From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 17 10:41:19 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 30064106566C for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:41:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net (relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net [212.159.7.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B0C88FC0A for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:41:18 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAIN4UktUXebi/2dsb2JhbADUH4QyBIV2 Received: from relay03.plus.net ([84.93.230.226]) by relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net with ESMTP; 17 Jan 2010 10:41:17 +0000 Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=curlew.milibyte.co.uk) by relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1NWSZI-0000Hg-UF; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:41:17 +0000 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NWSZI-0000m7-LW; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:41:16 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:41:16 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20100116000928.GA96431@thought.org> <201001161028.00121.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <20100117030531.GB816@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20100117030531.GB816@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201001171041.16475.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: 0965e20702254b6643343ca411e2f5f1 Cc: Gary Kline 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 10:41:19 -0000 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". > ---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. -- Mike Clarke