August 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Any suse/linux as a mobile dev platform - why not?
by David C. Rankin 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

Guys, Just wanted to check if anyone knew of suse and/or linux based project related to the iPhone? In the past two weeks there have been a number of articles noting Mac OS passed linux as a development platform (still well behind m$). I have always been amazed who linux is generally in the forefront with any new hardware providing functionality and development tools, but they are virtually non-existent with the iPhone. Surely it isn't so much of a technical limitation given the headway others have made jailbreaking the iphone. Is it just the threat of apples' muscle that has development blocked or is there really something that Mac OS does that linux can't that makes is suited for mobile development? What say those in the know? I'm really curious what is suppressing IOS/mobile development using linux as the development platform? -- 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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Re: [opensuse] cannot get kmail to download imap gmail or folder structure
by George P. Olson 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

On Saturday 27 August 2011 5:17:35 PM you wrote: > On Saturday 27 August 2011 3:09:58 PM Mihira Fernando wrote: > > > G > > > > AFAIK, google offers IMAPS. your firewall needs to be opened to allow > > access on tcp port 993. See if thats set. > > Also on Kmail 3.5.x (using KDE3.5), When setting up the imap account, it > > lists options to show Server side subscribed folders, local subscribed > > folders. By default both of these are not selected and the result is an > > account without at imap folders. Select Serverside subscribed folders and > > it will show the imap folders that are created in gmail. > > That was it! I needed to show server side subscribed folders. That was all > I needed to do. I didn't know what that was before, so I had just left it > alone, but now I can read my IMAP email. 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] Thunderbird vs. Kontact vs. Evolution
by George OLson 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

Hey to all, I am just looking for opinions from people that have used these programs, and how you might compare them. I am using thunderbird right now, but I find it very difficult to configure the GUI fonts. At the same time, I really like the ability to keep messages from the same thread together in my inbox or other folders, and thunderbird is far superior to outlook's handling of this. I am migrating over from MS Outlook, and would like to import all my old email, besides my calendar, tasks, and address book. I started using thunderbird only because I am moderately familiar with it. Any advice, and info on common problems you may have encountered, would be most helpful. 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] cannot get kmail to download imap gmail or folder structure
by George OLson 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

I just started up kmail, and I was able to get my pop account working for another email that I have. This email account, at gmail, I have set up on imap. I set up the account using the account wizard, and it will not download the folder structure I have set up on gmail, nor will it download any email. It also does not give me any error message - at least I don't see any. The only indication that when I right-click on the googlemail folder in the left folder pain and hit "check mail", down at the bottom left it says "checking account Googlemail.com for new mail." It will continue to say this until indefinitely, and it never downloads new mail. I verified that my security settings, port settings, and everything are exactly as I have them on thunderbird, where I am also using this account, with IMAP settings, and everything works fine using thunderbird. Someone please help me to know how to troubleshoot! G -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KMail2, moving and copying broken
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

Since some time now I have problems with copying and moving of emails. In one case I wanted to return an email which slipped through the filter from a sub- folder into the inbox. It was moved but not into the inbox but under the "KMail Folder" which is the main header for the folders. Just now I wanted to copy an email from the sent-mail folder into the inbox with the same end-result. Emails which are landing int this "KMail Folder" can be read but not deleted moved or mishandled in any other form. This "KMail Folder" header is a non existent part of the kmail2 contents and a removal with force with midnight commander is not possible. The 15 emails do not pose a problem. It is the handling of moving and copying of emails back to the inbox which is problematic. Anybody who can replicate this behavior? Any help? -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE and KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.4 (i586) Kernel: 3.0.0-11-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.7.00 (4.7.0) 21:17pm up 6:47, 3 users, load average: 3.99, 3.65, 3.28 -- 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] Easy image mounting?
by Roger Oberholtzer 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 11:55 -0700, Roger Luedecke wrote: > One thing that was nice in OS X was the ease of mounting an > image as a virtual disk. I rarely had use for this however until I > got a netbook, which has no optical drive. Now when I have > hoped to install certain games (running on WINE) this is > unnecessarilly complicated, if not impossible due to the lack of > optical drive and the lack of an easy mounting option. Can we > be sure to add an easy way to mount disk images? Maybe just > right click>mount image in Dolphin? I don't imagine it should be > very hard to implement, and would be very useful... especially > as more users are turning to netbooks and similar devices. On KDE 4.7, I see that if I right-click on an ISO image (extension .iso), and select Open with ... ark (or file roller), I can browse the ISO image. Clicking on things in the image does as expected. I do not know about other image types. -- 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] Dratted 'nouveau' driver...
by Insomniac 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

I just got myself a nice non CRT monitor. Along with it I also got an nvidia card. The monitor works fine, this is the second nvidia card I've had that completely screws up my system. After 30 seconds my mouse barely works, typing anything is a joke as things double-tap or triple-tap without one knowing, ad nauseum. It's a similar card to my other one that I thought was bad, but made by a different company. In the meantime I was awaiting this new card, I used the onboard video, nvida also. Things worked great on my old CRT and worked okay on this new monitor until the new card screwed things up and I switched to the onboard video with this new monitor. Now I can't get to X. I've tried to install the nvidia driver that was working fine before, but it keeps popping up that the kernel is using the nouveau module and I have to disable it before I can install the nvidia driver. I've uninstalled everything 'nouveau' from YaST and still get the same problem. I'm now in 'safe' mode, but of course the graphics are horrible, etc. Can anyone help me out here? How do I get the kernel to stop using the 'nouveau' module so I can install the nvidia driver and get back to my regular system with my new monitor? John -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.34-12-desktop KDE: 3.5.10 "release 41" 12:32pm up 0:06, 2 users, load average: 0.40, 0.23, 0.11 Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -Isaac Asimov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] bash profile will not adjust settings
by George OLson 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

Hi all, I am setting up my laptop with OS 11.4 32 bit and KDE 4.6.00. Just a few setup problems. First of all, I have a high resolution monitor, so all my fonts are small. I am working on that. But the first thing I want to adjust is the profile setting on bash. I go to settings -> configure profiles -> edit profile, and I try to change from small font black background with green color to white or anything else, and it won't adjust. I tried to slide the slider bar to make the font bigger, and on the dialog box it shows a bigger font, but it does not take the bigger font. The "apply" button doesn't do anything, or gray out or apply any changes no matter what changes I make. I have made the adjustment on my other pc with no problem. It seems like the application of any changes I make is disabled, whether I hit the apply button or the ok button. What other information do I need to post here in order to troubleshoot? 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] Kindle/Wine problem
by Stan Goodman 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

I recently downloaded and installed on my desktop machine the current KindleForPC (1.6.1). This release has the minor problem that it can't open books(!), which makes it useless. Fortunately, I have the installer for v1.5.0, which I know to be fundtional because it is running well on my laptop machine. Both machines run oS v11.4. I uninstalled the v1.6.1 Kindle from Wine by deleting the directory ~/.wine/..../Kindle as suggested by some of the advice I found through Google, then dropping the installer on the Wine configuration window; this is how I have previously installed Kindle on both machines in more than one installation. But the drop operation fails -- the installer icon is overlaid by a "Don't" road traffic sign. I assume that I need to do something lese in the bowels of the pseudo- Windows structure to convince it to accept the replacement installation. Can someone tell me what? -- 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] Re: [opensuse-factory] no builds after openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-x86_64-Build0186-Media.iso
by Ken Schneider - openSUSE 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

On 08/24/2011 12:56 PM, Kim Leyendecker pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > Am 24.08.2011 18:09, schrieb Ken Schneider - openSUSE: >> On 08/24/2011 11:20 AM, Larry Finger pecked at the keyboard and wrote: >>> On 08/24/2011 07:18 AM, Stephan Kulow wrote: >>>> I know. But the fact remains that it took a whole week before someone >>>> even >>>> replied to the fact that the live cds are broken. They are just very >>>> fragile >>> >>> I use the KDE Live CD from Factory, and I missed the new versions. While >>> unable to get new ones, I used Build 0186 to install, set Factory as the >>> repos, and did a 'zypper dup'. I also described this process on the beta >>> forum. A number of people there used this workaround. >>> >>> It was not that I don't care. I just did not want to make any more >>> noise. As long as I could get to the end point, that was fine. >>> >>> BTW, a Live DVD might be desirable, but it would not replace the Live >>> CD. Why should I download 4 GB to create a minimal system for testing >>> that will be dup'ed every day anyway. The 700 MB of a Live CD is just >>> right and it installs quickly. If Live CDs are not available, then I >>> will use NET install CDs. That usually entails a 2+ GB download. >>> >>> Larry >> >> why does the DVD have to contain 4GB of data? Why not a live media >> that is 1.2GB in size or .975GB or 1.4GB? > > Because that´s the de facto standard. And why should place be wasted if > you burn it to a 4GB DVD? > > thanks, > Well, standards change over time. And making the live version larger then what a CD holds eliminates package contraints. Oh, please keep replies to the list, people don't need _multiple copies_ of your emails. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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