Re: [MLUG] Torvalds: "Use KDE"

[Josh <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Josh wrote:
>
>> I'm a KDE fan myself. I can't tell you how much more productive its
>> made me to switch from Windows to KDE...and though I spent about a
>> month trying gnome, I went back to KDE for its incredible
>> configurability.
>
>
> Thanks for these useful comments.  One thing I'd like to be able to
> configure is the background colors separately for each desktop.  I
> cannot do that in Gnome -- If I change one, they all change.  Does KDE
> allow different desktops to have different background colors?
>
KDE will let you configure each desktop's background color or picture
independently. I frequently do that just to have a nice large visual cue
as to which one I am currently on.

My one complaint about desktop configuration is this: I have a TV
sitting about 6 feet to the right of my work desk and I run an S VIDEO
out from my box to the TV. KDE spawns what appears to be a totally
separate instance of itself on that desktop in 640x480 (which is fine
since I just use it for full screen video), but the settings for that
desktop behave very oddly. They don't seem to pull from ~/.kde and are
actually just the KDE defaults. I haven't looked into it much since I
usually just have Xine fired up full screen on one of those desktops -
but it would certainly annoy me if I were using that screen for real work.

>
>> How has everyone else customized their linux/X experience?
>
>
> I mostly use a few desktops for running various things on the server
> itself, but then I have a different desktop for each supercomputer I
> connect to at our supercomputing facility.  There are five of those. 
> So I have 12 desktops in Gnome.  I'm not using KDE at the moment.
>
I do that, too. I love being able to VNC into several computers and full
screen them each on a desktop..then I can use the old "move the mouse to
the edge of the screen" tool to jump from machine to machine. (Thats
another great KDE feature..being able to go from desktop to desktop just
by moving the mouse off the edge of the screen. Saves me a lot of time
and clicks as I never actually click the desktop panel in the topbar
anymore.)

> Mike
>
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