I’ve been playing with Gnome 3.8 for a few days now and still have video issues. I have tearing in videos with Totem(Videos) and the mouse cursor still becomes invisible with VLC. Strangely, the tearing seems to not always happen. Sometimes it seems to play fine and then others I get major tearing. My Intel driver is version 2.20.19. As it seems that the problems come from the Intel driver, is there a repo I can play with that has a more up to date version of the driver? Thanks.
Try the intel driver related fix suggested here
GNOME 3.8 for openSUSE 12.3 – GO GET IT @ Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*)
On Wed 17 Apr 2013 06:06:02 PM CDT, lakerssuperman wrote:
I’ve been playing with Gnome 3.8 for a few days now and still have video
issues. I have tearing in videos with Totem(Videos) and the mouse
cursor still becomes invisible with VLC. Strangely, the tearing seems
to not always happen. Sometimes it seems to play fine and then others I
get major tearing. My Intel driver is version 2.20.19. As it seems
that the problems come from the Intel driver, is there a repo I can play
with that has a more up to date version of the driver? Thanks.
Hi
Have you tried enabling sna acceleration and tearfree?
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
# Enable SNA and TearFree on the intel graphics card
Section "Device"
Identifier "intel"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 1 day 18:33, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.08, 0.05
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile
I created the above file and added in the code. It seems to have fixed the tearing from my initial test. However, VLC still makes the cursor disappear. I can deal with that as long as I can get playback without tearing, which I seem to have. Thank you very much.
On Wed 17 Apr 2013 08:56:04 PM CDT, lakerssuperman wrote:
malcolmlewis;2548579 Wrote:
> Hi
> Have you tried enabling sna acceleration and tearfree?
> >
Code:> >
> cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
>
> # Enable SNA and TearFree on the intel graphics card
> Section “Device”
> Identifier “intel”
> Driver “intel”
> Option “AccelMethod” “sna”
> Option “TearFree” “true”
> EndSection
>> >
>
>
I created the above file and added in the code. It seems to have fixed
the tearing from my initial test. However, VLC still makes the cursor
disappear. I can deal with that as long as I can get playback without
tearing, which I seem to have. Thank you very much.
Hi
Is you intel device sandybridge? If so that may require the updated
Mesa package, it should be out through the update channels soon (~ a
week). Else I can point you to a repository with it…
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
up 1 day 21:31, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.06, 0.05
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile
It’s an Asus Zenbook with a mobile i5 Ivy Bridge processor.
I hope this is not about only to VLC, but to gnome 3.8 itself based on the title lol! , hope I am not hijacking the discussions. After few updates now my nautilus has gone show all hidden files, yes the workaround is alt+h but still it’ll show all the hidden if I am reopen again the nautilus. Anyone getting this?
Thanks.
Hi
It’s not set in the preferences?
http://thumbnails104.imagebam.com/24990/efbdbb249897024.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/efbdbb249897024)
thanks for the fast reply, I am getting myself lost here :shame: where can I go to files preferences? I don’t see any in nautilus menu. Thanks.
Hi
Look on the top panel, see ‘Files’ click on that for the drop down menu 
whoops! 
haha
Thank you rotfl!
Just wanted to post up a massive thank you to everyone involved in the openSUSE Gnome edition. I’ve just installed today the 12.3 Gnome edition and updated it to version 3.8 using the stable repo, and everything has gone so well. And I have to say a big woah! It is absolutely stunning, really stunning. I do not understand why Gnome gets all these flames. It’s an amazing desktop design that is getting sadly overlooked, and I fear it is more about the detractors egos rather than any deficiency in Gnome.
So thanks again to the team. 
I installed GNOME 3.8 and I do not have a desktop background. Its black. Only if I specify colours, it becomes coloured, but if I set an image, it turns black again. I searched the net and found that the only solution was to make Nemo handle the desktop. I have installed Nemo but I don’t know how to proceed. Also, the Universal Access Settings button is no more there on the panel…
Thanx…
install dconf-editor
and check the schema org.gnome.desktop.background, key picture-uri
Change it. Logout and login.
GNOME 3.8 is not official yet for openSUSE . You should really wait for 13.1 if you want higher versions of GNOME. The version of GNOME with official support is 3.6
If you want to talk about GNOME 3.8 then better place would be
Home> Forum> English> Get Technical Help Here> Pre-Release/Beta
https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/pre-release-beta/
Nope. That didn’t work. Actually, I upgraded to 3.8 only because my 3.6 was giving trouble. It was slow, unstable and the shell kept restarting automatically from time to time. It was very irritating. 3.8 is working very well. It is faster than my 3.4 which I had a month back (before upgrading to 12.3 OpenSUSE) Anyway, thanx for your reply. Any idea how to make nemo handle the desktop…?
Thanx again…
did you already try gnome-tweak-tool
Yes! The famous Tweak-tool! It only gives me an option to allow file manager to handle the desktop. It does not ask me which file manager should handle the desktop…
Thanx…
Hi everyone,
I am looking for Gnome 3.8 upgrade package for SuSE 12.3
It was not available anymore. Do anyone know how I can get it?
thanks
james
lol here you go
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/GNOME:/STABLE:/3.8/openSUSE_12.3/
with zypper do
zypper ar http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/GNOME:/STABLE:/3.8/openSUSE_12.3/GNOME:STABLE:3.8.repo
then
sudo zypper dup --from "GNOME 3.8 (openSUSE_12.3)"
or better yet post your repo list
zypper lr -d
12.3 is dead and if you really need it you should mirror this ftp, but why don’t you update to LEAP or 13.2 or even 13.1 which is the current evergreen?