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openSUSE-LXDE in the ITALIAN Linux Magazine
by Andrea Florio 14 May '10

14 May '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes people... we are there.. http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/05/14/opensuse-lxde-and-italian-press/ I'm supposed to be the main suse lxde admin, and i am italian, so i'm really proud to see that.. what about you?? Andrea - -- - ------------------------------------------ Andrea Florio QSI International School of Brindisi Sys Admin CISCO CCNA Certified openSUSE-Education Administrator openSUSE Official Member (anubisg1) Email: andrea(a)opensuse.org Packman Packaging Team Email: andrea(a)links2linux.de Web: http://packman.links2linux.org/ Cell: +39-328-7365667 - ------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvs5vEACgkQyCZT87TFPuhBRgCg0YUQ8VUALxwCSZmjE2BZG9Lu lgcAn2B6N3enl8HiHfNUnipuzOuTf7bj =L2I/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+help(a)opensuse.org

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want to fade out KDE
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 08 May '10

08 May '10

Have LXDE up and running and are quit satisfied with it. Want to fade out or get rid of KDE because with my hardware it is way to massive. Where should I start? Assume that I could reduce the software repositories. E.g. remove KDE factory. Is there a (favorite) list of repositories for LXDE openSUSE? How may I get a cleaner LXDE? Suggestions please. -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE on a Pentium III , powered by openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop 12:43pm up 3 days 23:10, 3 users, load average: 4.81, 4.31, 3.17 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-lxde] my LXDE does not start
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 07 May '10

07 May '10

On Thursday 06 May 2010 21:59:38 you wrote: > Il 06/05/2010 16:15, Constant Brouerius van Nidek ha scritto: > > On Thursday 06 May 2010 01:31:10 Lutz Thuns wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Am 05.05.2010 18:45, schrieb Constant Brouerius van Nidek: > >>> I have a fully working KDE 4.42 on my computer but for real work > >>> my Pentium III sometimes choke. I have used ICEWM but am not > > > If I use LXDE, should I change my signature? ;) > > we'll love it :D > > ANdrea > My signature file looks like following: $ #!/bin/bash powered="$(head -n 1 /etc/SuSE-release)" echo "Linux User 183145 using a Pentium III ," kernel=`uname -r` echo "powered by $powered Kernel: $kernel" kde=`kde4-config -v | grep KDE` echo $kde uptime If I substitute KDE by LXDE my signature is just as below. How do I get the LXDE data? -- Linux User 183145 using a Pentium III , powered by openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop 19:25pm up 3 days 5:52, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 0.50, 0.42 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+help(a)opensuse.org

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LXDE pattern
by Guido Berhoerster 07 May '10

07 May '10

Hello, I'd like to propose the following additions to patterns-openSUSE-lxde: totem totem-browser-plugin opensuse-codecs-installer gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good gstreamer-0_10-schroedinger gstreamer-utils * because there is no video player * and it does not draw in additional dependencies * through gstreamer and Packman there is easy access to restricted codecs * currently mp3 support cannot be added to lxmusic rendering it rather useless IMO yast2-gtk * yast2-qt is installed by default but LXDE is a GTK-based DE xsane * there is no application for scanning, proposed by Andrea NetworkManager-gnome * currently only in patterns-openSUSE-lxde_laptop, but it makes sense on desktop systems as well, allowing non-root users to manage VPN/PPP/WLAN connections brasero * I have removed the Nautilus dependency, it can now replace xfburn allowing us to get rid of Thunar as well -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-lxde] my LXDE does not start
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 06 May '10

06 May '10

On Thursday 06 May 2010 01:31:10 Lutz Thuns wrote: > Hi, > > Am 05.05.2010 18:45, schrieb Constant Brouerius van Nidek: > > I have a fully working KDE 4.42 on my computer but for real work my > > Pentium III sometimes choke. I have used ICEWM but am not quit > > happy with it. Saw some enthousiastic reports about LXDE so I > > installed LXDE with the one button install. > > LXDE is now part of the choices. > > When I choose LXDE I just get the green Suse and nothing more. > > Is there some magical key combination to get LXDE going? > > Am now downloading the life CD so that I may have a first look at > > LXDE but I really want to start working with the installed > > program. > > is the right-click menu at least working? > just to be sure LXDE (openbox) is starting up completely. > > then I would have a look if all needed packages from LXDE-repo have > been installed. > perhaps you can show us the output of > > zypper se -sir LXDE-repo > (where LXDE-repo is the actual nr., alias or name of your configured > repo) zypper se -sir X11:lxde gave a full list of lxde files. The first thing I did after that was reinstalling LXDE with the 1-click install. Must have had some unexpected bug the first time because now I have a working LXDE system. One thing which I found strange though, in the documents somewhere is mentioned that the preferred upstream branding of lxde would be the opensuse which I choose. The one click install installed the lxde- common-branding-upstream and now it works. If I use LXDE, should I change my signature? ;) ----- Linux User 183145 using a Pentium III , powered by openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2) 20:39pm up 2 days 7:06, 4 users, load average: 1.19, 0.84, 0.77 -- Linux User 183145 using a Pentium III , powered by openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2) 21:15pm up 2 days 7:42, 3 users, load average: 0.96, 0.98, 0.78 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+help(a)opensuse.org

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my LXDE does not start
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 05 May '10

05 May '10

I have a fully working KDE 4.42 on my computer but for real work my Pentium III sometimes choke. I have used ICEWM but am not quit happy with it. Saw some enthousiastic reports about LXDE so I installed LXDE with the one button install. LXDE is now part of the choices. When I choose LXDE I just get the green Suse and nothing more. Is there some magical key combination to get LXDE going? Am now downloading the life CD so that I may have a first look at LXDE but I really want to start working with the installed program. -- Linux User 183145 using a Pentium III , powered by openSUSE 11.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2) 23:35pm up 1 day 10:02, 5 users, load average: 1.22, 0.73, 0.68 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+help(a)opensuse.org

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Brasero
by Guido Berhoerster 01 May '10

01 May '10

Hello, I had a closer look at the brasero package, it works fine without Nautilus and only depends on it because it provides a Nautilus extension (/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/libnautilus-brasero-extension.so) which is linked against libnautilus-extension.so.1. So this can be easily split off into a brasero-nautilus subpackage but the GNOME guys would need to change their patterns-openSUSE-gnome_basis to depend on brasero-nautilus rather than brasero. Dou you think this is a viable solution, can we get this through the freeze? You can have a look at the modified package in home:gberh:branches:GNOME:Factory/brasero. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+help(a)opensuse.org

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ARM Project now started
by Andrea Florio 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm happy to announce that we are starting a cooperation with suse@ARM team. that means, that as soon we fix some failures on arm packages, we will have soon lxde packages for arm platforms.. Have fun guys with openSUSE-LXDE Your favourite lxde maintainer Andrea - -- - ------------------------------------------ Andrea Florio QSI International School of Brindisi Sys Admin CISCO CCNA Certified openSUSE-Education Administrator openSUSE Official Member (anubisg1) Email: andrea(a)opensuse.org Packman Packaging Team Email: andrea(a)links2linux.de Web: http://packman.links2linux.org/ Cell: +39-328-7365667 - ------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvYcWgACgkQyCZT87TFPug8lQCg40qraJLqzzNZHp/TAkhBlF3M i9kAoOKqJYUw8OQTgh4viYIERqBkB0S/ =zD8E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+help(a)opensuse.org

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Menus
by Guido Berhoerster 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Hello, looking through the menus of the LXDE default install I find that * "System" would be better named "Settings" corresponding to the xdg-desktop-menu category because it contains both per-user desktop preferences and system-wide settings, it could contain "Desktop Settings" and "System Settings" subfolders * "System -> Administration" is a way too huge listing of every single YaST component which makes it difficult to find YaST itself as it is buried among its own modules * "Other" should really disappear, it only exists because these applications listed in it do not have a proper category, it should either be hidden or "X*" should go into "Accessories" and the printing stuff into "Settings"/"System" * "System Tools -> sax2, OpenJDK Policy Tool", "Sound & Video -> GMixer" are settings which belong in "Settings"/"System" * "Run" is missing an icon * "System -> Install/Remove Software" (i.e. yast --install-software) resorts to su in an xterm instead of gnomesu like all other YaST entries -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+help(a)opensuse.org

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gmixer
by Guido Berhoerster 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Hello, how about replacing the gmixer applet with the old gstreamer-based gnome-volume-manager aka gst-mixer? It should take considerably less memory then the whopping 22MB of gmixer. Although the gst-mixer backend is deprecated it is still maintained and part of gnome-media 2.30 and for the next openSUSE release we'll probably have the rewritten mixer plugin for a rewritten lxpanel anyway. It could be easily rebranded from gnome-volume-manager to gst-mixer to allow parallel installation with gnome-media based packages (Fedora offered that in F11). What do you think? -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+help(a)opensuse.org

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