Archive for the ‘KDE’ Category

• NumLock On After KDE 4 Startup

  Date: 2010.02.20 | Category: KDE, Linux, Tech Stuff | Response: 2

  Weird that this isn’t a standard configuration setting, and very weird that you need to install extra software to enable you to do this. Anyway, here’s how:

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  sudo apt-get install numlockx

  or “emerge” or “urpmi” or “yum-yum” or whatever’s your flavor

  Then, in system settings, go to Autostart, click Add Script, and in the dialog window type in the path to the numlockx program, probably /usr/bin/numlockx

  That’s it It’s not a toggle thing, so a subsequent login won’t turn it off again

• KDE 4: “Do Not Allow This Program to Be Grouped” – WTF?

  Date: 2009.03.31 | Category: KDE, Linux, Tech Stuff | Response: 2

  Oh, so you’ve come here for a solution, have you? A solution to the ever-grouping taskbar items in KDE4? To the fact that seemingly the new plasmoid-based taskbar has no short or long term memory?

  People ask this question a lot on the net, “How do I avoid programs grouping on the task bar?”. And, apparently, they always seem get the answer, “Right-click the program on the task bar, select ‘Do Not Allow This Program to Be Grouped’”.

  Yeah… That’s great… I mean, it would be, if this actually survived a logout. Don’t you agree?

  Well, mate, I’m sorry, I don’t have the answer! But if you find out, please come back here and post what you found! You might think of this post as a sort of reversed tip. I tease you, you bring the solution. Sorry But, if you find the answer, you might help someone else, too, so please do so!