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Relocating non-persistent parts of Firefox profile.
About a year ago I wrote up a Cool Solution for moving Firefox's urlclassifer3.sqlite file out of a user's home directory. This Cool Solution describes a better method of doing this which also redirects the Cache and other parts of the profile that don't need to be persistent.
Submitted by: mikewillis on Tue. 12.13.2011
Filed Under:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Linux Desktop Configuration
Product: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
How to configure desktop icons to appear on OpenSUSE 12.1
After installing OpenSUSE 12.1 I found out that I no longer had desktop icons and I could no longer right click on the desktop to bring up a menu to change my desktop background or open a terminal.
This tip will show you how to bring back those options you have been missing.
Submitted by: jmeldrum on Tue. 11.22.2011
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions
Topic: Configuration, Linux Desktop Configuration
Product: openSUSE
How to set up AutoAdminLogon with the Novell Client for Linux on SLE 11
This article will give step-by-step instructions on how to set up AutoAdminLogon with the Novell Client on SLE 11.
Submitted by: jmeldrum on Fri. 11.11.2011
Filed Under:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Enterprise Desktop, Linux Desktop Configuration, Login
Product: Novell Client, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
Additional multimedia codec support for SLED 11 SP1
This Cool Solution describes how to enhance SLED 11's multimedia support to handle DVD playback, H264, AAC and more without replacing any packages provided by Novell.
Submitted by: mikewillis on Mon. 07.25.2011
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Topic: Linux, Linux Desktop Configuration
Product: SUSE Linux Enterprise
Relocating Firefox's urlclassifier3.sqlite file
Firefox's urlclassifier3.sqlite can grow quite large which can be problematic where users have quotas applied to their home directories. Unfortunately Firefox provides no method to relocate the file, but it is possible to relocate on Linux using a wrapper script.
Submitted by: mikewillis on Tue. 11.16.2010
Filed Under:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Enterprise Desktop, Especially for School Administrators, File Management, Linux Desktop Configuration, Linux Usage
Product: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
Allow a user to log in when their home directory is missing
If you administer Linux machines where the home directories are mounted from remote servers then you may have experienced the annoying situation where one of those servers goes down for some reason and as a result some people can't log in to the Linux machines with a full GNOME session.
This guide explains how to configure machines running SLED 11 to allow a user to log in with a full GNOME session even when their home directory cannot be mounted from the remote sever.
Submitted by: mikewillis on Thu. 12.03.2009
Filed Under:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Linux, Linux Desktop Configuration, Login
Product: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop


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