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[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-kde] Weird desktop folder behaviour Tumbleweed.
by sdm 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

On 02/27/2016 12:34 PM, Steven Hess wrote: > Ah Thanks Martin > > That's somewhat informative but really doesn't tell me how to fix this. > Is the fix still pending inclusion to Tumbleweed or must I do > something to my installation. > The lack of stickiness to my selection certainly points to it being in > a place I don't have right to change. > > sdm this seem to be different. > My selection of Dolphin is not sticking or even being honored. > The bug you point to is my previous condition where I could simply > change the default application back to Dolphin and it would stay now > it reverts to Audacious. > > Steven > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Martin Schlander > <martin.schlander(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Lørdag den 27. februar 2016 12:12:07 skrev Steven Hess: >>> On a uptodate Tumbleweed with look and feel set to Breeze theme and >>> desktop theme set to Air >>> When I left select on a folder in the Desktop Folder it tries to open >>> the folder with Audacious. >>> When I right select a folder it correctly opens with Dolphin >> Sounds like you might be hit by the issue described by DimStar here: >> >> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2016-02/msg00474.html >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner(a)opensuse.org >> > > Did you try expanding the tree in file associations, and go to innode > directory, not just selecting the radio button which seems broken for the time being? -- 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] Re: [opensuse-kde] Weird desktop folder behaviour Tumbleweed.
by sdm 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

On 02/27/2016 12:12 PM, Steven Hess wrote: > On a uptodate Tumbleweed with look and feel set to Breeze theme and > desktop theme set to Air > When I left select on a folder in the Desktop Folder it tries to open > the folder with Audacious. > When I right select a folder it correctly opens with Dolphin > > Going to desktop settings Personalization> Applications> File > Associations> Default Applications> File Manager and selecting> > Dolphin instead of Audacious ( which it's defaulting to ) and applying > then > going back to try and open the file is again it tries to open with > Audacious and the setting in desktop settings Personalization> > Applications> File Associations> Default Applications> File Manager is > defaulted back to Audacious. > > I've had this happen previously but the change in the file manager > stuck when I changed it. > What do I need to fix this? > > Thanks > Steven Same issue here, see here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359850 -- 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] Sound Died
by Bob Rea 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

KDE - Be Free! Platform Version 4.10.5 "release 1" Opensuse 12.3 This box quit playing any sound, Yast shows two cards, ATI and AMD and reports the Driver snd-hda-intel Kmix shows built in analog stereo and Buitlin Digital Stereo (HDMI) If I start sound in Chrome or VLC shows an audio stream from each. I have looked at the config options in yast and don't understand them. I have not changed them that I know of. What would you suggest? What questions do I need to answer? -- Bob Rea http://www.petard.us http://www.petard.us/blog http://www.petard.us/gallery What do you say to Jesus when he comes again? Where have you been? You said you were coming right back. -- 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: Re: [opensuse] Sound Died
by stakanov＠freenet.de 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: John Andersen > Gesendet: Sa. 27.02.2016 01:56 > An: opensuse(a)opensuse.org > Betreff: Re: [opensuse] Sound Died >We should not be so quick to chastise old versions. I have an even older version in production. >It was good enough for the Opensuse label then, and assuming its not directly connected to >the internet, its a pretty good distro even today. > Well John, to tell the truth, I did not. Besides your guess about alsa is one of the best things I can think of. In fact, the question of version was to point out that no update can ever be responsible. Such a machine (if 12.3) if it is connected to the internet is a time bomb. It will present: heartblead, openssl bugs without end, severe security wholes in the kde-desktop. And also the recent problem with glibc (and whatever else patch he did not get) not to mention the kernel. So if it is not a typo......we should at least make sure people did not find a "free" version in a 10 year old inlay of a journal. If somebody comes to you and says he is proudly using 11.1 because it was the best version ever, soooo save, never patched ever after and using it as a mail server? You probably would finally know where your spam comes from... @Bob Rea and whoever should come back to read this: So for all who want to "answer questions" once your request of help is out: why not writing it "right" in the first place? 1) Make sure you know your hardware. State clearly the mainboard, the graphic card vendor and (important! for graphics) the driver you use (proprietary or open source). In the case of our friend he stated: intel and AMD which may mean he has a mainboard with integrated graphics from AMD and a dedicated graphic card from Intel. He may have a Intel Mainboard with a dedicated AMD graphics card, He may have a notebook with a mixed chipset. He may have an HTPC. So, stating hardware correctly will give more help. 2) make sure the version of operating system is correctly stated. Therefore open a Terminal / Command Line (CLI) (a terminal is that "black box you find in the "preferred programs" of the menu) and type the following: cat /etc/os-release and paste the output here with your question. BTW there is a nice support database, you can find it at https://en.opensuse.org/Category:SDB:HOWTOs Often its lecture helps you to fix the problem all alone. If you need any further help we are here. Good luck. P.S. if you did change the vga cable to hdmi following may happen automaticly: If formerly you used a graphics card (like sound blaster) and now you did not change cable but hear no sound. Look if in soundcard settings is pulseaudio activated. The previous versions of pulseaudio had bigger problem in ignoring or prioritizing a "analogue" soundcard instead of hdmi. So it might be necessary to go on the symbol "speaker" on the desktop, open it, to to setting of sound and there make sure that every subpoint of the device list has your analogue soundcard listed as highest preference. If not the output of sound will go through hdmi and if you do not have your boxes branched to the monitor, you will not hear anything of course. Normally that happens with Intel chipset based notebooks when placed on a docking-station branched to a hdmi monitor via an hdmi cable. --- Mail & Cloud Made in Germany mit 3 GB Speicher! https://email.freenet.de/mail/Uebersicht?epid=e9900000450 -- 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] firefox cannot read my .mp4 files anymore
by don fisher 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

I have numerous educational videos stored in mp4 format. I can read them fine with gmplayer. When I try to open them under Firefox, I receive "video can't be played because file is corrupt". But again they read fine under gmplayer. I have tried both the flash video player, and the HTML5 video player. The label in the select box says that these are YouTube player options. Is there a different video player that I have to set up just to access the .mp4 files? I tried to RTFM, but the directions under Firefox do not appear to apply, pointing to a /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory as the place to store libflashplayer.so, which does not appear to exist on my machine. Along the same lines, how does one disable the upgrades of a single package like Firefox under zypper. I am really tired of chasing Firefox bugs all of the time along with fixing my constantly obsoleted plugins. And being a simple user do not see any advantage to whatever they may have fixed or improved. The old Mosaic Netscape did all I wanted dating back to the mid 90s. What ever happened to KISS? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Don -- 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] Sound Died
by stakanov＠freenet.de 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Bob Rea > Gesendet: Fr. 26.02.2016 23:34 > An: opensuse(a)opensuse.org > Betreff: [opensuse] Sound Died > > KDE - Be Free! > Platform Version 4.10.5 "release 1" > > Opensuse 12.3 > > This box quit playing any sound, Yast shows two cards, ATI and AMD > and reports the Driver snd-hda-intel > > Kmix shows built in analog stereo and Buitlin Digital Stereo (HDMI) > If I start sound in Chrome or VLC shows an audio stream from each. > > I have looked at the config options in yast and don't understand them. I have > not changed them that I know of. > > What would you suggest? What questions do I need to answer? a) you know that 12.3 is way out of support so logically there were no updates. b) as a consequence you are telling that you did not change bios, software or hardware settings. c) that the box (which I suppose is a PC? What chipset, soundcard integrated in chipset or soundblaster like, on pci or pci-e?) did stop to produce sound (that means probably music). d) what sound does not play. no sound, test sound, mp3 sound, mp4 sound? With what you describe you might have a) changed the video cable, probably you switched to the hdmi plug from vga b) if not you messed up when plugging in the cable behind the machine (did you, your wife or your nanny did sweep the floor?). c) if the boxes are active: try other boxes, try headphones without boxes. It might be the amplifier had a walk on the wild side... and did quit. Why are you using 12.3? Is this box off the internet and never connected? --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! https://email.freenet.de/mail/Uebersicht?epid=e9900000451 -- 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] Why do I have all these file systems loaded as modules?
by Anton Aylward 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

When I look in /proc/filesystems I see that there are, among others, btrfs* reiserfs* xfs* jfs msdos vfat minix hfs hfsplus qnx4 ufs I use the ones marked with an asterix and I might need msdos/vfat or possibly even "exFAT" (not there, but available as a user-fuse for my sdscards). Now I'm aware that I can blacklist any module my sweet heart desires, but that's not the point. There isn't a requirement for the unmarked items under /etc/modules-load.d/ nor anything about them in the files under /etc/modprobe.d/* I grep /etc for any mention of minix, qnx4 ... and nothing turns up. I can't imagine why I'd need them. Yes, I could blacklist them, but as I say, that's not the point. They were never enabled in the first place. How did they get there? I check with lsinitrd and there is no mention there either. I thought I knew about modules and enabling/disabling them, but this has me puzzled. Hmm. It makes me wonder what other unwanted/unnecessary modules are being loaded. -- 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] Configure Gwenview
by A den Oudsten 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

In earlier versions of openSUSE I could blacklist certain formats with the following: open a text session: cd .kde4/share/config/ cp gwenviewrc gwenviewrc.save kwrite ./gwenviewrc Search for a line which has: [General] on the first empty line below that, put: BlackListedExtensions=nef,cr2,orf,ORF,new add an empty line save the file see if gwenview displays raw files In Tumbleweed cd .kde4/share/config/ worked, the rest not. Some help please!! Thanks -- 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] Why Is Leap 42.1 Benchmarking Poorly?
by sdm 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

This is at least the second article I've ready where Leap's benchmarks pretty dismal: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=2016-feb-6way&num=1 Why is Leap running at the back of the pack, and is there anything we can do to speed the OS up through patching, so the benchmarks made against it allows for more interest amongst people comparing Linux distros? I'm not impressed at all by the latest benchmarks released by Phoronix. sdm -- 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] Older install won't boot
by Jim Flanagan 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

Greetings. I have two older installs on one machine, neither will now boot up. Different issues I believe. The first install is openSuse 11.4. Second is 12.3. These are on the same physical disc, both on separate partitions under an extended partition on that disk. 11.4 is on /dev/sda5, and 12.3 is on /dev/sda6. I used this setup to migrate from one install to another over time, keeping everything under / on each separate partition. The 11.4 install was working fine, and I installed 12.3 on /dev/sda6 overwriting the previous install that was there, I don't recall which version of openSuse was there. But 12.3 brought along Grub2. So to separate the 2 different issues. 1. Originally after a new clean install of 12.3, the 11.4 install worked fine and I had that set as the boot default. I seem to recall I had to manually set Grub2 to boot the 11.4 install but got that working. The 12.1 installed worked fine. After some time, the 11.4 install would not always boot, giving an error stating: "booting openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) (on /dev/sda5) error: file /vmlinuz-3.0.101-71-desktop not found error: you need to load the kernel first. Press any key to continue..." The thing is, sometimes it would boot, other times not. But it has not booted in a long time now. Many months. 2. As stated the 12.3 install was working fine. Recently, after I select that install to boot in the Grub2 menu, it says 'doing fast boot', then proceeds, but does not get past the green bush with Cammie on it. It starts out muted green and gets brighter, but never proceeds past that. I suspect that this is a disk issue. I ran Spinrite on it to check the physical disk on that partition and all the others on that drive, no issues shown. I booted the opensuse 12.3 install disk, and ran rescue system and ran 'e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sda6' which says that the file system was modified. System still did not boot. I ran e2fsck twice again, the first showed file system modified, second time not, but it still won't boot, hangs in process as before. Both partitions are EXT4. I do have /dev/sda5 set to mount on boot of the 12.3 install, as well as another physical drive, not sure if this could freeze the boot process or not. Most of my files are on the 11.4 install partition, and I intend to overwrite the 12.3 install with leap 42, but wanted to get either install to boot to look around first. Any pointers most welcome. Thanks, Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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