At 15:28:36 on Saturday Saturday 22 May 2010, "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On Saturday, 2010-05-22 at 13:26 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
After installing v11.2 system and getting it working reasonably well, yesterday I installed it also on my desktop computer. The installation itself was very easy. The installed system exhibits two (so far) queer behaviors.
- There is no Main Menu (the chameleon menu) at the left end of the panel. In its place, there is a button for the . I need this menu; the c11.2 installation in the laptop machine has it, although it is labeled "Computer", for some reason (or without reason, with no graphic). How can I get one?
Right mouse click on the panel bar, "add to panel". Write "menu" in the search box. There is "Main menu" and "traditional main menu". Choose one or have both. I do.
Not to be picky, but one would have expected a menu to be installed by default. Thanks for the advice. I will do that later, as I am now using v11.1 to save nerves.
- After the new system boots, with the desktop already displayed on the screen, the mouse cursor is erratic -- more than twice out of every three boots. It is sometimes invisible, and unresponsive -- if I try to move
Did you run the update? Yast, etc, update?
I didn't, but will, thanks again, if I can luck into a sufficiently stable state to work with.
Sometimes this is cured by time in some minutes, sometimes I need to reboot, but can do that only by pressing the computer's main switch (which fortunately does call up the shutdown menu).
ctrl-alt-f1, then ctrl-alt-supr. --> reboot or halt, depending on how you configure it.
Very helpful.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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