[howto] Install KDM themes in openSUSE

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If you are on KDE with openSUSE and want to change the default login theme(by default it is SUSE theme). That will be pretty easy. In case you tried Login Screen in Configure Desktop Settings and its not working, then you can follow this post to have your desired login screen theme. Almost every theme is available on kde-look.org KDM KDE4 themes page, search around and download your favorite one. Lets say you downloaded it to Downloads folder in your home directory, extract it there. [for example this post will use KStarboard-new theme]

Now open terminal and become root by su - , type:

cd /home/username/Downloads/

mv KStarboard-new /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/

Now open YaST, go to /etc/sysconfig Editor and then click on Desktop -> Display Manager -> DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME, and you will SUSE or some other value, change it to your theme folder name like KStarboard-new. Save and close YaST. Checkout the screen shot for this.

YaST /etc/sysconfig

Reboot your system so that the changes take effect.

If you are editor/terminal lover, you can open the following file in terminal instead of using YaST and edit it there(via root user):

vim /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager

Look for this line [DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME="SUSE"] and add your theme folder name there.

That should do it.

Interview with Monty Widenius of MariaDB[previously MySQL]

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The other day i was reading Monty Widenius interview on linux.com. It was nice share from him that how MariaDB came to existence and how easily it is to migrate to MariaDB from MySQL. How he formed the new team and get started with the new database(MariaDB).

Read the Q&A session


Driver installation for hybrid graphics in SONY VPCCA [Linux openSUSE]

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I have Sony Vaio VPCCA laptop, which have hybrid graphic cards Intel and ATI. I had tried the catalyst drivers from AMD to switch the cards, but with no luck. New release of the driver version 12.1 is available and seems that it had/has fixed the issues with switchable modes. I can confirm that, i have installed the drivers and every thing just works.

Had replied to a thread in openSUSE forums with the installation procedure in detail, here is the specific post from the thread. Hope it will work for you.

Good luck with it!

Xubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 screenshots

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When it comes to desktops in Linux, one would always think of some popular ones like KDE, Gnome, XFCE, LXDE and now Unity, Cinnamon etc. Every Linux user has her/his own choice of desktop. But to be honest, all are good and depends for what liking one would use it. Some are light, some are polished, some is packed with many apps and so on… XFCE is one of the light desktop we have in Linux, and it have its own user base.

Xubuntu 12.04 will be a LTS version supported for five years on desktops and servers. Lets take a look what Xubuntu desktop got this time.. Love the elementary(now elementaryos) theme and icons BDW.

Xubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 Screenshots

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