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Keveam

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From: St. Louis, MO

Registered: 2009-04-03

Posts: 30

[SOLVED]Just a few questions.

Hey everyone. First, let me say to any Arch developer reading this, thank you. I've emerged, dpkged, rpmed, and make installed my through many a distro, but I have never used a distro as fine as Arch. Another thanks to the users for the great wiki. It's helped me with the majority of the problems I've had.

However, I still have a few. For one, KDE4 will not save my display settings upon reboot. I'm not sure how to fix this. Also, I was wondering what was necessary to enable KDE4's desktop effects. And last, how would I go about enabling my laptops multimedia keys?

Any and all help would be appreciated. Thanks everyone. I'm gushing over this distro!

Last edited by Keveam (2009-04-05 21:47:16)

Ghost1227

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From: Omaha, NE, USA

Registered: 2008-04-21

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Re: [SOLVED]Just a few questions.

First of all, what version of KDE are you using? KDE3? KDE4? KDEmod/Chakra? Second, I believe KDE has a keybinding application built in (I could be wrong, rarely use KDE myself). If I'm wrong, xbindkeys could help out if you don't want to do the editing by hand.

EDIT: Oh yea, welcome 127.0.0.1 and thanks for the kind words!

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markisthejob

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From: Cork, Ireland

Registered: 2008-09-01

Posts: 63

Re: [SOLVED]Just a few questions.

Hi and welcome.What settings will not save? if you mean resolution, try enabling krandrtray to start with kde.As for the desktop effects, what video card have you got and what driver do you use?

Keveam

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From: St. Louis, MO

Registered: 2009-04-03

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED]Just a few questions.

First of all, what version of KDE are you using? KDE3? KDE4? KDEmod/Chakra? Second, I believe KDE has a keybinding application built in (I could be wrong, rarely use KDE myself). If I'm wrong, xbindkeys could help out if you don't want to do the editing by hand.

EDIT: Oh yea, welcome 127.0.0.1 and thanks for the kind words!

KDE4 from the official Arch repos.

Hi and welcome.What settings will not save? if you mean resolution, try enabling krandrtray to start with kde.As for the desktop effects, what video card have you got and what driver do you use?

The video card is an intel card, uses the intel driver. I forget the exact model of it.

Edit: Alright, problems solved. It looks like every single problem I had was related to one thing: hwd. Running hwd -xa made a shoddy xorg.conf. Deleting it and lettings xorg create it's own fixed every problem I had.

Last edited by Keveam (2009-04-04 05:00:08)

markisthejob

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From: Cork, Ireland

Registered: 2008-09-01

Posts: 63

Re: [SOLVED]Just a few questions.

Good.Dont forget to mark this as solved