February 2021 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

GIMP and plugins in oS or TW
by oszko＠chem.u-szeged.hu 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

Hi all, I try to use GIMP as a photo manipulator software on TW. Mainly to a bit repair old photos. I know there is a so-called resynthetizer python plugin set for GIMP. I dowloaded them, copied into the plugins directory of GIMP, made them executabel, and reloaded GIMP. And nothing. They should be present inthe Filters/Enhance list, but they are not there. Could anybody of you made them to work? I would especially need the heal selection plugin to remove patches, flecks, writing on old pictures. Unfortunately, it is also difficult to make toolboxes visible in oS. In Ubuntu and Mint GIMP comes up as expected - but the plugins mentioned above are not seen either. Best regards, Albert ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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openSUSE-Leap-15.3-DVD-x86_64-Build76.1-Media.iso
by ken 17 Feb '21

17 Feb '21

Why the designation as "Build76.1"?

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Re: Leap 15.2 KDE file associations
by Knurpht-openSUSE 15 Feb '21

15 Feb '21

Op maandag 15 februari 2021 16:58:31 CET schreef Roger Oberholtzer: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 3:56 PM Knurpht-openSUSE <knurpht(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > > I already asked to keep this on the ML. It's no use to turn to a private > > email conversation. If I would do so, I would not have time for work :-D > It is on the ML. I guess that my mail program is sending to that as > well as to you directly. Why it goes to both is mysterious. I also > prefer to keep it on the ML so others can follow. I think I see the diffence the client sees: I use users(a)lists.o.o, you still use opensuse(a)o.o . And we most likely filter our MLs .... -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board openSUSE Forums Team

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Leap 15.2 KDE file associations
by Roger Oberholtzer 15 Feb '21

15 Feb '21

On a recent Leap 15.2 install, I seem not to be able to get KDE to remember file associations. More specifically, which application to run for the file. If I select a file in Konqueror, and then select an application in the dialog Konqueror provides, and click the box that says to remember this, when I click again on that same file, it once again asks which application to use. It never remembers the association. It does run the application after I select it. But never again unless I select the application again. When I say that the association should be remembered, I get the status window saying that something is being updated. There is no error. In the X log, I see this when the association is selected and being remembered: kbuildsycoca4 running... So if there is an error, it is not presented anywhere I see. Has anyone else seen this? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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scaling old applications
by Simon Becherer 13 Feb '21

13 Feb '21

Hi, tumbleweed kde, amd-ryzen1700, amd graphic, 3 screens 3840x2160 (over all a fast machine) i run a old x-windows application on a virtual qemu-suse10.1 (its a proprietary software, and this is the last suse where its running on - and the last linux release of this software) (to be clear somewhere on 10.1 it stopped working, because of some updates (during live-cycle of 10.1), so i freeze the system at last working version)) this software is not scalable with the window manager. i could scale the software internally up to 2048x2048 pixels. but with my new screens 3840x2160 its to small to work with. i start this software normally over ssh two or three times in parallel. now my question: is there a possibility to scale a old software wit a fast reaction time? i could easily with virtmanager (over spice) work with the virtual machine and scale it. - but then i have only one time the software running at the desktop. but i need often more in parallel. i tried: https://github.com/kaueraal/run_scaled but i have a huge reaction lack of mouse movement and some parts of the screen are not updated correct. - not usable. at the moment i change screen resolution at one of my monitor to still use more than one instance of the software in parallel. but this is not comfortable, all other things i move to this monitor is also scaled.... if there is not a solution of scaling, maybe how to start 2 or 3 times inside the virtual machine the software and use spice to have access to all of them in parallel? (be careful, i do not think spice was developed in times of suse10.1) (mouse movement at spice with virtmanager is faster than vnc-virtmanger) simoN -- www.becherer.de

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Remote desktops
by Roger Oberholtzer 12 Feb '21

12 Feb '21

I want to have remote desktops in to openSUSE systems. I currently use x11vnc to do this from other Linux computers. Connecting to an existing session as well as letting the session be shared are needed. x11vnc does this fine. We use the default display :0 for this. Recently (after leap 42.3 some time), it seems that x11vnc or X requires that one provide an authorization file to access the desktop. It is specified to x11vnc via the -auth option. This would generally not be a problem. Except finding the file to use is a bit of a hack. Where the files is located depends on, it seems, which display manager one is using. When using kdm, for example, the file(s) are in /var/lib/kdm/AuthFiles/. Other dms put them elsewhere. Which brings me to my real question. I start x11vnc via xinetd. In that context, I would like how to know what authorization file to use for display 0. That is the one we usually connect to and share. Initially, I had just edited the xinetd file with the name of the new authorization file, which is made each time the display manager starts. This was not nice. So I thought I might just use a wild card to get the name of the file in /var/lib/kdm/AuthFiles/ as there was only one. We only use display :0. Today, on a couple systems, I suddenly find more than one authorization file. I have no idea why. So the wild card thing will not be a real solution. How are others solving this? To be honest, I don't really want the auth thing. I would be quite happy to just disable it all together. But if that is not possible, how best to find out in an automated way (i.e., in a shell script) which auth file to specify to x11vnc? I am quite flexible in solutions. I'm not married to x11vnc.It just has been working fine. -- Roger Oberholtzer

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Review How to Install OpenSUSE Leap 15.2
by Vegan Tech 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

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Discover
by Darryl Gregorash 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

OK, how do I stop this stupid thing from appearing in front of me every time I log in? Grazzie, gracias, danke and thank you, in advance.

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clipboard behavior - text coding
by Simon Becherer 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Hi, since some days i recognized that in libreoffice or thunderbird, when i write a text with a "€" (euro-symbol) everiting seems ok. but when i mark the text with shift and arrow-keys then press strg+c and on a other place strg+v the euro symbol is replaced by a "?" (questionmark) if i mark the euro-symbol with mouse and press medium mouse button to copy, the euro-symbol is still there example: writing text: € copiing text: ? i have no idea where to check whats going on here. system is tumbleweed, kde, german i do not think its a tumbleweed bug, because same systems did not behavior like this. it must be a configuration problem. -- www.becherer.de

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move root to new disk
by oszko＠chem.u-szeged.hu 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Dear all, Possibly this topic was discussed several times, and there are a number of "tutorials" found on the web. Maybe too much. So: I would like to move my root partition to a brand new SSD, and keep /home on the old disk. I copied the existing one with dd and gave it a new UUID. How can I proceed? This is an UEFI machine. Since /boot/efi is tiny, I think it can remain where it is now. Should I create a swap on the SSD? And possibly the most important: how can I tell the laptop to use the root on the SSD.? I tried to unmount the existing /, but since it is in use, I cannot umount it. Thanks for the help. Albert ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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