The Profile Chooser applet in your GNOME or KDE desktop panel allows you to easily control your SCPM settings. Create, modify or delete profiles via YaST as described in Section 20.2, “Using the YaST Profile Manager” and switch profiles. Switching profiles can be done as normal user provided the system administrator allows this to happen. Start Profile Chooser from your desktop menu using ‘System’+‘Desktop Applet’+‘Profile Chooser’.

Enable normal users to switch profiles by right-clicking the Profile Chooser icon in the desktop panel and choosing ‘Allow user switching’ from the menu that opens. Provide the root password. Any authorized user on your system can switch profiles from now on.

All profiles configured in YaST, either directly via a YaST call or via the ‘Start YaST2 Profile Manager Module’ are displayed after you click the Profile Chooser icon. Select the one to switch to using the cursor keys and SCPM changes to the new profile automatically.