November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Suse 10 and characters
by Cristian Del Carlo 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

Hi, i have some problems with characters like à-ù-è-ò in suse 10. If i log into the system by the console i don't have problems but if i log into the system with teraterm o putty over ssh i have this problem. I have the following configuration : LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 And the file /etc/sysconfig/language: RC_LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" RC_LC_ALL="" RC_LC_MESSAGES="" RC_LC_CTYPE="" RC_LC_COLLATE="" RC_LC_TIME="" RC_LC_NUMERIC="" RC_LC_MONETARY="" RC_LC_PAPER="" ROOT_USES_LANG="ctype" AUTO_DETECT_UTF8="no" INSTALLED_LANGUAGES="" Do you know how to solve the problem? Thanks. Cristian Del Carlo

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Kweather on Suse 9.3
by Jim Flanagan 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

Hi all. This may have been addressed before, but in 9.3 (KDE) default install, when I run Kweather, I usually set it up to display Icon, temp, wind and pressure. On boot or login, the icon is smaller, about 1/2 its normal size. If I reset kweather to show only icon, the icon size is full size. If I then back to the full info (icon, temp, wind etc) the icon stays at the larger size. Is there any way to make the icon stay larger still showig the full weather info? This was not a problem in suse 9.1. TIA Jim

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SuSE 10 Time Changes
by Lucky Leavell 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

OS: SuSE 10.0 with current patches I have observed a mysterious problem on several SuSE 10.0 Pro systems, namely the clock advancing an hour or so for no apparnt reason. For example, when I first used my system, the time on the KDE screen was accurate but when I returned an hour or so later it had advanced approximately 57 minutes. I am using local time and am in the NA-Eastern time zone. On other systems using UTC time, it set the clocks back an hour depsite on Suunday, October 30 despite the fact UTC should not be affected by the Daylight Savings lunacy. Is this a known problem? Are there any solutions? Thank you, Lucky Leavell

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Re: [SLE] Menu font for Firefox
by Paul W. Abrahams 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

On Friday 11 November 2005 5:15 pm, Osho GG wrote: > Try using gnome-font-properties > > Osho > > On 11/11/05, Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams(a)acm.org> wrote: > > > > On my (KDE) desktop, the Firefox browser shows up with a tiny font for the > > top-line menu (File, Edit, View, etc.) The control for that font appears > > to > > be neither in Firefox itself nor in the KDE control center. I'm guessing > > that it's somewhere in the X configuration. Can anyone tell me how to make > > that font bigger (or to change it to a different font)? So where does one find gnome-font-properties? Paul

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gpa (Gnu Privacy Assistant) crashes.
by Carlos E. R. 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It is impossible to start gpa in SuSE 9.3, it chrashes: cer@nimrodel:~> gpa *** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x080d0b68 *** Aborted cer@nimrodel:~> gpa --version gpa 0.7.0 Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Miguel Coca, G-N-U GmbH, Intevation GmbH. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD4DBQFDdOsdtTMYHG2NR9URAizPAJjG6ictPbjHwPYUhjYyc8qIkPe6AJ0XwBQC 3t76hV5trK8oA+CIlggP3A== =gvbA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [SLE] Need to locate a driver for Olympus digital voice recorder
by Gil Weber 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

On Fri November 11 2005 4:57 pm, Marcus Meissner wrote: > Please quote the respective output of lsusb -vv with the recorder > attached. > > Ciao, Marcus Sorry, sorry, replied too quickly. I know how to get what you want from the command line. Should I disconnect all other USB devices before getting the output for you? Thx Gil

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Unable to add & mount any CD/DVD ROM
by Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Hi, I have run into unexpected problem with SuSE 10 box, which was working fine for some time. I have DVD-R and CDRW drives connected to the secondary IDE bus, however, after I add them in YaST -> CD-ROM drives, press finish, no error messages given, but nothing really happen. A corresponding entries are being added to /etc/fstab, but if I open YaST again, they are NOT listed in YaST -> CD-ROM drives. And if I add them again, it does not have any effect whatsoever. Additionally, issuing mount dev/dvdrecorder does virtually nothing (no error messages but no mounted volume either). I have checked autofs daemon - its running. I have even modified auto.misc, and added entries manually, again nothing. Hardware is OK - booting into Windoze make drives work. Any idea what might get wrong? Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s)

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Re: [SLE] Gaim and libgsf problems
by Patrick Shanahan 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

* Michael W Cocke <cocke(a)catherders.com> [11-11-05 12:50]: > me how whatever you're moaning about would solve that? On second > thought, don't bother. What I do now works fine, and what you suggest > didn't. Why do you send duplicate posts? Are you attempting to double you dis-pleasure. Take an asprin and a twelve year nap and perhaps you will awaken refreshed and in tune with the times, or not. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2

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Gaim and libgsf problems
by sargon 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Anyone else having problems with the recent Gaim RPMs (1.5.0-9)? Gaim starts but refuses to login to any of my accounts, regardless of type. If I revert back to Pascal Bleser's RPMS everything works. Also, is ayone else running into problems with the libgsf RPM (1.13.2-3)? Apt tells me that upgrading to this version will require uninstalling a LONG list of software... Thanks in advance. Sargon

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SUSE 10, KDE and GTK fonts
by John Coldrick 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

We've done upgrades on several SUSE systems(from 9.1 to 9.3) to v10 and there's a problem that appears to have been mentioned several times in the past but doesn't appear to have a very elegant solution in this version. It's the issue with GTK/Qt apps not having a direct control over their fonts, with the result that setting fonts in the Control Center doesn't affect them. Thus you have apps like Firefox with overly fat bookmark fonts, while the regular web page displays fine. I've found the solution involving running the gnome-font-properties, which works fine as long as you start up the gnome-settings-daemon with every session. The trouble with that is it appears to do a number of nasty jobs on various aspects of my KDE desktop. For instance, it insists on starting up a screensaver(which I don't use), it takes over a number of peripheral behaviours, such as key-repeats, and it's managed to munge up my Alt-tab windows-switching behaviour. This isn't surprising given you've got two daemons running contended for resources. This solution seems to be the secret solution-de-jour out there for this problem, but I can't believe this is considered to be appropriate. I was under the understanding that gtk-qt-engine(with both 64 and 32 bit versions installed here) was supposed to handle all this without resorting to running two WMs at once. About the only thing I haven't tried is to install Gnome also, log in, config everything the way I want, then log back into KDE, but this isn't a prefereable solution, besides being overkill. Any thoughts, experiences, appreciated. I'm running on an x64 system, if that matters... Cheers, J.C.

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