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XFCE screen brightness level changes at every login
by Marco Calistri 13 Jan '21

13 Jan '21

Hello, A little severity issue to report regarding the XFCE desktop. Every time I login to my desktop the brightness is usually too intense then I adjust it by the XFCE power settings, hoping it holds the setting, but then it reset at next reboot. Wonder if there is a configuration file to set which cannot get rewrote by XFCE settings in order to keep the last brightness level I chose. Thanks and BR, -- Marco Calistri Build: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210106 Kernel:5.10.4-1-default Desktop: XFCE (4.14.2)

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tw/Leap Firefox printing issues
by Ben T. Fender 12 Jan '21

12 Jan '21

I have an HP M252 wifi printer, works mostly without issues except with Firefox lately, giving it a print job just gets the "Printing Document" on the printer screen but the job NEVER completes. any suggestions?

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command to load an app from a CDROM into Wine on the system drive
by Doug McGarrett 12 Jan '21

12 Jan '21

Heading says it all. I have Wine on the TW system and working (SimiliBridge game) but I'm not sure how to set up an app from the CDROM into a Wine system. (It's an old DOS-based cad program that I own the original disk for.) Thanx--doug

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Installing a custom kernel doesn't install external kernel modules
by B 10 Jan '21

10 Jan '21

Hello, I've got a question about how is the rebuilding of external kernel modules invoked during a new kernel version installation? The reason I'm asking is because when I install a modified kernel the Nvidia GPU driver modules are not built and installed like they are for regular kernels. Example how it works with standard kernel: I have kernel-default-5.10.3, kernel-default-5.10.4 is released, I run zypper dup, during the kernel installation the Nvidia modules are rebuilt against the new kernel and installed. I can reboot into the new kernel and everything works. Example with my situation: I take the kernel source kernel-source-5.10.4 from the standard Tumbleweed repos, make a few changes, build the rpms (make rpm-pkg), install them with Zypper but it doesn't install the Nvidia modules, I have to do this manually or else the GUI wouldn't work. So what exactly triggers the module rebuild? What does the official kernel rpm has that my rpm built for the same source doesn't?

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google-earth
by Doug McGarrett 10 Jan '21

10 Jan '21

Ran the latest update this afternoon. Said there was a dependency problem with Google Earth, so I said to skip it, or whatever the wording is. Naturally, it did not work anymore. Sent icon to trash. Trying to install the file that the net says is current for OpenSuse--google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm directory listing says: -rw-r--r-- 1 doug users 74323405 Dec 27 16:10 google-earth-pro-stable-7.3.3.x86_64(2).rpm Install attempt says: linux1:~ # rpm -Uvh google-earth-pro-stable-7.3.3.x86_64\(2\).rpm error: open of google-earth-pro-stable-7.3.3.x86_64(2).rpm failed: No such file or directory Now what? Thanx for any assistance--doug

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Question to MATE on TW
by Axel Braun 09 Jan '21

09 Jan '21

Hi, I installed MATE on TW to see how it works. Apparently, there is no start menu or similar: https://paste.opensuse.org/74508326 So how is one supposed to strt applications? (Sorry for a stupid question, never tried MATE before....) Thanks Axel

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kernel 5.10.4 external monitor (strange) hang
by Mykola Krachkovsky 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Hi, First of all, running kernel 5.10.3 has no this issue. Second, I have laptop MSI GE62 6QF Apache Pro: CPU: Intel i7 6700HQ iGPU: Intel HD 530 (dGPU: NVidia 970M - but it was not used and I've uninstalled proprietary drivers to ensure they aren't affecting this case.) Internal monitor uses eDP, external - miniDP. OS version: openSUSE Tumbleweed x86_64 20210103 (I'll try 04 later, just updated, but as no new kernel, I doubt something will change). The problem is when running with 5.10.4 and external monitor (mini DisplayPort) is plugged, system hangs (in strange way) on X start. I can reboot with MagicSysRQ + R.E.I.S.U.B. but other than that system is hanged and screens are black (but on). I can't switch to tty. SDDM seems running, but no visual, and system behaves very strange. When I try to blindly shutdown system in sddm (using power button or Tab x 4 + enter) system isn't actually shutting down, but after SysRQ+REISUB it does. If miniDP external is unplugged, then X starts without a problem. And in KDE Plasma plugging works fine. Haven't tried switching to tty and back yet. But if system is powered off while external is plugged — it still hangs. And I can't see any problems in system logs (`sudo journalctl -b -<n>`). So the question is how to detect this problem and report it properly? I'll try to dig logs more, but maybe there is some other way? When I've got hang/timeout problem with i915 before, there was error file in `/dev` to send it, but this time I don't see logs about that and I'm unsure how to extract it (if it was) cause I can't access my system and it'll gone after reboot. Kernel bisecting is something I'd like to avoid. But is doable if there are no other means. -- Kind regards, Mykola Krachkovsky -- Найкращі побажання, Микола Крачковський

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Request: meshroom Package for openSUSE Leap 15.2 ff
by michael.kasimir＠gmx.de 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Hi, within this e-mail I would like to inquire, if the following package for openSUSE Leap 15.2 ff can be made available: meshroom I could not find any official package available for openSUSE Leap 15.2 Meshroom is a free, open-source 3D Reconstruction Software based on the AliceVision Photogrammetric Computer Vision framework. See here: https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom[1] respectively here: http://alicevision.github.io/[2] Kind regards Michael Kasimir Be Free, Be Linux -------- [1] https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom [2] http://alicevision.github.io/

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kmail - individual aggregation or view per folder no longer possible
by mh＠mike.franken.de 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Hi *, I'm not sure, when this started, but at the moment kmail does not store an individual aggregation or view per folder. I am able to uncheck the default aggregation or view in the folder properties and select different ones, but after clicking ok, nothing happens, and when checking the settings again, they are back to their previous values. These values not even match the defaults from the global kmail settings menue. Changing the global values for aggregation and view works as expected, but even then, the values shown in the folder properties dialog don't match the global values. I tried to stop kmail and akonadi and remove kmail2rc, but this didn't change this behaviour. Any idea? Thx and bye. Michael.

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AutoCAD substitute
by Doug McGarrett 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Anybody know of a freebie that uses AutoCAD commands to do 2-d drawings? I'm too old to learn a new system! --doug

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