Spanspek

After installing Opensuse 11.2 and experiencing the loss of Vmware, I decided to play around with desktop settings. I wasn't seeing the nice olive green background that advance pictures and the Live CD version showed. I suppose that was the result of my upgrade rather than a clean install.

So while looking for the background picture setting (still haven't found it), I decided to change the appearance of the windows. The default "theme" is called Ozone. I looked at the preview of Plastik and changed it. Immediately, the computer froze.

Well, now I know I can hold the power key and the computer will shut down, (however inelegantly). But before that the only way to do it was to pull it off my port expander and disconnect the battery.

Upon startup, it froze half way through the KDE start-up. I did a few system repairs off the install DVD, had a few gos at re-installing (e.g. KDE). Nothing worked.

With thanks to those nice people on the Opensuse Forums, I simply deleted the KDE prefs at ~/.kde4 and all was well. Oh, and since that restores defaults, I got the nice background too.