On 02/05/2011 12:25 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hello -
OK! I managed to solve this problem, but I really don't understand why this worked... What I did...
Copied over my xorg.conf file from openSuSE11.2 to openSuSE11.3
Since the desktops now appeared similar under both OS's, I booted up 11.2 where I had vnc servers already configured. I then vnc'ed into my media center from my laptop. In the vnc window I noticed that I could see the WHOLE desktop, unlike on my monitor where I was not seeing things close to the edges.
Within the VNC window, I noticed that there were empty panel toolbars around both the left and right edges, as well as at the top of the desktop. I removed these, and then the kicker bar at the bottom of the screen started behaving properly. I was able to resize it, making it smaller in height, and none of the icons disappeared off the bottom of the screen. (Why in the world were these empty tool bar panels configured to be part of the desktop? That is beyond my capabilities to grok!!! If a user wants em, let him/her decide and add, don't force such nonsense on em, that just opens up possible problems like this one! IMHO...)
Rebooted the system to 11.3, crossed my fingers, and when the desktop appeared, the kicker bar was now visible, all icons showed up on it, and it was normal in height!
Checked the ability to pan on my smaller monitor, and it too is now working.
This was NOT easy to figure out! Took many hours of fooling around with it, but I managed to get to a solution. Don't know why Sax2 and xorg.conf had to be suddenly removed in this release, and not slowly phased out over a couple of releases. It would have been more appropriate that an immediate warning be given that these tools were being deprecated, when used, and a description given as to what the alternative approach was for configuring these monitors/displays.. That way there would have been an obvious fallback in case things went wrong, and more time to do testing before the final switchover would occur. Hope the next release will be easier...
Marc...
Marc Congrats! That was a tough one. I would write down the steps in case some one else may run into the same problem. -- Cheers! Roman openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.37-6-desktop "http://counter.li.org" #179293 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org