by Dave | Aug 24, 2009 | Improving Apps, Tinker Blog
There are two real desktop environments for Linux: KDE and GNOME. Yes XFCE and others, I’m completely leaving you out. There are always people that defy convention or want to try something out there. I love BeOS and Haiku but I doubt I will ever push it as a...
by Dave | Aug 13, 2009 | Tinker Blog
Love it: http://en.opensuse.org/MacBook_Pro_Specials
by Dave | Jul 19, 2009 | Tinker Blog
Since switching from Ubuntu to openSUSE, I have been unable to suspend my Macbook Pro. This may seem like a big problem. But really, I just work from my desk in my office. So really it was just annoying. Closing the laptop or manually suspending correctly suspend the...
by Dave | Jul 10, 2009 | Tinker Blog
For a couple of weeks, instead of seeing thumbnails in my Nautilus folders, I just see the default “Still Loading” icon. This is very annoying to me. Searching around people just suggest deleting the folder where thumbnails are cached. If you need to debug...
by Dave | Jun 25, 2009 | Tinker Blog
For some reason, lately I’ve noticed that Nautilus (which is the GNOME file manager and is the part of your Linux system that draws the desktop in GNOME) isn’t keeping up with picture thumbnails. An easy temporary fix is to press F5 which will refresh the...
by Dave | Jun 17, 2009 | Tinker Blog
In reading about some repositories I might install from, I noticed this tidbit on the GNOME page at opensuse.org. It described adding the repositories needed and then: Then, you need to check that those repositories have a higher priority than other repositories that...
