February 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Re: How to remove KMail (w/configuration) from openSuSE v12.1
by Joachim Schrod 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

michael(a)actrix.gen.nz wrote: > > Just remember to skip the updates for these downgraded packages, > a bit of a hassle, but manageable. Lock them, then you don't need to skip it for every update. I assume locking can be done with Yast, but I don't know how. On the command line, use: zypper addlock packet 'packet' may also be a shell-style wildcard pattern. zypper locks lists all available locks. HTH, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- 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] Xephyr on OpenSuse 12.1 not working as expected.
by Hans-Joachim Ehlers 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Moin, I started with OpenSuse 12.1 and would like to "Xephyr" running. Its needed since we have to connect to remote desktops ( mostly CDE - AIX,Sun a.s.o ) Xephyr is working fine on OpenSuse 11.1 and OpenSuse 11.4 but on 12.1 i get only a black screen Error message: : Xephyr unable to use SHM XIMage And later : XDM: too many retransmissions, declaring session dead. Note: Display Manager is: xdm Any hint where to start debugging. Tia Hajo -- Hans-Joachim Ehlers UNIX Systems Engineer EUMETSAT Eumetsat-Allee 1 64295, Darmstadt, Germany Tel : +49 6151 807-7307 mailto:hansjoachim.ehlers@eumetsat.int http://www.eumetsat.int N��r��y隊Z)z{.�ﮞ˛��m�)z{.��+�:�{Zr�az�'z��j)h��Ǿ� ޮ�^�ˬz��

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[opensuse] Re: Convert Yarn/2 Folders to mbox???
by Charles Philip Chan 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Robin Klitscher <robnk(a)xtra.co.nz> writes: > To a degree, this situation would have been eased if I'd been able to > get OS/2 up and running in a virtual machine under openSUSE. But, > despite many attempts and much frustration, I have not been able to > get any of the OS/2 flavours to work satisfactorily as a VirtualBox > guest in an openSUSE host. That includes eCS 2.0 and the latest > editions of VBox. I have been able to get WARP 4 working with qemu. > But it won't work forever. Against that day, what I'd like to do is > convert the contents of archived Yarn/2 mail folders into mbox format > so I can then import them into Thunderbird or other mailer running on > openSUSE (currently 12.1). The only way that I can think of is to pack your folders into SOUP files with "Yarn to Soup with Grep"[1], read them into Gnus under Emacs with the nnsoup backend and copy/move the messages to mbox files. However, Gnus have a steep learning curve- YMMV. Charles Footnotes: [1] http://www.vex.net/~x/bells2.phtml#ytsg -- "Are [Linux users] lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software?" (By Matt Welsh)

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[opensuse] System now won't shutdown
by Basil Chupin 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

OK, who's been fooling around with something so that since some updates done yesterday (my time, Australian Eastern Daylight Time) oS 12.1 [32-bit] will not shutdown the way it has been doing for....for....for ever? :-( Right-click on Desktop, select Leave>Shutdown the Computer - and the system hangs :-( . No mouse, no keyboard.....just the green screen with the gecko sitting there in the bottom-right corner staring at me..... Even using ALT-CTRL-F3, logging in as root and issuing the 'halt' command results in.....nothing :-( . Black screen, the computer keeps running...The only way to stop it is to physically power-off. Surely I am not the only one suddenly suffering this hassle? BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- 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 remove KMail (w/configuration) from openSuSE v12.1
by Stan Goodman 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Because I have become discouraged in trying to get KMail v1.3.6 (what came with oS v12.1) properly configured, I want to remove it (preferably ONLY KMail, and not the whole of Kontact or of KDE v4.7), and install it again from scratch. That is, I want to remove also the present KMail configuration settings as well, because I believe that they are corrupted. I thought that I would find those settings somewhere under the ~/.kde4 directory, but that appears not to be the case -- or I have not recognized it. WHERE is the Kmail configuration stored in this version? I am undecided about whether the reinstallation should again be KMail 1.3.6, or the fallback to the Kmail version in KDE3.5. If I decide on the latter, I would prefer to leave KDE v4.x as it is, as it is my impression that most difficulties in KDE4.x are in the mailer. My understanding from reading on the 'Net is that this is possible, but I would like the comments of others about feasibility etc. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- 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] 12.1 GNOME 3.2.1 window shading actions broken?
by Carl Hartung 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Hi All, I upgraded my 11.4 x86_64 GNOME 2.32 system to 12.1 GNOME 3.2.1 (OBS Stable) using 'zypper dup'. The system has been stable and running beautifully now for a couple of days but with one problem: 'window shading' -- double clicking a title bar to roll content up and hide it -- is broken. In my upgraded user space, switching workspaces causes the title bars of rolled up programs to disappear. I can select and 'unshade' them one at a time using "Activities" mode or Alt+Tab / Shift+Alt+Tab, but this is arduous if, like me, you keep groups of related programs stacked up like pancakes on several workspaces. I created a new user and the breakage there is a little different. They remain visible after switching workspaces, but they're locked in the 'rolled up' state. Nothing happens when they're double clicked. The positioning is also 'frozen.' The title bars can't be moved. I can select and 'unshade' them one at a time, per the above. I've 'Googled' extensively and not been able to find anyone else reporting or discussing this specific problem. I'm hoping someone here will have some troubleshooting ideas share or leads to follow. TIA & regards, Carl -- 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] script to watch a movie
by lynn 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Hi From kde, could this: ctrl+alt+f1 login sudo init 3 sudo rcsmb start sudo rcnmb start <watch the movie> sudo rcnmb stop sudo rcsmb stop sudo init 5 ctrl+alt+f1 exit ctrl+alt+f7 be scripted into a click and a password? 11.2 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] grep sed and awk question
by lynn 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

I'm regex'd out of it at the moment. Given a string like this: lynn:*:3000002some other stuff100hellolynn: Is there a way to get the 3000002 into a variable v1 and the 100 into a variable v2? bash? Any recommended starting point? 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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Re: [opensuse-offtopic] Re: [opensuse] how to give files group rw permissions
by Dirk Gently 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Dirk Gently<dirk.gently00(a)gmail.com> [02-14-12 18:24]: >> >> Because when you use that same distro OUTSIDE of those two niches, >> you have a major security hole. >> >> defaulting to rw-r--r-- much safer then rwxrwxr-x, the latter being an >> invitation for things to go wrong....very wrong. >> >> For example, any legitimate user in group "user" being allowed to overwrite, >> remove, etc. files owned by anyone else in group "user". >> >> The default umask is what it is based on 4 DECADES of experience, far beyond >> your small little single-user niche usage. > > You haven't paid attention. The folder is a means to synchronize files > between a group, read that as a group, of users. Lookup "dropbox". > the umask command applies to all files from the point that it is rune. Putting it in /etc/profile or /etc/bash.rc, for the creation of a single directory, would be, as they say, "wrong and stupid" -- 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] Education repository not ported to 12.1? Where's scilab and its dependencies?
by Matthias Danzl 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

scilab and several of its dependencies are not available in 12.1 community repository. Any particular reason why support has been dropped? Any chance they will get added over time or do I have to look for a manual solution to get scilab? I'm afraid installing them from the 11.4 Education repo will break some packages. TIA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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