July 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Page break in office suites
by Albert Oszkó 03 Aug '14

03 Aug '14

Hi all, In every month I get a kind of form, an Excel sheet which should be filled and undersigned in the last row and then printed. The original document is created in MS Office 2010 AFAIK, but is saved in *.xls, not xlsx format. When I open it in LibreOffice, it looks just fine, but when it comes to printing, the last row, the undersign, slips to a new page. I was advised to use Kingsoft Office. This originally Chinese package was praised to the heavens in terms of MS compatibility and usability, so I gave it a try. Hmmm. My sheet fell apart, and while it recognized that it was edited with Arial Narrow font, the typography was simply ugly. The letters was in different distances from each other. I read a lot, including forums, so I met Softmakers Freeoffice. I installed it. The outlook is a bit vintage, but that should not be a problem. Opened my document, looked fine, but as for LO, the last row slipped to a new page ( the original document fits on a single A4 page). So is there a workaround? I would cling to LO, if possible. What is the reason that is still cannot render a not too complicated MS document correctly. What about Calligra suite (though it does not accept Okular's latest version, so I did not installed yet)? Any hints and opinions are welcome. I tried all of the above on oS 13.1 and KDE 4.13.3 (both Hungarian) Regards, Albert -- 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] Wayland?
by Anton Aylward 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

I've seen 'libwayland' come up a few times recently when running 'zypper up'. What is the status of the Wayland project wrt openSuse? I'm thinking that it would be nice to have a graphics server that supported Qt or GTK directly rather than the deep layers of X. I'm not convince Wayland is that, but lets face it, X was a solution to a problem of the 1980s, long before Pcs, long before the powerful GPUs we have today, long before the powerful CPUs and their advanced instruction sets. -- Warning: Klein Bottle. No user-serviceable parts inside. -- 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] yast2 - colors inverted in some columns with dark theme
by David C. Rankin 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

All, In yast on 13.1, the colors no longer consistently follow the color scheme set. I use a dark theme and in 11.4 the yast colors followed the color scheme without issue. In 13.1 it is hit-or-miss on a column-by-column basis. See: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/openSuSE/131/yast2-colors.jpg What could cause the color scheme to be correct in some columns but not others? How to fix? I still have the 11.4 install on a separate disk, so if there is something I need to check and compare, I can. -- 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] ssh through a firewall
by Roger Oberholtzer 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Hi all, The subject sounds innocent enough. I am trying to ssh from an openSUSE 10.0 system in to an openSUSE 11.2 system. There is a firewall at the 11.2 end. It is not the firewall on the 11.2 itself. That is fully disabled. It is some other device. I told them to open port 22 (tcp and udp). But I still cannot log in. I get the initial ssh questions about the host, and then the password prompt. However, my password is not accepted. If I ask them to open all ports at their end, I can log in just fine. I am, once again, confused. Any ideas? They do not want to keep the firewall for this machine open too long. -- Roger Oberholtzer -- 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] Recommended - small lightweight DMS - to be able to catalog/search files by tags, type, etc.
by David C. Rankin 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

All, I'm looking for a small light document management system that will allow me to catalog 1000s of miscellaneous files into a searchable list. This is primarily for all the code and script snippets I've collected over the past 15 years but I would also like to include the myriad of little tricks/tips files I've saved and squirreled away. A smart directory layout and grep have always fit the bill, but I've got to the point where I know I have a snippet of X I've saved, but *where is it, and what was that function called?* (sound familiar?) NO - I don't want beagle (or anything like it). I don't want some full-text scan and index of all files. Those are miserable for code and I don't want some 200 Meg index laying around somewhere. I'm looking for something that will just hold the filename, a description, and then possibly a list of user-defined tags I could assign and filter by. For code doxygen is nice, but worthless for small tips/tricks, howto, or general readme type files. For general tips/tricks/readme/config type info, basket has been great. I've looked into many of the so-called DMS packages, e.g. opendocman, kimios, LetoDMS, logicaldoc, owndms, SeedDMS, xinco, etc., but most are like sledgehammers for swatting this fly. I don't mind if it is a database backend or flat-files, but I want something simple to add information to and simple to browse and update. Does anybody have any favorite way to solve this "I'm getting to old to remember where every file is" problem? It doesn't even have to be a DMS per-se, if somebody has a slick way to cut down the time spent playing the "where is that file" game -- that's what I'm looking for. What the ideal would be would be something that used a small database, like sqlite3 to hold the filenames, descriptions, keywords, and tags; quick logic to add all files in a dir matching some simple extension pattern; then most importantly a quick/efficient way to browse the list of files collected and assign descriptions and tags (something like mc - view/edit); along with a quick query interface to find the stuff when your done. It could even be a command line query. So on the wild chance somebody already has a favorite silver-bullet to solve this problem, I thought I'd ask. -- 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] Print dialog as in acroread
by Josef Wolf 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Hello, with opensuse-13.1 the acroread PDF reader has been dropped. There was a really convenient function in the acroread print dialog: print the current view and fit it to the printable area, auto-rotating and centering it if needed. Does anybody know any program with a similar functionality? Thanks, -- Josef Wolf jw(a)raven.inka.de -- 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] ssh through a firewall
by Roger Oberholtzer 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

>On 07/31/2014 09:13 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: >> I get the initial ssh questions about >> the host, and then the password prompt. However, my password is not >> accepted. > >Did you compare the fingerprint? I.e., are you sure you got >thru to your final host? I thought that as well. There should be no machines between. If I was not getting to the actual destination at all, I would expect no ssh info and password prompt. -- Roger Oberholtzer -- 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] SSL handshaking with optional client verification
by Ted Byers 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Although I have SSL seeming to work, I have encountered another problem. I have written a small Perl package that tries to ensure that communication between client and server is properly handled. I made client verification optional on gremlin.site, and, in my test script, I provide the filename and the directory in which the client certificate is located to LWP's user agent.. Now, the usual printenv.pl prints out the environment, including any certificates that are exchanged. But when I run my script, I see the content of the server side certificate but the field that is supposed to hold the client side certificate is empty. How do I determine whether the fault is with the server not asking for the client certificate or the client not sending it? I guess I could tell Firefox and/or Chrome to use my client certificate, and then use them to access the same page, but I don't know how to tell browsers about client certificates. Thanks Ted -- R.E.(Ted) Byers, Ph.D.,Ed.D. -- 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] 13.1 - NetworkManager - Can you prioritize connections?
by David C. Rankin 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

All, Using traditional ifup for wireless, wpa_supplicant.conf allowed you to prioritize wireless connections by ordering the entries within the file. NetworkManager does not rely on entries in wpa_supplicant.conf for wireless credentials, and thus that manner of prioritizing has gone away. man NetworkManager mentions only execution priority for "scripts in the /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d directory in alphabetical order in response to network events", but is otherwise silent on connection priority. Can you prioritize wifi connections in NetworkManager so that if 5 connections are available, you can specify the one that it tried/used first? If so, how? -- 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] 13.1 - zypper - strange results from zypper patch
by Rolf Krahl 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

Hi all Since yesterday, I get strange results from zypper patch: ---------- quote ---------- # zypper patch-check Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... 5 patches needed (3 security patches) # zypper list-patches Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Repository | Name | Version | Category | Status | Summary ---------------------+----------------+---------+-------------+--------+-------- openSUSE-13.1-Update | openSUSE-2014- | 1 | recommended | needed | Image-> openSUSE-13.1-Update | openSUSE-2014- | 1 | security | needed | ntp: -> openSUSE-13.1-Update | openSUSE-2014- | 1 | recommended | needed | vorbi-> openSUSE-13.1-Update | openSUSE-2014- | 1 | security | needed | Mozil-> openSUSE-13.1-Update | openSUSE-2014- | 1 | security | needed | updat-> # zypper patch Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies... Nothing to do. -------- end quote -------- How come, "zypper patch" got nothing to do if "zypper list-patches" lists 5 patches that need to get installed? Version info about concerned packages: ---------- quote ---------- # zypper info ImageMagick [...] Repository: openSUSE-13.1-Update Name: ImageMagick Version: 6.8.6.9-2.16.1 Arch: x86_64 Vendor: openSUSE Installed: Yes Status: out-of-date (version 6.8.6.9-2.12.1 installed) # zypper info ntp [...] Repository: openSUSE-13.1-Update Name: ntp Version: 4.2.6p5-15.5.1 Arch: x86_64 Vendor: openSUSE Installed: Yes Status: out-of-date (version 4.2.6p5-15.2.1 installed) # zypper info vorbis-tools [...] Repository: openSUSE-13.1-Update Name: vorbis-tools Version: 1.4.0-14.4.1 Arch: x86_64 Vendor: openSUSE Installed: Yes Status: out-of-date (version 1.4.0-14.1.1 installed) # zypper info MozillaFirefox [...] Repository: openSUSE-13.1-Update Name: MozillaFirefox Version: 31.0-33.1 Arch: x86_64 Vendor: openSUSE Installed: Yes Status: out-of-date (version 30.0-29.1 installed) # zypper info pulseaudio [...] Repository: openSUSE-13.1-Update Name: pulseaudio Version: 4.0.git.270.g9490a-12.1 Arch: x86_64 Vendor: openSUSE Installed: Yes Status: out-of-date (version 4.0.git.270.g9490a-8.1 installed) -------- end quote -------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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