July 2022 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Custom default configuration for KDE : Taskbar vs. Kickoff
by Nicolas Kovacs 16 Jul '22

16 Jul '22

Hi, I'm currently experimenting with an OpenSUSE Tumbleweed VM. I'd like to slightly customize the default KDE configuration to eventually install it in our local school. No Ansible here, I just put everything in a bone-headed shell script with a handful of nifty functions: https://gitlab.com/kikinovak/opensuse/-/blob/master/setup.sh 1. Customize the taskbar ------------------------ The icons displayed in the taskbar are defined in /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/config/main.xml. I changed that configuration with a series of sed one-liners, and here's what I have now: <default>applications:org.kde.dolphin.desktop, applications:firefox.desktop, applications:thunderbird.desktop, applications:libreoffice-startcenter.desktop </default> Now when my existing user logs out and logs back in, he or she gets to see this new default layout, with icons for Dolphin, Firefox, Thunderbird and LibreOffice in the taskbar on the lower left side of the screen. So far so good. 2. Customize the Kickoff menu ----------------------------- Now I'm trying to do the same with the Kickoff menu, which sports a whole series of icons in the favorite apps section. The default Kickoff menu is defined in /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/config/main.xml. Here's what my custom version looks like in the edited section of this file: <default>firefox.desktop,thunderbird.desktop,libreoffice-startcenter.desktop,org.kde.dolphin.desktop</default> Now here's the thing. This new customized default configuration is applied as expected for every *newly created* user. But only for those. Unfortunately *existing users* keep their initial configuration. I tried to figure out what configuration files keep the configuration of every user's Kickoff menu in ~/.config and/or ~/.local, but I think you have to be a member of some Secret Plasma Customization Cult to have access to this information. :o) Question: how do I apply my custom Kickoff menu configuration to existing users ? Any suggestions ? Cheers from the burning South of France, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info(a)microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 Mob. : 06 51 80 12 12

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[oS-en] Huh? Failed to parse address 'fe80::1%wlan1'
by Carlos E. R. 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I see in the warning log (15.3): <3.4> 2022-07-15 07:49:05 Legolas avahi-daemon 1259 - - Failed to parse address 'fe80::1%wlan1', ignoring. I don't know where it is getting that address from, nor if it is correct syntax. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE Leap 15.2 at Legolas) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYtECChwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVpjcAn3CUm3HyP6I9A9Fz+7Yi 1Ijs0ie7AJ9nZH4Iz8CJ6bHNSaT9/KxcWVDX9A== =kAU9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Where do I create a bugzilla feature request?
by J Leslie Turriff 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

In order to allow a virtual machine guest exclusive access to a device (e.g. a GPU card), there is a long, involved process for configuring the system to exempt it from being connected to the kernel. I would like to create a feature request for something like a YaST module to do this, but what part of the system would it belong to? Two possibilities come to mind: YaST Boot Loader Which of these would be the right place to make the request? Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity

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15.4 - install dconf-editor to fix gtk3 file-chooser not sorting dirs first
by David C. Rankin 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

All, One annoying wrinkle with gtk apps in 15.4 is the default file-chooser does not sort directories first leaving an alphabetical sorting with directories and files jumbled together. There is a fix (regardless of the desktop you use), install dconf-editor and then set: org->gtk->settings->file-chooser sort-directories-first True Now things look normal in the gtk file-chooser. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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TW 20220710: ibus applet is not autostarting anymore
by Mathias Homann 12 Jul '22

12 Jul '22

Hi, I just noticed that the ibus panel applet isn't autostarting anymore - even though the're is a valid(?) desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart. and of course - nothing obvious in the logs or the journal , and manually starting "ibus-autostart" from a commandline works without errors... All the other stuff that is set up in /etc/xdg/autostart seems to work fine so any help would be appreciated :) Cheers Mathias -- Mathias Homann Mathias.Homann(a)openSUSE.org OBS: lemmy04 Jabber (XMPP): lemmy(a)tuxonline.tech Matrix: @mathias:eregion.de IRC: [Lemmy] on liberachat and ircnet (bouncer active) keybase: https://keybase.io/lemmy gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102

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Why are packages in 15.4 OSS repository NOT receiving SUPPORT?
by David C. Rankin 12 Jul '22

12 Jul '22

What is going on? FreeCAD in the main OSS 15.4 repository is BROKEN. (It segfaults) I file a bug to have this package in OSS fixed and I get a response: <quote> Comment # 3 on bug 1200583 from Stefan Brüns FreeCAD works fine on TW, and thats the only thing I will support. For 15.4, you are on your own. You are receiving this mail because: You reported the bug. </quote> 15.4 is a new release and it has a broken package in OSS -- Why isn't that going to be fixed??? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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sound shift with avidemux 3
by jdd＠dodin.org 09 Jul '22

09 Jul '22

Hello, I've jut been hit by an avidemux problem, may be worth a bugreport if not already fixed :-) however openSUSE Leap 15.3 seems to use the same 2.8.0 version as the appimage available on the avidemux side. The problem is pretty odd: the sound is shifted some seconds late. When the singer stop singing and drop the mic, one can still hear his voice. Of course not on the source (not an echo :-(). This seems to happen only on special situation. I'm cutting videos from a Canon HF G30 camcorder. Full HD, 28Mb/s 50fps. When loading, avidemux write it's own index file, then ask for something to fix (This video contains B-frames, but presentation time stamps (PTS) are either missing or monotonically increasing. Avidemux can try to reconstruct correct PTS by decoding the entire video. This may take a lot of time. Proceed?), I always say "yes", and have to wait around 3 mn (20 minutes video, 4Gb MTS file). no problem there. I select a part of the video (say a song, cut to i-frame), write it as raw copy mkv file, delete the part already done and go for the next. At a moment I have a song half on the present file and half on the next, so I append the next one, and so on. The shift may appear after several append It's not easy to see, cause my video is not a closeup. The resulting file is much too big to be shared, and the problem is not immediately visible, so I don't know what to do to help debugging (but right now I'm obliged to redo one day work :-() any clue? worth a bugzilla? thanks jdd -- http://dodin.org http://valeriedodin.com

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tips or suggestions qcow2 on limbo x86
by visqajin＠yahoo.com 08 Jul '22

08 Jul '22

hello, i have come across cloud images. i would like to try on my android device. does anybody has experience running qcow2 files on limbo x86? if so, please provide suggestoins: which image should i use?(1). my primary purpose is to gain familiarity with os while i am on move (it takes 1 hour to reach my office, so i have plenty of time). (1) https://mirrorcache-us.opensuse.org/download/distribution/openSUSE-stable/a… regards, visja

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zypper up reinstalls 15.4??
by David C. Rankin 07 Jul '22

07 Jul '22

Here is a new one, Doing a normal zypper up on 15.4 I find 15.4 will be reinstalled - why? The following 3 packages are going to be upgraded: MozillaThunderbird openSUSE-release openSUSE-release-ftp The following product is going to be reinstalled: "openSUSE Leap 15.4" 3 packages to upgrade. Overall download size: 54.7 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 27.8 KiB will be used. Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): Is it simply due to the openSUSE-release openSUSE-release-ftp packages? (I suspect so). It seems a bit overkill to scare the new user with: The following product is going to be reinstalled: "openSUSE Leap 15.4" I know it caused me to do a double-take.... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Zypper vs. package caching : solution needed
by Nicolas Kovacs 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

Hi, Our local school has a painfully slow Internet connection, and there's no way to get a faster one. We have about two dozen desktop clients, and before starting the dist-upgrade from Leap 15.3 to Leap 15.4, I'm looking for a simple solution to avoid repeated downloads which would take ages. In the past I've fiddled with Apt-Cacher-NG, which sometimes works (sort of) for some repositories, but in daily practice it's unfortunately too buggy to be really usable. I've taken some notes about Apt-Cacher-NG and published them on my blog: https://blog.microlinux.fr/apt-cacher-ng-centos-7-opensuse/ Next, I went for a bone-headed solution consisting in sharing /var/cache/zypp/packages over NFS. On my local server (running Rocky Linux 8) I exported /srv/packages to the local network, and then all OpenSUSE clients are mounting this export on /var/cache/zypp/packages. Repositories are configured with the --keep-packages option, so the cache is not erased after each download/installation. Well, in theory. In practice, here's how it works (or not). All my desktop clients have a shared /var/cache/zypp/packages mounted over NFS. I perform my first upgrade on the first client, and things go smoothly. The cache is filled with almost 1 GB of downloaded RPMS and the corresponding metadata. So far so good. Now when I move on to the second desktop client, first thing I do is setup the official repos for Leap 15.4 before doing the upgrade with 'zypper addrepo --keep-packages etc.' And here's the thing: this operation WIPES THE CACHE. Which, as far as I can tell, is Zypper being particularly stupid. "Hey Zypper, please add these repositories but also please keep all the packages in the cache." "OK I'm setting up the repositories but I'm wiping the cache NOW. Duh." I spent some time reading and re-reading 'man zypper' but apparently there seem to be no more options to tell zypper to *never* *ever* wipe the cache in /var/cache/zypp/packages. Any suggestions ? Cheers from the sunny South of France, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info(a)microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 Mob. : 06 51 80 12 12

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