A compromise solution.

[Mani A]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Kaj Haulrich <kaj at haulrich.net> wrote:
>
> I tried several times to upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10: no go.
> Everything locked up.
> Then, fresh install: still no go, only the
> upper half of my screen was visible. After some fiddling with
> X.org.conf I got a full screen and began to use KDE4. Then I
> discovered - like many others here - that I had lost a lot of
> functionality, especially Konqueror, but lots of other things too,
> like all the options to customize my desktop easily.

You should have used the alternate CD. Konqueror is fine and it is
easy to make it the default file manager. Dolphin is quite dumb.
Simply putting in a new xorg file works fine.

One needs to read the KDE-4+ system administration documentation to
configure kde-4+. The help documentation is not in sync too.

>
> OK, i gave up. Here's what I did in order to get happy again:
>
> Fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10. Well, no decent file manager here
why this?

adept or apt-get could have done that for you


Best

A. Mani


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