That Little Green SuSE DOT in the Tray Icon area...
Help! I lost my cute li'l green SuSE DOT that usually lives in the area that in Windows is called the "Tray Icon" area...it turns another color when there are system updates to download (it has something to do with YAST, but I could not find anything in YAST that said anything about it). I rebooted just to see if that would bring it back--but no go. It has always been there before. There's always these new updates to download; and I like being informed this way, because I am too busy with other things to be bothered to go and actively check each day to see if there are any critical updates that I need. One more thing: for some weird reason, every time I turn on my computer and it boots, that Gnome file manager comes up showing my HOME directory, and I am using KDE! I didn't set anything to make it do this; and I do close it when it comes up, so it isn't like the system is remembering that app being open the last time I had my computer on. This is not a big deal; I just want help with the SuSE DOT being missing, but just in case anyone knows why that Gnome fm is coming up in KDE, I'd like to know how to stop it. Thanks! Thanks, --Mark Seven Smith pampaluz@cox.net -- Mark Seven Smith -- pampaluz@cox.net -- AIM & /. == Pampaluz Free Software Foundation (www.gnu.org) Member #1372 Pampaluz Linux Counter #122264 - http://counter.li.org/
The Saturday 2004-04-10 at 10:44 -0700, Mark Seven Smith wrote:
One more thing: for some weird reason, every time I turn on my computer and it boots, that Gnome file manager comes up showing my HOME directory, and I am using KDE! I didn't set anything to make it do this; and I do close it when it comes up, so it isn't like the system is remembering that app being open the last time I had my computer on. This is not a big deal; I just want help with the SuSE DOT being missing, but just in case anyone knows why that Gnome fm is coming up in KDE, I'd like to know how to stop it. Thanks!
It has been comented here often. I think you used that app inside kde once, and by default it is set to autostart every time. Before closing it search its menu for such an option - sorry, I don't remember where it was exactly. Perhaps it is "draw desktop". -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Saturday 10 April 2004 10:44 am, Mark Seven Smith wrote:
Help! I lost my cute li'l green SuSE DOT that usually lives in the area that in Windows is called...
Just run "SuSEwatcher" and configure it by right-clicking. Ever since they uploaded a huge kernel update that I can't download over this dial-up connection I've had to remove it since it will always be RED no matter what until I DL it. -- Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA) cygnia@sonic.net
The Saturday 2004-04-10 at 13:58 -0700, Bryce Hardy wrote:
Just run "SuSEwatcher" and configure it by right-clicking. Ever since they uploaded a huge kernel update that I can't download over this dial-up connection I've had to remove it since it will always be RED no matter what until I DL it.
I have a trick for those big patches. First, I note the full path (or I get it manually), and then I create a little script, like this: wget --timeout=45 --waitretry=10 --continue "ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/suse_update/8.2/rpm/i586/kernel-source-2.4.20.SuSE-108.i586.rpm" wget --timeout=45 --waitretry=10 --continue "ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/suse_update/8.2/rpm/i586/k_deflt-2.4.20-108.i586.rpm" This script I run on every connection, for some time, while I download mail, browse a bit, etc, perhaps for half an hour. Then I stop it, and disconnect. After some days, I have it downloaded, and I move them to /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/8.2/rpm/i586/ and fire up YOU again: it will happily pick it up, and I don't need to be connected for hours on a single connection. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Saturday 10 April 2004 05:48 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Just run "SuSEwatcher" and configure it by right-clicking. Ever since they uploaded a huge kernel update that I can't download over this dial-up connection I've had to remove it since it will always be RED no matter what until I DL it.
I have a trick for those big patches. First, I note the full path (or I get it manually), and then I create a little script, like this:
wget --timeout=45 --waitretry=10 --continue "ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/suse_update/8.2/rpm/i586/kernel-source-2. 4.20.SuSE-108.i586.rpm" wget --timeout=45 --waitretry=10 --continue "ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/suse_update/8.2/rpm/i586/k_deflt-2.4.20-1 08.i586.rpm"
You just never know what you're going to learn around here. :-) Thanks for the cool tip Carlos. I may try to get that update after all. -- Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA) cygnia@sonic.net
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Bryce Hardy
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