Hi
I’ve got 11.3 64-bit and use KDE. I have an irritating propblem in that my main desktop (with my icons, taskbar etc) is shown on my external monitor and not my laptop screen. I can’t see any way of swapping them round.
The system works fine without the external monitor.
I also have an issue with my printer - every time I log in, the printer software runs as root, requiring me to give it a password every time. How do I change this?
Hello could you send a picture to see?
Have you check your BIOS settings? And, any external wiring?
In addition, for printer please make sure you add:
to your user groups via Yast → Security and Users → User and Group Management
Cheers!
Romanator
Whats the printer driver? Samsung?
On 04/01/2011 02:36 AM, aescott wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I’ve got 11.3 64-bit and use KDE. I have an irritating propblem in that
> my main desktop (with my icons, taskbar etc) is shown on my external
> monitor and not my laptop screen. I can’t see any way of swapping them
> round.
>
> The system works fine without the external monitor.
>
> I also have an issue with my printer - every time I log in, the printer
> software runs as root, requiring me to give it a password every time.
> How do I change this?
>
>
Go into Systems Settings, Display and play w/the Position pulldown. You
should be able to swap them around. On my two monitor desktop box at
work I was able to do that.
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Kevin Miller - http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska
In a recent survey, 7 out of 10 hard drives preferred Linux
Registered Linux User No: 307357, http://counter.li.org
I’ve got 11.3 64-bit and use KDE. I have an irritating propblem in that my main desktop (with my icons, taskbar etc) is shown on my external monitor and not my laptop screen. I can’t see any way of swapping them round.
Further to what atftb mentioned concerning System Settings, you will need to make this config every time you login to KDE (unless you upgrade to KDE4.6, as I have done). With KDE4.6, you can make the changes, then ‘Save as Default’ to preserve the settings between sessions. I strongly suggest upgrading to KDE4.6.X (with some simple repo changes and updating via yast or zypper).
For printing (as user), make sure your user account is a member of the ‘lp’ group.
KDE 4.6 broke my system when I went to openSUSE 11.4, whilst Gnome was fine - and I mean REALLY broke the system, to the extent that it looked like the hard disk/motherboard was fried. Don’t think I want to go down that route again.
Have a read of this thread. It discusses how to make use of xrandr within a script, so that your preferred dual screen config is executed on login.
Another on the same topic:
On 04/01/2011 10:06 PM, deano ferrari wrote:
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> Further to what atftb mentioned concerning System Settings, you will
> need to make this config every time you login to KDE (unless you upgrade
> to KDE4.6, as I have done). With KDE4.6, you can make the changes, then
> ‘Save as Default’ to preserve the settings between sessions. I strongly
> suggest upgrading to KDE4.6.X (with some simple repo changes and
> updating via yast or zypper).
My work box is KDE 4.5 and has the “make default” button. It’s running
Debian but since we’re talking KDE I’d expect that would also be the
case in openSUSE. Not sure about 4.4…
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Kevin Miller - http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska
In a recent survey, 7 out of 10 hard drives preferred Linux
Registered Linux User No: 307357, http://counter.li.org
My work box is KDE 4.5 and has the “make default” button. It’s running
Debian but since we’re talking KDE I’d expect that would also be the
case in openSUSE. Not sure about 4.4…
Yes, but I don’t think it was persistent (survived a reboot) back then. They made some changes (circa KDE4.6) due to this KDE bug report.
Yes, it is.
On 04/02/2011 11:36 AM, deano ferrari wrote:
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>> My work box is KDE 4.5 and has the “make default” button. It’s running
>> Debian but since we’re talking KDE I’d expect that would also be the
>> case in openSUSE. Not sure about 4.4…
> Yes, but I don’t think it was persistent (survived a reboot) back then.
> They made some changes (circa KDE4.6) due to this ‘KDE bug report.’
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183143)
It’s persistent on my Debian box - I turn it off at the end of the day.
The bug report is for 4.2…
–
Kevin Miller - http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska
In a recent survey, 7 out of 10 hard drives preferred Linux
Registered Linux User No: 307357, http://counter.li.org
I suppose you’re using the proprietary driver from samsung. If it is like mine, It sets the smartpanel app to start in two places, one as a normal user and another as root. You don’t really need this app on all the time, usually only when you want to check ink/toner level. It’s not the printer driver, just an information app.
If you remove the startup scripts it won’t start anymore, and you still can call it from the menu.
For scripts locations see here.