October 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] KDE4: How do I get it to stop opening terminals in ~/Documents
by Bruce Ferrell 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

KDE 3.5 used to open terminals in my home directory instead of Documents. I know this is a silly question, but I don't see any settings for this and Google has been most unhelpful on the topic. TIA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

7 26

Re: [opensuse] Slow SMB browsing in gnome and doesn't work in kde4
by Jeremy Leonard 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:08 -0700, John Andersen wrote: > lists wrote: > > When I run Nautilus and browse smb shares on a windows server it's very > > slow. > > Also, when I try it with dolphin it will pop up two login boxes but will > > never successfully login. > > Am I missing something here or is this just not ready for prime time > > yet? > > I've also had problems with Nauilus, and Gnome in general when using smb > shares. Nautilus is what works. Just slowly. Dolphin is the one that doesn't. > > But with Dolphin it just seems to work for windows shares, ftp, sftp, etc. > Once you navigate to a share successfully with the network icon in Dolphin, you can > add that to your sidebar and it will quickly open that location again. I don't want them all saved on the side bar. > > Make sure your windows machines are actually sharing properly, and > that you can access them. (Firewalls etc). Make sure you can access from > the command line, as you will get better messages that way. I have no problem using mount -t cifs. It's just a hassle. > Make sure you > have a kde wallet open to save passwords. > Set your default login/password combination in KDE. I can't set a default login password because it's different every where I go. I'm a consultant and may be at 50 different sites each month. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse] Re: Deleting /dev/md1 -- will other MDs get renumbered?
by Joachim Schrod 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Per Jessen wrote: > Joachim Schrod wrote: > >> When I delete the Soft-RAID device /dev/md1 -- will the device >> names of the following RAID devices (i.e., /dev/md2, /dev/md3, >> etc.) stay the same on reboot, or will they be renumbered? > > They will stay the same. Thanks a lot for your quick answer. (I have a system where LILO can't boot from a mirrored /dev/md1, and after splitting of /dev/sda1 as /boot from that file system, Nagios complains about a one-element RAID1. So I decided to get rid of it completely.) Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

2 1

[opensuse] Re: Partitioning problem in installing oS v11.1
by jdd 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Felix Miata a écrit : > Windows is little different from Linux in that its boot files can live on a > partition separate from OS files. A (small) C: primary to Windows directly > corresponds to a (small) /boot on a primary in Linux. well, one can always trick things, but I don't think you can install windows with it's official support on a logical (I didn't try all, though) anyway depends of version. I could run windows98 on strange partitions given the files where copied with Linux, still not "standard" and nothing to do with partitionning here jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

2 1

[opensuse] opera - mouse wheel zoom stick on?
by David C. Rankin 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Guys, With opera 10, I have noticed if I leave opera and work in other apps for a while, if I come back to opera and use the mouse wheel on the page, it zooms instead of scrolls. Anybody else see this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

3 8

[opensuse] Re: Partitioning problem in installing oS v11.1
by jdd 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Stan Goodman a écrit : > Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System > /dev/sda1 * 1 1 8001 a OS/2 Boot Manager curious. I don't see the use of a 8Mo partition. Looks like you installed a special boot manager (unknow from me). You don't want to use grub or lilo? > /dev/sda2 2 9479 76132035 5 Extended given you dont have any other primary, extended partition should take the hole disk. seems not. Didn't you said your disk is 250Go? here I see only 76Go > /dev/sda5 2 271 2168743 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/sda6 272 4238 31684896 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 4239 9479 42098301 83 Linux no problem here, 2Go swap, 31Go root (I suppose, it's too large for most system), 42Go data (/home?) be aware that sda5-7 are *included in* sda2, so you don't have to add sda2 to the total. so calculating approx, 256-76=180, so YaST was only trying to install in the free space. Notice you can't have two extended, so you have to use sda3 and sda4 primary (no problem to share swap) Good guess for YaST jdd > -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

2 1

[opensuse] kde4 - kool tricks and tips the kids (or kids at heart) may enjoy
by David C. Rankin 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Listmates, For those with kids who have reached computing age (3+), there are a few kde4 themes and tricks they may really enjoy. (You may like them as well ;-) The kde4 themes are: Ghost Carbon Neon Glow by FRUiT A thin theme for the adults is "seamless" (just grab the clock from 'Stripeshine' and it really looks cool - see links below) The Desktop Effects that my kids enjoy are: Explosion (or Fall Apart) Magic Lamp explosion and fall apart make the windows shatter into pieces when they are closed and magic lamp makes the windows look like they are being sucked into a magic lamp when they are minimized. The number of things that explode or fall apart depends on the theme. So far, the Ghost theme has by far the most (everything explodes) A few links that I found helpful for tweaking themes: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/Theme http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Theme That's my informational post for the day :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

2 1

[opensuse] grub and lvm
by Dave Howorth 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

So I replaced my failed disk and copied all the files from the backup and using an 11.1 DVD I was able to chroot into it (it's the root disk of a self-contained 10.3 system) and check that it seemed to be working OK. Then I ran grub to install it on the new disk but the system wouldn't boot. I spent a day poking around with grub and various how-tos but still wasn't able to get it to boot. Eventually I gave up and installed 11.1 into a new partition on the disk (it's twice as big as the failed disk). On booting, I was taken to the grub menu installed by 11.1, which had a choice for the 10.3 system, so I chose that, which took me to the 10.3 grub menu, which booted the 10.3 system. Things seem to be working pretty much as before with one major exception - I'm missing an LVM system. I have two 3ware RAID controllers on the machine (as well as the root disk that failed) and the storage on each controller is set up as an LVM physical volume with its own volume group. One is imaginatively named "storage" and the other is "backup". But backup is no longer there! It was there when I chrooted and checked the new system disk, and the 3 ware 3dm2 program tells me that all the hardware is working fine. But: # pvscan PV /dev/sdc VG storage lvm2 [1.59 TB / 0 free] Total: 1 [1.59 TB] / in use: 1 [1.59 TB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] # vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "storage" using metadata type lvm2 I thought I had two problems left to investigate: (1) why the booting only works in such a convoluted fashion (2) why my backup volume has gone missing It's just occurred to me that the two problems could be related. Is it possible that installing grub has damaged whatever control information LVM uses? I'd appreciate any pointers to information, especially how-to repair such damage! Meanwhile I'll RTFM :) Oh, this is my main fileserver so the fewer reboots I have to do, the better. Thanks, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

2 4

[opensuse] Re: Partitioning problem in installing oS v11.1
by jdd 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Per Jessen a écrit : > I think those are the _suggestions_ made - you can accept them or edit > the partition setup to suit your own purpose. yes and AFAIK, before proceeding, YaST gives a summary of the actions with red written partition deletion. if one wants only openSUSE better keep the default jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

1 0

[opensuse] KNetworkManager not starting up in 11.1
by Myrosia Dzikovska 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

I recently upgraded to OpenSuse 11.1. I set up YaST to say that network is controlled by network manager. I am using KDE3. Every time I log into KDE, knetworkmanager is not running. I can start it up from the command line, and it comes up and runs normally, connecting automatically to my network. I tried to configure the KDE to start from a saved session, and saved a session while knetworkmanager was running. But once I re-started my machine, when I logged in, knetworkmanager didn't start up again. Is there something else which controls when it starts up, which could be causing this problem? Myrosia -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

2 2