I recently reinstalled OpenSuse 11.0 (long story, which I posted in
another thread), and thought that it would be time to change from kde3
to kde4, so I chose the latter in the installation options.
I’m rather disappointed in kde4. For example, it’s not possible to
auto-hide the task bar nor switch desktops with the mouse wheel (on the
desktop background). Also alt-tab sometimes fails to work, which is
really annoying.
Given that the latest kde4 version doesn’t seem to be available for
OpenSuse 11.0, I want to switch back to kde3. But how to install and
configure my system to use it? It’s not at all clear from the software
manager what should be installed.
This has been told here many times, but I admit most wanted to add KDE4
having KDE3 (or GNOME)
YaST > Software > Software Management. Left upper choose Patterns, then
down there you will find somewhere desktops and within that KDe3. Check
and install.
Do not use automatic login and in your login screen (lower left) you
find the posbilityy to choose which you want to run today.
Hi. I did not know that you can switch desktops with the mouse wheel.
Thanks for that tip!
As hcvv said, most of your questions will be answered when you search
the forums or the wiki.
Anyway…
I guess you did not delete your KDE 3.5. Therefore it still exists and
you just have to logout and select KDE 3.5 on the login screen to work
with it.
There is a confusing number of software repositories on download.opensuse.org/repositories. It’s not much fun to search each
repository by hand so there are nice search tools on software.opensuse.org and packages.opensuse-community.org. The KDE 4.2
packages you are looking for are here: ‘Index of
/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:’
(http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/). Just
add the desktop repo and if you wish the extra-apps and then update to
KDE 4.2. You can use Yast for that purpose or get familiar with that
great commandline tool called zypper. If you don’t want a stable KDE 4.2
but a snapshot of SVN you should press the “parent directory” button and
navigate to UNSTABLE. Good luck!
Sorry! Somehow I didn’t read well the beginning of your post. So I
assumed you installed with KDE 3.5 an later installed KDE 4… I think
I need some rest. Good night!
