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Still yesterday I have been running VMware on Suse Linux 9.1 and today (after I performed an online update of my system) I get: error while loading shared libraries: /opt/gnome/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: Suse has broken this package... But I didn't have any problems so far to run VMware, so I just have to figure out what I did today to break it. Apparently this error is due to my recent automatic update of my system: the culprit is gdk-pixbuf package 0.22.0-62.4. After I reverted to the older package 0.22.0-57 vmware started working again.

I was trying to configure my screensaver such, that it would display as only picture the desktop at the moment when the screensaver became active. In the KDE control center I chose the Slideshow screensaver (under Banners and Pictures) and in the setup I chose a specific directory as the media diretory (/home/your_user_name/Documents/images/desktop/). I also selected display one random image only. The media directory should be empty. Then I renamed /opt/kde3/bin/kslideshow.kss executable to kslideshow_ori.kss and created a shell script in the same directory that I named kslideshow.kss.

I have a old-fashioned battery charger from Varta (type 57 037 091 101) that doesn't switch off the current when the batteries are fully charged. Unfortunately this is the only charger I have e.g for D size batteries (also called mono batteries). The charger lists the necessary charging times for different types of batteries on its back side.