Just installed 12.1 (new install to / with old /home partition retained,) and find that the Application Launcher when opened has left edge off screen. Tried unlocking widgets and dragging but no success. How may I move it so I can see all of window please?
Budgie2
Try setting your screen resolution. start > Configure Desktop > Harware > Display and Monitor > change the size setting.
On 01/03/2012 11:26 AM, Budgie2 wrote:
> old /home partition
> retained,) and find that the Application Launcher when opened has left
> edge off screen.
those kinds of settings are stored in config files in the user’s home…
and, for that reason if you have a broken system and try to ‘fix’ it by
reinstalling you will most often find the system remains broken if you
drag in the broken configs of previous installs (that is, if you retain
the old /home)…
that is especially true if you (for example) switch distributions,
operating system versions, desktop environments or desktop environment
versions…
probably, if you use YaST to add a new test user, then log out and back
in as the new test user you will find the application launcher would
then be as expected…and, the reason would be that the freshly
generated (default) configure files for your desktop in /home/newUser/.*
avoided the problems in /home/[you]/.*
since you didn’t declare which desktop you are using i can’t specify
which: /home/newUser/.kde3, /home/newUser/.kde4, /home/newUser/.gnome2,
etc, etc, etc,
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Thanks for that but where exactly is Configure Desktop. I have no menu item of that description!
Second point is that everything else is as it should be so why would I want to change the size?
Further details would be appreciated.
Regards,
Budgie2
Hi, sorry I am using openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) with KDE: 4.7.2 (4.7.2) “release 5.” Have created new user and will try as soon as current large downloading job has been completed. Many thanks.
Meanwhile, a follow up question. I have a few programs installed as my existing ID. If I switch to new user, how can I get all my existing work transferred? Alternatively can I edit my existing setup to get it right?
Will report back when I have tried user.
Regards and many thanks,
Budgie2
ARE YOU USING KDE4?
Sorry for shouting but you are ignoring this question.
If you have changed from an earlier version of KDE4 you might be missing the “back” column at th left of the Kickoff launcher. This has been deprecated, and replaced with a “breadcrumb trail” at the top of the application list, just below the search box. If that is not what you mean, you will need to explain more clearly and perhaps include a partial screenshot.
What happens if you set your monitor to the factory default settings?
On update the same has occurred on this 64bit OS.
Screen could not be aligned with openSUSE controls.
The above solved the problem.
Hi and yes you are correct, the back column was what I was looking for. I guess it is the KDE team who say it is to be deprecated but why I have no idea. Much better than present offering. Anyhow thanks.
Budgie2
Hi DenverD,
First issue was the missing back tab and this has been answered by somebody else in this thread.
However I did set up a new_user and you are correct, I get a completely different picture. Will take some getting used to but I think I should adopt the new id from now on. Please could you guide me through what and how to migrate my files etc and then get rid of old ID and change new_user to become my original ID.
Grateful for any help you can give.
Regards,
Budgie2
If you just want to use the new default screen settings/look while keeping your existing documents, mail settings, etc., try moving the configuration files. They will be replaced by the system defaults at next login.
mv ~/.kde4/share/config/ ~/old-.kde4-share-config
If you are using Kontact/KDE-PIM components recovering those settings is a bit more complex.
On 01/08/2012 04:16 AM, eng-int wrote:
>
> If you just want to use the new default screen settings/look while
> keeping your existing . . .
>
> mv ~/.kde4/share/config/ ~/old-.kde4-share-config
>
> If you are using Kontact/KDE-PIM components recovering those settings
> is a bit more complex.
@Budgie2,
@eng-int is correct! if you like the default look (which is what you
get when you add a new user) then just go back to your original home
(the one which you do not like the looks of, BUT has all your stuff)
and rename (with the mv command) your kde4 config file…when you do
that, the next time you log in, KDE will look for the config, and not
finding it will build a new, default config for you (exactly like the
one in the test user you created)–and job done!
HOWEVER: i do not use any of the PIM stuff and therefore have no idea
what would be required to keep that stuff while you get the looks like
you want…and, YOU need to carefully weigh what is most important to
you, the way it looks or what it does for you! that is, if the PIM
stuff is very important to you, then . . . then, move carefully…
AND: if you don’t really like the command line, you can open Dolphin,
nav to ~/.kde4/share/config/ and just rename it personally, i would
rename it as ~/.kde4/share/config.BAK/ because that way the old and the
new config directory will lie next to each other in the tree…if it is
moved way down to old-config you might never find it again (if you need
to get something out of there for later use)…
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Hi Denver,
Renaming the config folder to config.BAK would probably work, but in the past I have renamed files in .kde4 and found that the system found and used them anyway. This was a headache when I was trying to disentangle failed PIM migrations.
Address book, Mail, etc. data should be OK in …/share/apps rather than …/share/config. The complexity comes if this old home directory had a pre-4.7 KDE and the PIM stuff has not migrated correctly.
On 01/08/2012 08:56 AM, eng-int wrote:
> in the past I have renamed files in .kde4 and found that the system found and used them anyway.
oh wow, that sounds scary…i’ve not seen that…yet…
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