December 2016 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] US International English keyboard
by James Knott 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

I have long used the U.S. International English keyboard layout. This allows me to use special characters. For example, Alt-1 would create a superscript 1. However, I don't see how to do this in 42.2 I can find 3 alternative U.S. English layouts, but none do what I used to be able to do. Any ideas? tnx jk -- 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] Poor network performance on 42.2
by James Knott 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

I recently installed 42.2 on both my desktop and notebook systems. I noticed accessing the internet seemed slower than usual, so I tried running speedtest.net. I have a 60/10 Mb plan and generally get mid 70s download and about 11 up. When I ran speedtest, I was now getting 10 - 15 Mb down, with the usual 11 or so up. I then rebooted my notebook computer into Windows 10 and was able to get 77.39 Mb down. This is on the same computer that a few minutes earlier hadn't even managed 10 in 42.2. Why is the performance so bad in 42.2??? Again, this is happening on two separate computers, one of which gets normal performance when running Windows 10. -- 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] error while loading share libraries: libxul.so - Again !!! :-(
by Felix Miata 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

I go through this same thing every time I need to run Firefox 3.6.28 (for brief compatibility testing, not ordinary usage) on another 64-bit installation. On this 42.1 installation, where 'rpm -qa | grep 32bit | wc -l' produces 80. FF3 works. On the 42.2 where I need it, and 'rpm -qa | grep 32bit | wc -l' produces 89, I can't figure out what's missing, getting: error while loading share libraries: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory How do I figure out which 32bit lib(s) is/are missing? I get cross-eyed trying to manually compare output from 'rpm -qa | grep 32bit | sort'. :-( -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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] chromecast2
by mlus 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

I use chromecast2 with openSUSE13.2. I have been using chromecast2 for capture openuse Desktop. But, after update chromium (dl.google.com repository), chrome not found chromecast2. How can I use chromecast2 with openSUSE13.2 ? . Thank you. -- 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] chromium, tty & dialout group
by Dave Howorth 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

I'm trying to run an app in chromium to talk to an external device connected by serial over USB, as /dev/ttyUSB. And I'm failing. I'm handicapped by knowing nothing about chromium and not much about ttys and groups in the modern world. The app says it is trying to contact /dev/ttyUSB0 and then it says it is 'Not Found'. I'm wondering if there is a permissions, or other security, issue? Does chromium prevent apps trying to talk to external devices by default? (and if not why not?!) If I look at the device: $ ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 Dec 8 11:37 /dev/ttyUSB0 it seems like nothing should be able to talk to it unless they are either root or a member of the dialout group. I don't want to give root privileges to this app. I'm running chromium as me, and the only group I am a member of is users. If I look at the list of groups in YaST, there is no dialout group listed. Is there a bug in YaST or am I missing some feature to edit group membership? I added my self to the dialout group using gpasswd. Some online stuff indicates I need to logout and then back in before it will take effect. That seems a fairly draconian thing to have to doo just to use a new group membership. Is there another way? I suppose I could change the group that the tty belongs to, but that seems like too big a bodge. TIA, Dave -- 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] rpm hell - rant
by Carlos E. R. 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

Hi, in order to test for bug 567324, I had to install Gnome in my test partition on this laptop (with 42.2), which has only 7 GiB. I did the testing (the bug was solved) but gnome itself performed badly. The screen was so dark that I could barely see, had to peer at the screen inches away. Gnome also ignored the system keyboard settings (Spanish), reverting to USA so that I had difficulties typing the response. So after testing, I went back to XFCE and tried to uninstall Gnome. Uninstalling the pattern does nothing, I had to manually select for removal, package by package in YaST. And YaST wanted to install KDE Plasma components instead! I had to taboo those. System was so bad afterwards (no network manager) that I had to install the system, again, from scratch, plus data/config recovery from backup. -- Cheers/Saludos Carlos E. R. (testing openSUSE Leap 42.2, at Minas-Anor) -- 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] bug in mariadb update for 42.2?
by Markus Koßmann 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

Got the following output: (37/60) Installing: mariadb-10.0.28-15.1.x86_64 .................................................................................................. [done] Additional rpm output: usermod: no changes Failed to try-restart mysql@.service: Unit name mysql@.service is not valid. -- 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] Is there an 'exif' for video files?
by Anton Aylward 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

I have some .mov and /m4v and would like to run something like EXIF on them to see details like length, what languages, if they have closed caption. All without actually running/viewing them. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- 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] No reboot options
by James Knott 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

In previous versions of openSUSE, when rebooting, it was possible to specify which Grub item to reboot from . This appears to be missing in 42.2. Is there any way to enable it? tnx jk -- 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] Mouse controls in 42.2
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

Hi, anyone knows what changed between 42.1 and 42.2 when it comes to X mouse controls? I'm using WindowMaker as my windowmanager and up to 42.1 I always was able to set the mouse settings to what I like. Now after the upgrade to 42.2 it seems the mouse settings in WindowMaker are not picked up at all. This is a desktop machine (no touchpad) fwiw because I found in the release notes some stuff about changes in synaptics. But this does not apply for my system. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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