I just installed openSUSE 11.0 on my MacBook yesterday and, in general, it’s working well.
However, although I have Desktop Effects activated and the windows are wobbly, the desktop cube doesn’t rotate.
Now, before you ask, I do have Desktop Cube and Rotate Cube checked in CCSM but still it doesn’t help.
My graphics card is an integrated Intel 950 GM.
Any clues what I might be overlooking?
If your’e using KDE 3.5.9 like myself, then open the KDE Control Centre and navigate to Session Manager. Set the Window Manager to ‘Compiz’. Click on ‘Apply’, then restart the desktop. Thats all that should be required.
Thanks for your reply.
I’m actually using KDE4 and I cannot find any KDE Control Center on my computer.
However, I did run “compiz --replace” in a terminal but still no rotating desktop showed up.
Nevertheless, my wobbly windows became unwobbly, indeed completely unmovable, after this command.
This suggests that I didn’t have compiz as the window manager and that I need to change something in my /etc/X11/xorg.file.
I’m used to using fusion-icon to select window manager but this doesn’t seem to be available in openSUSE 11.0
There must be a less complicated way to get compiz-fusion working in this distro.
Any more clues?
press alt+f2 and type in “systemsettings” without quotes then click on advanced and then session manager
now change window manager to compiz and log out and back in, now enable effects in CCSM
Thanks for that suggestion.
When I made that change my wobbly windows came back but I still don’t have a rotating cube.
Actually, I’m getting the impression that all is not well with my install as Alt-F2 only occasionally brings up a dialog box and Alt-Ctl-BkSpce doesn’t ever restart X.
I think I’m gonna have to reinstall openSUSE 11.0 as things just don’t seem right here even though I got no errors during the install yesterday.
Unless, of course, anybody has any suggestions as to what might be going wrong here…?:o
did u check the md5sum after downloading? while burning did u burn at low speeds? this should not be happening…
after u change settings try logging out and back in and try pressing CTRL+ALT+Backspace twice
Yes, I did and it gave no errors
I burned the DVD at 1x
I totally agree but bad things happen to me:rolleyes:
I tried this as suggested but no improvement. Now neither Alt-F2 nor Alt-Ctl-Bkspce do anything at all.
At this stage, looks like a re-install is the only option.
Thanks a lot for your help:)
lets see if a re install fixes it
Hmmm…well, that didn’t work.
After the re-install there’s no improvement. Indeed, it’s even worse as I can’t get a higher screen resolution than 800x600.
Maybe it’s the KDE4 DE.
I’ll re-install but this time with KDE 3.5
I mean openSUSE 10.3 worked fine on this machine.
Well, I tried KDE 3.5 and Gnome 2.22 but still get the same problem which is that <Ctl><Alt><Button1> doesn’t rotate the desktop cube.
Now as Alt-F2 doesn’t work either and Ctl-Alt-BkSpce doesn’t restart X, maybe the Alt key has a problem.
So, I changed the binding for the cube rotate to <Ctl><Shift><Button1> and it worked perfectly.
But <Ctl><Alt><Button1> works fine for me in quite a number of other distros that I have on this same machine.
So, rather than the Alt key being messed up, it seems as if openSUSE maps the Alt key somewhat strangely (and remember I’m using a MacBook).
Need to look into this but at least I’ve got my cube rotating:)
Have u checked if your keyboard layout is alright?
Well, that was my intention but it’s not as easy as it sounds.
Indeed, there seems to be an amazing amount of complication in this whole issue.
Yesterday, while in openSUSE 11.0 with Gnome 2.22, I found that
i) With a US keyboard layout, only <Shift><Ctl><Button1> would rotate the cube and not <Ctl><Alt><Button1>
ii) But when I switched to a GB keyboard layout, I had to change the key binding back to <Ctl><Alt><Button1> to rotate the cube.
iii) With the GB layout Alt-F2 opened the run box but Ctl-Alt-Backspace did nothing.
Well, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad :rolleyes:
Today, flushed with this partial success, I re-installed openSUSE 11.0 but this time with KDE4.
Initially when the screen resolution was 800x600 I found that with whatever keyboard layout I chose (US or GB), <ctl><alt><button1> rotated the cube. In addition, alt-F2 opened the run box although still alt-ctl-backspace did nothing. Now, at least both keyboard layouts performed the same.
Then I switched the screen resolution to 1280x800 (which is what I always use on the MacBook) and things changed again even though they seem to be again layout independent.
Now, I need a key binding of <Shift><Ctl><Button1> to rotate the cube. However, alt-F2 does nothing but, surprisingly, ctl-alt-backspace restarts X but only after I press this key combination twice.
Well, I said it was complicated.
I used the Xev program to get some info on the Alt key in openSUSE and in Ubuntu on the same machine.
Here’s what I got:
openSUSE:
KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001,
root 0x68, subw 0x4a00002, time 1766790, (41,39), root:(1100,158),
state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
Ubuntu:
KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
root 0x5a, subw 0x4200002, time 156497, (45,32), root:(55,88),
state 0x0, keycode 115 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
Can’t say I’m an expert in these things but keycode 64 sure looks different to keycode 115 so I assume that openSUSE sees the Alt key on my MacBook differently than Ubuntu sees it.
It’d be interesting to know if anybody else has openSUSE 11.0 running on a MacBook.
at least u got some info, I don’t dual boot so I can’t help with the mac cause I am only running leopard on mine, upgraded a month ago 
as for pressing ctrl+alt+backspace twice to restart x, I think thats normal now, its the same for me
I run quite a number of distros on two machines and I have NEVER seen where you need to hit ctl-alt-backspace twice to restart X.
Indeed, my brief experience with openSUSE 11.0 so far has indicated that this distro is uncomfortably quirky and apparently still very buggy – at least on my MacBook.
Here’s a bug report on the Alt-key issue in openSUSE 11.0 on a Mac.
I have another problem with ~/.kde/Autostart that I’m going to post on separately.
no pressing alt+ctrl+backspace twice is normal for me on all distros I try these days, I could be wrong but I tried Mint, Sidux, Ubuntu, Fedora and I had to press it twice on all of them
That’s interesting. I actually have all four of these distros on my MacBook (two are installed on usb HDD) and, out of curiosity, I tried all four with ctl-alt-backspace.
In every single case, I only needed to hit the key combination once to restart X.
Note that, I always hold down ctl and alt and then hit backspace with the other hand rather than simultaneously trying to hit all three keys at the same time.
the first time I press ctrl+alt+backspace I hear a beep and then when I press it again the xserver restarts, is it the same for u on suse?
No, I don’t get any beep.