June 2022 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Leap 15.4 - task bar buttons NFG
by James Knott 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Previously, when clicking on a taskbar app button, if there were multiple windows open, a list would appear. Now, it cycles through open windows, instead of listing them. How can this be fixed?

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Firefox 95
by James Knott 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

I had been running Firefox 95.0.1 with 15.3. Is there similar with 15.4? The installed version is 91.100 and when I run it, it complains about an older version and says to create a new profile. tnx jk

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Leap 15.4 - Konsole no icon
by James Knott 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

In Leap 15.4, there doesn't seem to be an icon for Konsole. I just see a blank area and it's not listed in icons under applications.

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Leap vs Tumbleweed a few questions
by Carl Spitzer {L Juno} 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

I know I should have done the upgrade long ago but work has been crazy. I have one laptop still 15.2 which apparently needs to upgrade to 15.3 and then to 15.4 . I also have a neighbors old Gateway which is 64 bit which could go the 15.4 route directly or Tumbleweed. What I am wondering with all this complexity should I just switch to Tumbleweed rolling release and skip all the extra work. What is your experience with either??? I know kde3 is going away unless that one guy takes control of it but I find Trinity aka kde 3.5.12 is available for both the 15.x series and Tumbleweed. I just wish Evolution could be repaired to use mbox for the filters I have created. I do not need M$ exchange comparability. CWSIV

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2 questions about Leap 15.4 release
by Darryl Gregorash 05 Jun '22

05 Jun '22

Build 243.2 dated 28 May is now available on my closest mirror. Is this the actual Gold Master, and if so, are there any issues which would suggest against an early update to 15.4? Server loads are likely to be heavy next Wednesday, and I would like to avoid that if at all possible. Second question: I note there are no .torrent files for 15.4 (in fact, all such files have been removed for all 15.x releases). Are these gone forever? It's a shame if that is so, since torrent sharing is the fastest way to distribute the ISO files, and significantly reduces the load on the mirrors once everyone starts downloading them.

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Since 15.4 is now GM - Will my next zypper dup by my LAST zypper dup?
by David C. Rankin 04 Jun '22

04 Jun '22

All, Factory announced 15.4 is no Gold Master. So will my next zypper dup be the last zypper dup for 15.4, and then zypper up after that? Or is there some other milestone I should look for to know when to switch from zypper dup to zypper up? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Recover/open/run/whatever Visual Basic?
by Dave Howorth 04 Jun '22

04 Jun '22

I've just downloaded what I believe to be a game coded in Visual Basic. I'd like to recover the source of it, or at least be able to read it, and I'd like to be able to translate the associated data tables to something useful (it's an adventure style game called Quest), but I don't know how. It arrived as a zip file and when unzipped I see a bunch of files. 'file' says most of them are 'MS Compress archive data' and the rest appear to be obviously not of much interest: $ file * ADATA1._: MS Compress archive data ADATA2._: MS Compress archive data OLDS4.FO_: MS Compress archive data OLDS4.TT_: MS Compress archive data QUEST.EX_: MS Compress archive data SETUP1.EX_: MS Compress archive data SETUP.EXE: MS-DOS executable, NE for MS Windows 3.x SETUPKIT.DL_: MS Compress archive data SETUP.LST: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators VBRUN300.DL_: MS Compress archive data VER.DL_: MS-DOS executable, NE for MS Windows 3.x (driver) My google-foo seems to be a bit weak today :( Can anybody suggest a program that can read those files and turn them into something more manageable?

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[oS-EN] Resizing a window in XFCE
by Carlos E. R. 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

Hi, On some of my computers I have a problem: the thresold for picking an edge of the window to resize it (using XFCE) is so narrow that I have to keep moving the mouse for 20 seconds till I manage to get hold of it. First the horizontal, then the vertical. Forget about grabbing the corner. Where can I adjust it? Not in mouse settings. :-? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.3)

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Thunderbird (and now Firefox) intermittently causing high CPU load
by gumb 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '22

I'm on Leap 15.3. Held off the update from Thunderbird 78esr to 91esr for quite a long time because I'd read of one or two issues and knew it might be best to wait a while. Now, let me state that I've been using Thunderbird since pre-1.0 days about twenty years ago. It's always been rock solid stable, sometimes a bit old and clunky but absolutely reliable, more so than just about any other software I use. I also understand that open source developers don't get enthused by criticism and they give their free time and energy and we should all do our best to show appreciation and be constructive in our conversations and hug trees. With that said, all current Thunderbird developers must die! Okay, I'll back off a bit. After twenty years of rock solid stability I upgraded to 91esr and have run into a catalogue of irritations, some of which I should have actually catalogued because I've now forgotten for a moment what they are, but I'm sure they'll come back to haunt me some more. In the v91 release notes I see lots of happy-clapping for spangly new features that are of no relevance to me. I just want the continued stability. Somebody already remarked on here some time ago that scrolling in the TB message preview pane is now horked. I either have to click or move the mouse about erratically in the pane to get it to scroll. Sometimes it scrolls immediately, other times not, and seems worse when there's images in the mail but no consistency or logic to it. Tried turning on hardware acceleration and for an hour or so thought that had cured it, only for the problem to return many times since. One or two other smaller annoyances I'll just have to put up with for the time being, but I'd like to know if anybody else has witnessed high CPU usage, specifically in Thunderbird 91esr on Leap 15.3? I wondered if it was continually reindexing my twenty years' archive of folders, and at first it seemed to do it fairly routinely once a day in early evening. But then it became more frequent, and now it spins up several times a day. This laptop has been ultra quiet for three years. 8 cores, 32gb of RAM, all of which I barely use. Bought it secondhand-like-new and it's way overspec'd for the mostly mundane tasks I require of it. Only very rarely does a CPU intensive task spin up the fan and make any noise noticeable, briefly. But now Thunderbird is doing this consistently. At this rate, it's going to wipe two years off the lifetime of this machine. I do NOT have the global search and indexer feature enabled. I tried deselecting and reselecting it as OFF just to make sure. If I look in Plasma's System Activity when the high load occurs, I see Thunderbird showing typically between 6 and 22% CPU load whilst most other processes are rarely pushing more than 1 or 2%. There may be subprocesses amongst the bazillion other kworker and whatever garbage things further down the list, but I can't pick out anything for sure. Nothing that nudges more than a percent or two. It's also not the Compact Folders process, because I still only do that manually after a prompt. It just prompted me for the first time in a long while (I have it set to only act with over ~200mb wasted space), and after that ran for a few seconds, my system just went into some kind of hyperdrive like never before witnessed, whilst Baloo reindexed for a few minutes and half the neighbourhood lost power to the centrale nucléaire whilst Mr Linux plays with his email client. And now Firefox has decided to join in the fun and games. Again, the standard latest ESR version for 15.3. Most particularly when I start playing anything in YouTube, but not uniquely that. System Activity usually shows a process 'RDD' consuming one core, and my fan starts going into warp speed again. Never happened before this last week or two. In both Thunderbird and Firefox I've turned off all studies, data collection, error reporting and whatnot to eliminate that. It could be that others have these symptoms but don't notice on their desktop fanless or soundproofed machines. What could be the cause? No I haven't yet filed any bug reports. I'm unsure if it could be openSUSE-specific, perhaps some other dependency like a graphics update that has nothing to do with Mozilla. Too many vague things to know where to even start. And no I haven't tried creating a blank profile because I can be almost certain nothing will go goofy in such an empty profile, and I don't want the inconvenience of setting up and receiving pop mail in a fresh instance and then having to merge it all back into my main mail at a later date. gumb

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XFCE user switcher
by Carlos E. R. 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '22

Hi, On XFCE, using xfce4-screensaver, when it locks, I do not see a button to switch to another user. Is there some way to make it appear? Leap 15.3 -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.3)

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