From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 17 23:53:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C83E5106566C for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:53:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 804498FC13 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:53:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0HNrDhV080455; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:53:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:53:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:53:13 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Mike Clarke Message-ID: <20100117235313.GA6790@thought.org> References: <20100116000928.GA96431@thought.org> <201001161028.00121.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <20100117030531.GB816@thought.org> <201001171041.16475.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201001171041.16475.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ethic.thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OOo question..... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:53:18 -0000 On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:41:16AM +0000, Mike Clarke wrote: > On Sunday 17 January 2010, Gary Kline wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:27:59AM +0000, Mike Clarke wrote: > > > On Saturday 16 January 2010, Gary Kline wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > Second q is howto use them for my desktop backgrounds in KDE > > > > since, upon rebuild and relaunch, everything is black. the > > > > first question is howto save a separate image? or are there > > > > other tools to do this? [neither xv nor gv work] > > > > > > Right click on a blank piece of the KDE desktop and select > > > "Configure Desktop". This should open with the "Change the > > > background settings" icon highlighted. In the "Background" section > > > click the "Picture" radio button and click the folder icon on the > > > right to browse to your selected image. > > > > (Several hours later). > > > > I found the place and added three 'wallpapers'; they haven't > > appeared. Probably will after I've rebooted. > > The new wallpaper should appear immediately after you click on "OK" > or "Apply". hmmm. nope, nada. I can work without pretty pix on my workspaces :-) > > > ---I see that my newest KDE is 3.5.10. > > That's what I'm using. > > > Sometime this year I'll try KDE4 again.-- > > When I upgraded to FreeBSD 8.0 about a month ago I let sysinstall put > KDE4 on me. Big mistake [1]. I disliked it intensely and, after a few > days trying to come to terms with it, I reverted back to 3.5.10. YMMV > but for me it was just too clumsy and bloated with a lot of new > superfluous eye candy and lacked some simple and useful features that > I'd become accustomed to. Given time perhaps I could have configured it > to my liking but I couldn't see it offering anything useful that I > didn't already have with 3.5 so it didn't seem worth the effort of > continuing with it. > > [1] I suspect that my badly managed effort of deinstalling all of KDE4 > and installing KDE3 was the main cause of the problems described in my > recent thread "Problems building en-openoffice.org-GB-3.1.1 from ports" > > which resulted in me having to remove and reinstall all my ports. > Thanks for your input. I had similar problems with rel 4; plus some things simply quit working. I'll hold off awhile yet. > -- > Mike Clarke -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php