openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 1

Definitely some changes. The favourite application bar stays the same, but the application launcher is now different. It now lists your recent applications (or maybe it was frequent?) on the first page, and below the section, there's the tab buttons for recent and all. The bad thing with the recent is that you can't remove it (I wanted to get rid of xterm), but I guess over time they would get replaced with another application.

There's now folders in the application launcher, so things like gnome-terminal and such are in the "Utilities" folder... Which was a bit annoying, seeing as I had to use the search for "gnome-terminal", instead of how I'm used to which is just scrolling for it.

Hmm... All I can remember at the moment. More to follow.

openSUSE 12.3 Part 3

Another couple changes I found, the first being the notification bar. With 12.2 and 12.1, you tap the bottom right corner for the notification bar to appear. Now, you hold your cursor against the bottom of the screen until it comes up which is very nice since I remember accidentally bringing it up when I don't want it. The notification bar also shows up when you tap the top left or hit activities.

The other change is that the workspace preview bar is mostly hidden to the side except for a little bit, so when you move your cursor over there, it slides out showing you the entirety of it. Quite nice, since there's not much of a point to show you something you're probably not looking at.

I forgot I had FGLRX installed for both Mei-chan and Melty, so when I went to append to fstab and something else on Mei-chan, I was greeted with a broken wallpaper and broken GNOME 3 interface. Everything still worked fine, just looked bad. Looked for updates that weren't there, and tweaking then rebooting with no avail. Looked it up online and read on one of them that they didn't have a problem any more after installing FGLRX. (I was quite determined it was a GNOME 3 problem since none of it was broken when I logged in as root.) Installed it and then the background was fine, but I was in mirrored mode. Tried getting it set back up right, and couldn't... Then I remembered about catalyst. Did a bit of configuring/rebooting until I got it set up right, but the bar was on the wrong screen, and I was hoping that I wasn't gonna have to reboot again... I was about to use catalyst to turn the wrong monitor off temporarily, and then I thought to give the regular display option a go first, which was very successful.

After that, I went to backup whatever from Melty before installing and looked to see if I had FGLRX installed, so I would know ahead of time if I needed to install it or not (and I did). Hardly had any problems, minus making simple mistakes since I was still a bit sleepy. It went by decently quick (about 2.5 hours) for preparing, installing, updating, and configuring compared to a fresh installation of windows which took me all day or longer from what I remember... *rolls eyes*

Now I just need to update Lie-chan, though I hardly touch her at all :x

Updates, ugh... Part 2

Well, I thought it was the theme that broke it, so I moved it to where it was supposed to be, but it didn't do anything, so I deleted it, which didn't do anything either. I looked at the log file and couldn't really figure out what was going on, so I'm going to have Mei-chan be the first official installation of 12.3. Hopefully it all goes well.

Updates, ugh... Part 1

Well, I did an update for Mei-chan a couple days ago and X broke... so badly in fact, that I couldn't even get to the login screen to change GUI. I thought it was the same problem I had with Melty a while ago, but after installing unico and mist, it wasn't fixed. I saw "gtk-fallback.css" a number of times in the error log, so I'm thinking it might be my custom theme?

Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the theme I borrowed to make my custom one, and the fact that I didn't post it also bothers me... I think I got it from DeviantArt, so I'll look there when I have the time.

If I can figure out how to switch themes, X might work again... Perhaps deleting the theme itself might help (or it might break it even more XD)

Luckily, it's only Mei-chan that's affected right now, so it's not a huge deal, just annoying.

I think that's all for now.