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[opensuse] kdeDevs - Why does ksnapshot now save everything via sftp with 0600 permissions??
by David C. Rankin 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

KDE Dev, I need to solve this problem. Starting with kde 44beta, every time I take a snapshot with ksnapshot and save it to my webserver by saving to: sftp://nirvana:5341/srv/www/dl/..... the file is saved with 0600 permissions?? I have used this same server and same laptop for 2 years and my saving process has always been the same. In every version of kde (or any other desktop), the files are saved with the normal 0644 permissions. Now with kde44, they are all 0600. Why?? The only thing it gets partially right is where I have the permissions set to 7755, kde44 will assign the correct group ownership, but still stores the file as 0600 (not much help to other group members) What kind of bug is this? Is this a ksnapshot bug? Is this a sftp kio bug? Is it some kind of umask change? Where's the break and how do we fix it? Thanks. -- 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] Amarok
by Andre Malin 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

After this morning update (zypper up), Amarok stop working. Trying to start it from konsole. I get the following: ---------------------------------------- amarok(11800)/kdecore (KSycoca): Trying to open ksycoca from "/var/tmp/kdecache-andre/ksycoca4" <unknown program name>(11792)/: Communication problem with "amarok" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" : " "The name org.kde.amarok was not provided by any .service files" " ----------------------------------------- Anybody has a clue? Thanks, Andre. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] I thought Vista was bad about splattering dialogs - kde44 takes the cake :p
by David C. Rankin 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Guys, I was quite surprised when 16 nepomuk dialogs splattered themselves across my screen filling in the display. I was able to kill a few in a valiant effort to stave off the assault, but I was overrun in the end :-( (277k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/kde4/nepomukfromhell.jpg Reduced (93k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/kde4/nepomukfromhell800.jpg The real pisser? You have to back out of the dialogs in the order they appeared (another bug that needs resolving) so it was quite a bit more involved than just clicking the remaining 13 times to close the last 13 nepomuk dialogs. Hunt and pek ~100 times took care of it. There are so many bugs open on nepumuk/Vosotro that it is hard to know which one to add information to. Will, Dotan, Sven, you got a favorite nepomuk bug at bugs.kde.org # you want me to add the info to? God, I'm still chuckling at the "Attack of the killer dialogs...." -- 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] many icons, need space for more
by John Heinen 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

My screen is full with favored icons and I need more space, when I click on any desktop number I am still looking at the same screen. Still learning. appreciate comment, John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Making sense of KDE4
by Charles Obler 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Since we seem to be stuck with KDE 4 for a while, I decided that I might as well learn something about it. I've found several helpful tutorials, and I'm looking for others. http://techgage.com/article/ten_kde_4_tricks_worth_knowing_about/1 http://techgage.com/article/ten_kde_4_tricks_worth_knowing_about/2 http://hanswchen.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/how-do-you-use-activities -- 17 Nov 2009 http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma -- 24 Feb 2010 The first tutorial got me interested in Dolphin. I found out that I can split the screen, just as mc does. And I also have a konsole panel -- like mc, except that I don't have to do Ctrl-O to see the output. So Dolphin might actually be helpful, now and then! The other two tutorials introduced me to the "New KDE4 Concept" that we've all heard so much about. There must be something wrong with me, because I think I'm finally beginning to get it. In KDE 3.5, I organize my dozen or so desktop icons by putting all icons pertaining to a particular activity together on a row. For example, I have a row for configuration applications, a row for office applications, a row for pdf viewers -- believe it or not, there are four of them! If I understand KDE 4 correctly, I use "activities" instead of "rows" to group related applications together. On my desktop, I would have no applications at all -- only an "activity selector" bar. To get this "activity selector" on the desktop, I click on pager desktop-one twice -- to bring up the desktop -- then I click on the cashew. If I don't like cashews or can't find the cashew, I can right-click on the desktop itself. I then click on "unlock the widgets", and finally, on "add widget". The "activity bar" is the first widget I see. It's also the most important widget, as I've found out: Without it, there is no way to GET to my "activities". Now, I can start adding "activities". I do seem to need the desktop cashew for this. I click on "add activity" and a blank green wallpaper comes up. I right-click on the wallpaper and select "Desktop Activity Settings". I then select the "Activity" tab and turn the dummy "Desktop" into a "Folder". I get to give the "Folder" a name. When I close the "Desktop Accitivy settings" icons appear out of nowhere, all nicely aligned! Who selects these icons, I don't know. I just know that they are not exactly the icons I want. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to add new icons to the folder. I tried using the application launcher, and right-clicking before starting the application -- but there is no "add to folder" option. Finally, I right-clicked on the green area again. I noticed that the last option has changed from "Desktop Activity Settings" to "Folder Activity Settings". And I also noticed the first option: "Create New". I selected it and then selected "new link to application" -- the only suboption that made sense. Up came a properties box. I filled in the blanks with opera and selected the opera icon. What do you know?! -- opera appeared on my ghastly green folder! The problem is that I hate filling out property boxes. I'm never quite sure what working set to use, what operand codes to add to the command, etc.. It would be nice if there were template files I could just copy. Where would such files be? Probably in /opt/kde4 someplace. Except that they're not. So what about /usr? /usr/share/applications sounds like a good possibility. Yeah, there it is: opera.desktop. The next question: Where does the new property file end up? I specified a distinctive comment property, to make the file recognizable, and then started searching for it. I didn't find it in .kde or in .kde4 or in .local or anywhere else that made sense. Finally, I noticed a "Desktop" directory, and there I found my new file. This suggests that there may be a simple way to add icons to the folder -- just copy the property files from /usr/share/applications to ~/Desktop. However, I doubt that it is really that simple. What if I have several different "Folder" activities, each with a different "opera"? Because there is only one "Desktop" directory, all of these opera property files would have to have unique names. What am I missing? I discovered most of the procedures above through trial and error. And one of the errors I made was rather scary: I found myself with NO desktop, nothing but a white screen, with no cashews, no right-click functionality, and seemingly no escape. I did have the taskbar panel, however, and clicking on the "Show plasma dashboard" restored things, for reasons I do not understand. My recommendation then is to create a backup copy of the following directories before experimenting: ~/.kde ~./.kde4 ~ I realize that this must sound hopelessly simple-minded to 95% of the people on this list. But that still leaves 5% that may find my experience helpful. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] XIM and Simple composing input method
by Dog Walker 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

KDE input boxes allow the user to select an input method: Either XIM or Simple composing input method. My question is how do I use the methods to input "special characters" via the keyboard? Googling yields squat. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Yast2 Partitioner: Storage is locked by an unknown application
by Sandra Weddig 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

Moin! I get the follwing error, since I added a new S-ATA HDD to my server, if trying to open the Yast2 Partitioner: Fehler Das Speichersubsystem wird durch eine unbekannte Anwendung gesperrt. Sie müssen diese Anwendung beenden, bevor Sie fortfahren können. In Englist this means: Error The storagesubsystem is locked by an unknown application. You have to exit this application before you proceed. Here is the output of /var/log/Yast2/y2log: 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [Interpreter] clients/ disk_worker.ycp:50 Calling YaST client disk_worker 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <2> hostname(12907) [Interpreter] Encoding.ycp:30 Scripting agent sweeping 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <2> hostname(12907) [scr] ScriptingAgent.cc(parseSingleConfigFile):165 Ignoring re-registration of path '.target' 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <2> hostname(12907) [scr] ScriptingAgent.cc(parseSingleConfigFile):165 Ignoring re-registration of path '.sysconfig.storage' 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <2> hostname(12907) [scr] ScriptingAgent.cc(parseSingleConfigFile):165 Ignoring re-registration of path '.probe' 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <2> hostname(12907) [scr] ScriptingAgent.cc(parseSingleConfigFile):165 Ignoring re-registration of path '.etc.iscsid' 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [YCP] Encoding.ycp:37 list ["charmap=\"ISO-8859-1\"", ""] 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [YCP] Encoding.ycp:40 list ["charmap=\"ISO-8859-1\""] 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [YCP] Encoding.ycp:44 enc "ISO-8859-1" 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [YCP] Encoding.ycp:46 enc ISO-8859-1 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [YCP] Encoding.ycp:50 encoding ISO-8859-1 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [YCP] Partitions.ycp:128 EfiBoot ret:false 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [YCP] FileSystems.ycp:930 support $[`btrfs:true, `ext2:true, `ext3:true, `ext4:true, `jfs:true, `lvm:true, `ntfs:true, `raid:true, `reiser:true, `vfat:true, `xbootdisk:false, `xbootfat:false, `xfs:true, `xhibernate:true, `xxefi:false] 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [YCP] Storage.ycp:1836 SetPartMode CUSTOM 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [YCP] CommandLine.ycp:1229 ---------------------------------------- 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [YCP] CommandLine.ycp:1230 Command line interface started 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [YCP] Storage.ycp:291 InitLibstorage 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [libstorage] Lock.cc(Lock):56 getting read-write lock 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <3> hostname(12907) [libstorage] Lock.cc(Lock):69 opening lock-file failed: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <3> hostname(12907) [Interpreter] Storage.ycp:228 failed to read symlink /proc/0/exe: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <3> hostname(12907) [Interpreter] Storage.ycp:228 SCR::Read() failed 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [YCP] Storage.ycp:255 locker_pid:0 locker_name:nil 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [ui] YPushButton.cc(setFunctionKey):183 Guessing button role YOKButton for YPushButton "Fortfahren" at 0x12dfd98 from function key F10 2010-02-28 16:01:19 <1> hostname(12907) [ui] YPushButton.cc(setFunctionKey):183 Guessing button role YCancelButton for YPushButton "Abbrechen" at 0x12dd5c8 from function key F9 Do you know any solution or have a hint? Thanks, Sandra-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Skype Question...
by Jim Hatridge 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

Hi all, Does anyone know of a program (or something) that can tell me where the person you are talking to is? For example, I am speaking with a girl that says she's in Frankfurt, but she might be in India. Is there anyway of finding out for sure? Thanks JIM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] memtest86+ and ECC ?
by Per Jessen 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

I was trying to turn ECC on whilst checking some new memory, but it seemed to be ignored. I also tried enabling ECC and then restarting, didn't seem to make any difference. Has anyone else seen this? /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.2°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] tcp configuration
by Michel-G. .Maria-Sube 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

Hello, I encounter difficulties with TCP configuration and this, especially by using telnet, for exemple when I 'm typing: telnet 127.0.0.1 8080 I obtain the answer: Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused and this, assuming that list of present interfaces are configurated as follows: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:36:24:FC:51 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interruption:18 lo Link encap:Boucle locale inet adr:127.0.0.1 Masque:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:21454 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:21454 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:0 RX bytes:1515096 (1.4 Mb) TX bytes:1515096 (1.4 Mb) pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr BA:1C:ED:50:4E:15 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A4:3C:E2:52 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:21158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:17705 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000 RX bytes:15701963 (14.9 Mb) TX bytes:3038274 (2.8 Mb) Interruption:21 Mémoire:c0304000-c0306000 and loopback interface is setted 'up' netstat -nr gives (text is in french): Table de routage IP du noyau Destination Passerelle Genmask Indic MSS Fenêtre irtt Iface 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo But there is nothing in the arp table........arp -a returns nothing And also, in /etc/hosts localhost is declared as: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localhost.localdomain Why it is impossible to reach localhost through TCP layer? Thank you in advance for any suggestion Regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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