openSuse

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:

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.

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