Month ago I had to fix small typo in my spec file and ... no osc command-line tool around ... so I used buildservice webclient. I found that, it can colorize content of spec files in view mode (using syntaxhighlighter), but in edit mode you got clean text. So I created openFate#309852 request. I looked around what could by used to colorize spec file in in-browser editor and I found codemirror js library. I played with it and after while I created simple plugin to colorize spec files - it isn't perfect, but could be improved easily . Check sources and live demo (don't be scarred by virtualbox-ose spec file:). Codemirror library looks realy good and I was surprised how easily could by integrated in to our obs webclient. (Thanks to prusnak for hints...)

... maybe, in the future would be also great to add code completition support and some early pre-checks for spec file.

Hi all!

Good news ! We will have virtualbox guest tools on our openSUSE 11.3 liveCD (see my request bnc#589416). I already test latest KDE live CD build from http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/ and features like : screen resizing, seamless mode, shared clipboards works fine and automatically after boot-up! Check this (~8,5MB) ogv video to see guest additions features.

Hi SUSE folks !

Maybe you already know that vixie-cron is used as default cron in openSUSE. Currently there is no chance to push our ~20 patches to upstream (it's already dead), so my suggestion is : switch to cronie. I prepared simple wiki page about this step and also cronie package is waiting for testing in Base:System repo. So if you want test cronie, just add Base:System repo (for opensuse 11.2) :

and install cronie (vixie-cron will be deleted):

Please let me know your opinions or suggestions :)

Hi SUSE folks ! here are some changes in our VirtualBox package which will be present in 11.2

Mouse integration
Maybe you already notice properly working :) mouse pointer integration (you don't need to use CTRL key in started X to free captured mouse pointer) when you start Milestone8 LiveCD in VirtualBox, in this case, thanks belongs to Tejas Guruswamy, he points me to missing hal policy file for vbox mouse.

Messagebox warning
If you installed VirtualBox in openSUSE 11.1 first time and you try to start virtualbox (using ALT-F2 and type virtualbox) vbox didn't start and nothing happens ... wtf? It's simple : you have to be a member of vboxusers group, only this group is allowed to start virtualbox binary (and root of course):

I got many complains from users: "Why virtualbox just silently failed in this case?", so I decide to fix this issue and I add simple messagebox which warn you if you are not member of vboxusers group and if you try to start virtualbox:

As we use wrapper script /usr/bin/VirtualBox which starts real vbox binary from /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox, I put check to this wrapper :

So if user is not in vboxusers group or is not root, VBoxPermissionMessage is started. Because of VirtualBox GUI dependency on qt, I wrote this simple messagebox also in qt.

Most linux distro's use pulseaudio server, this is great project but not suitable for low latency usage. Jackd is low latency sound server. But if you realy want beat down latency, you must install real time kernel. On openSUSE just type:

an reboot your linux with new real time kernel
You could check what is connected to your sound device:

When pulseaudio use your sound card, jackd could not connect to sound device. I think simplest solution is just kill pulseaudio:

then you could start jackd

if you fall in to :

check if your user is on audio group, add lines to limits.conf and relogin your account:

instead of starting jackd from command line you could use qjackctl, this app is realy cool