Other setup issues:
Firefox: set home directory under Edit->Preferences. Switch off status bar and bookmarks toolbar.
KDE Control Centre: Colours -> Colour Scheme: Blue Slate
Screen Saver -> Start Automatically: off
Yast:
Set video 1280x1024 Yast->Hardware->graphics card & monitor
Resolution 1280x1024(SXGA)
Colours: 16.7M[24bit]
Software:
eclipse,kdiff3,gkrellm,gnucash,wireshark,inkscape,blender,wine,NVU
Screen Saver
In KDE control centre (KControl)
Appearance and themes -> screen saver -> Start automatically turn off
or from KDesktop (started by right clicking on desktop where there are no icons and select configure desktop)
KDesktop -> screen saver -> Start automatically turn off
also screen blanking
KDesktop -> display -> power control:
remove 'x' from enable specific display power management
(Yast -> System -> Power Management has now gone)
Setup Sound
Setup the sound made by programs such as KMail, open the following,
KDE Control Centre -> Sound and Multimedia
KDE utilities
Yast Software Management does not find KDE utilities like KEdit and Quanta+ by name, instead we need to search for the following package names within Yast Software Management.
| program | package |
|---|---|
| KEdit | kdeutils3-extra |
| Quanta+ | kdewebdev3 |
| kmilo | kdeutils3-laptop |
Keyboard
First setup the type of keyboard using YaST:
