August 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] OS 11.0 - Firefox 3.x will not print
by Felix Miata 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

[I posted this more than 48 hours ago on the SUSE Usenet groups and Mozilla's Firefox support group, all with no responses other than suggesting to ask elsewhere. :-( ] Firefox 2.0.0.20 from Mozilla.org, SeaMonkey 1.1.17, Konqueror & Opera all print http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/Font/fonts-ptdemo.html as expected or nearly so. Firefox 3.5.2 from Mozilla.org and Firefox 3.0.11 from 11.0 light up the printer's busy and form feed lights for a time, but the printer never prints anything. When I check KJobViewer after the print lights go out, there's nothing there. The printer dialogs for the others all permit me to choose the postscript version of the printer instead of the CUPS version, while I can find no option to do the same in FF 3.x. My printer is a Postscript LaserJet 4M connected via IP address only. How can I get FF 3.x to print to my printer? -- How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver. Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.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] Reply to G T Smith
by Constantinos Galilei 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

On Tuesday August 25 2009 5:27:08 am G T Smith wrote: > On a more pertinent note, one also needs to consider those who voted > with their feet... Do they? You mentioned the importance of choice. Why should KDE people care about what non-KDE users think of KDE? Believe it or not, there are those who leave other desktops for KDE, as well. If you find that uncomfortable, go ahead and disbelieve it, but ask yourself if Gnome people should care what non-Gnome users think. There are still features I miss from OS/2's Workplace Shell, but I wouldn't go back to it. I actually made a feature request on this a long time ago, but I'm guessing it didn't interest too many people. I'd still like to see KDE eventually have work folders that act like mini-sessions that you could create by saving the current running programs as a folder and launch them by clicking the folder later, though. > The only thing I used on a regular basis that was QT based was konqueror > as a file browser. (I am not impressed by dolphin). This was largely > mitigated by mc and the discovery that Nautilus no longer did crazy > things on my setups. The few other KDE things I use on occasional basis > had GTK or X based alternative. KDE AFAIK is the only QT based desktop, > and there are rather a lot of non-QT based desktops. So I realised that > it it did not make much sense for me install KDE or the QT libraries or > invest time in setting up KDE4 (YMMV). You've actually inspired me to uninstall Gnome. The only GTK apps I use are Firefox, Openoffice (of which I will be using the QT version if that's ever finished) and GIMP, and with the exception of GIMP, these thankfully don't *look* like GTK apps. I've had Gnome on my machine forever and it's kind of a waste of drive space. > PS There is now a further factor to consider. When Nokia acquired > Trolltech hence QT, it was not to get a foothold in the PC based Open > Source market place (it was more likely part of a strategic response to > the potential threat posed by android, and the need to update the > Symbian OS GUI). Nokia are largely indifferent to Open Source based > development and its community, (and can afford to be as Open Source > based development in of handset applications is marginal). In some ways > Nokia can make M$ seem positively cuddly...., and Nokias relative > silence about the future of QT outside of their core market is probably > more of a cause of concern than if they had said anything. This point is more or less moot. The open source community has a fork of QT that will be available forever. I actually hope that Nokia changes the policy on the commercial QT, but it's actually not in their interests as a separate QT would be major competition and developers would be able to write commercial applications using the free QT without paying a fee to Nokia/Trolltech. Keeping a unified QT means that free and commercial QT applications remain compatible and the commercial version remains relevant. Nokia's kind of stuck on this one. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] migrating SUSE 9.2 to virtualbox machine
by Rob Owens 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

I have a physical server running SUSE 9.2 (which I cannot upgrade), and I am attempting to move it to a virtual machine using VirtualBox. I have changed grub and fstab to reflect the new hard drive names (hda instead of sda). I can get the virtual machine to boot into single user mode, but it freezes after a few minutes. If I boot into runlevel 5, I get an ncurses Yast which says "ACCEPT" and "CANCEL" and shows a big gray box where the menu choices should be. Choosing "ACCEPT" or "CANCEL" locks up the virtual machine. What am I missing? I'm guessing it's a hardware detection problem. I'm pretty experienced with Linux, but I'm new to SUSE. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. -Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE 3 users: What's missing in KDE 4.3?
by Dotan Cohen 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

The day when KDE 3 will no longer be viable is getting closer every day. Please tell me what problems you are having with KDE 4.3 so that we can get them fixed. KDE 3 is great because it is mature, configurable, and feature-laden without being bloated. I do not want to see that go to waste! It is the KDE 3 holdouts who have the attention to detail to distinguish the "little things" that make KDE 3 so great that are currently lacking in the KDE 4 branch. Note that KDE 4.3 really solves most of the issues for me and most other people that I deal with. In fact, the features is adds over KDE 3 were enough to get me to switch. So please try KDE 4.3 and _let_me_know_ what does not work for you so that we can file bugs. I want to know about missing features, unintuitiveness, bugs, regressions, anything. You _will_ need to relearn some minor things as KDE 4 is a rewrite of KDE, not a Qt4 port of KDE 3, however let's get the major issues fixed. Thanks. KDE really needs the picky, stubborn KDE 3 users to push the devs (who might not have the same attention to detail as us) in the right direction. I'm here to bridge the gap between us (the users) and the devs. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Whoop! Finally - 2 rows on kde4 kicker ("plasma-panel")
by David C. Rankin 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

Wow, After updates yesterday, I now enjoy 2 rows of icons on the plasma panel. I thought it had gone the way of the dinosaur. Good job kde devs! Screenshot (26k): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE/openSUSE_bugs/kde4/screenshots… P.S. Shown with compiz 0.7.8 running on 11.0 (fglrx 8-9 driver) and the pager corrected by plasma-desktop restart. -- 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] kernel panic
by Bob S 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hello SuSE people, On my old 64 bit 10.3 OS version something strange has happened. Won't boot with a kernel panic. The message is "bin/run-init /sbin/init Permission denied" and then I get a kernel panic. Googled it to no avail. Why? What could have happened to cause this? Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] This dolphin bites
by Mike Grau 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

OS: Linux 2.6.27.25-0.1-default x86_64 System: openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) KDE: 4.3.00 (KDE 4.3.0) "release 152" Using Dolphin, I right click on a file bringing up the context menu. I select "Rename ..." and rename the file. The file appears in Dolphin with the new name and a "ls" at the command line shows that the file has indeed been renamed. Why then in Dolphin when I drag (copy) this file to another folder (local or remote) does it place the file in the directory with the old name rather than the new name? Is this A known bug that has been addressed? An isolated problem with my machine? A feature by demented design? The product of an embedded decision engine in Dolphin? The result of a secret grant or infiltration by MS? I won't go into how hard this bent me over at work ... off now to buy lubricant. -- 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: General Poor quality of Opensuse
by jdd 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

j debert a écrit : > I have to reluctantly agree that OpenSuSE is going downhill. Linux changes, you are not obliged to change your Distro version each year nothing to do with openSUSE 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

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[opensuse] Local cache of updates, installed programs in openSUSE
by Jay Mistry 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

Is it possible to have a local cache/ "repository" of all - 1) Updates (Critical, Security, Bug-fixes), and 2) Additional installed rpm's (that were installed through Yast / PackageKit), e.g. Opera, Adobe Reader, VLC Player, etc. so that I do not have to download all those again (800 MB + D/L) This is similar to the 'aptonCD' package in Ubuntu (http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APTonCD is a tool with a graphical interface which allows you to create one or more CDs or DVDs (you choose the type of media) with all of the packages you've downloaded via APT-GET or APTITUDE, _creating a removable repository that you can use on other computers._ _APTonCD will also allow you to automatically create media with all of your .deb packages located in one specific repository, so that you can install them into your computers without the need for an internet connection._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks, Jay Mistry -- Linux User 483705 | openSUSE 11.1, Ubuntu 9.04 (i686) w/ Win XP -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Mount USB HD on plug-in
by Rodney Baker 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hi all. I have 2 external USB HDD's that I use for backup purposes, one of which is used for nightly backups run from cron, the other for ad-hoc backup and general storage use. I have setup udev rules for these drives to create persistent dev symlinks for them and they auto-mount when accessed from dolphin, but I would like them to auto-mount as soon as the system detects that they're plugged in. I know that this used to be possible, and I'm sure it still is; I just don't know which config files I need to create/edit to make it happen under openSuse. Can some kind person please point me in the right direction, either with an example or a link to a web page where I can find the right info? Google hasn't been particularly helpful so far (but maybe I'm just searching for the wrong text). Thanks in advance, -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker(a)iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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