Alt-F2

Leonard Chatagnier lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
Fri Nov 7 22:04:33 UTC 2008


--- On Fri, 11/7/08, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Alt-F2
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 3:31 PM
> On 11/07/2008 01:12 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > --- On Fri, 11/7/08, NoOp <> wrote:
> 
> >> Well, I loaded it up on the T30 that runs compiz
> just fine in
> >> Gnome. But not exactly sure if it's running
> compiz correctly in 
> >> kde4 - I can't seem to get the desktops to
> cube & rotate etc.
> >> Turned on the desktop effects in the kde4 menu,
> but those seem
> >> pretty limited compared to full compiz. In any
> event, Alt-F2 is
> >> working.
> >> 
> >> 
> > Can't really comment intelligently as I'm not
> that familiar with
> > Compiz. I had just installed it for a few days and
> enabled Desktop
> > Effects recently also. All I know is that going back
> to the first
> > radio button in Desktop Effects and purging all Compiz
> simply got
> > ALT-F2 working again. All this happened after I quit
> playing around
> > with nvidia restricted drivers after getting a stable
> native
> > resolution of 1680x1050.
> 
> Well... I resolved the issue by logging back into Gnome
> & then adding
> the KDE4 desktop background... Now it looks as pretty as
> KDE4, but
> everything now actually works properly using Gnome -
> including being
> able to drag & drop panel tabs :-)
> 
Great. I have been considering loading the gnome desktop background themes on my kde4.1 to get more themes to choose from.  Suppose I can do that without messing up kde4 on Hardy?

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net






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