by Dave | May 22, 2009 | Tinker Blog
This morning I read about a new theme being developed for openSUSE 11.2, called Sonar. It’s really easy to try it out in 11.1. You can download the files manually at this page- or you can add the repository to your list: Open ‘Software Repositories’...
by Dave | May 22, 2009 | Tinker Blog
Shutter is the best screen capture utility for Linux. Period. So I was dismayed to find that there is no package to just install it under openSUSE. One post on their site suggest that openSUSE didn’t want to include it because it’s essentially a bunch of...
by Dave | May 19, 2009 | Tinker Blog
In a previous post I offered a download of the fdi file I had to get the two finger scrolling working for the touchpad on my Macbook Pro in Ubuntu. openSUSE didn’t seem to recognize the fdi file at all. It seems that any mouse, keyboard, or monitor must be in...
by Dave | May 18, 2009 | Tinker Blog
One thing openSUSE has not done well for me is Bluetooth pairing. In Ubuntu I got a dialog asking for my pin code which is required. openSUSE had no such dialog and thus, even when I was told it succeeded, it didn’t work. In its defense I’m now not sure...
by Dave | May 16, 2009 | Tinker Blog
One annoying thing following a normal disc-based install is that that disc is your base repository. Occasionally, when you’re installing software it will prompt you to insert it. This is not new- I remember the same thing when I used Suse 9 a while back. Solve...
by Dave | May 16, 2009 | Tinker Blog
Inkscape Java Shutter Rednotebook Mysql Tools Mysql Apache2 PHP (& set up the environment) Pidgin Miro Komodo Dropbox My Firefox Extensions (should migrate seamlessly) GnuCash XSane Gramps Thunderbird 3 Tomboy (should migrate fine) Sudoku SmartSVN PowerDVD (I...
