January 2017 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Opensuse 42.2 and Python 3.6
by Adolph & Sharon Weidanz 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

All Does anyone know when or if the repos will be updated to 3.6? -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes _.._ _ ."\__/"./`_\ _/__<__>__\/ jgs `"/_/""""\_\\ Adolph & Sharon Weidanz PADI Staff IDC Instructor/OWSI 283315 -- 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] One Click Install
by John Andersen 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Any clues what I have to change to get Opensuse 1 Click Installs to work with Chrome/Chromium/Vivaldi? If I don't launch them with firefox they just spew some xml and fail. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- 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] connecting to samba folders on a network
by george from the tribe 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

I recently took up a position volunteering at an international school 3 times a week. All the staff here are volunteers, and as a result, we often have some holes in our knowledge. Since I began using openSUSE 5 years ago (my first and only Linux distribution that I experimented with) I have learned quite a bit, but some things were never necessary to learn. For example, Samba shares. I was not setting up an internal server in my house, so I didn't have any need to explore how to set up shared folders and drives. At the school where I volunteer, I work in the engineering department, not the IT department. So even though I am just a user of the network and not a sysadmin, I asked if my workstation could be openSUSE instead of windows, and they agreed, no problem, as long as I can for the most part work out all my own technical problems, since they mostly only know windows. The system here is like this. A few years ago we had someone come through in the IT department that set up the school's network on a linux server, CentOS, and set up samba folders for sharing on the network. It still runs, and those are all the shared drives on the network. As part of the engineering department, I need to access these shared drives and read the files, in particular the drawing files. When I set up my pc as a client for reading samba shares (I allowed samba services for both a server and a client in the firewall), I went into yast -> windows domain membership, and then set up the domain. Then I went to dolphin, clicked on the network icon, and searched through the samba shared folders. We found some of the network folders that came up, but not all. I had an IT guy come here and we were able to manually navigate to the network folder I need, which has the format of: smb://administrator username@servername/path With that format, I am able to access the folders, but only in dolphin and only by manually entering the long navigation path. I tried to set up a network drive with the network folder wizard in dolphin, but it is very difficult to figure out what goes in what field, and which part of the wizard to use. Do I connect via FTP? I read somewhere that samba clients on linux machines can connect to samba folders via ftp. Do I connect instead as if the samba folders are emulating a Microsoft Windows Network drive? In that one, it has fields for entering name, server, and folder. In the FTP, it has fields for entering name, user, server, port, and folder. I tried both, with various combinations of username, server name, path, etc. in the appropriate fields, and it is never able to create a network folder. However, I can still access the network folder in dolphin if I manually enter the folder string, as I noted above. BTW, I am using Leap 42.2 and KDE. George -- 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] Update on erratic mouse movement
by Terry Eck 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

It turns out that when I use IceWM instead of Plasma 5 the mouse problem goes away. I'm hoping someone can point me towards a solution. It has to be related to Plasma 5. Are there any controls with regard to the mouse under this window manager? In a prior post I had given some information about my system obtained for Yast. Regards, Terry -- 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] SAS/SCSI Hotplug
by Paul Groves 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Hi, I have a couple of external tape drives. one SAS and the other SCSI. I do not wish to have these powered on at all times because they have very loud fans. I can turn them on and off easily as the drives have a power switch I can flip on when required, but the drives are not automatically detected again until reboot. lsscsi does not show them but after reboot it does. How can I configure the system to automatically re-detect these drives? Or perhaps a command that can be run before the backup script starts? Using openSUSE 42.1 x64 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] LibreOffice help menu
by Dave Howorth 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

I run LibreOffice Version: 5.2.3.3 Build ID: 20m0(Build:3) on openSUSE Leap 42.1 I just clicked on LibreOffice Help in the Help menu and discovered that it opened a web page instead of a help window. The web page is https://help.libreoffice.org/index.php?title=5.2/Common/Help&Language=en-US… and I can't figure out how to use it to get help! It seems to be some kind of overview/index but there doesn't seem to be any way to actually invoke help. How do I use it? Thanks, 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] Ktorrent Font Size adjustment in XFCE desktop environment
by ellanios82 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

- after recent TW dup , ktorrent fonts have become tiny : How to increase ktorrent font size : have tried Qt and KDE Font utils without result ? thanks ellan ..... -- 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] RESOLVED: Mounting a 5TB NTFS drive?
by Greg Freemyer 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

The issue was trivial. The partition table was GPT and I was using fdisk to look at it. Once I used "gdisk -l" to look at the partition setup, I found I needed to mount partition 2. Sorry for the noise. Greg On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > All, > > I routinely mount USB-3 drives to openSUSE. Normally to 13.1. I > don't recall ever mounting anything over 4TB before. > > I'm in the field today and the only DVD I have with me is a 13.1 DVD. > > I bought a new Seagate 5TB USB-3 drive. It works in Windows 10 and I > have put data on it. > > I can see the 5TB drive when I boot the PC in question from the > openSUSE 13.1 DVD, but it fails to mount. > > Is there a known problem going over 4TB? Will it work if get a Leap > 42.2 machine? (90 minutes round trip drive time to my office, thus > the question). > > Thanks > Greg > -- > Greg Freemyer -- 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] Mounting a 5TB NTFS drive?
by Greg Freemyer 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

All, I routinely mount USB-3 drives to openSUSE. Normally to 13.1. I don't recall ever mounting anything over 4TB before. I'm in the field today and the only DVD I have with me is a 13.1 DVD. I bought a new Seagate 5TB USB-3 drive. It works in Windows 10 and I have put data on it. I can see the 5TB drive when I boot the PC in question from the openSUSE 13.1 DVD, but it fails to mount. Is there a known problem going over 4TB? Will it work if get a Leap 42.2 machine? (90 minutes round trip drive time to my office, thus the question). Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- 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] Programming F1 with twm or ctwm
by Richmond 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

I have two computers with an identical .ctwmrc, and it has this line: "F1" = : window : f.iconify On the first computer it works, pressing F1 iconifies a window, but on the second it doesn't work, it just makes the mouse cursor disappear for a second. Sometimes OP (an escape sequence?) appears in the xterm window (if that is the window targetted). This second computer did have a .Xmodmap but I renamed it. I rebooted the system after renaming .Xmodmap. I have found the same problem with twm. I changed the default window manager to twm, the default display manager to xdm, rebooted the system, created a new user, copied the .twmrc file, but still F1 didn't work. xev shows it is sending key 67 F1. I have tried plugging in a USB keyboard, but no difference. What's happening? Why does it behave differently on this computer? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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