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[opensuse] update repository for 11.2
by James D. Parra 19 May '11

19 May '11

Hello, I was trying to get a copy of the updates for 11.2 last week with wget, but ran into some problems. Try again today, but could not connect. Are the repositories for 11.2 gone? Does anyone have a copy? Thank you, James -- 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: copy/mv in MC
by Charles Philip Chan 18 May '11

18 May '11

"Carlos E. R." <robin.listas(a)gmail.com> writes: > That is interesting. Where is the list of such tokens? In the manpage: ,---- | Macro Substitution | When accessing a user menu, or executing an extension dependent command, or running a | command from the command line input, a simple macro substitution takes place. | | The macros are: | | %i The indent of blank space, equal the cursor column position. For edit menu | only. | | %y The syntax type of current file. For edit menu only. | | %k The block file name. | | %e The error file name. | | %m The current menu name. | | %f and %p | The current file name. | | %x The extension of current file name. | | %b The current file name without extension. | | %d The current directory name. | | %F The current file in the unselected panel. | | %D The directory name of the unselected panel. | | %t The currently tagged files. | | %T The tagged files in the unselected panel. | | %u and %U | Similar to the %t and %T macros, but in addition the files are untagged. You | can use this macro only once per menu file entry or extension file entry, | because next time there will be no tagged files. | | %s and %S | The selected files: The tagged files if there are any. Otherwise the current | file. | | %cd This is a special macro that is used to change the current directory to the | directory specified in front of it. This is used primarily as an interface to | the Virtual File System. | | %view This macro is used to invoke the internal viewer. This macro can be used | alone, or with arguments. If you pass any arguments to this macro, they | should be enclosed in brackets. | | The arguments are: ascii to force the viewer into ascii mode; hex to force the | viewer into hex mode; nroff to tell the viewer that it should interpret the | bold and underline sequences of nroff; unformatted to tell the viewer to not | interpret nroff commands for making the text bold or underlined. | | %% The % character | | %{some text} | Prompt for the substitution. An input box is shown and the text inside the | braces is used as a prompt. The macro is substituted by the text typed by the | user. The user can press ESC or F10 to cancel. This macro doesn't work on the | command line yet. | | %var{ENV:default} | If environment variable ENV is unset, the default is substituted. Otherwise, | the value of ENV is substituted. `---- Charles -- "Besides, I think [Slackware] sounds better than 'Microsoft,' don't you?" (By Patrick Volkerding)

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[opensuse] old 9.3 question
by Tony Alfrey 18 May '11

18 May '11

Hello; Might be too ancient to get an answer on SuSE 9.3 but . . . . At one time, there was some keystroke combination (Alt-F3 maybe?) that would unfreeze a KDE desktop and deliver a /new/ desktop or at least allow one to bring up a terminal to go in and kill an offending or hung process. Does anyone know? Thanks! -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey(a)earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- 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: Installing both .i586 and .x86_64 version of the same package
by Joachim Schrod 18 May '11

18 May '11

Andreas Jaeger wrote: > On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 10:43:13 Joachim Schrod wrote: >> >> What would be the correct way to inquire for addition of such >> baselibs.conf files to standard openSUSE packages -- via Bugzilla, >> or via OpenFATE? Maybe I could trigger to get them into 12.1, and >> thus would get them without own package building the next time. > > Either via bugzilla or direct as a patch - branch the package, update it, and > submit the fixed version back... :-) I'll look into it. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- 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: Installing both .i586 and .x86_64 version of the same package
by Joachim Schrod 18 May '11

18 May '11

Michael Schroeder wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:51:09AM +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote: >> On openSUSE 11.4 x86_64; I'd like to install both >> >> libtcnative-1-0.x86_64=1.3.3-6.2 >> libtcnative-1-0.i586=1.3.3-6.2 >> >> I.e., both the 32bit and the 64bit versions of that library. Fwiw, >> this is runtime stuff for Tomcat. (I suppose, what I really want is >> a libtcnative-1-0-32bit package; but I didn't find one.) > > Install the 'build-mkbaselibs' package and do > echo 'libtcnative-1-0' > baselibs.conf > /usr/lib/mkbaselibs -c /usr/lib/build/baselibs_global.conf -c baselibs.conf <rpm> > on the libtcnative-1-0.i586 rpm. It'll create a '-32bit' package > that you can install. > > (The buildservice automatically does this if the source a > "baselibs.conf" file.) Thanks, that's a nice quickfix; while I set up a repository to use the buildservice. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- 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] Re: Installing both .i586 and .x86_64 version of the same package
by Andreas Jaeger 18 May '11

18 May '11

On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 10:43:13 Joachim Schrod wrote: > Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 03:13 +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote: > >> How are the -32bit rpms normally created? I wanted to look if there > >> is a .spec file that creates them from the i586 packages; but > >> zypper source-install tells me it doesn't find appropriate source > >> packages for any -32bit.rpm that I tried. > > > > Some packages have a baselibs.conf file, instruction the build service > > to create the -32bit packages. > > Ah, I see. That's easy; so I'm going to make my own changed lib > packages when 32bit variants are missing. > > What would be the correct way to inquire for addition of such > baselibs.conf files to standard openSUSE packages -- via Bugzilla, > or via OpenFATE? Maybe I could trigger to get them into 12.1, and > thus would get them without own package building the next time. Either via bugzilla or direct as a patch - branch the package, update it, and submit the fixed version back... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE aj(a){novell.com,suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Installing both .i586 and .x86_64 version of the same package
by Joachim Schrod 18 May '11

18 May '11

Hello, On openSUSE 11.4 x86_64; I'd like to install both libtcnative-1-0.x86_64=1.3.3-6.2 libtcnative-1-0.i586=1.3.3-6.2 I.e., both the 32bit and the 64bit versions of that library. Fwiw, this is runtime stuff for Tomcat. (I suppose, what I really want is a libtcnative-1-0-32bit package; but I didn't find one.) I didn't find a way to do so; it can't be solved via multiversion config, as they are the same version. Is there a way to do this, short of taking the source rpm, renaming it, and creating one's own package? Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- 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: Installing both .i586 and .x86_64 version of the same package
by Joachim Schrod 18 May '11

18 May '11

Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 03:13 +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote: > >> How are the -32bit rpms normally created? I wanted to look if there >> is a .spec file that creates them from the i586 packages; but >> zypper source-install tells me it doesn't find appropriate source >> packages for any -32bit.rpm that I tried. > > Some packages have a baselibs.conf file, instruction the build service > to create the -32bit packages. Ah, I see. That's easy; so I'm going to make my own changed lib packages when 32bit variants are missing. What would be the correct way to inquire for addition of such baselibs.conf files to standard openSUSE packages -- via Bugzilla, or via OpenFATE? Maybe I could trigger to get them into 12.1, and thus would get them without own package building the next time. Joachim PS: Thanks a lot for your offer to set up a repository for me. Luckily for you, it's not needed. :-) :-) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- 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: Installing both .i586 and .x86_64 version of the same package
by Joachim Schrod 18 May '11

18 May '11

Philipp Thomas wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2011 00:51:09 +0200, Joachim Schrod <jschrod(a)acm.org> > wrote: > >>Is there a way to do this, short of taking the source rpm, renaming >>it, and creating one's own package? > > Renaming it won't help. You need a 32 bit runtime package. We have > them in the distribution as packages with -32bit in their names. These > are essentially the bare dynamic libs taken from the i586 packages. > This is so that there is no overlap between the 32 and the 64 bit > packages. Well, I suspected that, but considered to ask before exploring other directions. There ain't no 32 bit runtime packages for the libraries that I need, namely libapr1 and libtcnative-1-0. (I need to have a Tomcat test environment with 32bit Java.) How are the -32bit rpms normally created? I wanted to look if there is a .spec file that creates them from the i586 packages; but zypper source-install tells me it doesn't find appropriate source packages for any -32bit.rpm that I tried. If there is no automatism that I can re-use, I'll probably have to go forward and write such a .spec file. Anyhow, thanks a lot for the quick answer, it pointed me already to the right direction. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Up to date recommendation for photo scanner
by Duaine Hechler 17 May '11

17 May '11

What is the latest status on slide scanners for Linux ? Thanks, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- 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] LibreOffice Spacing Bug causes Pre-defined Templates to print incorrectly
by David C. Rankin 17 May '11

17 May '11

On 04/27/2011 08:38 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: > Things like this keep me off, I refuse to let YaST update OOo to libre in > my 11.2. :-( > > For me, this office application is also crucial. > +1 What really blows my mind is how these "Flagship" applications get released to the entire Linux community, picked up by the major distros, and then distributed to all end users -- and -- Nobody has even tested this stuff??? You would think there is some default set of documents that would at least get printed before each release to make sure they print the same as they did in the last release. The complete lack of print/format testing of the office suites is just one example of what makes it impossible for business to rely on opensource for desktop use. The other is the realization that it can take the office suite devs over a year to address and fix these issues. All of this highlight areas where simple additions to the QA process prior to release and quick work to repair identified problems in critical areas can greatly advance viability of opensource as a business desktop alternative. As it sits now, the cost to business organizations of one of these type mess-ups is massive. Even at a bare minimum, if each business lost no more than 2 hours trying to figure out why in the heck they can't get the documents or labels to print right anymore plus the time required to troubleshoot to the point of discovering that there is a default spacing difference between OO and Libre, the cost across all businesses using opensource is staggering. Right now I have to keep both OO and Libre installed. OO for re-printing all the documents created over the past 10 years. And yes, it is a BIG deal when the Judge's signature block ends up on a different page or all the Page X, Paragraph Y references in a document are no longer correct. Here's to hoping the bug is identified and corrected swiftly :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Ex disk problem
by James Hatridge 17 May '11

17 May '11

Hi all, I got one of the cheap IOmega 1tb external HDs. Well I drop the !"§$! thing and now it will not work. Do you guys think if I break it open that the disk might still be usable? I really would like to get my data off the disk. Thanks, JIM -- The US was colonized by the religious, political, economic, and criminal rejects of every country in the world. We have been carefully breeding insane, obsessive, fanatic lunatics with each other for over 400 years, resulting in the glorious strain of humanity known as "Americans". You have to expect some... peculiarities. -Mark Damon Hughes -- 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: incomplete shutdown
by Joachim Schrod 17 May '11

17 May '11

Carlos E. R. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2011-05-15 10:02, benefici(a)fastmail.fm wrote: >> This is indeed the correct place to change the parameter. I changed the halt >> script instead (as described here: >> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679671)) so that it only affects >> shutdown. Booting the system still runs in parallel. > > Ah, that's a hack :-) Naahh, a hack (mine :-)) was to put "sync; sleep 2" into boot.local to be sure that disk buffers were flushed before the incomplete shutdown. And then I waited for a thread to appear that mentions better workarounds or even solutions. And RUN_PARALLEL=no is a solution for me; I boot only on kernel/libc updates. The need to do this at 1st hand reminded me of my first few years with Unix V7, back in 1982, when we always called sync multiple times and waited for the (loud) 20 MB disk to settle down before we shut down the system. Now, my /boot wouldn't even fit on the disk that once ran a whole Unix system... ;-) ;-) Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] opennms
by Hans Witvliet 16 May '11

16 May '11

Any peope around familliar with opennms [in general]? I noticed that there is version of the networkmonitoring package "opennms" on the OBS available, and i have a question about it. Is it true that if one has a up-and-running openms machine, and there are bugfixes (security) patches available [i don't mean major upgrades] that one can not simply apply those patches but have to move the configuration carefully and ?? It looks like i clobbered somebodys machine, just by simply applying a update. I didn't knew that opennms was so very sensitive/picky.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Running a command on resume and boot
by Jeffrey L. Taylor 16 May '11

16 May '11

I need to run a command to disable the touchpad every time my ThinkPad T520 starts up from sleep/hibernation/boot. It probably could be disabled in the BIOS but I prefer something easier to change if I am letting a touchpad comfortable person use it. TIA, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Is it possible to install QT 3?
by Thierry de Coulon 16 May '11

16 May '11

I'm testing 11.4, but I have a problem. I still use a recto-verso Kodak scanner, and it's software requires QT 3. I don't seem to be able to find anything else than documentation about QT 3 There will be other requirements (lique mono elements) but for the time being QT 3 is the show stopper. Any idea is welcome, Thierry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.4 BASH - tilde expansion - isn't expanding when used in variable? Help?
by David C. Rankin 16 May '11

16 May '11

Guys, Here is a strange bashism. I want to check that ~/tde/tgz exists or I want to create the directory. So I do: # set tgzdir for output of tarballs tgzdir="${2:-~/tde/tgz}" [[ -d "$tgzdir" ]] || mkdir -p "$tgzdir" To my surprise, it created a directory named '~' in the pwd: scr/~/ scr/~/tde/ scr/~/tde/tgz/ Huh?? I know I could use $HOME instead, but I want to understand what rule I'm violating. Seems like I've successfully used this in the past. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] incomplete shutdown
by benefici＠fastmail.fm 15 May '11

15 May '11

Hi, My desktop PC (with openSUSE 11.4) does not shutdown completely at times. This is very worrying as one of the steps missed is the unmounting of file systems. Then of course on the next boot-up the file systems are found unclean. Unfortunately I have also lost data because of this. I started collecting evidence about the problem by making video recordings of shutdown messages. I compared a complete shutdown with an incomplete one and found that the messages up to "Running /etc/init.d/halt.local" were present in both videos (in a different order). Then the following messages were missing from the incomplete shutdown: Turning off swap files Set Hardware Clock to the current System Time Unmounting file systems none has been unmounted /dev/md6 has been unmounted /dev/md7 has been unmounted Shutting down MD Raid Stopping udevd: After that both videos finished with the same messages: Sending all processes the TERM signal... Sending all processes the KILL signal... The system will be halted immediately. The above two videos were recorded about 2 hours apart, first the complete then the incomplete one. I did nothing special in between - used digiKam, checked my e-mail etc. I did not update my system or changed any system files. Any ideas how to track down / fix this problem? Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] CD/DVD spin-up and file manager?
by C 15 May '11

15 May '11

Is there any way to stop the spin-up of the CD/DVD drive unless I explicitly access/mount that drive? I've got a DVD "parked" (not mounted) in a DVD drive. Every time I open my file manager, the DVD drive has to spin up before I can use the file manager. This adds a huge delay to the file manager startup time. As well, if I have the file manager open, but in the background, and the DVD spins down (stops), I have to wait for it to spin up again it I happen to try to do anything in the open file manager. Yes, I could simply remove the DVD from the drive, but... this is not always easy since the computer case is somewhat inaccessible at times, and periodically I will need to mount the DVD. System is openSUSE 11.4 with KDE 4.6.3. It's not a terribly big deal.. just a minor annoyance that I'd like to "fix" if possible. 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] Xorg crashes randomly
by Christoph Bartoschek 15 May '11

15 May '11

Hi, I have several problems with X11 on Opensuse 11.4. There were several problems from the beginning but last week Xorg started to crash randomly and the system got unusable. I have an ThinkPad T43 with the following graphics card: Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility X300 (M22) 5460 (PCIE)" (ChipID = 0x5460) The problems were: 1. I have a display attached with 1920x1200 pixels. However Opensuse always starts with 1400x1050 even if I start in a docking station with closed lcd display. To switch to 1920x1200 I have to switch off the LCD with the following command: xrandr --output LVDS --off; xrandr --size 1920x1200 2. After switching to 1920x1200 motif application show strange artifacts when they are big enough. I do not know when the problems start but I see problems with windows that are smaller than 1400x1050. The new problem is: 3. The Xorg server crashes randomly. It happens for example when I press Alt+F2, or when I start an application from a remote site, or when I open a drop down menu in amaraok. I see no pattern here. I think this is a software problem with Opensuse 11.4 because: - Opensuse 11.3 showed no problem on the same hardware - I borrowed a T43 from my coworker, switched the hard disks and got the same crashes on his hardware. Does anyone have an idea what is going wrong and what I could do to resolve the problems? Thanks Christoph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] encrypted partitions: aes kernel module not loaded on boot
by Jan Ritzerfeld 15 May '11

15 May '11

Hey! I am using 11.4 and an encrypted home partition that gets mountend on boot. It is encrypted with aes. My Intel Core i5 supports the AES instructions set. However, on boot, no aes kernel module is loaded at all. Thus, only the built-in aes is used. The "detection" for the correct aes module works: karl:~ # modprobe -v aes insmod /lib/modules/2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop/kernel/arch/x86/crypto/aesni- intel.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock- aes.ko WARNING: Error inserting padlock_aes (/lib/modules/2.6.37.6-0.5- desktop/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.ko): No such device IIRC, with previous openSUSE verions, the WARNING above was shown on each boot, too. Now, it is not anymore. Thus, I assume that the "modprobe aes" command was completely removed from an init script or something like that. However, I am not quite sure whether this is a bug or feature request. Gruß Jan -- Those who don't study the past will repeat it's errors. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Does gnome 3 really suck that bad?
by David C. Rankin 15 May '11

15 May '11

It's Friday, I haven't tortured myself in a while so I thought I would start gnome and see if it had improved any in 3.0 -- bad mistake... How in the hell do you use this thing?? It took me a while to figure out how to "log off" (under the cute little "MS Messenger" looking icon with your name on it). I'm sure gnome 3 is great and all, but it just blows me away at how all the recent desktop development is supposed to be an "improvement", yet not even be able to find the darn dialog to change the theme anymore. I take it gnome 3 is "not yet ready for use?" -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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: How to install the pex Server
by samk＠twinix.com 14 May '11

14 May '11

See Thread at: http://www.techienuggets.com/Detail?tx=29830 Posted on behalf of a User jkh\ In Response To: Dear All, I want to install the Linux Pex Server for 10.3 ..then I can install the suse OS automa.. If someone can give me some the detail step of this ,thanks at first :) Regards Kalvin Weng AT&S (China) Co.,Ltd Tel.: +86 21 24080509 Email: k.noway(a)spam.com This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+noway(a)spam.com For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+noway(a)spam.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] keys
by Gustav Degreef 14 May '11

14 May '11

Hi folks, I need help in mapping the escape key to a new key or key combination on my wife's laptop. The escape key stopped working completely, but the rest of the keyboard is fine. Using opensuse 11.2 - 64bit, KDE 4.3.5 I went to Desktop Settings, ---> system settings -> input actions I added a new action and selected the new input key combination. But that's as far as I get, I can't figure out how to designate the ESC key in the "action" tab. I googled, but can not find out how to designate the ESC key. Pointers would be appreciated. Gustav. -- 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: Does gnome 3 really suck that bad?
by Malcolm 13 May '11

13 May '11

On Fri, 13 May 2011 16:40:17 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > It's Friday, > > I haven't tortured myself in a while so I thought I would start > gnome and see if it had improved any in 3.0 -- bad mistake... > > How in the hell do you use this thing?? It took me a while to > figure out how to "log off" (under the cute little "MS Messenger" > looking icon with your name on it). > > I'm sure gnome 3 is great and all, but it just blows me away at > how all the recent desktop development is supposed to be an > "improvement", yet not even be able to find the darn dialog to change > the theme anymore. I take it gnome 3 is "not yet ready for use?" > > Hi Didn't take me long to rework my mind... looks good here, gnome-tweak-tool and user-theme extension, themes are minimal; http://gnome-shell.deviantart.com/ You will find a lot of tweaks will/can be done via extensions. https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop up 1 day 2:49, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.05 GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 270.41.06 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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