December 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] upgrade to 11.2 -- have graphical boot, but no desktop -- just a web-doc greeting.
by Linda Walsh 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

How can I get a regular desktop to appear? Seems like no desktop manager is starting. All I see besides the web-doc greeting is an xconsole window. I tried changing the window manager but that either didn't start or had same empty desktop. Any hints on how to initialize it? I have similar symptoms trying to start a remoteX desktop, thought I eventually get a timeout there. Not very useful if it boots up in desktop and you can't access anything. :-) linda -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Cleaning house - freeing up disk space
by M. Milanuk 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Hello, I'm playing with openSuSE 11.2 as a guest OS on a virtual machine (Virtualbox 3.0.12 on a Windows Vista host) and the default initial drive size was 8GB. I opted during installation for a separate /home, so it has / (4GB), /home (5GB), and swap (1GB). I went with XFCE as the desktop environment to keep the 'weight' down a little, and have installed a few other programs (gnucash, gnumeric, abiword) that probably pulled in a bit more of the Gnome/GTK world than I had intended. Is there an easy way to 'skinny up' this installation? If I go through in YaST and de-select various packages, does the packaging system on SuSE automatically clean-up orphaned packages that are no longer required? TIA, Monte -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] loopback mounted ISO images and nfs
by Roger Oberholtzer 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

I have a number of ISO images that I have mounted via the loop device. They are accessible on the local machine just fine. I would like these images to be accessible via nfs, cifs, etc. Well, I can see the contents in cifs. But not via nfs. I googled a bit, and it seems it should be working. But, alas, it is not. The NFS server with the mounted ISO images is openSUSE 11.1, and the NFS client is openSUSE 11.2. Anyone else doing this sort of thing with success? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Thunderbird 3.0b4
by Erik Jakobsen 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Hi. Opensuse 11.2 Thunderbird 3.0b4. I cannot get received mail sorted using the filter. If I set up a filter, next time an email to be found in the filter set up is moved to the filtered folder. Has this been a thread in bugzilla ?. /Erik -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Driver for Intel 3945 wireless card
by Stan Goodman 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

I see on YaST the firmware for this card, but I do not see the driver itself. The page <http://en.opensuse.org/Wireless_network_card#Intel_Pro_Wireless_.28IPW.29_3…> implies that both these packages should be available on the non-oss repo. Where is it? Or is it already in the kernel, which the page doesn't mention? I have not found instructions for installing the firmware; will that happen automagically? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Home & End button @ command prompt
by Wong 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Dear All, I need advise how to make Home and End button to be active at command prompt (BASH ?) If I am in vi editor, the buttons can be use. Cursor move to the beginning of line if I press Home button and I press End button cursor move to the end of line. However, it does not work when I am at command prompt. How / where can I change the setting? Is it in the /etc/profile? Thanks a lot for your kind help. Wong -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] OT: does anyone here use Eudora on Win?
by John Andersen 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

On 12/2/2009 1:08 AM, Doug McGarrett wrote: > I thank the folks who replied. This is TB 2.x, and it is apparently not > possible > to move the columns, as it may be in the Linux version 3.x, which is not > available on > Windows at the moment. Yes, it is available on Windows, I use it there all the time. It has several features that are quite awesome such a unified In-box structure. Thunderbird 3.0Rc2 - Get it here, and get away from 2.x http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.0rc2/releasenotes/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.2 shell error: /usr/bin/manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct??
by David C. Rankin 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Listmates, On my laptop, when I use ssh to connect to other boxes, I receive the following error: /usr/bin/manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct I don't know, but it probably explains the screwed up text encoding I see in konsole where instead of having the normal line drawing characters in mc, I get weird A's or a's. See: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_bugs/112/kde4/encoding-prob.jpg Thankfully, I haven't run into this problem before 11.2, but unthankfully that means I'm kind of searching for where to start looking to fix the problem. Anybody have an idea of what to check? This doesn't just effect kde4, this effects all desktops (e16, flux, openbox, etc...) -- 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

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[opensuse] Keyboard Remapping
by Lew Wolfgang 02 Dec '09

02 Dec '09

Hi Folks, I'm finally mucking around with 11.2 and KDE and am trying to replicate the important KDE 3.5 functions. So far, the only thing I'm stuck on is keyboard remapping, in particular swapping the left-control key with caps-lock. This was easy in 11.1 and earlier yast2's, just check a box. Alas, I can't find the graphical ju-ju with KDE 4.2. I hope I don't have to go back to a xmodmap spell of some sort. The swap used to be done in Xorg.conf, but that's going away, right? What's the approved modern way to remap keyboard keys? Thanks, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-security] SuSE 11.2 SuSEfirewall2 Problems.... need help.
by Rowan R. 02 Dec '09

02 Dec '09

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Kostya Berger <bergerkos(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > trouble, and troubleshooting is NOT as clear as it is with bare iptables. > So I disabled this thingy and use iptables with my one rules file. A good > chance to learn about firewall and iptables, how to right rules and how to > protect your network setup. > saddly in previous 7.* versions I set up my own iptables firewall, but decided to migrate to SuSEfirewall since it had been intigrated into YaST. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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