Silly question, really, about Yast sysconfig editor: How do you get it to display variables in the right hand pane?
I cannot open the tree in the left hand pane eg if I click on System, nothing happens. Same with Applications, Desktop, Hardware, Network. Same if I double-click. Same if I right click. Same if I select one of these and hit Enter …
However if I search for a variable name which I know exists, and click GoTo, then sysconfig opens the tree and displays the variable, and I can scroll through to others in the same branch - but I still can’t open another branch.
Any thoughts and/or suggestions will be very welcome!
openSUSE 11.4 64-bit with Gnome 2.32.1 which is working well, on Athlon 3200+ with 1.5GB RAM. All applications installed with Yast.
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See if have any yast2 packages from a repo other than OSS/Updates.
Might also be worth trying using the QT UI
Switch Yast Interface to QT
You can start the basic form of yast from a su -
terminal with: yast
To make the above changes
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/yast_basic.mkv
Thanks for the tip about the basic version of Yast. I launched it and found that I had the same problem with sysconfig - but the character layout hinted that I should try the ‘+’ & ‘-’ keys - and lo! it worked!
So I tried the ‘+’ & ‘-’ keys with sysconfig in gtk Yast - and lo! it works!
So that is sorted. I suppose I should have thought of those keys, I had tried everything else, but hadn’t found this basic point documented anywhere.
Thank you for your quick help - it is greatly appreciated.