On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:48:37 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:58:34 +0000 (UTC) Jim Henderson <hendersj@gmail.com> wrote:
I like GNOME3. It has some problems (one that bugs me a lot is when shell crashes and I can't recover my running apps - having that happen with VirtualBox running is NOT a good time), but on balance, I like it because it *feels* minimalistic.
I realize this is a bit of a tangent, but I'd like to learn more about the GNOME 3 "shell" crashes you're experiencing (I'm on oS 11.4 GNOME 2 atm.) I mean, what exactly is it taking out? How do you recover?
The only option I have to recover is to logout and log back in. When it bombs out, I get the "Oh no, somthing happened!" screen and there really aren't any other options. I do wish it was more graceful in that recovery.
Related: Do you think you would be similarly affected if your VMs were starting and stopping gracefully, in the background, as services? I'm concluding from what you've written here that you're managing your VMs from your desktop using the VirtualBox desktop GUI. I really wanted the VMs to start and stop independently of my desktop and for this to happen transparently in the background. To my joy, I discovered openSUSE has this functionality built-in. I now have this in my System Services (Run Level Editor):
vboxadd 2,3,5 VirtualBox Linux Additions Kernel modules vboxdrv 2,3,5 VirtualBox Linux Kernel Module vboxes 3,5 Autostart Virtual Box(sic) VMs
I've thought about changing from using VirtualBox's GUI to launching the VMs in the background and using a remote desktop. I know that can be done (because I played with that a little bit when I started built my first VBox VM - an 11.4 VM to run Pan in because it doesn't run properly on G3 yet). I hadn't considered just running the VM automatically, though. The laptop certainly has the horsepower to do that. One of the things I use the WinXP VM for is watching Netflix streaming, though, and I'm not sure that would work well with an RDP solution. But running Framemaker? Yeah, that'd work. :) Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org