Basil,
Quoting Basil Chupin
I just installed 11.4 with the gnome DE on a test-bed to see what it is like in anticipation of using gnome 3 (which my current distro, Ubuntu, will not be adopting).
I installed 11.4 from the DVD, and it is the 32-bit version. (The installation is a stock-standard installation with all the latest upgrades as of a few hours ago.)
I have 5 questions which I would be pleased to have answered:
(1) I like to have a totally clean workspace/desktop and therefore put all the icons for the apps. I use on the top/bottom panels. In 11.4 I have done this for all the apps, I normally run except that the icons for TRASH and the HOME directory which cannot be deleted/moved to trash - the option is greyed out on the drop down menu. How does one get rid of these icons so as to have a totally clean workspace/desktop?
IIUC, you are looking for gnome3, right? sorry to break the news: There are no panels. I suggest you give the existing live images a try to see how much you like it. As for gnome2, as you currently run and the question on how to remove TRASH and HOME, this should be possible in gconf-editor in the location: /apps/nautilus/desktop There are two booleans: home-icon_visible and trash_icon_visible. Switch them to FALSE (remove the tick) and the icons will disappear.
(2) I use Mozilla Thunderbird (and Firefox). While there is the normal icon showing for Firefox there is no such icon for Thunderbird - all one is given is a blank 'page' as the icon. How does one get the appropriate icon for Thunderbird - which, by default in other distros, is automatically shown when one installs Thunderbird? (BTW, searching for, and finally finding such an icon in icons/hicolor/apps/48x48/ and selecting it does zilch, nothing, zero.)
That sounds like the icon cache did not get rebuilt. Try to start (as root) /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache --quiet --force "/usr/share/icon/hicolor"
(3) I wanted to change the background for the desktop. I went to download a couple I liked from the website - but the damn images were blurred and unrecognisable when installed as the desktop background! What the....? How does one get a new backgrounds to be usable?
What's the size of the file you downloaded (pixel dimensions)? Are you stretching the file? That typically results in very bad quality. As for the question on "how": get a file with a resolution high enough for your screen. Or don't stretch it. To not stretch it, go to appearance, background and give "Center" as the 'style' (will use the original size of the picture)
(5) Is there an option, which I am not aware of, in openSUSE's update manager/software manager which will automatically select the best server for any upgrades/updates from one of my local mirrors? Downloading files from the (?)main server is a PITA -- the transfer rate is less than dial-up speed (although files from Packman came down at a most reasonable speed)?
Are you in the US? I heard several complaints that the Mirrors over there seem to be rather bad. There was a lengthy discussion about this and possible solutions not too long ago (search the archives for mirrorbrain) HTH, Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org