I have also made the switch to KDE a few days ago... KDE4 is now really shining in my PC, but since I'm a newcomer, I cannot find just one thing that I loved about Compiz/Beryl... Where is the Zoom? I mean, compiz (desktop effects in Ubuntu Gnome) made Win+Mouse Scroll Wheel zoom in. It was a really lovely feature, that I cannot find in Kubuntu (KWin). Any help here?
Last edited by Zorael; December 1st, 2009 at 12:37 AM. Reason: machien doth nae computae
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Yeah, I hear you there. It was so confusing to go to KDE. But not because it was hard. Because it was too logical in the manner it was laid out. For example, it took me forever to understand what was happening when I was looking for a new theme. Oh wait, you mean KDE links you to KDE-Look.org right there within the themes window within the OS without having to go to the web site? Sounds like an easy concept, but it took me a couple minutes to figure out what was happening!
Glad you're enjoying it. I know I am. Cheers!
Yep, it is there, but I can't assign to the scroll wheel + win as I got used to... I don't know why, the scroll wheel works flawlessly, but when I try to reassign the default combination, it just don't "see" the scrolling. In fact, there are some combinations that it doesn't react to.
I have a workaround. It will map Super+mouse scroll to the default kde zoom in/out "meta+=/-"
first we need to install xautomation and xbindkeys
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create/edit a file called ~/.xbindkeysrcCode:kpackagekit --install-package-name xautomation --install-package-name xbindkeys
this can be done with:
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Code:kate ~/.xbindkeysrc
that last block is optional it bind the middle button to zoom reset "meta+0".Code:"xte 'keydown Super_R' 'key equal'" Mod4 + Super_L + b:4 "xte 'keydown Super_R' 'key minus'" Mod4 + Super_L + b:5 "xte 'keydown Super_R' 'key 0'" Mod4 + Super_L + b:2
the b:# is the mouse number and it corresponds with xev output.
Start xbindkeys with the config we just made:
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now to make it start xbindkeys every time KDE starts we will create a static link to xbindkeys in the KDE Autostart folder in our home directory.Code:xbindkeys
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Code:ln -s /usr/bin/xbindkeys ~/.kde/Autostart/xbindkeys
A friendly & helpful Linux community who has started a large cursor theme project. If you are sick of tiny cursors, go here and get one.
http://linuxinternationals.org/forum...orum.php?f=166
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