theme, and removing a theme but it does not let one actually *edit* it... -- cul8er Paul paul.foerster(a)gmx.net

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PDF tool
by Patrick Serru 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Hi everybody, I have a canadian users manual. The first part of it is written in english and the second part is written in french but up side down. It's a great idea for a paper booklet, but I dont want to print. Does anybody knows a way to get a pdf whole document mirrored horizontaly (please, rather not page by page :-) ) ? Thanks, Regards, Patrick

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Re: AW: [suse-kde] USB-stick not showing up in media:/
by Sven Burmeister 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Hi! Am Montag, 12. Juni 2006 13:23 schrieb Juan Ehrenhaus: > under the enclosed Link I have realized this issue is happening for > upgrades of KDE made with YaST2. Has someone a solution without a new > installation of KDE 3.5.3 (using smart or apt)? > > best regards, > Juan-Lutz > http://www.linux-club.de/ftopic61787-0-asc-10.html I am not sure if re-installing KDE is really the solution, since if there is no new build of a package it just installs the same files again without changing any config-files. But maybe this issue is concerned with the config, so which config-files could affect media:/? Sven

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KMail slows system down
by René Matthäi 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi, are you experiencing the same problem that with about 20 mailing lists KMail slows the system down regularly? Especially when you set the maximum time messages are kept in a folder is set to say 30 days? It's a fact that I suffer great performance problems with my about 20 mailing lists, not speaking about turning on the included anti-spam filter mechanism using spamassassin (and bogofilter), which really pisses me off. I am thinking about changing to another mail client, once again. But exept for text-based MUAs, which one could be faster? Thunderbird...? Doubt that. Greetings, -Ré -- Registered Linux User #324404

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Re: [suse-laptop] Remote Zugriff
by Paul Foerster 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi Ralf, > Läuft apparmor mit? (das neue Sicherheitstool) > kannst du dich mit ssh localhost lokal am Notebook anmelden? ... yep. "ssh paul@localhost" geht. Das AppArmor Control Panel sagt mir, dass AppArmor enabled und die Notification disabled ist. Der Runlevel-Editor sagt mir, dass aaeventd nicht gestartet ist. Muss der laufen? -- cul8er Paul paul.foerster(a)gmx.net

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RE: [suse-kde] 5 questions - Tbird Spell Solution
by Brett Smith 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi Paul, >4. I installed Thunderbird and it works fine so far. I installed the >English SUSE version because I don't like localized operating >systems. Same goes for Thunderbird. My mother tongue is German so I >tried to additionally install the German language pack for spell >checking in Thunderbird because I also write German mails for >obvious reasons. The installation went fine and it didn't spit out >any error message. But the spell checking preferences do not show >the German dictionary and it hence does not do German spell >checking. What went wrong? I think I might know what's wrong with your attempts to install the spelling dictionary in Thunderbird. If you take a look in your Tbird install log file, it might confirm my suspicion: /home/(username)/.thunderbird/(randomid).default/install.log If it shows errors while trying to install the files, then it could be your normal user name is restricted from writing to the target directory: /usr/lib/thunderbird/components/myspell Try running Tbird as root to install the spelling extension. Then switch to your normal user name and restart Tbird. The dictionary selection should show up when composing a message. >5. Oh, before I forget: Up to and including SUSE 10.0 YOU showed a >variety of update sites. Now there's only the installation DVD and >the location ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/. Since this >can possibly be slow at times or unavailable, are there any mirror >sites I can add to the list? Also, sorry, that's more than four >questions. ;-) I renumbered your question to 5. ;-D Guru's version of Smart package manager has a wide variety of mirrors included. Here's the output for the SUSE 10.1 YOU mirrors: # smart mirror --show | grep suse/update/10.1 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/ftp.suse.com/suse/update/10.1/ http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.suse.com/suse/update/10.1/ http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/update/10.1/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/suse/suse/update/10.1/ ftp://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/ - Brett

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Problem assigning hotkey to XF86AudioMedia
by Alex 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

I have quite a strange problem: I am currently using SUSE 10.1/64Bit and recent KDE Packages for this distro (which are since today 3.5.3, but the problem was already there with all previous KDE packages for SUSE 10.1). Everything worked perfectly with SUSE 10.0. I cannot set the key XF86AudioMedia on my Logitech Cordless Desktop to start Amarok (or any other application, by the way)! All other "multimedia"-keys on the keyboard (as far as they are recognized by the kernel) can be set up via the KDE Control Center to do something. The key is, however, recognized. Both "xev" and the KDE Control Center show "XF86AudioMedia" when it is pressed. But the action assigned to this key, doesn't matter which kind of action, won't be executed. I tried several of the possibilites in the KDE Control Center to assign Hotkeys. BTW the way hotkeys are handled in KDE is quite a mess, several possibilities to set this up, and it's not quite clear how they interact. Any idea what might be going wrong?

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