Hi,
I am running xfce 4.10 and a minimal install of kde
now I tried to install gnome session and gdm to try gnome
and now it is working. ( This is my first time in this DE)
My question is, what I need to add to customize my gnome desktop
Right now the only thing I know is to click activities and when those
icons appear in the left side of the screen I click firefox to visit the forums:X:shame:
Stupid me I am scratching my bald head even it is not itchy.
Help/pointers matters.
On Sat 06 Dec 2014 01:36:01 PM CST, conram wrote:
Hi,
I am running xfce 4.10 and a minimal install of kde
now I tried to install gnome session and gdm to try gnome
and now it is working. ( This is my first time in this DE)
My question is, what I need to add to customize my gnome desktop
Right now the only thing I know is to click activities and when those
icons appear in the left side of the screen I click firefox to visit the
forums:X:shame:
Stupid me I am scratching my bald head even it is not itchy.
Help/pointers matters.
Hi
What do you want to do?
Lets see if you right-click on an icon in the activities overview
menu, you can remove it from favorites. If you click at the icon that
has multiple squares at the bottom, or use search to find applications
then right click to add to the activities overview.
Top right on the panel, the upside down triangle for system settings
and also the tweak-tool to do other bits and bobs.
Then if you visit https://extensions.gnome.,org just allow the add in
to run ‘always’ for the firefox integration. I only use openweather
and activities configurator to add the openSUSE icon instead of
‘Activities’ in the Top panel.
Explore, have fun 
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Hi malcolm,
Thanks, now it’s cookin. It’s kinda sleek and looks prettier than kde 
But I encountered a problem in resume from suspend, it gave me a weird screen.
Screen is black, garbled and don’t know to describe it in english. I have to
logout and login to go back to a clear screen. Any way I can correct it?
Additional question, what is the rectangular vertical small window in the right
side of the screen, it shows my open app and an empty window with the openSUSE wallpaper.
Can I remove it? I think I don’t need it.
On Sat 06 Dec 2014 04:16:01 PM CST, conram wrote:
malcolmlewis;2681132 Wrote:
> Hi
> What do you want to do?
>
> Lets see if you right-click on an icon in the activities overview
> menu, you can remove it from favorites. If you click at the icon that
> has multiple squares at the bottom, or use search to find applications
> then right click to add to the activities overview.
>
> Top right on the panel, the upside down triangle for system settings
> and also the tweak-tool to do other bits and bobs.
>
> Then if you visit https://extensions.gnome.,org just allow the add in
> to run ‘always’ for the firefox integration. I only use openweather
> and activities configurator to add the openSUSE icon instead of
> ‘Activities’ in the Top panel.
>
> Explore, have fun
>
> –
> Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter
> #276890)
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.28-4-default
> If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface,
> please show your appreciation and click on the star below… Thanks!
Hi malcolm,
Thanks, now it’s cookin. It’s kinda sleek and looks prettier than kde
But I encountered a problem in resume from suspend, it gave me a weird
screen.
Screen is black, garbled and don’t know to describe it in english. I
have to
logout and login to go back to a clear screen. Any way I can correct it?
Additional question, what is the rectangular vertical small window in
the right
side of the screen, it shows my open app and an empty window with the
openSUSE wallpaper.
Can I remove it? I think I don’t need it.
Hi
Hmm could be the display driver, you don’t need to logout. Press Alt+F2
enter just the letter r and press enter, that will restart the shell;
For reference: https://wiki.gnome.org/Gnome3CheatSheet
Those are the workspaces, click on it then open an application and a
new one will appear below, or via the tweak tool you can set the
desktops if you don’t want them dynamically added.
–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.28-4-default
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Hi,
Thanks again. I added the tweak-tool. I’m still playing with this to familiarize.
I can forget xfce for a while.
On a side, I had set-up kwin to run in xfce at login replacing xfwm4. It seems that
gnome also is starting kwin at boot and using it. I notice it in the tweak-tool. This
could be the one causing the screen problem after resume from suspend. I did as you said
Alt-F2 then r I forgot about this, thanks for the tuts.:good:
Ah correction, kwin is not running at gnome startup. Anyway I remove it in the tweak-tool.
Here is the screeny with xfce4-panel to start when I login w/c I added in the tweak-tool.
http://thumbnails112.imagebam.com/37022/2daad1370219347.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/2daad1370219347)
Hi
You might want to look at add the activities-configurator extension. You can then set the transperency of the top panel, change the wording of Activities (or use an ico…) and a few other bit’s and pieces.
http://thumbnails109.imagebam.com/37127/9aa8bc371263457.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/9aa8bc371263457)
I also use the openWeather extension…
Kewl!
Thanks for the tip, so far the only thing I added is the system monitor extension.
I will look into that.
Is that conky running in your screen at the bottom? I want to have that also.
I still can’t add another reputation as a gift for you!:shame:
Hi
Yup, conky… another user asked here;
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/501919-openSUSE-and-SLED
Link to a tarball with all the conky stuff is there
