Re: [MLUG] Torvalds: "Use KDE"

[Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I am waiting for Debian Sid to hit my computer. Ubuntu is nice but there are a few niggling problems, mostly centered around OpenOffice 2.0 (final) not being officially available and hibernation does not work correctly even with swsusp2 support in the kernel (random X hangs some while after resuming.) Kernel 2.6.14 in Sid should fix the suspend issues if I am not mistaken and there is OOo 2.0.0 in there officially. And I think that the KDE 3.5.0 packages are not that far away from getting into the repositories- they are in the unofficial Ubuntu ones but they gunked up my Ubuntu install

Phillip

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 16:58 -0600, Josh wrote:
> Mike Miller wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Josh wrote:
> >
> >> Mike Miller wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >
> >
> > Exactly my plan.  Thanks.
> >
> >
> >>> 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.)
> >
> >
> > Is there a keyboard shortcut for that too?  In Gnome I can use
> > ctrl-alt-arrows to move between desktops, which is nice.
> >
> By default, CTRL+D brings up an alt+tab style list to choose the desktop
> to switch to. (Its handy since you can name desktops.) You can also
> assign hotkeys to any of the following actions:
>
> Switch to Next desktop
> switch to previous desktop
> Switch one desktop to the right
> switch one desktop to the left
> switch one desktop up
> switch one desktop down
>
> All of my desktops are organized in a straight line (1-2-3-4) so the
> last two are useless for me - but kind of neat if you want to do some
> sort of row/column grouping based on purpose or something.
>
> I'd highly recommend ya go through the "Control Center" a page at a
> time..it has hundreds of configurable options that you can tweak to
> customize your experience. This all refers to KDE 3.4... still waiting
> for 3.5 to hit Debian unstable.
>
> > Mike
> >
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