I’ve had this annoying thing about my keyboard layout being US for my login window in Kubuntu 12.10. This happened after I got a new wireless keyboard with this unifying usb thing at work. I recently upgraded to 13.04 and the error followed, so I dug up the workaround / fix at bugs.launchpad.net .
My fix was adding this to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[...] display-setup-script=setxkbmap no [...]
If you, like me, got that really annoying message from update manager regarding failed download of additional data ( usually flashplugin-installer in my case) every time you login, I just found the answer at ubuntu forums .
root@saturn:/var/lib/update-notifier/user.d# pwd /var/lib/update-notifier/user.d root@saturn:/var/lib/update-notifier/user.d# ls -l | grep failed -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24155 Dec 17 10:33 data-downloads-failed -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27963 Feb 15 08:16 data-downloads-failed-permanently root@saturn:/var/lib/update-notifier/user.d# rm data-downloads-failed* root@saturn:/var/lib/update-notifier/user.d#
Thanks to Ben Kevan at freetechie.com .
pontohonk.de wrote some code to have kdewallet supply your ssh keys when ssh-agent requires them. Great code, my problem was that it’s been a while since I used kde and f.example qmake wasn’t something I’m used to. So here’s how I did it in OpenSuse 12.1 .
download askpass.C and askpass.pro from pontohonk.de
Issue:
# zypper install libqt4-devel # zypper install libkde4-devel # qmake # make $ cp askpass /path/to/home/.local/bin/
The rest is well explained by pontohonk.de
In opensuse 12.1 having English (GB) as language and with norwegian keyboard I got the € character when pressing AltGr + 4 in txt console … In kde 4 my keyboard gave me a $ which is the character I’m used to get when typing that combination of keys.
In OpenSuse look in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, in my case I changed the line KEYTABLE=”no-latin1.map.gz” to KEYTABLE=”no.map.gz” and I got my AltGr + 4 back to ‘normal’ .
I came over this post: forum.kde.org
and I got really interested when someone there says they no longer have problems with garbled icons in kde 4.2.x .
I’m still a bit reluctant to upgrade to kde 4.3 simply because kde 4.2.x which I’m running right now is almost perfect, the only thing that really annoys me are those occasionally garbled icons in the tray.
So I ended up adding the QT 4.5 repo from http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Repositories#KDE_4.2.4 and upgraded all my qt 4.4 packages to 4.5.
My first impression after restarting kdm is that this might just have been the final milestone for me to get happy with kde 4 🙂
Someone found it logical to have blog posting functionality in
Korganiser ..(?).
In Korganiser add a new calendar from the ‘calendar view’ in the main window, choose ‘Journal in a blog’ as a Resource and fill in the required info.
Info from here at Mike Arthur’s blog.
I wanted my ssh-keys automatically loaded when loging on to my box.
In OpenSUSE you can easily fix this.
Make sure you got these packages installed:
joar@linux-xsuv:~> rpm -qa | grep ssh pam_ssh-1.96-26.112 openssh-5.1p1-40.15 openssh-askpass-5.1p1-40.15
Now edit /etc/pam.d/xdm and add the lines
>auth sufficient pam_ssh.so session required pam_ssh.so
don’t delete anything there, just add those lines mentioned above.
This ensures ssh-agent is started while logging on and pam tries to unlock any of your ssh keys by using your login password as a passphrase.
Obviously this requires your ssh-key passphrase to equal your login password 🙂
I’ve tested this on OpenSUSE 11.1.
Source for this info at opensuse.org