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Hello all, Although I'm a newbie to SuSE Linux, I'm by no means new to linux, having been using it off an on over the last two years. I got my hands on SuSE 8.0 Professional about two weeks ago, and I have to say I'm blown away by it. There are a couple of things I'm batteling with, however: 1. In the KDE menu editor (KDE3), I cannot delete anything, not even links I created myself. I tried as normal user, and as root, no go. Error: "This is a root item. You don't have permission to delete it. Hide it instead." Is there a config file somewhere that I can get into manually? 2. Has anyone managed to install Corel Photopain on SuSE 8.0? It's a tricky business in Red Hat, but my tricks doesn't seem to work in SuSE. 3. My monitor can do 1152x864 resolution at 60hz, but X wouln't go there. Is there a way to force it? 4. Another question on X. When I switch resolutions (ctrl+alt+plus or ctrl+alt+minus), my desktop always stay the same size as the original resolution. Say I start X in 1024x768, and then switch down to 800x600, my desktop is still 1024x768, scrolling around. I know there used to be a setting for this in XF86Config with XFree86 3.x, but I can't seem to find it in XFree86 4.x Any ideas? 5. If I want to compile a custom kernel (this usually speeds things up noticeably on my machine), is there anything specific that I need to include that SuSE uses? I'm thinking of these nice startup screens, the graphical terminal, ect. 6. Another question on kernel compiling. Is there a way to import the SuSE kernel's configuration into either the "xconfig" part or the KDE Control centre's kernel configurator part? I have to say that I think I have found the distro I'm going to stick with. Previously Red Hat 7.1, 7.2 and most recently 7.3, did what I needed, worked reasonably quickly, and didn't give me any hassles. I've heard a lot about SuSE, but it' difficult to come by here - a huge download and not very cheap to buy. A borrowed a fried's CDs of SuSE 6.3, and I could see why it became popular, but unfortunately most packages were so old, some of my fav. software wouln't even install. But SuSE 8, wow! It's by far the quickest and easiest on resources that I've tried. It's also the most nicely polished distro. Everything is configured properly and sensibly, it detected all my hardware correctly (most distros misdetect, or don't detect at all, my soundcard and tv card) and configured it to work properly. And YaST is a faboulous setup utility. I just wish it showed you at least what files it is editing. Thanks Hans == Find businesses and have your business found: http://www.brabys.com
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