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 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 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 | Mar 28, 2009 | Tinker Blog
Firefox was driving me crazy- I open tabs most of the time with CTRL + click and even though the option to open the tab right away isn’t checked that’s what it does. Happily, I just found this note with a tip on making Firefox open tabs in the background:...
by Dave | Nov 26, 2008 | Tinker Blog
I had followed a link into the Tombuntu site and by coincidence ran into this post which completely explains what to do about a problem I ran into yesterday. Yay! Looks like this site is a keeper.