newbie to linux suse10.0 Had it working after I changed from Gnome to KDE, to try out the different schemes. It was working last night launched onto web etc. This morning after doing system update I can only get on web via Konqeror. When I click on firefox it starts to load with my home page and shuts down, no message or nothing. played with firewall etc, no help.Also how do you set your home page in Konqeror? I do not see a preferences.

Its fixed. I went back to system updates and it reloaded the new kernel. must have had a bad download last night. Still need to know how to preference Konqeror however as my second choice browser. I think I like KDE over GNOME, but not sure. Any comments on the pro's and con's would be appreciated. Is there anyway to have the choice of either one without doing a reinstall?

May depend on what program you are using to open an html link. There might be a prefence or option in it. Like in Pan you can configure it to open a specfic browser.

You need to goto into your Start Menu > Control Center > File Association. Open the text section and find html and click on it. To the right there is a box Application Prefernce Order. Hit the Add optin and add firefox to it. Then make sure it is at the top of the list. If already in the list then just move it up to the top.

There is another option but I forget at the moment. I will post if I remember or find it. Something about relinking a softlink from konquorer to firefox.

Brian1

If you want to switch between KDE and Gnome (or any other environment) it should be pretty easy. When you login there should be something saying session. When you click on this there's an option to choose which to start.

That maybe a drawback to SUSE10. I only have the choice of KDE or GNOME at the start up of the install from the CD's. I don't know if it fully loads both desktops or not. If it does then there should be a way to toggle between them I would think, but they do use different media sources etc.

It will only load the one desktop environment you want to load, but when you load gtk programs in KDE it loads half of GNOME, or QT based programs in GNOME, it loads half of KDE.

When it comes down to it, it's not really that important.

Both are pretty solid distros. KDE tends to give you more choices to mess with, and a unified control center.

GNOME tends to be more.. basic isn't the word I'm looking for, but it might be that... it tends to try not to get in the way.

DeusExLinux gave a decent description of the differences I'd say, but it's really a personal preference that you should be able to check out yourself. But first you'll need to figure out how to test them ou, hopefully without having to do a reinstall.

It would be really annoying if a quirk that suse has is not letting you switch desktops easily. If nothing else there should be a way to manually edit a file. In Arch I have a file in my home folder called .xinitrc which as the only thing not commented out is startfluxbox . It also has commented out the start command for other common environments, for kde it's startkde. You might check if you have something that obvious, but to I decided to look at my ubuntu setup, and there it's a bit more complicated. I tracked things down to invoking /etc/X11/Xsession, but that script was pretty complicated and didn't make a lot of sense at first glance. It looks like it's trying to look at a similar script in my home folder, but that doesn't seem to actually be there. Maybe this gives a clue of where to start. You should maybe try searching around some of the suse specific information to see if there's an easy way to do this.