June 2024 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

KDE is practically dead after latest update
by Albert Oszkó 11 Jun '24

11 Jun '24

.Hi all, After the latest major update (including kernel 6.9.3) KDE Plasma X11 became unusable on TW. Plasma Wayland is even worse. Fortunately XFCE can be used, though it lso slowed down with long response times to clicking. What happenned? Can somebody help me to figure out? Thanks, Albert /In addition I also lost my microphone, which I would badly need for Zoom/Teams/

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bios -> uefi boot, because of: resizable bar need csm off
by Simon Becherer 04 Jun '24

04 Jun '24

Hi, opensuse tumbleweed: up to now, i have had no inducement to change my harddrives from legacy boot to uefi boot. but now, i figured out that the full speed of the graphic will need "csm" off in bios/uefi, to switch on "resizable bar" still i do not understand what has the amount of data to be transferred to the graphic card has to do with the way bios/uefi is searching for the start sequence of the operating system. maybe i am to stupid. :-(( so now i need a little help: i have serveral tumbleweed installations, the easiest look like: Disk /dev/sda: 11721045168s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 34s 2047s 2014s grub bios_grub 2 2048s 11721041919s 11721039872s ext4 Linux filesystem legacy_boot 11721041920s 11721045134s 3215s Free Space they are booting fine with csm on. i like to convert them to uefi boot, have read here: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/bios-uefi https://superuser.com/questions/1310927/what-is-the-absolute-minimum-size-a… https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/inkscape-python-deps/blfs-book-sysv/p… so i think i have a good base to do. i think i will come to the point where i will have a fat partition. then i have to copy the efi files to that partition. here is my problem 1) i do not have inside my /boot directory the efi subdirectory, so, what rpm did i have to install to get the files, so that i am able to move them later on to the fresh generated fat partition? (i like to have only the absolute necessary files on this partition, to hold this partition very small) 2) what command did i have to use after i have a fat partition and the files in. grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi /dev/sda is mentioned inside the link "https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/bios-uefi" will this harddrive then also be booted in a legacy bios, or if i like to have both boot possibility's did i have to use another command? 3) did i miss some important infos? thanks in advance. simoN -- www.becherer.de

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kde5/6: recent files/recent applications
by mh＠mike.franken.de 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

Hi *, the problem already existed in kde5, but continued in kde6: The menues for "recent files" and "recent applications" stay empty in the start menu, in dolphin and other apps. In .local/share/RecentDocuments/ all the desktop icons for recent files are still existing. The list is updated whenever I open a new document, but nevertheless the "recent files" menu remains empty. As for "recent applications" I can't even find a folder, where they would be stored. I found a few, mostly very old postings on the net, but no fitting answer. Anyone any idea? TIA. Bye. Michael.

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Seeking Advice: MicroOS Host with PCI Pass-through to GUI Guest
by Tony Walker 02 Jun '24

02 Jun '24

I have a development system with lots of RAM and cores that I use like a server (i.e., several VM's and containers; none are production). To separate my desktop from my VM's and containers more, I am considering running MicroOS as a headless host with my desktop running as a guest VM using PCI pass-through for the video. Some advantages are the ability to reboot my desktop without disturbing the VM's and containers, and making my desktop less critical or more disposable. Does anyone here do that? Any advice? Some Background: RAM: 32GB CPU: AMD 5950X, 16 physical cores (SMT off) GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Disk: 1TB Network: 2 physical NICs OS: Kalpa -- Tony Walker <tony.walker.iu(a)gmail.com> PGP Key @ https://tonywalker1.github.io/pgp 9F46 D66D FF6C 182D A5AC 11E1 8559 98D1 7543 319C

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Mozilla's GUI (non)conformity
by Ben T. Fender 01 Jun '24

01 Jun '24

I use Plasma & XFCE depending on the booted distro and most non-KDE apps konform at least to some extent with the KDE desktop when KDE is used examples being Pan, Sylpheed, gftp and even nedit. The ONE set that is almost always problematic is anything Mozilla, Firefox in this particular case. I cannot change the title bar from black which just makes it impossible to distinguish from darker wallpapers, there being no way to select something with a contrasting window border either. How can I fix this?

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