I feel one of the biggest improvements with Chrome on Windows is moving the tabs all the way to the top to the screen (so the mouse can just go all the way up, then click). I went with the kubuntu because they do not include the normal (pointless) Linux menu bar at the top of the screen. It took me an hour to get chrome on here and now I see there is a Giant pointless title bar across the top. It is a good 5% of the total screen area and it is just the title and close buttons. Is there anyway to have the chrome tabs all the way at the top of the screen like was intended by Google?
In the top right corner of a standard KDE/Kubuntu installation you'll see this:
But seriously, I seem to be unable to understand what those "activities" are and what it would enable me to profit from. It just pops up like an "add widget" screen with just four options:
- New Activity - default plasma widgets desktop - is this a bug that it's called like that?
- Search and Launch - sort of over-spacious netbook interface?
- Photos Activity - I don't have any pictures local on my machine, useless for me.
- Desktop Icons - traditional style desktop-icons-only
Choosing one of those options seems to create a completely new desktop "plasma". Then why is this called Activity? Am I missing something?
Is this is nifty feature I've been missing on for a few years now or is this not that exciting? How do I use this as it's supposed to work?
Googling for what this is supposed to be give me all kind of vague descriptions like this one:
No feature defines the KDE 4 release series more than Activities. At the same time, no feature is so little understood -- Fedora even has a package for removing the desktop toolkit, which provides mouse access to Activities.
But, when you take the time to learn about Activities, you'll find them a natural extension of the desktop metaphor that just might help you to work more efficiently.
Activities are a super-set of Virtual Desktops. They don't replace Virtual Desktops -- in fact, each Activity can have its own set of Virtual Desktops if you choose. Instead, Activities are alternative desktops, each of which can have its own wallpaper, icons, and widgets.
Sorry, but after reading such a vague and impractical story I'm out. Can someone give me an overview of what I can do with it? I guess this is supposed to provide a way to separate private and business work, but then, how?
I'm on Kubuntu 11.04 and I want to know what KDE Plasma Desktop version I'm using.
I have 2 computers with Ubuntu but on both I installed KDE to have another option for the users. Since Unity has come along very well, there has not been a need to use KDE for a while now. How can I delete all KDE related packages with one single sweep, freeing space and anything KDE related in Ubuntu, including overwriting the Logo of ubuntu when the PCs start or shutdown since after installing KDE the Kubuntu logo is the default one. How to revert back completely from all KDE stuff with a simple short command line or GUI tool.
NOTE - I ask this because it is very time consuming to start selecting, one by one, each package that relates to the KDE desktop environment, checking if it also relates to any GTK, checking dependencies for each, etc.. Deleting the package kubuntu-desktop does not remove every installed KDE package that was installed with it since this is a pseudo package that installs the rest of the real packages but does not uninstall them which makes me wonder why a package can install a whole bunch of other packages but not uninstall them with some added option to actually uninstall them not just the dummy package itself.
I recently installed the latest Kubuntu (x64) on my work machine as I am trying to migrate away from Windows. Unfortunately I use RDP very frequently to connect to customer's servers and need to be able to copy files across.
I have tried the following packages with no luck:
remmina
rdesktop
xfreerdp
My latest attempt to solve this involved connecting one of my folders to the remote server, here is the command I used to launch rdesktop:
rdesktop -5 -K -r disk:home=/home/dai -r clipboard:CLIPBOARD -r sound:off -x l -P 192.168.0.2 -u "administrator" -p pass
The servers are not all running the same version of Windows, the one I've been trying so far is running Server 2003 R2. Customer servers range from Server 2000 to Server 2008.
I have been googling this but all the solutions I find seem to fail, maybe because almost all the help out there assumes that I am running Gnome.
Edit: Copying and pasting text seems to work just fine, but that's not what I need.