4 YaST #
YaST is the installation and configuration tool for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. It has a graphical interface and the capability to customize your system quickly during and after the installation. It can be used to set up hardware, configure the network, system services, and tune your security settings.
4.1 Advanced Key Combinations #
YaST has a set of advanced key combinations.
- Print Screen
Take and save a screenshot. May not be available when YaST is running under some desktop environments.
- Shift–F4
Enable/disable the color palette optimized for vision impaired users.
- Shift–F7
Enable/disable logging of debug messages.
- Shift–F8
Open a file dialog to save log files to a non-standard location.
- Ctrl–Shift–Alt–D
Send a DebugEvent. YaST modules can react to this by executing special debugging actions. The result depends on the specific YaST module.
- Ctrl–Shift–Alt–M
Start/stop macro recorder.
- Ctrl–Shift–Alt–P
Replay macro.
- Ctrl–Shift–Alt–S
Show style sheet editor.
- Ctrl–Shift–Alt–T
Dump widget tree to the log file.
- Ctrl–Shift–Alt–X
Open a terminal window (xterm). Useful for installation process via VNC.
- Ctrl–Shift–Alt–Y
Show widget tree browser.