January 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Cautionary tale re encrypted HOME directory
by Basil Chupin 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

When I installed 12.1 I encrypted (for the first time) my HOME directory. Last night, in anticipation of installing KDE 4.8, I did a backup of my /home to an external HDD. Then the thought occurred to me - which is as a result of a court case in USA where the judge ruled that the Fifth Amendment did not apply where the woman refused to divulge the passphrase to her encrypted system and she had to type in the passphrase to make the contents of the HDD available to the DoJ - is my encrypted data now readable on the external HDD? The answer is YES. I attached the external to another computer and am able to read all the files in that backup. FYI. BC -- The wise man does at once what a fool does finally. Niccolo Machiavelli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Yast nfs4 error
by lynn 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Hi Yast NFS Client gives me the option to choose a share and select nfsv4. If I select the share I want from the drop down list it will not mount the share. I think the dialogue is wrong. e.g. if /home is exported and I select /home from the drop down list it will not mount. For nfs4 it should change /home to / As I see it, yast is trying to do this: mount -t nfs4 myserver:/home /somewhere but it should be doing this mount -t nfs4 myserver:/ /somewhere Is this a bug in Yast? I can mount it manually, but what should I put in fstab to make it mount? Thanks L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] can't unlock xscreensaver
by lynn 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

Hi everyone Logged into a Samba 4 domain from a 12.1 client under xfce, xscreensaver will not accept my Samba 4 password. /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver makes no mention of Samba 4 nor Kerberos. I understand that Samba 4 is still alpha, but maybe someone has a 12.1 client joined to a 2008-R2 AD and can help here. How can I let xscreensaver know that I'm not authenticating via gnome-keyring, locally nor via LDAP? Thanks L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.4 Update (gtk?) messed up thunderbird thread marker triangles?
by David C. Rankin 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Guys, It seems one of the latest updates did something to the little triangle thread markers in thunderbird that show when a thread has responses. Now the triangles for collapsed threads look like little squiglies. The downward facing triangles showing expanded threads look OK. Anybody else see this? Does this look like a Gtk issue or an issue with thunderbird? This screenshot shows what I'm seeing: [64k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/img/misc/tbird-triangles.jpg I don't think this problem is gtk2 itself because I see the same behavior on arch with gtk2 2.24.9-2. So it seems to be in some related/supporting package that draws the little triangles in thunderbird. I don't think this is just thunderbird related either, others have reported the same problems on all apps compiled against gtk2. Any ideas what package/library might be the root cause of the problem? I have no idea where the bug goes... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] lost konsole feature in kde 4.8
by Roger Oberholtzer 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

I have been using KDE as shipped in 12.1, except that I let it update apps. I updated to 4.8 yesterday and lost one of the great konsole features I discovered in the original: If I start konsole with the option: "ssh -t www.somewhere.else ssh acme" I get the expected remote login. The neat new thing I saw in the original 12.1 konsole was that if I opened a new tab in that console, it also did the remote login automatically. I was duly impressed. Just what I needed. This no longer happens in the konsole in 4.8. Instead, it is the older behavior that the new tab is a local shell. Anyone else seen this? Perhaps there is now a setting that controls this. Something like, "each new tab runs the command from the command line"? I don't see this. But perhaps I do not know where to look. I do lots of ssh stuff this way. It was a great feature. Please don't tell me it was a bug... -- Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer(a)ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Fax over ????
by Duaine Hechler 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Setup: - openSUSE 11.4 - U-Verse TV box - - COAX connected to TV card - - RJ-45 connected to U-Verse gateway box - HP 6500 wireless capable printer - - No phone line attached (yet - phone jack on other side of room) - - USB attached to computer - No VOIP account (yet) What can I do the easiest to FAX ? (Of course, a phone line ~ 50 ft) 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 To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Fontconfig fonts priority
by Mariusz Fik 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Hi, current fontconfig configuration[1] sets the highest priority for Microsoft font. If user install them (i.e. Times New Roman, Arial, Consolas) they will be set as _default_ for respectively families (sans-serif, sans, monospace). Why do we promote Microsoft fonts instead support open fonts, shipped with system? I propose[2] to downgrade those fonts. Thanks to this, we keep our default font settings but those MS fonts will be still available for use. Whats Your point of view in this case? [1] - http://wklej.org/hash/8b4a01a9dc/ [2] - http://wklej.org/hash/dc1f3fa218/ -- Pozdrawiam / Best regards, Mariusz Fik openSUSE Community Member GPG: 5FCE 7241 B3B9 32FD 455B C30E 42D6 6C88 9E83 7C3D

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[opensuse] usb stick + KDE4 live CD image
by madworm_de.opensuse＠spitzenpfeil.org 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Is there a know way to install a live CD image onto an usb stick with: a) not using the whole stick (16GB), but just one partition (e.g. sdb1) for the image b) having additional data partition(s) on there as well I'm not interested in having a 'persistent' live system on the stick, I just don't want to sacrifice 16GB for a 1GB image. I played a bit with syslinux and qemu for testing and got it to boot with that. Only it doesn't boot on a real PC. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How to type special chars?
by Stefan Gofferje 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I haven't spent much thought about this in the 15 or so years I deal with Linux now but since I moved to Finland, it struck me... How do I type combined chars like éêë or ü under Opensuse 12.1 Under Windows and OSX, you type e.g. ´ and then e. On the Finnish keyboard there is a " button at the place where the ü is on the German keyboard, but it's not actually a " button. It is meant to create Üü by first pressing the button and then pressing Uu but again, similar to the ´ ` key, it immediately creates a " when you press it. So how do I type those combined chars? - -S - -- (o_ Stefan Gofferje | SCLT, MCP, CCSA //\ Reg'd Linux User #247167 | VCP #2263 V_/_ Heckler & Koch - the original point and click interface 09:12am up 20:56, 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.20, 0.29 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk8k82QACgkQbQKZlCdPOMMKbQCffXUWIvLHwqolZ/SbVrScUgPw nnYAnit3nYVT4wZ+ZKv04A9ispsAHGei =HT7w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How To Upgrade To KDE 4.8
by Swapnil Bhartiya 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Hi, How can I upgrade to KDE 4.8 without breaking the system. I am running 12.1 Thanks. Swapnil Bhartiya -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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