Just installed 42.1 on my AMD system. Here are my vitals:
stephen@linux-ktuz:~> cat /etc/issue
Welcome to openSUSE Leap 42.1 - Kernel \r (\l).
stephen@linux-ktuz:~> uname -a
Linux linux-ktuz 4.1.34-33-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 20 08:03:29 UTC 2016 (fe18aba) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
According to the Great, The Powerful YAST → Hardware Info, my video is RS780L (Radeon 3000). Everything seems to work pretty well. I haven’t tried Celestia yet (that’s my iron test for graphics), but so far, so good …
EXCEPT, for a few things regarding the display.
First, I don’t like animations. (I’m a dinosaur.) A search here and via Google found all sorts of helpful suggestions about using Configure Desktop->Desktop Effects. I’ve unchecked everything I can find. I’ve checked “disable for full-screen windows” in the Advanced tab. I hit apply, and I get “Desktop Effects Are Not Available”, with the message, “No such method ‘compositingNotPossibleReason’ in interface ‘org.kde.KWin’ at object path ‘/KWin’ (signature ‘’)” If I close “Configure Desktop” and reopen it, that message is gone. The boxes are unchecked.
And yet, the effects are still there. Windows fade up/in and down/out as I click on them, they go transparent, and so on. I’ve rebooted. No luck.
Second, the screen locks after one minute. I’ve gone to Configure Desktop->Display And Monitor and the ONLY thing available is to set the time for start automatically, and the type. I’ve unchecked “start automatically.” The screen still locks after one minute. I set it to 30 minutes, applied, rebooted just to be sure. When the system came back up, the screen locked after 1 minute. The “start automatically” box was unchecked, but the time had reset itself to 1 minute.
It’s like it ignores my settings, almost like something in the home directory is write protected (I’ve checked .config and .kde4 and it all is owned by me and seems writeable).
Finally, in previous versions of Opensuse, I was able to change the size of the fonts on the menus for Firefox and Thunderbird via the gnome-config-tool (I think it’s called). The tool runs and says it changes them from the default 11 point fonts to 14 point, but nothing happens, even after a restart.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Oh, and I always set my keyboard for a short delay and fast repeat, but that won’t “take,” either. It resets itself to the defaults.
Any suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks!