September 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] latest openoffice
by Andrew Colvin 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Hi all I had upgraded to the latest unstable openoffice from the build service and i am seeing a strange thing. When in base and I create a form all the toolbars disappear and i cant get them back even when in design mode nor can I get the property dialogues for controls to display I have 11.3 64bit with kde upgraded to the kde 4.5 repo. I then reverted ooo to the stable version and this broke the ooo install completely. To fix it I had to do a complete removal of the unstable ooo and install the stable version again ensuring that the ooo directory had gone from lib64 Additionally do others find that in the relations diagram positions and sizing of tables are not remembered between each opening of the window. Tried this on Stable and Unstable with/without the kde integration. However not installed the base sun (oops oracle) version to see if it is there Andrew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] move /home to new partition - sanity check
by David C. Rankin 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Guys, Looking before I leap, I just thought I would check that my thinking for moving /home to a new partition (/data below) is sound. Current partitions: 17:40 nemesis:~> df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 10M 228K 9.8M 3% /dev /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap5 19G 9.3G 8.2G 54% / none 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap6 114M 35M 74M 32% /boot /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap7 37G 29G 6.2G 83% /home /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap9 15G 5.4G 8.3G 40% /var /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap10 29G 6.4G 22G 24% /srv /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap12 581G 56G 496G 11% /data /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap11 7.1G 145M 6.6G 3% /home/david/pvt Plan: cp -a /home /data vi /etc/inittab (change partition mounts data->home, home->data) reboot Seems incredibly simple - see any gotchas? -- 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] New install of 11.3/kde --two puzzles
by Stan Goodman 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Besides the fact that the installation seems to have corrupted GRUB, this new install seems to be performing properly. There are two functions with what I think are gaps in my understanding: 1) When a USB stick is inserted, I can see its icon in the Konqueror file browser. Whereas in older versions, clicking on this icon caused this icon to open a window revealing the contents, this one shows me a message saying: "There is no application installed that can open files on the block device (inode/block device). Do you want to try to install one?" What must I do to get it to open an icon view of the stick. 2) I have copied the content of a v11.2 install's Network Settings in order to set up communications. I ping the router and other devices on the local net, but not even IP addresses outside. I have gone over the comparison several times and don't find anything lacking or different. What might I be missing? -- 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] Release date for pdf plugin for Google Chrome
by Bogdan Cristea 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Does anyone know when the pdf plugin for Google Chrome will be released ? Currently there is a bug report on this issue dated 4 sept 2010, but when trying to view a pdf file the plugin is reported as missing. -- 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-obs-generator is looking for a new name
by Michal Hrusecky 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

You probably already [5]heard about that. Some time ago, [6]Luboš [7]created really great tool - [8]kde-obs-generator. This tool takes a simple config and analyze tarball with sources. Then it will try to create spec file, dsc file and everything you need to build package from that. Easy to use even for non-packagers ;-) One little potential inconvinience with kde-obs-generator was that it depended on one KDE core library. Not really problem in openSUSE, just one little library to install, but it might be more complicated elsewhere. On other distributions dependency on this one KDE library might be non-trivial and pull in quite some KDE components. And some folks might dislike it even because something not so practical. I can imagine that it may sound quite funny packaging Gnome application with KDE application ;-) So with some poking (and little help) from our side, Luboš dropped the dependency on KDE libraries and now it depends only on Qt. So as it no longer depends on KDE, name kde-obs-generator doesn't really describe this tool well. So we are looking for a new name! Ideas suggested so far are obs-generator and Packager-O-Matic. But we know that our community can be really creative - we got the name for our chameleon in Prague ZOO from our community - so we are asking for your help again. Please propose some names for this great tool in [9]questionare. And if you are going to openSUSE Conference or you know somebody going there and your proposal will be selected, then you you can win plush Geeko! 5. http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4265 6. http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/280 7. http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4177 8. http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kde-obs-generator?content=121094 9. http://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?formkey=dHdmM1ljMDhoUFFBUDM1bjJ… Blogpost about that available at http://bit.ly/9ppw8s -- Michal HRUSECKY SUSE LINUX, s.r.o openSUSE Boosters Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xFED656F6 19000 Praha 9 mhrusecky[at]suse.cz Czech Republic http://michal.hrusecky.net http://www.suse.cz

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[opensuse] printing from firefox - selecting paper source
by Per Jessen 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Because I got my previous issue solved really fast, I thought I'd try one that's been annoying me for a while: I have a Kyocera laser printer, hooked up via cups. It has three input sources - manual feeder, and two paper cassettes. Most applications (e.g. knode, acrobat, openoffice) show these three as MPF, Cassette 1 and Cassette 2. Firefox however, uses MPF, Cassette 1 and "Printer Default" - the problem is that when I choose "Printer Default" (=Cassette 2, the default), Firefox complains "Some of the settings in the dialogue conflicts". How do I figure out what the problem is and why does only Firefox have it? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (12.1°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] OpenOffice.org forked....
by C 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

It is official... http://www.documentfoundation.org 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] 11.3 rpm -e painfully slow - howto tell it not to call gconftool-2
by David C. Rankin 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Guys, I have misplaced my notes on how to fix rpm on 11.3 so it doesn't call gconftool-2? It took over 9 minutes to uninstall compiz and that's just ridiculous: [21:40 zephyr/home/david/suse/compiz] # rpm -qa | grep "compiz" | sort compiz-0.9.0-72.1.i586 compiz-branding-upstream-0.9.0-72.1.i586 compiz-devel-0.9.0-72.1.i586 compiz-emerald-0.8.6-13.1.i586 compiz-gnome-0.9.0-72.1.i586 compiz-kde4-0.9.0-72.1.i586 compiz-lang-0.9.0-72.1.noarch compiz-plugins-extra-0.9.0-12.4.i586 compiz-plugins-main-0.9.0-7.6.i586 compiz-plugins-unsupported-0.9.0-6.1.i586 compizconfig-settings-manager-0.9.0-7.1.noarch libcompizconfig-0.9.0-3.1.i586 libcompizconfig-devel-0.9.0-3.1.i586 python-compizconfig-0.9.0-14.2.i586 [21:41 zephyr/home/david/suse/compiz] # rpm -e --nodeps $(rpm -qa | grep "compiz") python-ccm [21:50 zephyr/home/david/suse/compiz] # What's the trick? -- 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] Basic 11.3 questions
by Bob S 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Hello SuSE people, Basic info: Until recently I had 3 SuSE OS's running on my box. 10.2, 11.0, (KDE3) and 11.2 (KDE4) I played with 11.2 and it was OK but didn't like KDE4 very much and hoping it would improve. This is not a flame! So back off ! I want to see KDE4 work the way I want it too. So I "upgraded" 11.2 to 11.3. Disaster! Nothing worked right. Reinstalled 11.3 as a new "clean" install. (losing all of my configurtions from 11.2) a slightly less disaster. Wouldn't boot except in "safe mode" and a startx. Regular boot complained about the nouveau driver and dumped me out and shut down. Once inside, in safe mode, I began to investigate. Three different kernels in boot , which i cleaned out except for the latest one. Seven different device mappers which varied considerably. Nine different menu.lsts which all varied, (why is that? why so many?) (does something search all of them ?) and the Yast partitioner incorrectly identified the hard drives (2 pata and one sata) differently from the other 3 OS's which were correct. It also didn't show all of the bootable common partitions of all the other OS's. I have 5 such partitions which are common and mountable to any of the other OS's for datastorage, workspace etc. where I can put things from one OS and access it from another. Isn't the partitioner "global"? The same for any SuSE OS on the computer? The others used it "globally" invoking all of the "labels" and "fstab" entries. Set me straight on this. I'm afraid to correct the partitioner in 11.3 for fear of screwing up the other OS's. Hope somebody can set me straight on the basics. 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] C help needed (howto eliminate: warning: ‘shape_names’ defined but not used)
by David C. Rankin 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

Guys, This is a simple question, but I've googled and gnu c'ed myself into confusion on how to declare and make a simple static const char * have global scope and be available to a different source file without generating a warning that it is 'defined but not used' in the original file. Here is what I mean. I have a set of functions and data in files atm_fn.c and atm_fn.h (atmospheric functions) In atm_fn.h I have: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <math.h> #ifndef __atm_fn_h__ #define __atm_fn_h__ enum shapes {c172, airfoil, sphere_smooth, sphere_rough, cone, cube45, cyl_long, airfoil_2, cube, cyl_short, human, plate_flat_3d, plate_flat_2d }; static const char *shape_names[] = {"c172", "airfoil", "sphere_smooth", "sphere_rough", "cone", "cube45", "cyl_long", "airfoil_2", "cube", "cyl_short", "human", "plate_flat_3d", "plate_flat_2d" }; <snip> #endif I use the function in a test file strarray.c. There I have: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <math.h> #include <string.h> #include "atm_fn.h" const char *get_shape(int shp); <snip> const char *get_shape (int shp) { return shape_names[shp]; } <snip> When I compile it, I get the warning: 22:50 alchemy:~/dev/prg/ccpp/src-c/prj/test> gcc -o strt -Wall -lm -std=c99 strarray.c atm_fn.c atm_fn.h:14: warning: ‘shape_names’ defined but not used 14 static const char *shape_names[]... I can't figure out how to get rid of the warning -- or whether I should even care. Second, the enum gives no warning. I'm sure that there is a rule that I don't know that says the enum is fine like this, but what about the warning on 'shape_names'? Since there are a number of functions that will access the 'shape_names' array, I don't want to duplicate it. What's the best way to handle this? Wrap it in a struct (class like) data structure and declare a new instance in whatever source I'm using it in? Dunno -- that's why I'm asking the smart folks :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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