unlock desktop under openSUSE12

Not sure if this is just an openSUSE default gnome setting or a new gnome setting, but after you installed openSUSE12 with gnome desktop, the desktop is locked! cannot right click, cannot see any files/directories under your desktop, it is just weird.  To unlock it, run gnome-tweak-tool from terminal:

gnome-tweak-tool
Desktop -> Have file manager handle the desktop

Back to normal again :-)

gnome NetworkManager disappeared under AspireOne Linpus

After an unclean shutdown of my new AspireOne, the gnome NetworkManager under linpus doesn’t show up, it was very fustrating that both wireless and wired network doesn’t work anymore. It turns out to be the connection profiles have been corrupted, to fix this just simply delete the connection profiles under the home directory:

rm -rf $HOME/.gconf/system/networking/connections