July 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Display doesn't start after hibernation
by arygroup＠gmail.com 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Opensuse 11.3 After I hybernate and turn on my comp my display turns off (while loading opensuse). I have to reboot to make it work. I tried to kill X with ctrl+alt+backspace, but this hanged up my comp. Can anyone advice a direction to digg? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Hangs during shutdown on 11.3
by Rodney Baker 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Hi all. My work laptop running 11.3/KDE4.4.95 with current updates as of today is now hanging on shutdown. After clicking on "Turn Off Computer" in KDE4 I am immediately (and I do mean immediately, almost instantly) dropped to the console prompt, the shutdown begins (with "Sending all processes the KILL signal") and then I get a black screen with a single cursor in the top rh corner. An occassional flicker of the HDD light happens but that is all - the machine sits indefintely until I do the magic SysRq Ctrl-Alt-PrtScr-S,U,B combination (that does work - the drives are reported as clean on next boot). I'm figuring to debug this I probably need to redirect the system console to the serial port and use my other laptop with minicom to watch the serial output and see what part of the shutdown process is hanging, but I'm not sure how to do this. What config files/grub options do I need to make this work? TIA, Rodney. -- =================================================== 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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Re[2]: [opensuse] So tried KDE4
by Илья Черных 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

> First comment.. stop trying to make KDE4 into KDE3 when you're tinkering with it. That will not work. KDE4 is NOT KDE 3. Gnome is also not KDE3 but under Gnome all this works. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] spellchecker behavior
by C. Brouerius van Nidek 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

The spellchecker behavior is strange and I am looking for an improvement. At every number in my email it stops and wants to replace it with a letter. Where could I teach the spellchecker to behave different? I am using English USA in KMail from a spellchecker with the name Sonnet. -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.34-12-default LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.4.93 (KDE 4.4.93 (KDE 4.5 >= 20100713)) 12:37pm up 2:50, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.31, 0.57 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kxkb ---- KDE4 vs. KDE3 --- new thread!!
by Radule Šoškić 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

On 07/23/2010 03:12 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I recommend to start a new thread on your KDE 4 issues _and_CC_me_ > > rather than hijacking this one. I'll triage the issues and file the > > bugs. Thanks. > > Hi list users, Dotan, It's an old issue, but I hesitated to mention it until now. I even remember it happened once long time ago, during one of the earlier SUSE release transitions (even before kde4 appeared), and it got fixed after some time. This time, it reappeared with the KDE4, and I hoped this time it will get fixed again. But, it didn't, even with the release of openSUSE 11.3. Ok, let me explain. It is about the little tool for controling keyboard layouts. The one that sits in the tray, usualy showing national flags. Its name is kxkb. In KDE3 it is part of kdebase3 package and in KDE4 it's part of kdebase4-workspace package. Despite the name, these are different programs, and on my machine the kde3 version is in /opt/kde3/bin directory and the kde4 version is in /usr/bin directory. I can run them independently, even concurrently (on my 11.1 and 11.2 boxes). The new version is missing "include latin layout" checkbox in the configure window. Thanks to this checkbox, the old version could easily switch from any national layout to latin and back, just by pressing one key. One could have as many national layouts installed as he wants, and while being in each one of them, one could switch to latin and back just by one key press. E.g. I used left win key for toggling between any layout and latin, while having scroll lock LED for indicating alternate layout at any time. All this was configurable through "Xkb Options" tab in Configure window. The new version can not do this. "Xkb Options" are now called "Advanced", and the left win key now cycles through all my keyboard layouts, instead of just switching from the current layout to latin and back. I agree this is not big deal for most of the users around the list. But, I am sure that there are still many like me, whose national keyboard is not plain latin. Cyrillic, greek, chinese etc... I, for example have at least three layouts installed, switching heavily among them. Compared to the old one, the new kxkb is so annoying that in kde4 I had to remove it and to return to the kde3 version. Now, in 11.3, such workaround is not even possible. I am not familiar with bugzilla, so I have to kindly ask Dotan to help me with this, if possible. Hope this will be solved soon. TIA and best regards, Radule Šoškić ~rms~ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Log in just cycles
by Wayne Hammond 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

I upgraded 11.2 to latest upgrades (online updates.) This requested a reboot. After reboot I could no longer log in either as root or a user. No error, just cycles back to the login screen. What are the steps to remedy this...? Thanks Wayne - -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ALT+F2 window hangs up
by arygroup＠gmail.com 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

OpenSuse 11.3, KDE Often the window called by ALT+F2 hangs. Does anyone meet the same problem? -- 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] So tried KDE4
by Will Stephenson 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

On Tuesday 27 July 2010 14:50:21 Anton Aylward wrote: > If this was called "Tolomberine" instead of KDE4, I'm sure we wouldn't > be having this silly thread. And this is what we (KDE hat on now) are trying to do by calling things differently so that now: * KDE is the gang of villains responsible for the whole enchilada * KDE Platform is what app developers can use to build on 14 years of incremental improvement * Plasma Desktop is the software which mostly replaces the KDE 3 desktop for most people. I like Tolomberine too, want me to roll you some packages with that in the displaymanager session list? Better late than never, I hope you'll agree. Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Google Chrome pdf plugin for Linux
by Bogdan Cristea 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Does anyone know when will be release a plugin for viewing pdf files (into an internal or external pdf viewer) in Google Chrome ? -- 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: kxkb ---- KDE4 vs. KDE3
by Dotan Cohen 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 17:42, Радуле Шошкић <rms(a)telekom.rs> wrote: > On 07/27/2010 03:15 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> >>> On 07/23/2010 03:12 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> >> >> Thanks Radule. Might one of these be appropriate: >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176113 >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204144 >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224489 >> >> I also use three keyboard layouts (English, Hebrew, and Russian) and >> it drives me nuts to cascade through all of them whenever I switch. >> > > Hi Dotan, > > Thanks for such a prompt answer. I can only imagine how huge your effort is, > working on all these bugs and user requests in KDE4. > > I am afraid none of the three bugs correspond to what I complained about. At > least, as far as I understood them. > It is this bug which addresses the issue of switching directly to a particular layout without going through all the others: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224489 It has the advantage that Latin is not preferred, as is the case for "Include Latin Layout". With this method, you could jump right from Serb to Russian and back. > I'll try to give the two scenarios compared. The first one (A) is the old > one - the one that I am happy with. The other one (B) is what is offered > with KDE4 release. Sorry for verbosity, hope you'll read it all patiently :) > > (A) KDE3 > > 1- Start kxkb (directly, or through "enable layouts" in Control > Panel/Configure Desktop/Personal Settings/Whatever)... A small US flag > appears in tray. > 2- Right-click on the flag, and select "configure" > 3- In "layout" tab, tick "enable layouts" checkbox on and add as many > layouts as you like. Note that for each of them you can choose "layout > variant" (drop-down list), "label" (free text edit) and "include latin > layout" (tickbox/checkbox). I choose, for example, one serbian default > layout with label CP, one serbian latinunicode layout with label SR, and one > greek default layout and default label. For all of them I tick "include > latin layout" > 4- In "Xkb Options" tab I tick "enable xkb options" on. > 5- Then I tick on "Layout switching" and choose "left win-key change layout" > from the underlaying option list > 6- I also tick "Use keyboard LED to show alternative layout" and choose > "Scroll lock LED shows alternative layout" option > > Note that corresponding command shows up in the editbox below: > "setxkbmap -option grp:lwin_toggle,grp_led:scroll" > > Now, I click OK and start using my layouts. > > First, I can cycle through my layouts - either by left-clicking on the flag > icon, or by right-clicking menu choice, or by default keyboard shortcut > ctrl-K. In each of the states, the keyboard layout of choice is active - I > can write greek, serbian cyril, serbian latin or us. > > But (very important) - while being in any of non-us layouts I can just press > left win-key and my layout is immediatelly changed to latin us. The flag > icon stays unchanged, the layout change is indicated just with scroll lock > LED. When I want to switch back to my original language I press left win-key > again. Here I am back to my CP, SR, GR, whatever. > > > (B) KDE4.X > > > Steps 1 to 3 are same or similar, but there is no "include latin layout" > option. > Step 4 is no more "Xkb options" - now it's called "advanced". > Steps 5 and 6 are same/similar > > Now, when I use my layouts, I can cycle through "flags" as above, but with > one major difference: left win-key now cycles as well - it shows the same > beaviour as ctrl-K. > > So, in KDE4, I lost a very convenient feature. I think it is a bug, because > there is no more use of the "alternate layout" concept... Formerly, every > layout could have an alternete latin us (and keyboard switchable and > configurable). Now this alternate layout is not recognized any more. > > I hope this helps you to reproduce the bug. And, yes, I wander whether > contacting the author directly might be of any help with this problem. What > do you think? > > Best regards > > ~rms~ > > Yes, I am familiar with the issue as I had used "Include Latin Layout" in the past. Tell me, is there any use case where bug 224489 would not be appropriate, but "Include Latin Layout" would be? > Last minute update: I just noticed that on my "Factory repo updated" box > (11.1 + KDE 4.4.95) thigs changed even further on. The quick check revealed > that the news are not good - it's just config panels changed their place in > Personal settings, steps to approach them are different, but the bug still > remains. I'll investigate further - but for now I am afraid there is no kxkb > any more - this seems to be just another widget now! Arghh! > I did see that, but it worked fine for me in the few minutes that I tested it. The only difference was that the flags are outside the system tray, not inside. This did not bother me. Is there a use case that I missed? Does it not work well with three languages (I likely tested only with Latin and Hebrew)? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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