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Taking a cue from my colleague from Dotted i Design, Michael Samuelson, I have gone a little bit charcoal rainbow crazy. The default color scheme in X-Chat leaves something to be desired if you are constantly looking at the screen. If you are like me, tweaking colors is one big rabbit hole! Once I started, I kept tweaking and tweaking for over an hour. Here is a screenshot of what I ended up with:

If anybody would like to use a similar color scheme in their copy of xchat, you simply need to replace the colors.conf file with the following values:

I am starting to get used to the RPM + YAST package system in openSUSE to install software. However, I came across one thing just struck me as annoying; the mish-mash way that applications add items to the menu and the locations that they install themselves into. The one app in particular that triggered this post was KeepassX.

Coming from the Windows world, I have become used to seeing a blue padlock icon to click on for Keepass. By default, the installer didn’t add an icon to the menu system. Not a big deal, I just went to the menu editor, added a new item with the keepass command. However, when I went to choose the icon, none of the keepass icons were showing up in the default locations. Being new to Linux in general, I wasn’t totally positive where the app was located at. Some things get installed in /usr/local/bin while others get installed in /usr/bin. Again, it was no big deal, but I was limited to the KeepassX style icons.

When I was trying to setup Parallels in openSuse 10.3, the install instructions that are found in the PDF file are incomplete. Through various online sources, I found that a couple of additional packages are needed (downloadable through YAST) to complete the install. Here is the process I went through to get it running:

1. Downloaded the most current RPM package directly from Parallels
2. Installed the RPM package
3. Opened YAST Software Manager
4. Made sure the following packages were installed (I download files directly from the openSuse OSS and Non-OSS repositories):
   • binutils
   • gcc
   • gcc-c++
   • kernel-source
   • make
5. As a super user from the command line, ran parallels-config
6. Started the App and went Virtual Machine crazy! :-p