KDE 4.1 - Add a Desired Application to the Panel

There was a very very very little argument with a friend of mine (Gav) :), how to add a desired launcher to the panel. At that time as he and I felt there is no a simple way to do that. I admitted at that time. But not now. :) simply because I found a very simple way to add such a launcher to the panel. I wonder why it didn't come into my mind earlier.

How to do it...

1. Get the Menu editor (by right clicking on the application launcher)
2. Then select the desired place that you want to add the launcher. (Say -- Development)
3. Click "New Item" on menu bar and put the desired name for your launcher.
4. Then do all the configurations you want. (Name, Command, Icon, etc...)
5. Save and exit the KDE Menu Editor.
6. Now click on desktop or on panel and Unlock widgets.
7. Then click on application launcher, go to Applications then find the launcher you newly added. (in my case its under Development sub category)
8. Right click on the launcher of your desire and select "Add to Panel" to add that launcher to the Panel.

That's all...Enjoy... Hope you have any comments... :)

How to Enable Desktop Cube on KDE.

Some days ago, I was discussing with Thilanka(one of my best friends), how to enable 4 desktops(or desktop cube) on KDE. because he dad a problem with compiz. only 2 desktops were working. :) cube couldn't be activated.

Then when I moved to KDE 4.1 from Gnome, I got the same problem. So I search a bit and observed that number of tools to configure compiz including the default one desktop-effects-kde, which is called Desktop Effects on the menu.

How I resolved the problem...
1. I installed simple-ccsm which is called Simple CompizConfig Settings Manager.
2. From simple-ccsm, I selected Medium Effects from profile. Then applied.
(Now compiz is working, but only 2 desktop are enabled. So then what...?)
2. Go to Desktops tab on simple-ccsm, then do following
- Appearance
Desktop cube
- Desktop columns
scroll it to 4
- Desktop rows
scroll it to 1

So now on Desktop preview you can see four desktops. Now it should finely work.

There may be other easier methods to do this. But I hope this would be helpful for someone. I prefer to know, how to do that manually. Anyone knows?

Disabling Textured Video Flickering

One way I've found to resolve the "flickering 3D windows" is to enabled the "Extra WM actions" and bind "toggle redirect" (I use R). When the app starts then you can toggle redirect and it'll run fine.

Proxy configuration in Kubuntu

Open up the terminal so we can edit a couple of files. Kate is just a text editor, use whatever you like, gedit, vim, whatever. This command will open apt.conf file in Kate as root.

$ sudo kate /etc/apt/apt.conf

Comment # out what is already there and add your proxy. Should look like below with your auth info:

#Acquire { http { Proxy 'false'; }; };
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://usern: passwd@proxy.domain.com:port_num";

Links

http://tuxenclave.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/how-to-install-gfx-grub-in-ubuntu/

Useful Links

Configure ATI open source driver

FOSS - "Free Speech, not Beer"

Creating startup scripts 1
Creating startup scripts 2

How to install Enlightenment 17 on ubuntu

tor and vidalia

Back again

Hey...
I am back now after a long time...Configuring and examining features of Hardy Heron(Ubuntu) these days. And too preparing for the mentoring program in the university.

More posts with useful links will be posted here.

- have a nice day
- cheers