How is one supposed to use the KDE4 desktop ?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 18:21:39 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 19:12 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 18 July 2008 19:02:27 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 17:29 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >
> > There seem to be two kinds: those that are just there "because", such as
> > Kmix, NM etc., and others that one puts there through the Autostart
> > dialogue. In my case I only added Ktorrent to this last, nevertheless I
> > have Kmix, Pidgin, NM, Amarok, Ksensors, Kpowersave (?) and the keyboard
> > switcher thingy. I'm sure I did add these all at some point in my 3.5
> > days, but I no longer know where to change them.
> >
> You should be able to get rid of them from a right-click.

I know. I don't want to get rid of them. However I'd still like to know
where they are.

> > > I'll try to find the answer to that one.
> > >
> > > > 4) Why does my desktop always start up as 1024x768 when I have a
> > > > landscape LCD?
> > >
> > > ?? 1024x768 is landscape, isn't it?
> >
> > No, it's 4x3 or a standard "square TV" monitor. Landscape is 16x9.
> >
>  No, :-)  Landscape is the opposite of portrait.  16x9 is widescreen.

Quite right, my mistake.

poc




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