GNOME 2.25.4 on openSUSE 11.1
Over at the openSUSE GNOME camp, we’ve been updating GNOME to the latest version for both current Factory and openSUSE 11.1.
Today, I decided to try it out…
The first thing I did was to use SUSE Studio to create a LiveCD (well, DVD really, since it was too big to fit on a CD). I then created a VirtualBox machine to try it out. There were a few issues running it, but I thought it might have been due having a read only file system and running virtualized etc, so I installed it in that virtual machine.
The issues (which didn’t disappear after an install) were;
1. X using 99.9% CPU
2. Trying to run something like the appearance capplet caused my X session to restart
Playing around with this a bit, I found that the work around for issue 1 was to simply kill gnome-screensaver and for issue 2, move (or delete) /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/media-keys.gnome-settings-plugin and /usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0/libmedia-keys.so out of the way (/usr/lib/ if on 32bit).
Once I figured out the above mentioned workarounds, I added the G:F:N repo on my laptop and ran zypper dup to update my laptop. I had the exact same issues and applied the same workarounds and it’s working very well.
For people who wants to try this out for themselfs on either current Factory or openSUSE 11.1, the repo URL is;
openSUSE 11.1: http://widehat.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Factory:/Next/openSUSE_11.1/
openSUSE Factory: http://widehat.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Factory:/Next/openSUSE_Factory/
A word of warning; If you’re not used to running/testing “unstable” versions, please do not “try this at home” (or rather, don’t try this on your production machine)