Greetings Everyone. I Just started using Open SUSE 12.3 last night. I have been ditro Hoping for the last two years and finnally landed on Open SUSE. I’m using the great KDE desktop that SUSE provides. I have installed multimedia codecs, got my wireless working, and other general setup steps. Any tips for a complete newcomer to the openSUSE distro?
Welcome aboard!
I’m also looking for a Decent desktop background. I would like something that is openSUSE in blue for KDE. I can’t seem to find anything decent. Anybody out there know of a good one?
Welcome here.
Nobody except you knows what you think a decent background is. This is one of those questions that is about taste and thus very personel. (I normaly have enough windows open that I do not see the background. ;))
Taste doesn’t matter on this one becuase from my searching I saw only 2 opensuse backgrounds in a blue color. Any offering I haven’t seen would be helpful.
Hi, welcome to the forum.
It is unfortunate that you choose kde when you’re looking for a nice background in blue.
If you are using xfce then it is easy to turn the desktop wallpaper into blue from green.
Have a lot of fun
Edit: for tip
If you have an almost monochromatic wallpaper in kde , you can add xfce as an alternative desktop
use that wallpaper in xfce turn it into blue and take a screenshot on a clean screen (no icons, menu, etc)
save it open kde and use it as your new wall paper.
That is a good tip. It would almost be easier just to open the default backgroup in Gimp and change the colors though.
On 03/15/2013 04:56 PM, webculb wrote:
> I Just started using Open SUSE 12.3 last night. I
> have been ditro Hoping for the last two years and finnally landed on
> Open SUSE. I’m using the great KDE desktop that SUSE provides. I have
> installed multimedia codecs, got my wireless working, and other general
> setup steps. Any tips for a complete newcomer to the openSUSE distro?
-=WELCOME=- new poster…but, in that short quote above you typed:
“Open SUSE”, “SUSE” and “openSUSE”…so, my tip to you is to use the
one of those which is correct for what we deal with here:
openSUSE
there is a forums.suse.com where they discuss SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server or Desktop (aka SLES and SLED)…but there is no “Open SUSE”
anywhere…
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dd
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobile” of operating systems!
Ya it’s just me typing fast and not double checking things.
Computers like that
On 03/15/2013 07:26 PM, webculb wrote:
> Ya it’s just me typing fast and not double checking things.
no problem…i most often type so fast i don’t have time to hit the
shift key…except when i get to openSUSE 
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dd
Try asking the wallpaper creator for a blue version here
Grow - openSUSE 12.3 wallpaper by ~white-dawn on deviantART
Thank you so much +Rep. This is the kind of thing I was looking for.
Welcome onboard openSUSE.
You can learn more how to communicate with openSUSE users here: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels
Note on the forum we are volunteers. The openSUSE developers/packagers tend to hang out more on the mailing lists (see above URL).
Often if you have a problem, aside from asking for help here, you can go to google and type "opensuse wiki <your-topic> " and they may give you the link of a guide on the subject in which you are seeking help.
Good luck and welcome.
I’ll keep that in mind. Most of the issues I have are common enough to have a forum thread about it. If something really crazy does come up I’ll check out the mailing list.
Welcome,
Have you tried right click on desktop >> Default desktop settings >> click on Wallpaper >> select image >> in the bottom right you will see a button >> Get New Wallpaper!!! Try that out.
Ya looked at those and didn’t see anything I liked. I took the default Background and changed the colors in Gimp.
Are you sure you read my post, there are thousands. You saw them all? :sarcastic: You can type blue into the search part of that window and get hundreds. You just keep scrolling down to get more previews.
Anyway, glad you found what You wanted.
Yes I searched blue suse and looked at every single one that came up. Nothing seemed quite right. Thanks for the tip though.
Welcome to the forums, i hope you enjoy using openSUSE. For a new comer like you there is always the wiki https://en.opensuse.org/ and there you will find all the info`s you need; of course the forums are here to help too.
Have a lot of fun 