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Re: [suse-kde] KMail does not remember which Mail was already read
by Stefan Rauch 07 May '02

07 May '02

Hi, On Sunday 05 May 2002 14:23, Stefan Rauch wrote: > I have a nasty problem with KMail. In some folders (especially if the > amount of Mails becomes >20) KMail does not remember, which mails > have already been read. E.g. I read a new mail, Kmail marks is > correctly as read. After restarting KMail exactly this mail is marked > as new. This Problem accours only in a few folders. > The Mailbox is in maildir format (and was created by KMail 1.4). > In the mailbox, all mails, that have been read are in the folder cur > but they are not recognized as already read. > Is there a workaround for that problem? I figured out, that these Problems occur only, if the /home directory is mounted via nfs. With a local home-directory KMail seems to work fine (till now). I mount my /home directories with this line in /etc/fstab: <rechnername>:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0 Is there a known bug, which can cause my problems? Or anybody who can confirm that? br/S -- Stefan Rauch <srauch(a)spyderworks.de> public-key: http://www.stefan-rauch.de/pubkey.html pgp-fingerprint: E72F 2B21 88CF 8641 5F82 0B4D DD6B 8383 92FE 88E8

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broken kde
by SuSEnixER 07 May '02

07 May '02

Today, I committed mortal injury to my desktop (kde) and am unable to boot into kde unless I remove ~/.kde2 directory. I foolishly (I guess) tried to install the theme ELCIPSE and now the kde desktop hangs just before the control bar is generated. I can kill X with ctrl-alt-bkspc. AND I can open kde by renaming the ~/.kde2 directory. I know there is somewhere I can edit or delete to get back my desktop. Please advise. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 Registered at: http://counter.li.org

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KDE 2 settings under KDE 3
by René Matthäi 07 May '02

07 May '02

Hi, how can I change the settings in KDE 3 for programs which run under KDE 2? Can I launch the KDE 2 kontrolcenter? My main problem is the fonts of KDE 2 applications. Ré

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Upgrading kde2 to kde3 on 7.3
by Craig Main 07 May '02

07 May '02

Hey all, This is my first time posting to this list, and my second day using SuSE7.3. What is the best way of upgrading to kde3, I see that there is no mention of it in the yast2 online update facility? Should I stick to compiling from source or are there rpm's available and where will I find them? TIA Craig Main ******************************************************************** http://www.inspml.co.za This e-mail may contain confidential information and/or copyright material. This e-mail is intended for the use of the addressee only. Any unauthorised use may be unlawful. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software. Thank you for your co-operation ******************************************************************** ______________________________________ Scanned and protected by Inflex http://pldaniels.com/inflex

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printing with CUPS/network LPD/KDE3
by Kyle Hayes 06 May '02

06 May '02

I have recently installed SuSE 8.0 and KDE 3.0 on a P-III machine. I've been running 7.2 for a while with no problems. Most of 8.0 works great. The biggest change is that printing seems to have changed a lot. I use CUPS with a network LPD printer (HP LaserJet 4050N w/Postscript 2). Under SuSE 7.2 with KDE 2.x it worked perfectly. Under 8.0, I have several problems printing. Note that this particular printer is fully supported by CUPS and worked perfectly under 7.2. - when going through Yast, the "Page Area" setting always defaulted to A4 even when I reset it to "Letter". When I went straight to the CUPS administration web pages on port 631, I could set the page size and it then showed up correctly in Yast. Printing to the printer did not work until I went through the CUPS web administration pages. - Printing from KDE 3.0 does not appear to work correctly. When I print a text file from Kate or Kwrite, I do not get the nice marging lines, page header and footer etc. that I had in SuSE 7.2. There, I could configure kwrite to use enscript to print out text and source files. I get some highlighted words in the text, so the output is being changed from raw ASCII to some extent. I thought that the kdeprint printer filters might be the right place to do this in KDE 3.0, but I get an immediate error from kdeprint that it cannot filter "application/postscript" to "text/html". I have gone into the KDE control panel and set up the printer there too (it defaults to what appears to be no printer at all). - If I print with a printer configuration that seems a little off, kate dies after a few seconds. I am not sure what "a little off" is exactly, but if the printer configuration isn't working perfectly with enscript, kate crashes when trying to print. - printing from enscript on the command line always prints a blank page after the output. The SDB mentions the /etc/printcap file and changing the banner/footer setting there. I have an /etc/printcap file, but it has three characters in it "lp:". I have set banners and trailers to none in both Yast and in the CUPS web admin pages. The extra page does _not_ show when printing the CUPS or Yast test pages. -The enscript config file is set up to use environment variables (LC_PAPER) for the page size, but it strongly appears that these are not being set. Even after a reboot, the base page size did not get set and enscript would try to print A4. I manually edited the enscript configuration file to get around this. I have made sure that lprng and filters and lpdfilter are all removed. I forced reinstallation of the CUPS RPMs to see if something got removed by accident. I tried the lprng defaults from the install, and I get worse printing control. I lose the ability to control the duplexer and nothing gets printed from KDE at all (I can't even see that it is even spooling anywhere). Again, this is a fresh install (Friday) of SuSE 8.0 with the patches applied. Best, Kyle

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KDE 3.0 speichert keine Einstellungen
by Michael Häsel 06 May '02

06 May '02

Hi, ich habe seit gestern Abend das Problem, daß KDE 3.0 (unter SuSE 8.0) alles in Englisch darstellt. Ich kann aber auch die Einstellungen nicht mehr in Deutsch umändern. Im Kontrollzentrum stelle ich zwar ein, daß ich Deutsch als Sprache haben möchte, es folgt auch eine Antwort auf Deutsch, die sagt, daß nur neu gestartete Programme auf Deutsch angezeigt werden, aber nach einem Neustart des X-Servers ist wieder alles in Englisch. Dazu kommt, daß auch die Farbe des oberen Balkens in den Fenstern von Grün auf Blau gewechselt hat. Das Problem trat auf, als ich YaST2 gestartet habe, um ein neues Paket zu installieren. Das funktionierte erst nicht unter X, YaST machte nach Einlesen der Pakete nichts mehr. Also probierte ich das ganze noch von der Konsole (ohne X). Dort stellte ich noch fest, daß ich noch ein Share von einem anderen Rechner gemountet hatte, der nicht mehr im Netz war (diese Fehlermeldung kam beim Abbruch, da sich auch dort nichts tat). Wie kann ich also KDE wieder dazu bringen, sich wieder in Deutsch zu zeigen? Danke Michael

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kprinter and cups in 8.0
by Michael Sabielny 06 May '02

06 May '02

Hi, I am missing the tab in the kprinter dialog, where one can adjust all the printer settings like resolution, pagesize, etc. which are taken directly from the corresponding ppd-file of the printer. At least this worked well in 7.3, and I wonder why it doesn't work now. I checked the kde printing homepage http://printing.kde.org/documentation/handbook/online/cups-and-ppd.html#ppd… for advices and these guys suggest to use a cupsomatic style ppd file, but this file does not work with my printer. only the PPD-O-MATIC files do. But these files are known to suppress the missing tab in the kprinter dialog. What can I do? Thanks, Michael

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kdeinit kicker taking 100%CPU
by Graham Murray 06 May '02

06 May '02

Running KDE3 on SuSE8.0, after a while (minutes to hours) the KDE bar becomes unresponsive - the first symptom of this is the seconds "tick" on the clock becomes erratic. At this point using CTL+ALT+Fn to swap to a "console" can take more than a minute. kdeinit kicker is taking over 99% of the CPU and consuming a large amount of memory. Switching back to the X-session also takes a long time and the bar takes many minutes to redraw itself (if it does completely redraw.) I have applied all the updates offered by YOU and installed all of the updated packages from the supplementary directory (to May 1) with no effect.

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clock in login-mamanger
by Michael 05 May '02

05 May '02

Hello, after I'd updated my system to kde3 I found that the clock in the login-manager disappeared. I'd looked in the controlcenter and found all nice. In Appearance is marked "show clock" but I only get a black box. If I switch the setting to "show logo" I get a logo. Does somebody know where I found the clock and how I have to install it? Michael

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KMail does not remember which Mail was already read
by Stefan Rauch 05 May '02

05 May '02

Hi, I have a nasty problem with KMail. In some folders (especially if the amount of Mails becomes >20) KMail does not remember, which mails have already been read. E.g. I read a new mail, Kmail marks is correctly as read. After restarting KMail exactly this mail is marked as new. This Problem accours only in a few folders. The Mailbox is in maildir format (and was created by KMail 1.4). In the mailbox, all mails, that have been read are in the folder cur but they are not recognized as already read. Is there a workaround for that problem? best regards -- Stefan Rauch <srauch(a)spyderworks.de> public-key: http://www.stefan-rauch.de/pubkey.html pgp-fingerprint: E72F 2B21 88CF 8641 5F82 0B4D DD6B 8383 92FE 88E8

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