On 05/03/15 23:45, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 03/04/2015 06:52 PM, A. den Oudsten wrote:
On my desktop I deleted the partitions / and /home in order to make a I can understand deleting the ROOT partition but i don't understand deleting /home.
I can - and I never keep my /home partition because keeping the settings more often than not leads to problems when a new version of oS is installed. However......
The reason I say this is that i have done that in the past but retained all the personalized settings, no only of the desktop layout but all the dot files for various othr applications whose settigns I wanted to keep.
.....what I *do* do is create a folder on another drive - let's call it 'Hotel' - and I put all the _important_ folders there - eg, Downloads, Correspondence, .mozilla, .thunderbird, whatever you think is important to you - and then create SYMLINKS to them from the /home directory. Doing it this way, I can safely format a drive without any worry when installing a new version of oS because all the important files I need are already safely sitting in another place. All I then need to do is to (re)create the symlinks to the files in /Hotel/<whatever> . There is also another advantage to this and that is that I can have - like I do/did have at least a couple of versions of openSUSE installed and by using the symlinks I can use the same files - eg, Downloads or Correspondence - from all the installed versions.
For historic reasons my UID is 500 so I had to hand edit the /etc/passwd file
fresh install for which I used the Tumbleweed 20150227 DVD. The install went flawless until, after the restart, the standard wallpaper appeared without the default panel. You don't say what desktop you are using, KDE, Gnome, whatever. You also don't say if you created a new account to get to this point or if you use the root account.
Note above, I preserved /home so that all the settings for my desktop, the widgets on it, the static panel that I have at the bottom of the screen and the mouseover one at the side are all these folloing upgrades.
Trying to make a panel ended in a mess. *HOW did you try to make the panel?
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