August 2023 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Thunderbird - Trash, sort by deleted date
by joe a 07 Aug '23

07 Aug '23

Anyone here using Thunderbird/Dovecote to sort Trash folder by deleted date? I was astonished that does not seem to be the default. Do not find the option to add "Date deleted". Asked on Mozilla/TB Support, which tells me that option is there, under Settings, View, Sort by. also on dovecote, which has not responded at all. Thanks.

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Jitsi
by joe a 07 Aug '23

07 Aug '23

I was pleased to see Jitsi available in YAST. Experiences installing and using?

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Zypper and repositories
by Roger Oberholtzer 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

I have a system that is installed at a customer site. Their IT guys, as is usually the case when a Linux box arrives, are very conservative about what the machine can access. As we slowly make it available in their environ, I would like it to be able to access the internet. Mainly to get access to openSUSE repos for updates and the like. They are leaning toward allowing this. But they want to restrict the sites that can be accessed to some list that we provide to them. IT guys have their ideas. As we expect to use zypper to do most of this, we need to make sure that zypper limits itself to the sites that are listed. Is there any way to tell zypper which mirror sites are available so it will only consider those? As this system is in Portugal, maybe there is some list of quality mirrors that are best used in Portugal? Anyone else have this kind of restraint? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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HP 1109w vs OpenSuSE 15.5
by Carl Spitzer 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

*The HPLIP Automatic Installer* The Automatic Installer is known to work on the following Linux Distributions: - SUSE Linux (13.2, 42.1, 42.2, 42.3,15.0,15.1,15.2,15.3,15.4) Seems they are not ready for 15.5 Do the drivers from older versions work? HP does not seem to have them on its website. CWSIV

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youtube download problems
by Carl Spitzer {L Juno} 04 Aug '23

04 Aug '23

Whether I use Y2mate.com or youtube-dl I am getting errors regarding Absolute addressing. What is this and how do I correct a problem which did not exist in 15.2 before and seems to be part of 15.5 now??? CWSIV

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tumbleweed snapshot emails
by Ianseeks 04 Aug '23

04 Aug '23

Hi Is there anyway i can register to get these? I am refused subscription to the factory list where I used to get them because i'm not a "list member" . regards Ian opensuse:tumbleweed:20230802 Qt: 5.15.10 KDE Frameworks: 5.108.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.27.7 - kwin 5.27.7 kmail2 5.23.3 (23.04.3) - akonadiserver 5.23.3 (23.04.3) - Kernel: 6.4.6-1- default - kernel-firmware-radeon 20230724

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NetworkManager issue?
by bent fender 04 Aug '23

04 Aug '23

I have a router with two bandwidths but I use only the lower bandwidth that works with all my usb wifi sticks and all my OS'es. The networks are Net-2 and Net-5. Only Tumbleweed sees Net-5 and sometimes it thinks that I want to use it, at such times I just hit enter in the pwd dialogs, which leads to failure. I don't put up with passwords or any other such data being stored so Tumbleweed has correctly been asking me for root password (first) as well as network password (second) before giving access. But the dialog order sometimes begins with network-pwd and then the whole sequence becomes: - network pwd - root pwd - network pwd This repetition of network pwd caught my eye earlier but never more than that. It just seemed a little lossy :-) This morning I got a first dialog to provide network-pwd for Net-5 for which I just hit return as usual. Repeated the empty return for root-pwd which came second. The result of course was that I had no network connection at which time I went to NetworkManager to open the Net-2 dialog by clicking its ixcon. I had to supply net-2 pwd after which I was expecting to have to supply root-pwd BUT that dialog NEVER came so here I am connected with root pwd never having been given. openSUSE Tumbleweed , Kernel=6.4.6-1-default on x86_64, DM=sddm, DE=KDE, ST=x11,grub2, GPT, BIOS-boot

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New Thunderbird - convert to task
by James Knott 03 Aug '23

03 Aug '23

Thunderbird was recently updated to 115.0.1. One thing I've noticed is the convert to task function, where email could be converted to a calendar task. Anyone know what happened to it? It was something I used occasionally. tnx jk

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Corrupted root
by Carl Spitzer {L Juno} 03 Aug '23

03 Aug '23

IN OpenSuse 15.2 I need to umount the / partition but I am getting device busy errors which block umount. Its Ext4 so I should be able to fsck this problem once unmounted. Then I can finish backing up the /home and proceed to upgrade to 15.5. How do I correct this device busy problem? The system crashed and shut off during a Firefox secession I think I had too many tabs open. CWSIV

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Let's use ZRAM!
by Masaru Nomiya 03 Aug '23

03 Aug '23

Hello, Please have a look; https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/mfs53x/tip_enable_zram_easily/ it is written as follows; Zram uses your CPU to compress swap which makes your PC faster ( People say it boosts the performance even though it uses your CPU ) Using Zram can reduce the read/write cycles on an SSD and increases its durability. In adsdition from https://haydenjames.io/linux-performance-almost-always-add-swap-part2-zram/ [...] What is ZRAM? ZRAM creates a block device in RAM where pages that would otherwise be written to swap (disk/SSD) are instead first compressed, then stored. This allows for a much faster I/O of swap, and also, the data compression provides a significant amount of memory savings. A downside of ZRAM is that it uses some CPU for compression, but this is usually negated by the gains achieved from avoiding disk swap and the overall memory savings of compression. So keep those things in mind per your usage. In my case; 1. before installation of zram $ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 96297 4831 65144 84 26321 90403 Swap: 4095 0 4095 2. after installtion $ free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 96297 5383 64598 77 26315 89857 Swap: 100393 0 100393 where; # zramctl --output-all NAME DISKSIZE DATA COMPR ALGORITHM STREAMS ZERO-PAGES TOTAL MEM-LIMIT MEM-USED MIGRATED MOUNTPOINT /dev/zram0 94G 4K 62B zstd 16 0 20K 0B 20K 0B [SWAP] You will soon see the effect of ZRAM implementation. The dramatic improvement in sound quality is very pleasing, as well as the crisp running of applications. Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡野宮賢 mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Maddox hopes that empowering users to pick their own algorithms will get them to think more about what’s involved in making them. " -- Bluesky's Custom Algorithms Could Be the Future of Social Media --

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