Comments on: Fedora 9 and KDE 4 http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/2008/09/25/fedora-9-and-kde-4/ Handy hints and techy tips from Dr Jan. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:13:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: drjan http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/2008/09/25/fedora-9-and-kde-4/#comment-1526 drjan Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:30:12 +0000 http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/?p=48#comment-1526 UPDATE: I've pretty much given Gnome up in favour of XFCE4.4. It's a light-weight, fast window manager, and it copes with dual screens just fine. And it maximises windows the same way that KDE does, which is extremely gratifying. The maximise button will maximise a window to full screen size if you click your primary mouse button on it. If you use the secondary button it will make the window as wide as it can, but keep the same height. If you use the middle mouse button, the window will be as tall as it can, but keep the original width (useful for terminal sessions). So, it looks like I'll be with XFCE until KDE gets sorted out. UPDATE: I’ve pretty much given Gnome up in favour of XFCE4.4. It’s a light-weight, fast window manager, and it copes with dual screens just fine. And it maximises windows the same way that KDE does, which is extremely gratifying.

The maximise button will maximise a window to full screen size if you click your primary mouse button on it. If you use the secondary button it will make the window as wide as it can, but keep the same height. If you use the middle mouse button, the window will be as tall as it can, but keep the original width (useful for terminal sessions).

So, it looks like I’ll be with XFCE until KDE gets sorted out.

]]> By: drjan http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/2008/09/25/fedora-9-and-kde-4/#comment-1523 drjan Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:33:32 +0000 http://www.dr-jan.com/tips/?p=48#comment-1523 UPDATE: I installed Fedora 9 and KDE 4 on my new work machine. Unfortunately, support for dual-screen configurations is broken in KDE 4.1. So, I'm having to struggle personfully on with GNOME instead for the moment. With a bit of work I was able to get GNOME to look like KDE. My main gripes so far are no fuzzy clock and the terminal application limits the amount of scrollback buffer. OK, the limit is about 100,000 lines or something equally off the scale, but with Konsole you can select unlimited scrollback, and it will page the scrollback buffer out to disk when necessary. Normally the amount of scrollback is not too important, but when you need it, you really do need it :-) UPDATE: I installed Fedora 9 and KDE 4 on my new work machine. Unfortunately, support for dual-screen configurations is broken in KDE 4.1. So, I’m having to struggle personfully on with GNOME instead for the moment. With a bit of work I was able to get GNOME to look like KDE. My main gripes so far are no fuzzy clock and the terminal application limits the amount of scrollback buffer. OK, the limit is about 100,000 lines or something equally off the scale, but with Konsole you can select unlimited scrollback, and it will page the scrollback buffer out to disk when necessary. Normally the amount of scrollback is not too important, but when you need it, you really do need it :-)

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