{"id":184526,"date":"2025-08-22T15:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/?p=184526"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:15:57","slug":"ahoy-this-is-opensuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/ahoy-this-is-opensuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahoy, This Is openSUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome greeters are something every Linux fan has run into\u2014those little windows that pop up right after you install a distro or upgrade to a new version of a desktop environment like GNOME or KDE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their main job is pretty simple: give you a quick tour of what\u2019s new and offer some handy links to post-install tools. How useful they really are, though, depends on who you ask. Personally, I find them a bit of an annoying \u201cfeature,\u201d but plenty of folks probably appreciate having them around. Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the more recognizable ones\u2014the friendly \u201cAhoy, this is openSUSE\u201d window that greets users of this cute green chameleon\u2014is now getting ready for a big change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The<\/a>
The current openSUSE welcome greeter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The distribution\u2019s release team has started phasing it out in favor of a new system, opensuse-welcome-launcher<\/em>, which will coordinate GNOME Tour and Plasma Welcome while providing a smoother, more flexible rollout experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team\u2019s approach is simple – to build on upstream solutions. The new launcher will decide which greeter to run based on the desktop session, giving developers more direct control over timing and behavior instead of depending on each greeter\u2019s autostart mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transition is being done in steps. At first, the launcher will continue calling the legacy openSUSE Welcome, but the \u201cshow on next boot<\/em>\u201d option is gone since autostart is no longer its responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second phase will trigger openSUSE-branded versions of GNOME Tour and Plasma Welcome, with the old greeter left as a fallback. In the final stage, the Qt5-based welcome tool will be decommissioned completely once there\u2019s consensus on a fallback for desktops without a dedicated greeter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"openSUSE's<\/a>
openSUSE’s new welcome greeter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last but not least, according to devs, the change helps the distribution shed one more legacy Qt5 dependency\u2014openSUSE Welcome was among the last Qt5 holdouts in the stack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, see the announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image credits: openSUSE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

openSUSE introduces a phased plan to replace its legacy Qt5-based welcome window with a new launcher managing desktop-specific greeters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-184526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-os","category-news","tag-opensuse"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184601,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184526\/revisions\/184601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}