phatsteve Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 Hi, I've just installed 2009.9 on my laptop, and have a couple of niggles with kde 4.2 ("only a couple" you say?) whenever I send an app shortcut to desktop, it sits right over another icon, even though I've selected to sort icons by name, and allign to grid. Also, my synaptic touchpad is very sensitive to touch, but how can I configure it? Qsynaptics is installed, but has no ability to control sensitivity, (perhaps it's a driver issue?) How can I re-size panel icons? They appear quite large and clunky, and there doesn't appear to be anywhere in panel settings to adjust icon size. I know these are only minor problems, and really I quite pleased with mandriva, (having come from sidux where my touchpad died immiediately after upgrade to KDE4.2). But I must admit I preferred KDE3.5, but I suppose progress is progress. Thankyou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 (edited) Icon sizes are set in Configure Your Desktop->Appearance->Icons->advanced I can't help with your other niggles, sorry. Edited May 7, 2009 by SilverSurfer60 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatsteve Posted May 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Thanks for reply, that's a start, I've no doubt in time I will resolve other minor irritations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Icon sizes are set in Configure Your Desktop->Appearance->Icons->advancedI can't help with your other niggles, sorry. I can't set the size of the panel icons here. It's greyed out. And a short Googling didn't turned out anything useful. Unless others can't do it either is useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 I can't set the size of the panel icons here. It's greyed out. And a short Googling didn't turned out anything useful. Unless others can't do it either is useful. You are right, not even when starting systemsettings as root. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 That's odd because mines alright. I'm using kde4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 For your touchpad, have a look at this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics You can follow any of these tips. For using xorg instead of the (arguably harder to follow) xML formatted HAL rules, you must disable input hotplugging (which is on by default in Mandriva 2009.1). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatsteve Posted May 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 my panel option was greyed out too, but then I tried 'main toolbar' which was set at 22, and changed it to 16, and it worked, thanks again for tip. I'm going to try Gsynaptics as suggested in the ArchLinux wiki, the other solutions seem quite involved, and though I don't mind editing config and init files, from experience I've found it hard to backtrack when something I do doesn't work! Thanks for suggestions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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