December 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Restarting the X server under KDE
by Paul W. Abrahams 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Under KDE, is there a way to restart the X server *without* logging out and logging in again? Paul Abrahams

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Regular users unable to issue shutdown and other stuff. (Was Reverse Search (Cntrl-R))
by Chuck Stuettgen 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

New thread and jumping into this discussion... On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 07:23, Gary wrote: > > Interesting, and strange... If you use that command often, why not just > make it an alias? A couple of keystrokes would save you all that typing, > and I dare say would be less keystrokes than using ^R ..... <g> > > > -- > Gary My primary Linux computer is a laptop, so I am always shutting it down. Having recently converted from Mandrake to SuSe 9.0 Pro. I found it annoying that my regular user account could not shutdown or restart the computer. Having to log off and then shutdown from the display manager was getting very tiresome and opening a console to SU so I could shutdown was almost as bad. While I appreciate the SuSe developers attention to security, not all installations of Linux need to be so tightly locked down. Since a laptop is almost always a single user machine there is no need to worry about another user shutting it down while you are working. My solution to this problem was to creating a symlink in /usr/bin to /sbin/shutdown ln -s /sbin/shutdown /usr/bin/shutdown Then I set SUID to the link. chmod u+s /sbin/shutdown Finally, I created a launcher pointing to /usr/bin/shutdown and added it to the panel next to clock display. Now when I'm ready to shutdown I simply have to click the icon and the laptop shutdown. No fuss no muss. * * * While I'm on the subject of Linux on laptops I would like to point out that anyone running Linux on a laptop has different needs than someone running Linux on a desktop or a server. For instance when have you ever seen a desktop or server that needed PCMCIA? Yet every major distribution installs it whether the machine needs it or not. Another thing about PCMCIA is that every distribution wants to start the network *before* starting PCMCIA. On a laptop, it should be the other way a round. While it is true most laptops have built-in Ethernet adapters now, including my Dell Latitude, it is almost never used. What is used, however, is the wireless adapter and even though it is internal it is still PCMCIA. On my laptops I have changed the startup order for PCMCIA so it starts before the network service. This simple thing ensures that I get an IP-address from a DHCP server every time I turn on my computer. It does not matter whether I am at home, at work or in a hotel with wireless access. I always get an IP address and I don't have to mess around with creating profiles. It just works. This is such a simple thing but not one distribution does it by default. BTW I am really beginning to become annoyed with SuSeconfig. Every time I run YAST2 or YOU it changes the startup order of the services in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d back to the SuSe defaults. Completely, ignoring what *I* need. SuSe is not alone in ignoring laptop users. None of the distributions I have used have a package group and default configuration designed specifically for laptops. According to industry experts Laptops/Portable computing devices with wireless networks access are going to become the predominate computer used by 2006. (It already is in my home. I have two laptops with wireless connections and my wife's desktop is wireless.) The first Linux distributor to provide a package selection and configuration specifically designed for laptops will be way ahead of the game. I would like to hope that it would be SuSe. -- Chuck Stuettgen <cstuettgen(a)myrealbox.com> Homepage http://www.cfs-tech.homelinux.net

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Problems with real player
by Daniel Purdy 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Hello. I am having some issues with real player and was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to fix it. First I'm running 8.1 prof on a sony viao lap top. The problem is that when I go to use real player, either by just pulling it up from the desktop or going to a website (like amazon) and clicking on an audio link and start real player form there. Real player then starts up and begins to connect (if it was brought from something like amazon..) and sometimes it even starts to play a the clip then it freezes (just real player) I can't close it or anything, I have to restart to actually close it. Any ideas on a solution? TIA!

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SAMSUNG ML-1710 in SuSE 8.2...?
by Chun Ki Shin 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Hi, Does anyone have an experience on installing SAMSUNG ML-1710 printer in SuSE 8.2...? I need your help... I downloaded tar file from the below, http://www.samsung.com/Products/Printer/support/Download/driver/driver_Sams… and click on the file name lpp-1.0.6.i386.tar.gz and installed....Installation seems to be fine...but, it never prints out. Any idea..? Thanks, Shin, _________________________________________________________________ Compare Cable, DSL or Satellite plans: As low as $29.95. https://broadband.msn.com

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Shadow in my monitor graphics
by João Reis 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Hi to all, I have a problem with my screen. I use KDE as my GUI and the windows appear with a shadow in all the screen. What i mean by a shadow is like several lines (more like shadows) which appear in the horizontal direction and appear in the windows edges. There are also other shadows which appear in each line of text that i am writing. When i move the window the shadows follow it . Perhaps this is a X server problem, or it might be a hardware problem (monitor or graphics card). I have plugged the monitor in another computer and the shadows did not appeared, so i presume this is not a monitor problem. I have run the X wizard to reconfigure the X but it remained the same. Is this a graphics card problem ? I do i trace the problem ? Thanks to all in advance. P.S: sorry about my english

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cgi world readable
by ttinsu 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Hi all, I have just installed SuSE 9.0 with Apache 2 and realised that cgi can only be executed with permission set to at least 705. But my ISP server, with Apache 1.3.3, can execute cgi with permission 701. How can I configure the system to work just like my ISP? BTW, is 701 more secure than 705? Thanks a lot and happy new year.

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Moved from 8.1 to 9.0 - now I miss some things !!
by Radule Soskic 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Here is a *short* list of things that I loved in 8.1, but seem to disappear with new 9.0. I did my best trying to recreate the functionalities I got used to in older versions, but without success. 1. Konqueror (and some other stuff) used to "change colour" when started by root user. E.g normal colour of scroll bars was blue, but if I switch user to root, than they were yellow. Q: Can I do it in 9.0, and how? 2. KDE Keyboard Tool (the tiny flag icon sitting in the panel) configuration had an option to assign my Win key to switch to alternative group, and my Scroll Lock LED to show the alternative group being active. This was by far the best use of Win keys and Scroll Lock LED one could imagine - I use frequently both cyrillic and latin part of TTF fonts, so this setting was of great help for fast switching between the two alphabets. Now in 9.0 this seems to be broken. The options are still there (right click on flag icon / configure / options ...), but when I set the options as in I used to 8.1, nothing happens. Q: Is it still possible? If yes, then how? TIA Happy New Year to all list users, Radule Soskic

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tv_grab_uk
by Geoff Horn 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Has anyone managed to get tv_grab_uk from the funktronics perl-xmltv package to work? For me it seems to ingnore the "--configure" switch and complains about: Parameterless "use IO" deprecated at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/ XML/Writer.pm line 16 cannot find /share/xmltv/tv_grab_uk_rt/channel_ids, xmltv was not installed correctly. I installed perl-xmltv using apt-get install. geoff

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K3B question....
by James Hatridge 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Hi all... After making a multi-session CD I do a "df -h" to see how much mb is used up it only shows the size of the last session. It must be something with K3B because this happens on two different machines. Any ideas what is wrong? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ BayerWulf Linux System # 129656 The Recycled Beowulf Project Looking for throw-away or obsolete computers and parts to recycle into a Linux super computer WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection

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Updating GIMP
by jalal 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

I've been having memory problems with my SuSE 8.2 version of Gimp ( v1.2.3) and wanted to upgrade it to the new 1.3. When I tried to run the upgrade with Synaptic it wanted to uninstall all the Scanner stuff (Sane, XSane, KdeScanner) in order to install Gimp 1.3 Anyone know if it is OK to install Gimp without the removing the scanner stuff? I need the scanner as well as Gimp. TIA -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E

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