open SUSE installed- no GUI

[Tearose]

I installed openSUSE on a laptop. When I logged in I got a nice design in green, but that's all. There's nothing to click on. All I can do is shut it off with the on button. So what do I need to do next to get a user interface and software?
(I'm a total newbie to Linux, so I need details.)
TIA
Jill

 

[Tearose]

I tried logging in as 'root' and got the GUI, so I'm fine till I need to log in as someone else. I can't really see where to set up other users. How do I do that? Thanks,
Jill

 

[DonQuichote]

I am not familiar with openSuse, so things might look different on your system.

You should (I think) have a menu somewhere. Does it not have a "system" or "administration" menu? And if the menu is not there, Does a right click on the desktop help to get it?

If you can open a shell ("command prompt"), you can use the adduser command. type

man adduser

to see the options. After creating a user, you should create a password with the passwd command (again, "man passwd" shows the manual entry for this command). But is there no "getting started" documentation on the suse site?

Finally: the command for bringing the system down in a controlled fashion from the shell is "shutdown -h now".

 

[geirendre]

As you see in this series of screenshots, The Suse install
is a two part prosess.
First the basic system install, then a reboot, and then
you set up a root account and the normal users on the system.
After that you can log into the system as eighter users.

Dont you get the last screen shown it the series
when you log in as a normal user, only when you'r root?