Posts Tagged ‘KDE’

I like this feature

By chys on February 12th, 2010

It’s in the newly released KDE SC 4.4*. We can now “group” windows into one tabbed interface.

* It seems they have recently decided their product has grown from a “desktop environment” to a “software compilation”… It also seems they have decided that “KDE,” previously standing for “K Desktop Environment,” is now a name in its own right?

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Arrow keys not working in VMware

By chys on October 7th, 2008

Arrow keys (and also Ctrl, Win, etc.) don’t work in VMware if running in KDE. This should be an upstream bug.

Workaround: Add this line to ~/.vmware/config (create it if necessary) and restart VMware:

xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true

VMware will display a warning about keyboard layout. Simply ignore it.

Reference
http://www.ultimalinux.com/wiki/VMware#Function.2Farrow_keys.2C_etc._not_working

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Department Computers

By chys on September 30th, 2008

The department computer and network administrators are completely of the opposite kind of people from me. They installed everything I dislike, and almost nothing I like…

  • I dislike Ubuntu, but most of the so-called “Unix” machines are Ubuntu. (The rest are Solaris.)
  • I like bash (as most Unix-like users do these days, I bet…), but their default shell is tcsh. Perhaps this is a convention inherited from antediluvian days.
  • They have GNOME, Xfce, fvwm, Sawfish and Fluxbox installed. The only major DE/WM missing is KDE, which is my favorite.

The first time I tried to print something, it was sent to a printer in a lab 50 yards away, despite the fact that there was one only 2 yards from me. I needed to set the PRINTER environment variable so that lpr knew I wanted to use the printer in my office.

If I were using KDE, I would have finished this in 20 seconds, by catting a 2-line file to ~/.kde/env. But it took me 20 minutes to find its counterpart in GNOME, and then another 5 minutes to find out whether I should write the script ~/.gnomerc in Bourne Shell grammar or C Shell grammar. The answer is Bourne Shell grammar. Though the default shell is tcsh, ~/.gnomerc is always interpreted by /bin/sh, which is a symlink to dash (not bash) in Ubuntu and latest version of Debian… Humph…..

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