KDE4 workspaces

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Friday, February 22nd 2008, 11:14pm

I am having trouble creating multiple workspaces like the ones shown in:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/scr…desktopgrid.jpg

Does this work yet? I have KDE 4.01 from the OpenSuSE Live CD. It is installed on a disk...not running from CD.

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Woeforce

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Monday, February 25th 2008, 10:58am

RE: KDE4 workspaces

If you need to create more workspaces you can right click on the "Pager" AKA Workspace thing then open "Configure Desktops" and from there add some workspaces. Right now I do not think there is a way to get to that configuration panel from the control panel.

The effect in this image is one of the new compositing effects for KWin in case you did not know. Be aware that the compositing sometimes does not work on some systems, hopefully it will for you. To enable it goto System settings, Desktop, then enable "Enable Desktop Effects." The effect should be on if "Improved window management" is enabled. After that to use the effect hit Ctrl+F8.

O_o

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khess

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Monday, February 25th 2008, 2:50pm

RE: KDE4 workspaces

Doesn't work for me. I have the default 4 workspaces from the pager but the options under Desktop are grayed out but all options are checked. Ctrl-F8 has no effect. I will keep getting updates...thanks.

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Woeforce

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Monday, February 25th 2008, 9:35pm

RE: KDE4 workspaces

Hmm... The options are grayed out when "Enable Desktop Effects" is disabled. "Enable Desktop Effects" is on right?

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khess

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Monday, February 25th 2008, 9:40pm

RE: KDE4 workspaces

No, it isn't checked but all the other three are. I am attaching a screenshot.

khess has attached the following image:

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Woeforce

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Monday, February 25th 2008, 10:01pm

RE: KDE4 workspaces

Oh. : (

Do you have a package manager on the OpenSuSE Live CD?
If you do try installing 'libxdamage1' and 'libxcomposite1'. Hopefully that will work. You may need to log out and in after that I am not sure.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Woeforce" (Feb 25th 2008, 10:03pm)