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[opensuse] opensuse 11.1 KDE4.2 two questions
by peter nikolic 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi . Right 2 quick questions 1 : Is Quanta+ available native KDE4.2 yet (the 3.5 version does not function fully under 4.2) 2 : what is the correct repo URL to update my KDE4.2.0 release 99 to the latest i believe KDE 4.2.1 is it Cheers Pete . -- Opensuse 10.3 x86_64 (Linux is like a wigwam no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- 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] badblocks?
by David C. Rankin 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Xavier Callejas wrote: > Thank you all, but now I'm very worried :s > > I will do these checks you suggest me today night. > > But please, what exactly means: > > ... smartd[3356]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 4 Currently unreadable (pending) > sectors > > I receive this message every 30 mins, it is bad? > > Can be and then again it can be nothing at all. I have a 10.3 box that has been giving me that error Since October 2007 and nothing bad has happened... -- 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] Work from the cli? Your prompt should help.
by David C. Rankin 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Listmates, Here is a stray though for your prompt. If you do any amount of work from the command line in konsole, x-term, etc..., then your prompt should help you get work done. Why prompts tonight?? Who knows, but... Where virtually everything requires a copy, move, ssh, rsync, scp, etc.. why not have 1/2 the work already done by your prompt? The simple prompt I consider indispensable looks like this: As user: 20:42 alchemy:~/linux/scripts/config/zypp> As root: [20:44 alchemy:/home/david/linux/scripts/config/zypp] # The first element in both is just the time and can be ignored for purposes of this discussion. What you also can't see -- is the user prompt time is lightgray and the text of the prompt is lightblue, for root, time is lightred, host is lightblue and text of the prompt is red. The colors work fine on light or dark backgrounds. [1.] Small png of both prompts: http://www.3111skyline.com/images/prompt.png The beauty of the prompt is the format of: hostname:/path/to/pwd. Which is also the format required by rsyc and scp and the path information works with every other bash command. This really makes life easier in tabbed consoles like 'konsole' in KDE when working between a local and remote system or between 2 remote systems where switching between hosts (tabs) is as simple at [shift]+[left/right]. rsync or scp then becomes the simple matter of (a) copy current host:/path from prompt (b) [shift]+[left/right] to change consoles, (c) type 'rsync -options' [middle-click] paste of host:/path information, (d) type or copy 'filename .', and your done (without typos) Of couse where there is no path information, simply typing is faster, but when you need to do a rsync pull from 21:47 nirvana:/srv/www/download/linux/scripts/utils/filename.ext, I prefer the [select]+[middle-mouse-paste] method any day. Setting the prompts are simple enough. From the command line, the user prompt is: PS1="\[\e[0;37m\]\A\[\e[1;34m\] \[\e[1;34m\]\h:\w> \[\e[0m\]" Root prompt is: PS1="\[\e[1;34m\][\[\e[1;31m\]\A \[\e[1;34m\]\h\[\e[0;31m\]:\w\[\e[1;34m\]] # \[\e[0m\]" In your .bashrc to set the prompt so it is your default, just add export in front of it like this: export PS1="\[\e[0;37m\]\A\[\e[1;34m\] \[\e[1;34m\]\h:\w> \[\e[0m\]" (**Note: you will rarely find the /A prompt option documented for whatever reason. It is just the time for the record) You can also set the secondary prompt PS2 in the same manner, but I have never found a use for this. The default '>' is just fine for all purposes. Additionally, what I've found is that the over-use of colors or other fancyness quickly becomes more annoying than useful. But, if you want to experiment, then: It's possible to add special codes to your prompt that will cause the title bar of your X terminal (such as rxvt or aterm) to be dynamically updated. All you need to do is add the following sequence to your PS1 prompt: "\e]2;titlebar\a" Simply replace the substring "titlebar" with the text that you'd like to have appear in your xterm's title bar. For example, to put the time, host and path information in the konsole titlebar as well as in your prompt, use: PS1="\[\e]2;\A \h:\w\a\[\e[0;37m\]\A\[\e[1;34m\] \[\e[1;34m\]\h:\w> \[\e[0m\]" And... yes, the time and path information will update dynamically. (neat trick. Usefulness??) For additional information and a quick reference to the color codes and prompt codes, I cobbled together a simple page at: http://www.3111skyline.com/linux/bash-prompt.php ========== [1.] You can use any color you like, but I want something that works on a light or dark background. I generally work in a dark semi-transparent konsole schema with "linux-colors" like layout. -- 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] No issuer certificates in konqueror (kde4,(opensuse-11.1)
by Josef Wolf 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hello, With konqueror from kde4 in opensuse-11.1, it is not possible to use SSL since no issuer certificates are laoded. I tired to load manually some certificates, but the certificate list stays empty. I am pretty sure that the certificate I tried to import was OK since konqueror asked whether I want to make it accessible to KMail also. I answered "yes" and it was imported in kleopatra without any problems. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] /dev/disk/by-uuid ?
by Greg Freemyer 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

All, I've got a few old machines that I've been upgrading that have /dev/sdaX type entries in /etc/fstab. I'm in the process of moving them to /dev/disk/by-uuid/* entries 2 questions: 1) Is there a tool for this. I've just done one machine by looking at the symbolic links in that directory, then hand editing the fstab to be correct. Only takes a few minutes, but it is tedious and error prone. 2) How do you handle swap partitions? I ask because for the first machine I'm handling I have my swap partition on /dev/sda10, but there is not a symbolic link in /dev/disk/by-uuid for that partition. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- 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] Opera 9.64 - margin: padding: handling changed?
by David C. Rankin 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Daniel Bauer wrote: > On Tuesday 31 March 2009 09:04:59 you wrote: >> Thanks Daniel, >> >> The problem is stranger than that... I have two identical copies of the >> page. One on the 3111skyline.com server and one on my laptop (also running >> apache for development purposes). The page displays fine on my laptop with >> Opera 9.64, but the gray alternating row highlights bleed over the right >> column ~ 1em on the server. I'm looking into it now... > > Hi again, > > I cannot help much, I just see that it depends on the screen size. I think > you'll have to check the width defintion of the grey bars. I didn't have the > time to check your css, but when developping websites I often have quite > similar problems together with floats, they are tricky and often it depens on > the containing div and the position within the code... > > I attach some screenshots so you can see how your page behaves here... > > hth > Thanks Danny, I validated it again: The only error found was that I was using the color: "LightGrey", I changed the color to: #D3D3D3 and it works fine now. Why in the hell that made any difference for opera, I'll never know. Especially since LightGrey is a defined color, See: http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_colornames.asp The alternating color definition is done in php: if ($id % 2 == 0) echo "<tr style=\"background-color: #C0D5F2;\">"; else echo "<tr>"; After the change in color: W3C CSS Validator results for http://www.3111skyline.com/download/webdev/pages/mysql-logview.php (CSS level 3) Congratulations! No Error Found. This document validates as CSS level 3 ! To show your readers that you've taken the care to create an interoperable Web page, you may display this icon on any page that validates. Here is the XHTML you could use to add this icon to your Web page: Valid CSS! <p> <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"> <img style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px" src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss" alt="Valid CSS!" /> </a> </p> Valid CSS! <p> <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"> <img style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px" src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss-blue" alt="Valid CSS!" /> </a> </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

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[opensuse] Re: Gnome equiv of Superkaramba?
by Jim Henderson 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:09:45 +0200, Clayton wrote: >> You can configure it to show a few different things - CPU utilization, >> memory usage, network, swap, disk, and load. > > OK, tried that, and that is a very poor-man's solution compared to what > Superkaramba can do.. a VERY poor-man's solution :-( <shrug> It's what I use - I don't spend my days monitoring system resource usage, though, I just want to know if I'm about to have a memory problem or if something's acting slow because another proc has maxed out the CPU for some reason. IOW, may be a "poor man's solution" to you, but it does what I need, so I think it's an outstanding solution. YMMV of course. ;-) Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] can't play music from radio station; upgrade
by Doug McGarrett 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Trying to play music with RealPlayer 10. Don't know whether that is the version of RealPlayer that came with SuSE 9.3, that I'm running. This is an option for the radio station--RealPlayer--at one time I had some kind of music come out of the speakers, but I don't know how I did it, but I did know that they could play. I don't seem to have amarok on the machine, and in any event, the radio station doesn't offer that option. (The radio station plays country music. It is KSEY, in Texas, and it works on a Windows machine in WinAmp and Nero, but when it drops out in Nero, you have to manually reset it; WinAmp resets itself. I don't know how to activate Amarok, which is supposed to be wonderful for Linux. The program says that the music is playing, but nothing comes out of the speakers. The system is not in mute mode. ************************************************************ I'd like to put version 11 on the machine, but I don't know how to preserve /home/doug/documents/ thru the new install. I really want the information in this directory to come thru whole. Presently have Reiser FS and have had no problem with it. I also cannot write to the CD that I installed from, so I can't write the directory to a CD. Please be patient with me. I'm an old man, who has spent most of his life doing hardware, not software. --doug Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- 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] Suse 11.1 Monitor Resolutions
by David C. Rankin 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Dave Feustel wrote: > I notice the subject specifies Suse 11.1. Remember that I am running > Suse 11.0. > No matter, so am I, I haven't heard of xorg.conf changing for 11.1, and I can confirm that I'm using my 11.0 xorg.conf without problems for the dual-boot 11.1 install on the same box, so I don't think there will be any difference for the purpose of this discussion. -- 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] Gnome equiv of Superkaramba?
by Clayton 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

So.. I'm tinkering with Gnome on 11.1... in KDE I can use Superkaramba or in KDE4, the plasma widgets to plunk nice system monitor things on the desktop. So far I cannot find anything equivalent in Gnome. If I start Superkaramba, the transparencies don't work... Google Gadgets are ugly... and gDesklets don't work at all (known problem discussed on the forums and apparently a bug open against it, and been a problem for at least 4 or 5 months now from what I read)... So what do Gnome users use? Is this me not finding the obvious again, or is this just something else missing from Gnome? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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