I’ve been running KDE 4.0 with SUSE 11.0 on my laptop and I
had been running KDE 3.5 with SUSE 10.3 on my desktop until
my system disk crashed last week. I have since replaced the disk and installed 11.1 with KDE 4.0 on my desktop system.
There seem to be a number of differences (oddities) between
KDE 4.0/SUSE 11.1 and the previous combinations I’ve run:
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When I plug a USB disk into a port now, the “recently plugged”
devices window comes up. But if I don’t EXPLICITLY click on
the object in that window and open a dolphin window the disk is not mounted. Since I don’t really want to use the GUI window
this is a **** annoying way to have to mount the disk. I note
that with KDE 4.0 and SUSE 11.0 on my laptop the disk is
always automatically mounted. Is this a difference between
11.0 and 11.1? Can I change the way it’s behaving in 11.1? -
I sometimes want to use a different windowing system
(specifically FVWM). In previous versions (including on my
laptop), I had the option of changing windowing
systems between logins. That seems to be gone now? I see
that if I go to Configure Desktop → Default Applications →
Window Manager, I can make a change but the only two that
seem to be available are “Compiz” and “GNOME”. If this
procedure will actually switch windowing managers then
how do I add FVWM to the choices and most importantly, how
can I switch BACK to KDE once I’ve gone over to a different
windowing system if I no longer have a choice at login? -
I’m running two monitors (in Xinerama) on my desktop
system. KDE seems to be unaware of the second monitor. I can
drag windows into the second monitor, but KDE doesn’t
automatically put a background there, and if I drag a window
around on that monitor, the window “wipes” the default black
“background” and leaves a white “trail”. This did not happen
with KDE 3.5/SUSE 10.3 before my disk died.