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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Suse root problem. (Dave Addison)
2. Re: Suse root problem. (Dave Addison)
3. LUG meeting this Saturday! 26/10/13 (Sebastian)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:01:13 +0100
From: Dave Addison <dave@redmoor.org.uk>
To: "d.hockinbt" <d.hockin@btinternet.com>, Bristol and Bath Linux
User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Suse root problem.
Message-ID: <1802898.oPlmA6tER1@phaedra>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

On Monday 21 Oct 2013 16:48:07 d.hockinbt wrote:
>
> Whilst in Suse I can read any file on the windows partition, I cannot find
> any way of getting permission to write it back after editing!
>
Hello Dave

You can add an option to the mount command to fix this issue

1. run Yast (from the "computer" tab of the start button menu)
2. enter root password when asked
3. select system from the left hand panel
4. select partitioner from the right hand panel
5. select yes when presented with the warning dialogue

You should now see a window called "expert partitioner"
This has two panes "system view" on the left and a context sensitive pane on
the right

6. select the top line in system view which should be the machine name

you should now have a right hand pane called "available storage"
This should have a list of devices and on the right hand side the fs (file
system) type and mount point

7. select your windows partition (which should have "FAT" in the
"fs type" field) with a single left click
8. now right click and select "edit" from the menu

Don't touch the left hand box labelled "formatting options" but check that the
"do not format partition" button is selected
Underneath "mount partition" on the right hand side is a button marked "fstab
options"

9. When clicked, this opens a window with an "arbitrary option
value" field at the bottom

on my system this reads
users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true
If I changed this to
users,uid=dave,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true
where dave is my login name, then all the files on the windows partition will
be writable by me instead of root

10. add the uid=<login name> option to the "arbitrary option value"
field, where <login name> is your user name on the system

11. check commas and make sure none of the other options are damaged
If in doubt hit "cancel" and start again

12. When happy, hit "OK" and then "finish" and then "Finish" again

You should then see a screen with a list of actions the Yast tool is about to
perform. Confirm if everything looks OK.

Regards
Dave




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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:07:16 +0100
From: Dave Addison <dave@redmoor.org.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Suse root problem.
Message-ID: <1981077.nIGIZKhiXo@phaedra>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

On Monday 21 Oct 2013 23:31:02 xifer wrote:
> On Monday 21 Oct 2013 18:22:37 Roger Fletcher wrote:
> > On 21/10/13 16:48, d.hockinbt wrote:
> > > The other "funny" - a black bottom border to the screen, behind which
> > > all "minimised" windows vanish for ever, today ISN'T there, thankfully,
> > > but I dread minimising anything, as it will again vanish into a black
> > > hole, iretrievably. Not a good move! Yesterday I had to crash the Linux
> > > as I had no means of closing programmes, as they had disappeared into
> > > the black "bit". So I have to just shrink windows on the desktop, and
> > > keep them clogging up the view. Why that black border appears, I don't
> > > know.
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Have you tried to turn off compositing (desktop effects) with the key
> > combination - Alt+Shift+F12? As your black bottom border sounds like a
> > graphical issue.
>
> hjmm - or maybe... Seem to recall encountering that black space - the
> actual desktop size was very large and my screen only showing a portion.
> don't recall exactly what i was doing when i had that. but might be
> virtual desktop related...
Hi Dave

I've seen a similar problem when doing a KDE version upgrade. If you right
click on the desktop, you should see a menu with the submenu "add panel". If
you select "default panel" from the submenu, it should give you a new taskbar
(in windows terms) with some useful widgets on it.

If this works, you can then right click on the start button on the damaged
panel, select "panel options" and then "delete this panel"

Selecting the "half moon" widget at the exterem right of a working panel
allows you to reposition and resize it as well as adding clocks, system trays
and other items of varying usefulness

Regards
Dave



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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 02:11:24 +0100
From: Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>,
Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
Subject: [bristol] LUG meeting this Saturday! 26/10/13
Message-ID: <5267223C.6020502@gmx.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Hi

Yes that's right another LUG meeting is coming up again, and it's this
Saturday, between well let's say 1pm and 5pm, although iit may finish
after 5pm depending on who is there. Please mention on this LUG mailing
list before coming too the meeting, if you are intending on attending,
and if you are new please send a basic introduction about yourself with
that :).

Timewise it really is people turning up when they want too and leaving
when they decide too. As a result for anyone new I would suggest
turning up at 1:30pm by the earliest, unless being all ok in waiting for
others too turn up. However by about 2pm usually most people who are
coming to the meeting are there.

We meet up at the Knights Templar pub in Temple Qsuay near Temple Meads
train station and Broadmead:
http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/home/pubs/the-knights-templar

As usual I am hoping to meet new people at the LUG meeting as well :),
if you are such a person just come along and we sit at the back on the
lower level when entering the pub, in the left hand side corner with the
plugs, or near there instead.

We get a mixture of different ages from 20's onwards basically. We
really do welcome new people as well :), so no need to feel that you
haven't been on this mailing list long enough for example, if you are a
new person. However if you are such a person please introduce yourself
on the list first so that we have an idea who is turning up. I also
hope that other regular members will actually mention that they are
planning on coming on this mailing list before the meeting.

Drinks, chatting, food if wanted, people wiht hteir lap tops etc with
free pub wifi availale for those that would like it, and also someitmes
showing of Linux/tech related things, that have come along to the
meeting with them, that others may be interestd in seeing. On the
subject of that went to OGG Camp again recently in Liverpool, so got a
few things that I could show that may be of interest too someone.

It is indeed called a Linux User Group meeting, but that does not mean
we chat only about opensource/freesoftware and instead what gets chatted
about really depends on who is there.

I hope too also be meeting new people this Saturday :).

Regards

Sebastian



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