[opensuse] KDE4.3 panel and resolution questions
I'm using OpenSuse 11.2 (64 bit), KDE 4.3. I think KDE4.3 looks great, and I've been experimenting with some of the "new" features. I seem to have hosed the "panel" at the bottom. I was trying to add a few widgets, and mistakenly added one twice. When I thought I was deleting the widget - a actually deleted the entire panel. I figured out how to install a new panel, which was completely empty. I added back all the "widgets" I wanted, but the panel no longer shows the running programs. That is, if I minimize anything, it doesn't show up down in the panel where it can then be maximized. It just minimizes to nothing. In other words, I've got just blank space in the panel between a start arrow on the left, and a system tray on the right. I'm guessing there's something rather obvious I'm overlooking here, but I've been through the config menu, the panel menu, and widget menu with no luck yet. Any hints are appreciated ! Simpler question. The system always defaults to 1024x768. I like to use 1152x864. I'm using an Nvidia GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 630a Graphics card. I can change the resolution easily enough using the Nvidia utility from the main menu, but it won't save the config file, so when I log out or restart - it always goes back to the old resolution. I've tried doing it as root, but it still re-writes the x config file to start with the larger resolution. This is a minor issue, but if there's a simple fix it would be great. Thanks, Regis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Regis Matejcik said the following on 03/04/2010 06:19 PM:
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I figured out how to install a new panel, which was completely empty.
:-)
I added back all the "widgets" I wanted, but the panel no longer shows the running programs. That is, if I minimize anything, it doesn't show up down in the panel where it can then be maximized. It just minimizes to nothing.
In other words, I've got just blank space in he panel between a start arrow on the left, and a system tray on the right.
I'm guessing there's something rather obvious I'm overlooking here, but I've been through the config menu, the panel menu, and widget menu with no luck yet. Any hints are appreciated !
I think that you want is the "task Manager". There is a "settings" that goes with it you can play with but the defaults are probably what you want. Do you have the "Pager" there as well? -- Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious,and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that once ignorance is put aside that wonderment would be taken away which is the only means by which their authority is preserved. --Spinoza -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Yes. It was the "task manager", thanks - I think I've got all my "widgets" back in order; and yest I did manage to find the "pager". Now if I can just save the resolution config! Thanks, Regis On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 18:33 -0500, Anton Aylward wrote:
Regis Matejcik said the following on 03/04/2010 06:19 PM:
[...].
I figured out how to install a new panel, which was completely empty.
:-)
I added back all the "widgets" I wanted, but the panel no longer shows the running programs. That is, if I minimize anything, it doesn't show up down in the panel where it can then be maximized. It just minimizes to nothing.
In other words, I've got just blank space in he panel between a start arrow on the left, and a system tray on the right.
I'm guessing there's something rather obvious I'm overlooking here, but I've been through the config menu, the panel menu, and widget menu with no luck yet. Any hints are appreciated !
I think that you want is the "task Manager". There is a "settings" that goes with it you can play with but the defaults are probably what you want.
Do you have the "Pager" there as well?
-- Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious,and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that once ignorance is put aside that wonderment would be taken away which is the only means by which their authority is preserved. --Spinoza
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2010. március 5. 0:54 napon Regis Matejcik <rm@crescentconstruction.com> írta:
Yes. It was the "task manager", thanks - I think I've got all my "widgets" back in order; and yest I did manage to find the "pager".
Now if I can just save the resolution config!
I guess this is because of that new systems does not have an xorg.conf file since they are clever enough to find out what resolution the user needs. If you start sax2 in a terminal window you should be able to configure the screen according to your needs and sax2 creates and saves an xorg.conf file, I think. After this X should use the settings defined in the xorg.conf file. Please write if this helps or not. Cheers, Istvan ps: there is thread on this at http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-11/msg01342.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Freitag, 5. März 2010 00:19:20 schrieb Regis Matejcik:
The system always defaults to 1024x768. I like to use 1152x864. I'm using an Nvidia GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 630a Graphics card. I can change the resolution easily enough using the Nvidia utility from the main menu, but it won't save the config file, so when I log out or restart - it always goes back to the old resolution. I've tried doing it as root, but it still re-writes the x config file to start with the larger resolution. This is a minor issue, but if there's a simple fix it would be great.
If your display is capable of that resolution you can use KDE's systemsettings
display to set a resolution.
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