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From: Baron on 23 Nov 2009 05:56 felmon wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:42:42 +0000, Paul J Gans wrote: > >> I'm at a KDE 3.5 Konsole window right now. > > how does one install kde 3.5 in OpenSUSE 11.1? > > I installed OpenSUSE 11.2 yesterday and I am a bit discontent. it is > partly because I am not sure I have got the best visual setup - the > resolution seems correct but the screen or maybe it's the fonts seem > indistinct (compared to Debian Lenny on the same system without much > tinkering). > > but I am also a bit put off by kde 4.x. I can get used to it, I am > sure, but for now kde 3.5 is much better for me. > > I would like at go at OpenSuse 11.1 with kde 3.5 if that's doable. > otherwise I'll probably hang at Debian Lenny still. Suse used to be my > main distribution but no longer. > > Felmon When you installed 11.1 you were offered a choice "Gnome, KDE4 and Other" Choose "Other" and KDE3.5 is there. You can install it from YAST as well. -- Best Regards: Baron.
From: EOS on 23 Nov 2009 06:10 Baron wrote: > When you installed 11.1 you were offered a choice "Gnome, KDE4 and > Other" Choose "Other" and KDE3.5 is there. You can install it from > YAST as well. adding KDE3 repo into openSUSE 11.2 works also http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_11.2 http://en.opensuse.org/KDE3 -- EOS www.photo-memories.be Running KDE 4.3.3 / openSUSE 11.2
From: jamesromeongmail.com on 23 Nov 2009 10:09 On Nov 23, 5:44 am, EOS <heelst...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > jamesromeongmail.com wrote: > > 1) Is there any way to set keyboard shortcuts to switch desktops in > > pager? > > not that i know > > > And how do I turn OFF desktop switching with the mouse? > > not possible as far as i know > > > 2) Is there a way to turn off transparency in Folder View? > > can you give us a screenshot? > > > 3) Video setup using sax2 seems to have disappeared off of Yast2. What > > has replaced it? > > It's not replaced ;-) > there is no link in yast anymore (shame) > you can find it under "kmenu - system - configuration - sax2" > or just start it with "alt+F2" --> sax2 > > You also check the app under KDE4 for that > "kmenu - systemsettings - monitor" > > > 4) Inside of Yast2, lots of the help files seem to be missing. How do > > I install them? > > Hum, is it possible that yast is in "default EN" > check "yast2-trans-??" > > > 5) I get lots of X11 errors like: > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ": > > 1000.0". > > How do I fix this? > > check the setting of you're monitor > I believe that you are using KDE4 ;-) > "kmenu - systemsettings - monitor" Thanks for actually trying to answer this and not to flame KDE4 (which may deserve it). I have a logitech VXRevolution mouse, and the scroll wheel seems to be changing the desktops. Because I have the mouse wheel set to free wheel, moving the mouse quickly can change the desktop. So I think the real question is "how do you set the mouse wheel to only do a middle-click, and not a search, desktop switch, or anything else?" I do not know how to post a picture from Google, but the Folder View widget has a transparent background. I hate transparency on anything. I have another problem with the Application launcher. I removed old versions of Netbeans, and their icons still remain in the launcher. How does one remove them? KDE4 is so unintuitive. One would think that a right-click menu would have a remove option? On kmenu (which I believe is the Application Launcher), I do not have "kmenu - systemsettings - monitor" . There is System, Configuration, Sax2, but I am actually using a remote desktop, so the monitor is different. But I see these X11 errors on the real monitor as well. And surely there is a keystroke setting to change desktops? Thanks, Jim
From: Darklight on 23 Nov 2009 13:14 EOS wrote: > houghi wrote: > >> There seems to be a lot of people who have an issue with KDE 4.x. To me >> that looks as if it might be a KDE thing and not so much an openSUSE >> thing. > > > that's true > openSUSE is not the fault of the "slow" development of KDE4 > > And i believe that openSUSE is the best distro to use KDE4 at the moment. I use 10.3 and will keep it for some time because it works and i can mess about with it. I installed 11.2 on my laptop and yes i am impressed but i think i would miss sax2. I did have a fear that opensuse or linux for that matter would become like windows. i guess it would go that way as they want more people to use it. i think linux users will just have to get used to it or go to another distro. There is one thing i did not try when installing 11.2 was manual config that might bring back sax2. The question people should be asking is sax2 still available in gnome?
From: Vahis on 23 Nov 2009 13:31
On 2009-11-23, Darklight <nglennglen(a)netscape.net> wrote: <snip> > I installed 11.2 on my laptop and yes i am impressed but i think i would > miss sax2. You don't need to, it's there. Just go to init 3 and run it as root, like always. > > I did have a fear that opensuse or linux for that matter would become like > windows. i guess it would go that way as they want more people to use it. > i think linux users will just have to get used to it or go to another > distro. > > There is one thing i did not try when installing 11.2 was manual config that > might bring back sax2. Sax2 is there. > > The question people should be asking is sax2 still available in gnome? Use CLI Vahis -- "Sunrise 8:41am (EET), sunset 3:31pm (EET) at Espoo, Finland (6:49 hours daylight)" http://waxborg.servepics.com Linux 2.6.25.20-0.5-default #1 SMP 2009-08-14 01:48:11 +0200 x86_64 8:22pm up 24 days 1:23, 11 users, load average: 0.25, 0.19, 0.21 |