kde from synaptic

[patrickfreen]

I installed kdebase, kdegraphics and kdeutils from synaptic, all good but I can't seem to find a way to adjust the screen resolution in a kde session.

[nick]

It is in Settings/Control Centre/Peripherals in all KDE systems I have used, but, it seems to be missing!!!
I used apt-get install kde
Nick

[900i]

I thought it was "apt-get install kubuntu-desktop" to get the KDE variant.

[nick]

Hi
To get the 'display' dialog back, edit:
Code:
kdesu kate /usr/share/applications/kde/display.desktop
change:
NoDisplay=true
to
#NoDisplay=true
(NoDisplay=false should do it as well)

Now you can get to display settings in kcontrol (under Peripherals) in Settings/Control Centre/Peripherals
Log out , restart desktop

Or you can type krandrtray (assuming you have it installed.)

Do not do it while you have Beryl running!

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.p ... 7#msg17167

I used apt-get install kde because you seem to get a more functional KDE desktop, with that command. When I have installed Kubuntu it (as Kubuntu, it has seemed a poor version of KDE (at least in my opinion ), that was under Dapper.
Kind Regards - Nick

[scorp123]

I thought it was "apt-get install kubuntu-desktop" to get the KDE variant.

Hmmm ... I searched synaptic for kde and then installed what I considered being relevant for getting a nice KDE environment. "kubuntu-desktop" tries to replace GNOME's gdm with KDE's kdm, and I personally didn't want to go that far, besides that my GDM is now so nicely themed

In my opinion you can feed this list of packages to "apt-get install" (feel free to include the additional packages it suggests) and you get a very nice KDE environment without replacing anything else:

Code: Select all

k3b
k3b-i18n
k3blibs
k9copy
kaboodle
kaddressbook
kaddressbook-plugins
kaffeine
kappfinder
karbon
kate
kate-plugins
kcalc
kcharselect
kchmviewer
kchmviewer-nokde
kcontrol
kcron
kde
kdeaccessibility
kdeaddons
kdeadmin
kde-amusements
kdeartwork
kdebase
kdebluetooth
kde-core
kde-devel
kde-devel-extras
kde-extras
kdegames
kdegraphics
kde-icons-crystal
kde-icons-crystalclear
kde-icons-gorilla
kde-icons-korilla
kde-icons-mono
kde-icons-noia
kde-icons-nuovext
kde-icons-nuvola
kdelibs
kdemultimedia
kdemultimedia-dev
kdenetwork
kdenetwork-dev
kdenetwork-filesharing
kdenetwork-kfile-plugins
kdepim
kdeprint
kdesktop
kdessh
kde-style-comix
kde-style-klearlook
kde-style-lipstik
kde-style-polyester
kde-systemsettings
kdetoys
kdeutils
kdewallpapers
kdewebdev
kdirstat
filelight
kfax
kfaxview
khelpcenter
kmplayer
koffice
konsole
kopete
kppp
krfb
krita
krusader
ktorrent
kview
kwave
kwifimanager
kwin
kwin-baghira
kwin-decor-baghira
kwin-style-alphacube
kwin-style-baghira
kwin-style-blended
kwin-style-comix
kwin-style-crystal
kwin-style-powder
kwin-style-suse2
kxmleditor

I could have probably shortened this list far more; lots of this stuff gets auto-selected anyway via apt's dependency resolver.

Regards,
Scorp123

[patrickfreen]

nick - started to follow your advice but could not save, how do I get write permission to save - thanks.

[nick]

Hi
Not sure why you cannot save,
Try
sudo kate /usr/share/applications/kde/display.desktop

Then edit file by changing

NoDisplay=true
to
#NoDisplay=true

Then click on File/Save As/
It should say "Display Desktop" then click on save, when it asks "Overwrite" click on Overwrite.

Did you try opening console and typing
krandrtray
This also should produce a small "screen size and rotate" icon in bottom panel

This is why I stated I had installed KDE and not Kubuntu as there seem to be some things missing in Kubuntu
BTW I was stuck with wrong resolution and refresh rate until I installed Nvidia Driver
Kind Regards - Nick

[npap]

I installed kdebase, kdegraphics and kdeutils from synaptic, all good but I can't seem to find a way to adjust the screen resolution in a kde session.

Hi there patrickfreen,
I too installed KDE from Synaptic following your scheme. I think this is a minimal, fast and sufficient installation.
Now I can add to it stuff suggested in the Scorp123 list, according to my needs.
I also installed KDE in Bea on another disk that I use for testing, by ' sudo apt-get install kde'.
This is even better than installing the Kubuntu-desktop, which is mostly Edgy stuff.
As a matter of fact, the plain KDE installation, I found out, contains more packages than Kubuntu.

I recovered the missing Screen Resolution option in Peripherals by following nick's procedure:

nick

Quote:
To get the 'display' dialog back, edit:
Code:
kdesu kate /usr/share/applications/kde/display.desktop
change:
NoDisplay=true
to
#NoDisplay=true
(NoDisplay=false should do it as well)

Now you can get to display settings in kcontrol (under Peripherals) in Settings/Control Centre/Peripherals
Log out , restart desktop

Regards, npap

[Openxworld]

Just a question which remainin unanswered :

can we have kde,gnome and xfce installed at the same with Linux Mint Bea.

My wish is to choose one of these session when I log in

Thanks for your support

[clem]

Yes.

[yoz-y]

by default it works precisely like that, you just install whatever desktop environment you want and it will be added into a list of session possibilities in kdm/gdm

[stafio]

The package kde-guidance contains a program to configure your display.

sudo apt-get install kde-guidance

(or via synaptic)