[opensuse] Two small GNOME questions
1) How does one get to a terminal? Asking the main menu for "terminal" brought up a window with icons for a lot of files, but no place to exercise bash. 2) I have set up a number of virtual desktops ("workspaces"). I have also set a background, and thought I was doing so for one such workspace individually. But it affects all workspaces equally. Is there a way to has different backgrounds for each one? I'm going to like GNOME. I liked KDE3 much better, but now that I have seen The Dark Side, I expect to be a lot less picky. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 00:22 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
1) How does one get to a terminal? Asking the main menu for "terminal" brought up a window with icons for a lot of files, but no place to exercise bash.
It should be enough to right-click on the desktop. There should be an option to "open in terminal" there. Otherwise, the program is called gnome-terminal
2) I have set up a number of virtual desktops ("workspaces"). I have also set a background, and thought I was doing so for one such workspace individually. But it affects all workspaces equally. Is there a way to has different backgrounds for each one?
As far as I know, no
I'm going to like GNOME. I liked KDE3 much better, but now that I have seen The Dark Side, I expect to be a lot less picky.
I don't much care for gnome. Every time I want to do something, it is apparently considered bad for usability so it is either hidden away somewhere, or completely impossible. Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:26:57 +0100 Anders Johansson <ajh@nitio.de> wrote: <snip>
2) I have set up a number of virtual desktops ("workspaces"). I have also set a background, and thought I was doing so for one such workspace individually. But it affects all workspaces equally. Is there a way to has different backgrounds for each one?
As far as I know, no <snip> Anders Hi Yes you can, you will loose the desktop icons though....
Start the CompizConfig settings manager, and go to the wallpaper section and add your selection of backgrounds. Then start gconf-editor and apps->nautilus->preferences and uncheck 'show_desktop' Logout/login and you will have different desktop wallpapers. -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.39-0.3-default up 4 days 20:21, 4 users, load average: 0.38, 1.06, 1.38 GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.18 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
At 00:26:57 on Friday Friday 01 January 2010, Anders Johansson <ajh@nitio.de> wrote:
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 00:22 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
1) How does one get to a terminal? Asking the main menu for "terminal" brought up a window with icons for a lot of files, but no place to exercise bash.
It should be enough to right-click on the desktop. There should be an option to "open in terminal" there.
Ach! So simple.
Otherwise, the program is called gnome-terminal
2) I have set up a number of virtual desktops ("workspaces"). I have also set a background, and thought I was doing so for one such workspace individually. But it affects all workspaces equally. Is there a way to has different backgrounds for each one?
As far as I know, no
I can live without it.
I'm going to like GNOME. I liked KDE3 much better, but now that I have seen The Dark Side, I expect to be a lot less picky.
I don't much care for gnome. Every time I want to do something, it is apparently considered bad for usability so it is either hidden away somewhere, or completely impossible.
I'm not wild about it either. But if it is the easy alternative to KDEfurz. one has to make do.
Anders
Many thanks... -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2010-01-01 at 00:22 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
1) How does one get to a terminal? Asking the main menu for "terminal" brought up a window with icons for a lot of files, but no place to exercise bash.
I don't like the modern style main menu, I prefer the classical menu. I can find things there. Classical menu: System / Terminal / choose one. New menu: More applications / System / [GnomeTerminal|Terminal|Xterm] Or in Nautilus, you can browse to a directory, and in the menu you see "open a terminal here".
2) I have set up a number of virtual desktops ("workspaces"). I have also set a background, and thought I was doing so for one such workspace individually. But it affects all workspaces equally. Is there a way to has different backgrounds for each one?
I'd like that one, too. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAks9PsYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XOOgCfcEQXLA0W+WlcJq9PERJfjmY6 mdQAn0hfyHaRIwOFOAI0YLixb0Z6Vy1I =faK1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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