Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
As far as I know I only use four apps that require Gnome. Firefox, Thunderbird, Gftp and Gramps. Well, maybe five if you include Sunbird.
I don't have Gnome installed, and I run Firefox and Thunderbird without problem -- I've read somewhere that KDE and Gnome have been updated to play nice together, so you don't normally need to install one to use its programs under the other. But I don't use Gftp, gramps, or Sunbird, so I can't say anything about them.
... I can't even get my openSuSE install DVD out of the drive because it says I don't have Kmediamanager running. Pushing the eject button on the drive does nothing because SOMETHING has it locked. I can't "unmount" the drive. I guess I'm going to have to resort to the paper clip method to open the drive tray.
Well, I run 6 desktops, and I've found that when I can't unmount or eject a drive, it means that some program on one of them has it open -- for instance, I will have cd'd to the drive in one of my dozen or more konsole tabs and forgotten about it, or one of my konqueror invocations has it displayed in one of its tabs. Once I've found and fixed that, the eject goes smoothly.
... The hell of it is that I was just getting this thing to work pretty good.
As others have mentioned, you shouldn't be updating for all the bleeding edge stuff unless you really have the knowledge to clean up after someone else's mistakes or oversights. I had been following this list and had gotten the impression that the more update sites I had, the better off I was, so every time I saw a new one I put it into my yast site list. I had a dozen or so sites, and a continual update mess. After I came across the "less is better for non-gurus" comment, I reinstalled 10.0 with just suse and packman for updating, and the whole thing behaved nicely (until the zen disaster with 10.1). With 10.2, I even dumped packman, since I don't really need mplayer for the little multimedia stuff I deal with. I don't seem to have any use for the other stuff packman has beyond opensuse's resources. Since then, I've been quite comfortable with suse, and updates have gone smoothly for the most part. On the rare occasions that zen has misbehaved, I fire up YOU, and that seems to clear up even zen's messes. -- John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org