August 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] IMAP .. Dovecot ... fetchmail ... postfix ... procmail ...
by Anton Aylward 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

I have a pretty by-the-book (or HowTo) setup that get mail from remote locations using fetchmail, passes it though postfix which then sees ~/.forward and leads to procmail to process via spamassassin and sanitiser and put it into mailboxes which are eventually read over IMAP using a Dovecot server. I get to wonder ... This is a bit heavy handed. All the mail is for me, this is not a corporate server. Yes, I have many addresses but they are all 'me'. It is procmail that determines the mailbox. So I'm wondering if there is a way to get postfix out of the loop for INCOMING mail. -- I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. --Robert Ingersoll (The Ghosts) -- 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 - disappearing system tray?
by Greg Freemyer 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

All, I installed 11.4 on a new laptop yesterday. I had the system tray disappear when I applied the first large set of online updates. I moved .kde out of the way and let it re-recreate. That brought my system tray back for a couple operational hours. Now I was just web browsing etc. and the system tray went away again. When it happens I lose wireless. Anyone know what's going on? Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Poor battery life with Opensuse 11.4
by Jeff Hoare 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Hi, I have a thinkpad e520 that I am running opensuse 11.4 tumbleweed on. While most everything works I notice that the battery life is quite poor under linux compared to windows. I can only get maybe a couple of hours under linux but 4-5 hours under windows. These have dual graphics (intel + AMD Radeon HD 6630M switchable). I have blacklisted the radeon module so that (hopefully) only the inbuilt intel graphics is used. The radeon module is no longer loaded and intel sandybridge is shown as the driver in gnome, but still the battery doesn't last long. I do notice that the fan seems to be constantly on. Is there anything that I can try to improve the battery life or is this just the state of things under linux for this type of laptop Regards Jeff -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] CLI access to Android Atrix?
by Michael Fischer 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Just got an Atrix G4. Google hasn't been very useful at telling me how to do CLI access to the files there via USB and CLI (cli on the attached desktop machine) Any advice? TIA. Michael -- Michael Fischer michael(a)visv.net -- 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: [opensuse-kde] openSUSE's most annoying KDE bugs
by Roger Oberholtzer 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 18:53 +0200, Martin Schlander wrote: > Mandag den 29. august 2011 15:11:00 skrev Sven Burmeister: > > Am Montag, 29. August 2011, 10:24:09 schrieb Ismail Donmez: > > > On 08/28/2011 04:35 PM, Sven Burmeister wrote: > > > > Hey! > > > > > > > > KDE has two bugs in the "most annoying section" which seem to be > > > > resolvable. > > > > > > > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675405 has patches > > > > upstream. > > > > > > This should be fixed in our KDE 4.7 packages already. > > > > Sure, but ther are users who rely on official packages+updates. And unless > > KDE 4.7 is shipped as an official update for 11.4 those people will have a > > crashing network-management and the above bug. > > Fwiw I've updated the link in KDE:UpdatedApps, so users of stable, official > 11.4 can get the latest greatest NetworkManager plasmoid. To be sure this is what one has, which packages should be installed and which not? I have what I expected to be what you describe, but the network manager has not been working correctly for a while. I get messages like this in the pop-up window: "We need Network Manager version between 0.8.1 and 0.8.10, found 0.8.9997" and under each interface it just says: "Error: Invalid state" I am guessing I have some unmatched RPMS. All of KDE is set to be 4.7. This is on openSUSE 11.4. The wlan interface is started, and access points located. But I cannot connect. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 SHAW'S PRINCIPAL Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Error in HP printer
by A. den Oudsten 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

I'm using 11.4 This day my printer stops to execute printertasks In Cups I get the message: /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed What to do to resolve that? Thanks in advance André den Oudsten -- 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 openSUSE on an older pc
by George OLson 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Ok, next problem. I have an older pc for my kids that was running windows xp on it. It is an old Dell desktop with a dual core (I think) Intel Pentium 4 processor and 256MB of RAM. I completely removed XP and installed 32bit OS 11.4 and it is now up and running. However, it runs really, really slow. Basically it is unusable. I kind of expected that, but I wanted to try it out anyway. I assume the problem is not enough memory, right? So what is the best course of action to get it usable for my kids? Is the problem with KDE? Does KDE take up too much RAM to run in the new 4.6? Should I try and downgrade to an earlier version of KDE? If so, how do I get the older KDE packages and install them? Or is the problem with the whole distribution? I have disks for OS 11.1 and OS 9.3. Should I install one of those instead of 11.4? What do I need to look at to figure out the source of the problem and figure out how to fix it, if the easy solution is not just downgrading everything? Thanks George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] setting up a dual boot system
by George OLson 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Ok, my next project is to migrate my work laptop over to a dual boot system. It has a windows vista installation on a 500gb hard drive. (It was originally a 320 gb hard drive, and I made a mirror image of that to a 500gb hard drive, changed it out, so that I would have extra room.) Here is the setup that the Yast analysis suggested while I am installing SUSE linux from the installation disk. You can see that the extra 167gb is used entirely for Linux: /dev/sda 465.76 GB TOSHIBA-MK5065GS 0 60800 /dev/sda1 39.06 GB HPFS/NTFS NTFS /windows/C 0 5099 /dev/sda2 259.03 GB HPFS/NTFS NTFS kep /windows/D 5099 38912 /dev/sda3 167.67 GB Extended 38913 68000 /dev/sda5 2.01 GB Linux swap swap swap 38913 39176 /dev/sda6 20.00 GB Linux native Ext4 / 39176 41786 /dev/sda7 145.65 GB Linux native Ext4 /home 41787 60800 (by the way, I had to type this in by hand, as I can't copy and paste here during the installation) My original thought was that I wanted to shrink the windows D volume "kep" down to 70 GB and start the Linux swap at that point on the system, so that my /home directory would be bigger by about 200GB. So I tried to "move" the extended partition using the expert partitioner (I am still in the install program), and it would not let me, saying that the drive had already been created. (this probably happened when the power went out in the middle of the first install, and I am having to reinstall now, but I don't know for sure). So my question is, if I shrink the windows D volume to 70 GB (I only have 55 gb of data on it), will I be able to format those sectors later and mount it as another partition, like /sda4, and use it to store more data? The expert partitioner will not let me do anything with the empty space at this point in the installation, but here is what the table looks like: /dev/sda 465.76 GB TOSHIBA-MK5065GS 0 60800 /dev/sda1 39.06 GB HPFS/NTFS NTFS /windows/C 0 5099 /dev/sda2 70.00 GB HPFS/NTFS NTFS kep /windows/D 5099 14236 /dev/sda3 167.67 GB Extended 38913 68000 /dev/sda5 2.01 GB Linux swap swap swap 38913 39176 /dev/sda6 20.00 GB Linux native Ext4 / 39176 41786 /dev/sda7 145.65 GB Linux native Ext4 /home 41787 60800 So you see, sectors 14237 (are they called sectors or something else?) through 383912 are unused and unformatted if I shrink the volume. Would it be better to just go on and keep it as NTFS? The only way that would help me out is that I could store files on that drive that would be usable to both windows and linux. However, the only thing I am really planning to use windows for is updating my ipod, and a particular work program I have that won't run under anything besides windows. What are the disadvantages to keeping it as NTFS? Does linux access the files more slowly if they are in NTFS format? Thanks in advance for your help, George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Libre Office - Howto set paste to default to "Unformatted Text?"
by David C. Rankin 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

Guys I hate word processors they try to think for themselves and end up causing formatting problems galore. The recent Libre Office sucks for copy/paste operations. If I try to paste plain text from an email or text file into a document, Libre automatically screw the document format up by changing all pasted text to a fixed width font. I don't want paste touching the font, I just want it to paste the text into the current document in whatever font the document is in. To accomplish this I have to use "Paste Special" and then choose "Unformatted Text". That works and should be the default for paste anyway. My question is where can I set this as the default behavior for paste?? I don't want to have to use "Paste Special" just to paste "Normal Plain Text" every time I paste. What say the Libre Office gurus? Where is this magical setting? -- 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] Akonadi and KWallet at startup
by ricardo.a.chung＠gmail.com 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

I am trying to figure out why Akonadi-Kontact ask me everytime the system startup a KWallet password. It's there a way to make them work properly ? Maybe it's related or not. If a close Kontact and try to open it later ocassionally it does not open at all but other programs (KMail, Calendar, etc.) are able to open despite Kontact. Any comments or ideas greatly appreciated. openSUSE 11.4 | KDE 4.7.00r6 | R.A. Chung -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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