Re: Moving from RedHat/KDE to Debian/KDE

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

James Sinnamon wrote:

> Dear KDE/Debian users,
>
> (Similar e-mail previously sent to kde-debian@kde.org)
>
> I have an established Red Hat 9.0 system and I am trying to migrate to a 
> Debian/Sarge  system using all the same /home/* subdirectories.  I am 
> simply hoping to have a desktop and display that has the same resolution 
> and roughly the same functionality, to begin with, as I had with RedHat.
>  

I moved from RHL 7.3 to Woody, taking my home directories with me, and 
that was pretty painless.

When you go to Debian user/group numbers, you'll need to chown -R the 
directories to fix ownership.

Sadly, at RHL 8.0, Red Hat borked the KDE look & feel so much it 
inflamed the KDE people, and Bero (the RH KDE guru) left Red Hat.

> It should be possible to simply find the existing configuration settings
> on my RedHat system and copy them to my Debian system, but
> I don't really know where to locate the essential information.
>
> At the moment, my Debian/KDE system has the following problems:
>
> 1. Resolution reduced from 1024x768 to 800x600 on 19" monitor.
>  

I find configuring X on Debian a never-ending challenge. A technique I 
(and a few other I know) use is to boot Knoppix and copy its 
configuration file. Works a treat.



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> I am not able to keep the same resolution as I can on my Redhat system.  
> My Debian system only achieves 800x600, whilst my existing 
> RedHat achieves 1024x768.  I can't think of any obvious reason why the 
> resolution can't be the same.
>
> 2.  Konsole tab 'icon size' context sensitive menu  missing
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>
> This feature is inexplicably missing in Debian KDE,
> (I prefer the smallest possible icon size to preserve desktop space.)
>
> 3.  Lost access to menus and other Kpanel features
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>  

These problems may well result from RH's changes.

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Cheers
John

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