Here’s a quick how to on setting user x to auto login under KDE 4. You may want to do this if it’s your machine at home, or you really have no security reason to have a login screen.
If you didn’t set it at the installation screens you can easily set it up in systemsettings with the Login Manager module.
To do this first [ continue reading... ]

I know when people install KDE 4.4, they’ll be wondering “Where do I configure my Plasma Theme Now”.
This is mostly in part because it was moved from the “Desktop Settings” into systemsettings.
Here’s a little pictorial on changing it:
In the menu choose Configure Desktop (which is systemsettings via the command line)

In the General Tab double click on Appearance (hovering over it, will show you [ continue reading... ]

As I promised in an earlier blog entry, here are the steps to installing Xorg and KDE on Arch Linux.
I am making the assumption that you have just completed your installation of Arch Linux
When you boot up your machine, you’ll be brought into the login screen. Login as root.

The first thing you should do is sync all your pacman software lists. This is accomplished [ continue reading... ]

I decided to check out the different Windows Switching options in KDE 4, and decided I’d give a little preview of the 5 different methods which are:
No EffectBox SwitchPresent WindowsCover SwitchFlip Switch
I found my favorite to be “Cover Switch” for some unknown reason.
Here’s a screenshot of each one (Minus the No Effect):

These are configured in systemsettings under “Effects for window switching as shown [ continue reading... ]

If you follow my blog you’ll know that I’ve recently switched backed to KDE from GNOME, and I recently found a feature that I really have fallen in love with, when it comes to Dolphin usage.
The feature I will talk about today is Dolpin and Terminal Integration. First I must admit, I found this feature on accident as usually if I wanted to open [ continue reading... ]

If you haven’t heard by now the first bugfix release is out for the KDE 4.2 branch, here’s a snippit from kde.org:
March 4th, 2009. The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of “Cream”, (a.k.a KDE 4.2.1), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. Cream is a monthly update to KDE 4.2. It ships with [ continue reading... ]

So today was my first day starting off with KDE 4.2, but it came to a screeching halt this morning when I saw that my integration with GTK was horrible. (I had training today on some BMC software, and didn’t have the time to play with it until we got to break later in the day).
I first just looked for something with gtk and [ continue reading... ]

In some previous writings of mine, I kept harping on the dismissal of KDE 3.5 in the next release of openSUSE, openSUSE 11.2 (which will probably be due out in Q3 / Q4 of 2009). However, one thing I’ve always neglected to do was look at the bright side of the drop of main stream support for KDE 3.5.
First, I have to give [ continue reading... ]

As you may have read, openSUSE 11.1 was realeased and was shipped with KDE 4.1.2. I’ll go into my initial experience with 4.1.2, after I touch on a few changes since some of the older betas:
What’s changed since beta 1?
Major changes in this release include:
» Live CDs for x86 and GNOME and KDE
» OpenOffice.org 3.0
» Mono 2.0 Final
» Linux 2.6.27.1 (fixes e1000e issue)
» CUPS 1.3.9
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