How do I put the Deepin environment on OpenSUSE Tubleweed (start menu, taskbar, folder and window environment)?

[logan7]

@hui

What exactly did you try from this 30 minutes video? As mentioned, he uses no longer recommeded repositories (package sources) and installs them on a MS Windows machine. So not comparable to the experience from a pure Tumbleweed installation with the Deepin desktop from the official openSUSE repos. What exactly is broken with the screen lock?

I tried the repositories command. I thought it might work.

[hui]

So now we need to clean up the mess. First you should show your repositories so that we can remove the wrong/not recommended ones. And then we need to switch the Deepin packages to the openSUSE repo.

First your repo list via
zypper lr -d

It is recommended for beginners to first search for packages in YaST Software and install them via zypper or YaST if available. Adding external repositories may cause heavy issues which requires some skills to solve them.

[logan7]

@hui

So now we need to clean up the mess. First you should show your repositories so that we can remove the wron/not recommended ones. And then we need to switch the Deepin packages to the openSUSE repo.

First your repo list via

When it happens like this, it doesn’t even go in anymore. I already put it to reinstall. It’s almost finished.

[hui]

When you do a fresh installation of the OS, it is possible to da a pure Deepin installation without any other desktop environment. For that you need to choose the generic system role. Then in the installation settings screen, click on Software and choose Deepin. Finish the installation. Afterwards you have a pure Tumbleweed installation with Deepin desktop environment. No external repositories involved.

[logan7]

I only wanted the taskbar, start menu, windows and deepin folders. Tumbleweed’s performance is what matters most to me.

[hui]

That is ok. But there is a difference between a linux distribution (Tumbleweed, Leap, Slowroll…) and a desktop environment (XFCE, KDE Plasma, Gnome, Deepin, E3, LXQt, Budgie, IceWM, …). You can install several desktop environments side by side on your system.

The performance of a system is dependend on your hardware and the desktop environment in use. Fully fledged, heavy customizable desktop environments like KDE Plasma need more powerful hardware than lightwight environments like IceWM. And this is completely independent from the distribution in use.

So saying that you want the performance of Tumbleweed is quite strange as it depends on the desktop environment and hardware.

@logan7

I only wanted the taskbar, start menu, windows and deepin folders.

And for that you need to install the Deepin desktop environment. On a existing installation via the described way in this comment, or when you do a complete fresh OS installation via this way.

[myswtest]

Not sure if this is redundant or helpful:

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Deepin/Installation#Dbus_and_Policykit_features
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We avoid anything Deepin related, for security reasons … yea, I know, the following article is from 2021, but still originately published by openSUSE.

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Deepin/Security_Issues

What exactly does “performance” mean?

Anyway, if @logan7 wants a subset of Deepin, why not just install THAT distro in its entirety??
If you never have installed it, how can you compare “performance” to TW?

[logan7]

opensusa has incredible performance.

[hcvv]

@logan7

I just wanted to be able to move the shutdown, restar

When you restart you get the login screen. From that you can choose the desktop you want.

When you installed a new Desktop Environment (and you can have many f them installed), you can not expect that it is automagicaly used. A user has to choose for it.

So when I understand you correct that you are already able to deploy the Start menu of a DE, you are already in the DE. The DE you already used, but which you failed to mention which one it is.

[logan7]

I’ve been told this, but where is that choice? It seems to me that my tumleweed doesn’t even have a login screen because everything starts automatically

[hcvv]

@logan7

It seems to me that my tumleweed doesn’t even have a login screen because everything starts automatically

Then the one that installed it (you?) configured it for automatic login (which can be undone of course).

But you can always log out of that session and then you will return to the login screen.

[hui]

Disable autologin via
YaST->Sysconfig Editor->Desktop->Display Manager->DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN

As Henk mentioned, you did not uncheck the box for autologin whilst installation. See installation documentation.

[logan7]

Thanks guys.
I got it, but unfortunately it’s that old deepin, black and I really wanted the look of the white one.

My opensuse was on automatic login and I tried to activate its login screen in various ways until I found a tutorial on how to do this through the terminal and that’s when the system didn’t want to turn on anymore. I had to reinstall everything.
Reinstalling now, I disabled the automatic login option and had to install deepin again. This way it worked.

Thank you very much to everyone who helped me, I am really grateful.

[hui]

@logan7

black and I really wanted the look of the white one.

Huh? The appearance can easily be changed in the Deepin control center to the white one?!

[logan7]

It’s not just because of the color, it’s just that the white one I’m talking about is the newer Deepin that came out last year. The one there is the old one and that one is ugly.
The new one is very good.

I saw that Indian video and thought it was possible to do that, but in the end it was just his trick.