March 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Name of GTK+
by Kevin Breit 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

Greetings, I went to make some packages that depend on GTK+. Apparently SuSE uses the name GTK instead of GTK+. SuSE is the only distribution to do this, so it makes a lot of spec files unportable. Would this be able to be fixed at all? Thanks Kevin Breit

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Optical Intellimouse and multiple buttons
by Rikard DustPuppy Johnels 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi! I have the Optical MS Intelimouse (USB & ps/2) I have two questions: How do i get it up on USB? How do i make X recognise the side buttons? (The ones on the right and left sides) Is there anywhere i can read about how to set the extra buttons and wheel comands? I have imwheel running for my wheel, and it works (partially). It works in KDE, but not in Netscape 6.0 (no scroll unless i press it) But i also want the 4:th and 5:th buttons for: <back> and <forward> in netscape. <page up>/<page down> in other applications. How? I have Suse 7.0 with kernel 2.2.18.SuSE / Xfree86 4.0.2 / KDE 1. - -- /Rikard - --------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels <rjhn(a)linux.nu> - --------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQCVAwUBOsC9lNlelysks61BAQEOHAP+MWmn4bUYRCA+0g/z7cSCHHztd079a0Ng DZDo3HjEfgNu30LTF9Fh2NTsEGJcaqmde90wu/WMw+kgzdNtCxj0AM8/iaTSh5ID wZlksdNGcpXAAaYEBk2o4HDKWr+h3eRHlt/pPR1bmrKaBQUD8dvCUGvQyc9jDIBV iyygSWjSBPY= =1AEs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: [SLE] netscape 4.76 closes all the time
by Patrick Wolf 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

Did you connect to Netscape's web site and find out what's going on? Patrick Wolf -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Van Brimmer [mailto:jerryvb@mindspring.com] Sent: 27 March 2001 16:22 To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] netscape 4.76 closes all the time Yes, I've experienced that before, but have no solution - sorry. God doesn't believe in atheists: Acts 2:38 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crazy Diamond" <crazydiamond21(a)yahoo.com> To: <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:53 AM Subject: [SLE] netscape 4.76 closes all the time > Does anyone experience this... > > I'm browsing the web as usual, and all of a sudden, > netscape just closes. > > I can then relaunch it and continue on until the next > time it closes. > > And by "closes" I mean it just exits and quits. > > Seems like it happens totally randomly. > > Any ideas? > > CD > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text > > -- > To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq > -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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Ftp install... problems :(
by Tina Johnsson 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

Hi list! I've been without linux for about six months now, and today I decided to install Suse 7.2. I have done ftp-instal before, so I though there would be no problem. I found a fast, working mirror, made a bootdisk and the two module disks, inserted the bootdisk and rebooted. The problem is that I cant load the module for my network card. It's a ne2000 compatible (not pci). It's the same card I've had for years, so I know there is no problems with compatibility. I scroll down to the ne module and issue the io port. No go. I try various different values, including the one specified in windows. It wont take it. The error message I get is: No working NE*000 card found at 0x240. The io for my eth card is 240. The worst thing about this is that I've had suse installed before with the same hardware... so this seems to be a problem with the 7.2 version boot/modules disks. I also know for a fact that this mirror works, since a friend of mine made a successfull ftp-install yesterday. I got the addy from him. Does anyone have a clue? Sincerely Tina Johnsson

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KDE2 Question
by Christopher W. Aiken 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

Anyone know how to change the digital time on the KDE2 task bar to a 12 hour format? I tried a "right click" --> "date & time format". I changed the format from "%H:%M:%S" to "%l:%M:%S" but that didn't work. -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com SuSE 7.1 Professional Linux

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pppd: Terminating connection due to lack of activity.
by Colin Murphy 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

Suse 7.1 on Demon. In /etc/ppp/options I have 'idle' variable set to 6000, but the line has terminated after just 5 minutes of inactivity. I edited /etc/ppp/options directly, is there some utility that I need to run to make this change take effect? I've not had this problem before, I've just upgraded from Mandrake 7.1. -- Colin Murphy - QL.4.Ever(a)bigfoot.com - ICQ# 13630409 A GLLUG Greater London Linux User Group organiser, for the 'mo. http://gllug.linux.co.uk

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RE: [SLE] XDM help for beginner
by James McCreery 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

Thanks for the suggestion. I forgot to mention that I'm not using the KDE enviornment (yet). I want to gain a better understanding of the basic X Window systems before moving on to a more spophisticated environment like KDE. And my basic FVWM2 managed X environment works fine, it's just this login box (and how to customize it) that is bugging me and I don't want to give up until I have it in my control :) Art Editor Haymarket Publishing Telephone +44 20 8267 4622 Fax +44 20 8267 4697 174 Hammersmith Rd London W6 7JP United Kingdom > ---------- > From: Mark Hounschell > Reply To: dmarkh(a)cfl.rr.com > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 11:42 > To: James McCreery > Cc: 'suse-linux-e(a)suse.com' > Subject: Re: [SLE] XDM help for beginner > > James McCreery wrote: > > > > I could really use some help here. I would like to customise my XDM > login > > and having read up about it have come to the conclusion that this is > done > > via the /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources file. However, changes I make to this > script > > make no difference at all to my login screen which has a white with > black > > text rectangular login box in the centre (with the heading "X Window > > System). This black and white login box is what I want to change and I > have > > looked at every file in /etc/X11/xdm but cannot find the script that > > controls it. As I expected, I can control the background of the login > screen > > via /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup but this black and white rectangular login box > > remains completely mysterious! > > > > Any help is much appreciated > > > > james. > > I would suggest using KDM. It is easily configured via roots control > center. "System ; login manager". KDE2.0/KDE2.1 setup is real nice using > KDM instead of XDM. > > -- > Mark Hounschell > dmarkh(a)cfl.rr.com > > ********************************************************************* This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmaster(a)haymarketgroup.com Whilst every endeavour is taken to ensure that e-mails are free from viruses, no liability can be accepted and the recipient is requested to use their own virus checking software. www.haymarketgroup.com **********************************************************************

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KDE Help System
by Jonathan Drews 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

I jsut discovered that you have to generate the indexing system for the KDE Help Files (this is the small lifesaver icon). To generate the Search Index : 1) click on the snall Lifesaver Icon. 2) Click on the search tab. 3) do the following. Update Index -> Generate Index. The software then does the rest. Youu can now type in terms like Konqueror or Kicker and it will give back all the help files on using and configuring various KDE software. I know this is a trivial piece of info but it may be useful to Linux newcomers. -- Cheers, Jonathan

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Mozilla 0.8.1
by Haralambos Geortgilakis 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

Hi All, the above beastie is out now :-) Use a local mirror.... *BFN* Greek Geek :-) In the beginning there was nothing. And the Lord said "Let There Be Light!" And still there was nothing, but at least now you could see it.

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Shell script variable filename
by rob 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

Im trying to create a variable file name, so I can make incremental backups of log files myvar=date -u +%T gzip /var/log/messages /root/$myvar #then cat /var/log/messages | tail -n 1 > /var/log/messages # this wipes out the file leaving only one line on the gzip line, I get an error "filename ambigously defined" can anyone shed so lite on this? How can I easily assign fairly random unique filenames? many thanks rob

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