by Dave | Jun 3, 2009 | Tinker Blog
I’ve had lots of trouble since migrating to openSUSE with playing video files of nearly any kind. Running it in the terminal just results in errors usually including something like x11 video output error: X11 request 141.19 failed with error code 11: BadAlloc...
by Dave | May 23, 2009 | Tinker Blog
openSUSE ships with two icons on your desktop that you can only remove with difficulty. And, I should point out, if you delete them and the package that provides them is updated, they’ll be back. Do yourself a favor and remove them the right way. Open...
by Dave | May 23, 2009 | Tinker Blog
Even though my Macbook Pro has an excellent graphics card, I still got a warning when I turned on Desktop Effects (Compiz). They work but I had (I think) more than my share of what seemed to be Compiz related crashes. But when things crash, the best thing to do is to...
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...
