Upgraded from 13.1 to 13.2....ALT-TAB??

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:’(So, I am now upgraded to 13.2 (Gnome) but I am seeing that ALT-TAB is no longer working? Any thoughts on how to restore ALT-TAB to function?

And, how does one go about removing the extra kernels that are installed now?

Thanks ya’ll!

(I’m a newbie)

K

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Hi
If you create a new user and then login is alt+tab working?

There is a systemd service that will clean up the kernels automatically, as root user check the status;


systemctl status purge-kernels.service

What does it say in the log output?

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Output is:

systemctl status purge-kernels.service
purge-kernels.service - Purge old kernels
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/purge-kernels.service; disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)

What does all that mean? Looks as though the purge old kernels option is disabled?

I haven’t tried a different user account as of yet.

K

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Hi
On my system it’s enabled, run;


systemctl start purge-kernels.service

Then check the status again.

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I ran the purge and rechecked the status. Still shows disabled, I believe but has more output…?

systemctl status purge-kernels.service
purge-kernels.service - Purge old kernels
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/purge-kernels.service; disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)

Nov 06 12:36:42 PEAKCOMP macosx-prober[17953]: debug: /dev/sda1 is not an HFS+ partition: exiting
Nov 06 12:36:42 PEAKCOMP 50mounted-tests[17954]: debug: running subtest /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/20microsoft
Nov 06 12:36:42 PEAKCOMP os-prober[17984]: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests on /dev/sda2
Nov 06 12:36:43 PEAKCOMP os-prober[18011]: debug: /dev/sda6: is active swap
Nov 06 12:37:13 PEAKCOMP 50mounted-tests[18940]: debug: mounted using GRUB ntfs filesystem driver
Nov 06 12:37:13 PEAKCOMP 50mounted-tests[18941]: debug: running subtest /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/05efi
Nov 06 12:37:15 PEAKCOMP purge-kernels[3269]: Removed:
Nov 06 12:37:15 PEAKCOMP purge-kernels[3269]: kernel-desktop-3.11.10-17.2.x86_64
Nov 06 12:37:15 PEAKCOMP purge-kernels[3269]: virtualbox-guest-kmp-desktop-4.2.18_k3.11.10_17-2.15.2.x86_64
Nov 06 12:37:15 PEAKCOMP purge-kernels[3269]: ndiswrapper-kmp-desktop-1.58_k3.11.10_17-10.1.x86_64

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ALT-TAB is working however. I am still showing the current kernel and one previous kernel tho…

3.16.6-2-desktop (currently booted to)

3.11.10-21-desktop (apparently the old kernel before the upgrade to 13.2?)

K

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Yes. By default, the two latest kernels are kept.
That’s nothing new, that’s the case since 12.3 already.

You can change that in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf, and you can always remove specific kernel versions manually if you want.
Use YaST’s “Versions” tab e.g.

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Thanks !

K

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Hmmm…seems when I reboot, I lose my ALT-TAB functionality again…any thoughts on how to get it to stick?

K