May 2022 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: ways to contribute to openSUSE
by Carlos E. R. 28 May '22

28 May '22

On 2022-05-28 18:32, jdd(a)dodin.org wrote: > Le 28/05/2022 à 17:54, Patrick Shanahan a écrit : > >> nothing is free (of charge) but hidden within (THE plan). but yes, sms >> does not incur *additional* charges on most accounts now, but did in the >> past. >> >> > still do :-( > > I can phone for free to my LA living daugther, but If I send her a SMS, > I'm charged :-(, whats'app, messenger are free :-( Look up RCS. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services> «*Rich Communication Services* From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rich Communication Services (RCS)[1] is a communication protocol between mobile telephone carriers and between phone and carrier, aiming at replacing SMS messages with a text-message system that is richer, provides phonebook polling (for service discovery), and can transmit in-call multimedia. It is part of the broader IP Multimedia Subsystem. Google added support for end-to-end encryption for one-on-one conversations in their own extension.[2] It is also marketed as Advanced Messaging,[3] Chat, joyn, SMSoIP,[4] Message+, and SMS+.[5] In early 2020, it was estimated that RCS was available from 88 operators in 59 countries with approximately 390 million users per month.[6]» If both phones have it (uses the same SMS default app), SMS messages then use the internet network instead of the original and expensive phone provider data services used for SMS. In my phone, if I start to type and there is a tiny "sms" text by the button arrow to "send", that indicates that the message will have a cost according to the phone provider. If there is nothing (and the box is probably coloured in blue), then the message will use internet (can be WiFi) and is zero cost, even if sending photos, except whatever your internet connection costs you. There is also a competing service/app from google named "chat". I still do not have clear what this is. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.3)

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"This video cannot be played"
by Douglas McGarrett 27 May '22

27 May '22

I have received a number of messages from various sources with a video attached, but across the face of what must be the first screen, is the message, "This video cannot be played." I'm curious--what kind of video is being sent that cannot be player, and why? --doug

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Tip: IOS Files + Samba - seamless access to $HOME through phone over Wifi
by David C. Rankin 27 May '22

27 May '22

All, After being forced to update my phone (they took down 3G), a pleasant surprise was the "Files" app that will connect to any available smb server. I may be late to this party, but this was a huge improvement with the pain of e-mailing from my phone to my server to transfer files on the old iphone 4s. If you haven't discovered samba on Linux, then a simple way to share your files with your phone is to install the samba package, and you can use a simple config to share $HOME and make your files available to via the Files app. (note: samba 4.15 is fine, but 4.16 introduced a bug that broke sharing of [homes] in standalone mode, https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15062, this will be fixed in the next 4.16.x release) 15.4 still has samba 4.15, so you are fine. Double check if on Tumbleweed. The cliffs notes version, create a trivial /etc/samba/smb.conf to share your $HOME (done through the [homes] share in the config). A basic config is: [global] dns proxy = No map to guest = Bad User printcap name = cups security = USER server string = %h Samba %v workgroup = WORKGROUP map to guest = Bad User cups options = raw vfs objects = fruit streams_xattr [homes] browseable = No comment = Home Directories read only = No (The 'vfs objects' config is required to handle IOS connections, and of course you are free to change 'WORKGROUP' to whatever) You can limit connections to your specific subnet or specific IP addresses with a space separated list, e.g.: hosts allow = 192.168.0. (when done editing smb.conf, run 'testparm' to check your config and see a dump of the settings. If no errors, all is good) To add valid samba users, all that is needed is: # smbpasswd -a username Use Yast-firewall to add 'samba' to the public zone, and then start 'nmb' and 'smb', e.g. # systemctl start nmb # systemctl start smb (to have it automatically start at boot, substitute 'enable' for 'start' and re-run the two commands above) That's it. Just open the Files app on your IOS device, click the ... menu and "Connect to Server", type in your hostname, then next and enter your samba user name (keep it the same as your Linux user), and pw and presto, $HOME appears on your phone. I'm no IOS fan, but this is one app they got right. So long as your IOS device is connected to your LAN via Wifi, Files provides access to all smb shares available. (I also recommend disconnecting from local shares before leaving your wireless range. Otherwise, if you need to access Files on your phone while away, you will wait through ~60 sec timeout as Files tries to connect to your server -- something discovered while trying to pull up my auto-insurance information to hand to a friendly DPS officer...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Firefox 91 - "Web Content" Higher CPU Demand - Any Way To Minimize?
by David C. Rankin 26 May '22

26 May '22

All, One thing I've noticed with FF 91 compared to FF 78 on 15.0 is FF 91 is quite a bit heavier on the CPU that 78. top shows the culprit to be "Web Content". This is with the exact same pages open. I first noticed this by the fan level on my laptop. Checking, rather an an intermittent "Web Content" process waking up and doing whatever it does, it now runs a majority of the time. Not continually, but close. In the past, Xorg was the leader (as expected) running at 0.997% CPU. (that's damn good). But now "Web Content" is continually up with Xorg demanding 0.997% (or 0.664% at times). The end result is a slightly higher CPU demand at idle than with 15.0. This is down on the fine-tuned end of things. I generally tune my setup until the laptop fans are silent at idle. Goal is a "load average:" at idle in top of 0.01 0.01 0.01 or less. Currently it is 0.03 or 0.02 and the difference is "Web Content". Below is the top output (it's a bit higher because I'm editing this in Tbird at the moment), but the rest is representative. Web Content is more active than normal in this slice: top - 13:01:31 up 3 days, 19:28, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.06, 0.08 Tasks: 230 total, 1 running, 227 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie %Cpu0 : 0.5/0.5 1[ ] %Cpu1 : 1.0/0.5 1[| ] %Cpu2 : 0.5/0.5 1[ ] %Cpu3 : 1.0/0.5 1[| ] MiB Mem : 7890.094 total, 377.703 free, 2515.207 used, 4997.184 buff/cache MiB Swap: 2057.996 total, 2056.246 free, 1.750 used. 5025.125 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 26125 david 20 0 3667.9m 615.8m 195.5m S 1.493 7.804 1:06.31 thunderbird-bin 26752 david 20 0 36.3m 4.3m 3.4m R 0.995 0.055 0:00.04 top 2236 david 20 0 13.4m 3.2m 2.2m S 0.498 0.040 1:38.60 gam_server 7303 david 20 0 5514.3m 1.047g 315.3m S 0.498 13.58 31:00.42 firefox 7370 david 20 0 3045.8m 294.5m 167.2m S 0.498 3.733 18:06.73 Web Content 7475 david 20 0 2559.2m 141.1m 95.8m S 0.498 1.788 1:05.96 Web Content 1 root 20 0 219.3m 14.2m 8.8m S 0.000 0.180 0:03.52 systemd 2 root 20 0 0.0m 0.0m 0.0m S 0.000 0.000 0:00.07 kthreadd Rest of the processes are all 0.00 in %CPU and %MEM. Also, what is gam_server? (I think it is also related to FF) Don't recall that being in the top-5 either (though it isn't much). Any ideas how I can tweak Web Content in FF91 to make it behave a bit better? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[opensuse] Memtest & UEFI
by James Knott 26 May '22

26 May '22

In openSUSE 15.1, memtest, as installed, would not work with UEFI. Has this been fixed in 15.2? There is a version on the memtest website that will work with 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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X virtual frame buffer
by Roger Oberholtzer 25 May '22

25 May '22

I have a headless 15.3 system that I would like to access remotely. I need access to the desktop (i.e. X). When there is no display attached, X does not start. I wanted to install xf86-video-dummy, but it complains: error: Failed dependencies: X11_ABI_VIDEODRV = 25.2 is needed by xf86-video-dummy-0.4.0-lp153.24.1.x86_64 So I am guessing that X on 15.3 has recently changed the ABI. The installed xf86-video-* were built on May 2019. Note that these were still the ones that eventually were installed on Feb 2022. Unfortunately I did not install the dummy driver at that time. The change seems recent. As an alternative, I see that one could add some config to X for this. I read mixed things about how that works in terms of systems not booting. I also was considering xrand (xrandr --fb 1280x1024 -display :0). Seems starting that via ssh can be iffy depending on how it is handling X. So I have not been able to test it. If I make it start when the system boots, could it do anything to keep the system from booting? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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System slowdowns
by Marc Chamberlin 24 May '22

24 May '22

Hi - I have a number of openSuSE 15.3 x64 that periodically experience bad sluggishness in responding to keyboard or mouse input. This can get frustrating with delays up to a minute or so after clicking on a button, or typing in a window. This occurs across all applications/windows open on a KDE desktop. Ksysguard aka System Monitor, nor top, do not show my why these slowdowns occur. I monitor CPU %, I/O Reads/Writes, Network activity and don't see anything indicating abnormal consumption of time. So given the fact that I am NOT a guru on Linux systems, what else can I do to try and track down (and hopefully fix or find a solution to) what is going on with my computers. What strategy(s) should I follow and what other tools might be helpful? Thanks for any advice/help in advance.... Marc.... -- *"The Truth is out there" - Spooky* *_ _ . . . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ . . _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . * Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc. His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications. To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! (/This email is digitally signed and the OpenPGP electronic signature is added as an attachment. If you know how, you can use my public key to prove this email indeed came from me and has not been modified in transit. My public key, which can be used for sending encrypted email to me also, can be found at - https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=marc@marcchamberlin.com or just ask me for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand all this geek speak, no worries, just ignore this explanation and ignore the OpenPGP signature key attached to this email (it will look like gibberish if you open it) and/or ask me to explain it further if you like./)

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15.4 - Tbird 91 font size fiasco [work-around]
by David C. Rankin 24 May '22

24 May '22

All, One giant headache moving to Tbird 91 (aside from the loss of enigmail and the screwy way gpg keys are handled) is that font sizing just sucks. Nothing works to set the folder pane (tree) or thread pane (tree) to something readable. The new approach is to have you use the aboud:config editor and set: layout.css.devPixelsPerPx ( 1.0 is base, can go in increments of .05, etc.. to grow or shrink interface font size) However, in reality all this does is stretch the line height and there is no independent control of the folder pane and thread pane. So if you want to increase the size of the message list (thread pane) you end up making the folder list too big and vice versa. The problem is Mozilla, in true Plasma or Gtk4 fashion has removed the ability to set the interface elements through userChrome. The did so by disabling the following by default: toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets The good news is you can set that to true and have the userChrome file read by Tbird on start. This will restore the ability to adjust the font size of the folder pane or thread pane individually, e.g. /* thread pane font */ #threadTree > treechildren { font-size: 9pt !important; font-family: sans-serif !important; } /* folder pane font */ #folderTree > treechildren { font-size: 8pt !important; font-family: sans-serif !important; } After wasting an hour playing with various approaches I stumbled onto the following answer on Unix & Linux on StackExchange: https://superuser.com/a/1678336/439609 Hopefully this will save someone else the wasted hour trying to figure out why what has always worked for fonts no longer works in Tbird 91 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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18 Months Later - I'm getting list mail through suddenlinkmail.com
by David C. Rankin 23 May '22

23 May '22

All, I don't believe it, but beginning day before yesterday, I started getting openSUSE list mails through suddenlinkmail.com (factory and users). Par for course. Trouble ticket opened 9/2020, and just now fixed! Go figure. Thanks to Patrick and rest for keeping mail flowing before I gave up and went to gmail. (will leave both accounts up for a week or so to make sure this isn't a fluke) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Netdiscover - wrong source address
by James Knott 22 May '22

22 May '22

I recently installed netdiscover and noticed by default it uses the wrong source address. I set the range to my home LAN (172.16.0.0/24) and when I run it, it shows a source address of 172.16.0.67 on my desktop computer, which should be 172.16.0.10 and my ThinkPad (172.16.0.40). I can force the correct address with the -n option. Also, when I get a capture, it shows some, but not all of the devices on my LAN, but also several lines of nonsense addresses such as 192.168.0.67, 192.168.1.67, etc., all with the MAC from the computer I'm running it on. Here are some examples. Only the first line is a valid address. 172.16.0.92 96:60:ae:bd:84:7f 28 1680 Unknown vendor 192.168.0.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.1.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.2.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.3.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.4.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.5.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.6.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.7.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. That Hon Hai name also is shown on the valid address for my ThinkPad. Has anyone else experienced this? tnx jk 192.168.8.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.9.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.10.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd. 192.168.11.67 38:59:f9:e0:7d:5d 254 15240 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd.

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