KDE is open-source, and is based on the qt toolkit. KDE originally stood for K Desktop Environment, but has since been rebranded as just KDE. Competes with gnome.
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Remove icons from KDE task manager
How do I remove these icons from KDE's task manager?
I am using KDE 4.8 on Arch Linux, I've looked everywhere but I cannot for the life of me find out how to remove them
Thanks
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How to disable new KDE 4.8 Present Windows kwin plugin animation/style
After an upgrade from 4.7 to 4.8 the Present Windows Kwin effect when activated makes the inactive windows darker and on mouse hover it zooms the windows.
I would like to disable the darker windows ...
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KDE 4.7.2 - Change order of open windows in task manager?
I am using KDE 4.7.2 at the moment. I'm used to move the windows in the task manager by drag and drop. In earlier KDE versions this worked. But somehow it won't work now and I didn't find a solotion ...
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Can't get my monitor setup to stick with PCLinux OS
I'm using PCLinuxOS, which uses the KDE windows manager. I have to reconfigure my dual monitors every time I restart my system. I used the configuration utility to change the enable the second monitor ...
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How do I install KDE nepomuk playground?
I'm particularly interested in using the fancybookmarking konqueror plugin of KDE nepomuk playground. I tried installing it in the standard way (giving the install prefix as /usr), then quitting and ...
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Konsole font truncation - only with consolas
When I use Consolas (of any size) as my terminal font, any pixels which hang below the line (such as the tail of a y) get truncated. Look at the second line in the screenshot below. Notice that the ...
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Dynamic Power Management (dpms) re-enables when (un)plugging laptop (How to make xset stick/persistent)
While watching video (vlc) on battery power, my screen had always blanked after 5 minutes.
I have fixed this by executing "xset -dpms s off".
However, unplugging/replugging my laptop always re-enables ...
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System crashes with graphical corruption - Linux, NVIDIA
I'm running Arch Linux with the latest stuff (3.1.4-1-ARCH x86_64). I'm using KDE. My graphics card is an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295.
Today I rebooted the system and it came up to a text prompt instead ...
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Installed KDE in Ubuntu, removed lightdm, cannot boot
I installed KDE in Ubuntu 11.10, which in turn added lightgdm. I then decided I did not like lightdm and apt-get removed it (maybe purged? cannot remember). Now I cannot boot (stalls at Booting ...
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KDE long startup Ubuntu 11.10
Just installed KDE on Ubuntu 11.10 and for some reason it takes forever to startup (with system Networking and Drive checks, which are annoying). Ubuntu normally starts up in 20s... how can I shorten ...
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How to set gnome-screensaver to run on startup for all users?
I disabled the kde screeensaver and installed gnome-screensaver. The gnome-screensaver only works if I start it using gnome-screensaver-command.
Is there a way to set this to run from startup for ...
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Autostart with KDE Device Notifier
I want to automatically start a program when a new device is connected. I can create an action in the Device Notifier that I can click to start as soon as the new device is connected, but is there a ...
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Autostart on USB-Stick connect - Kubuntu
I am currently using a portable version of Keepass on my USB Stick. Now I am searching for a way to automatically start that when I connect my USB Stick to my machine.
The Stick already gets ...
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How do I stop KDE from dimming the screen while mplayer is fullscreen?
Whenever KDE (I think) detects no mouse or keyboard activity for a while, it dims my laptop screen, then turns it off. I don't want that when I'm watching a movie.
Is there a setting somewhere to ...
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KDE - connect “switch to application” action with start application
I'm using shortcuts assignable to applications in KDE. What I need is this:
When key to certain application is pressed switch to application. In case application does not exist, start it and then ...
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KDE - move app window between monitors via keyboard
I'm looking for an utility that would move application window between multiple monitors in KDE.
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Application switcher for KDE
I'm searching for application switcher for KDE - something that allows me to type in partial name of window (title).
Is there anything like that? For windows there is nice utility - Switcher.
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How to open local files for diffing in Kompare from command line?
When I use meld to obtain visual diff, I can merely run this from the command line:
$ meld file1.txt file2.txt
... and meld starts, loads each file in a separate subwindow, and shows the ...
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Missing battery icon in system tray in KDE
I've just installed arch linux on my laptop. Now i miss the battery icon on system tray. I can't google the anything that would help me.
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KDE shared desktop is graphically slanted
Connecting from a Fedora 15 machine to a Fedora 15 machine, both running KDE, the remote machine running krfb and running krdc on the local machine, I connect to the remote machine over an ssh tunnel ...
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Make a plasmoid cover the whole screen
I'd like my KDE4 desktop to be filled with nothing but a view of the Desktop files, like the KDE3 one (or really, any other desktop). How can I resize the Desktop folder view plasmoid to take up the ...
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KDE: Assigning hotkeys to switch to specific running programs
I have some programs always running, such as my main terminal, browser and so on. Is there a way to assign a hotkey that lets me switch to a specific running program?
Using Kubuntu (11.10).
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font anti-aliasing not working as expected
it seems that my linux has problems with anti-aliasing fonts. As you can see in the picture the labels of the menu items are slightly pixelated.
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On another system with exactly the same font ...
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How to config root kde same as user?
Eclipse looks completely different when run under root compared to my user.
It's like kde wasn't setup for root upon installation.
I'm running Suse 9.3 Pro.
How do I configure root kde so that ...
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How can I run Gnome or KDE locally in Cygwin?
Apparently it is possible to do this using cygwin ports, as can be seen in screenshots. I followed this how-to to get apt-cygports set up, and I used it to install gnome-session.
This how-to ...
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How can I achieve the opposite of kde-open?
Is there any way to achieve the opposite of what kde-open does in KDE? I mean, I want to be able to open files using emacs inside the terminal, instead of using the X version of emacs. I already run ...
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In KDE, stop virtual desktop changing when I click on the desktop
I'm new to KDE and am running KDE 4.7.1 on top of Arch Linux. It's fantastic however I have one problem - virtual desktops. Yeah I know there are those "activities" things which people say replace ...
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KDE auto-shrinks windows?
I have been beating my head against the wall and my Google-fu is failing me.
I tried Ubuntu 11.10 and saw Gnome 3. It's horrid. So I thought I'd give KDE4 a shot.
My only complaint after a few ...
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I installed kde libraries on gnome, my fonts are changed, I cannot rewind
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I have installed kde libraries for using/testing a software. (kdelibs4c2a kdelibs-bin)After that, I have removed all the things I have installed using apt-get uninstall ...
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spell checking in windows kile is poor?
I am using Kile for windows (from KDE windows), but the spell checking is poor. Some very basic word like "bibliography" and "automatically" is be identified as problematic. Do I miss something or do ...
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How to use quadkonsole in Fedora with gnome3?
quadkonsole is an application which requires KDE. Now I'm in Fedora 15 with gnome. When I ./configure it, it reports:
checking for kde-config... not found
configure: error: The important program ...
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Can't start any kde program - hang at connect(AF_FILE, “/tmp/fam-username-”)
In my kde 3.5 session I can't start any kde application (kate, kmail, kwrite, ...). I click on it but it will not start.
If I'll run strace kwrite from console; the very last line will be
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Desktop fakes after resizing console
When I resize a Console window my PC hangs. Do you have any idea what could be causing this? I found that compositing will cause this but I don't want to disable compositing. Please help me. Here ...
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kioexec with multiple files
We have two environments here at work, and I access the remote machine over ssh. I can do this:
kioexec myeditor fish://me@remotemachine/path/to/file.txt
But I'd like to be able to do a diff ...
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How to restore panels in KDE?
I accidently removed all panels (upper and bottom).
I use OpenSuse with KDE 3.5.
How can I restore them?
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KDE missing menu (red cross)
As I've said on Tuesday, the last VirtualBox crash corrupted anything related to X11.
After two days and reinstalling nearly all libraries I could got the KDM/GDM working, but the is still one thing ...
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--caption parameter used in KDE in Kubuntu 11.04
I right now installed Konquest in Kubuntu 11.04 and I noticed the item konquest --caption "%c" in Application Launcher.
Why is the caption overridden using --caption instead of taking the default ...
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Linux clear console [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Bash: Reset and Clear Commands
I know about Linux command clear, but it just moves previous output from visible part of terminal window (KDE Konsole). I can still scroll ...
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How to hide back up files (xxxxx~)
In KDE, it always displays the backup files with ~.
Is there any method to hide these files?
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KDE taskbar widget showing up in the middle of my screen
Suddenly, my widgets seem to be showing up in the middle of my screen. My calendar and everything else. Here are some screenshots:
I've restarted my computer several times and restarted X a couple ...
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Run a program independently of console [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I detach a process from Terminal, entirely?
I'm using CentOs with KDE. I want to run, for example, kedit via console. But when I close the console, kedit closes ...
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How to disable top left hotspot corner KDE
I'm using KDE 4.7 (from the testing repo) on Arch Linux 3.0-ARCH, and it's very annoying that when I move my mouse to the top left, thumbnails of my windows appear—this is espically annoying which ...
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Installed KDE, now GNOME has kde default cursor
I installed KDE over my Ubuntu 10.04 installation. Now when I log into GNOME I get the KDE default cursor instead of the usual one. It's a minor issue but one I'd like to deal with especially since ...
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How to get Alt-nnnn keyboard shortcuts to work under Linux?
A few weeks ago, I switched from Windows to Linux, and one thing I'm missing is Altnnnn keyboard shortcuts to insert an em dash and other things. Is there any way to get them working under Linux? I'm ...
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How to get font smoothing to work in Firefox under Linux?
I'm using Arch Linux with KDE 4.6 and Firefox 5.0, and I had to install a GTK+ theme to make apps like Firefox look nicer.
Now, I have another problem—Firefox doesn't use font smoothing on sites, ...
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The power button doesn't work when a KDE session is locked
I've configured (System settings - Power management) the power button to hibernate the system.
This doesn't work when the session is locked (Ctrl + Alt + L).
Is there a way to change that?
I'm on ...
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How to stop “distribution upgrade available” messages with KPackagetKit/Fedora
Is there any way to disable the "distribution upgrade available" messages in KPackageKit without disabling all update notices?
I'm using Fedora 13 at the moment, matching a server install, and don't ...
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KDE4 - possible to mount flash disks etc. on the desktop like in KDE3?
my grandfather uses a linux machine for web browsing, emails etc. So he mostly uses Firefox, Thunderbird and sometimes also Skype and now he has also Jabber account. Currently there is Pclinuxos 2009 ...
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How can I make a “Go to Desktop” keyboard shortcut in kubuntu?
I had a look in Settings->System settings->Common appearance and behaviour->Shortcuts and Gestures->Standard Keyboard Shortcuts but I didn't see an option to reach the desktop (nor to minimize every ...
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Cannot set up dual monitors correctly in Fedora15 with KDE
I have 2 monitors:
24" LCD connected via DVI(primary)
19" LCD connected via VGA(secondary)
Everytime Fedora starts the second display is always set to clone the first one and they both run at ...
