[kde-linux] KDE 4. Trying to get it working like I need it to.

[Dale]

david wrote:
> Dale wrote:
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>> david wrote:
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>>> Duncan wrote:
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>>>> Dale posted on Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:30:24 -0600 as excerpted:
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>>>>> Only problem with this is that I need new glasses.  If I get to high a
>>>>> resolution or to small of a font, I can't read them to well.  Sort of
>>>>> got to find a balance point there somewhere.
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>>> My boss found his balance point: he runs his twin 17" 
>>> 1280x1024-native-rez LCDs at 800x600 ...
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>>>> Yeah, I know the feeling.  I normally wear contacts.  When I have an eye 
>>>> irritation or something and switch to glasses, I have to either sit much 
>>>> closer or change font size or resolution, as I simply can't see as well.  
>>>> But the eye doctor said I was 20/20 with my glasses and the contacts are 
>>>> *MUCH* better, so I think I must have better-than-20/20, likely 20/15 or 
>>>> better, with contacts.  Don't even /think/ about uncorrected, tho!  I'd 
>>>> have to sit about 10 cm (4 inches) from the screen!  The high correction 
>>>> (worse than -11 diopters) is also why lasik's not an option.
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>> LOL  I'm at 640 x 350.  I can read it pretty good tho.
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> I used to do graphic work on a 15" monitor running at 1600x1200 - IBM 
> used to make some great pro monitors ...
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>> I'm hoping for another KDE 4 update pretty soon.  It's about that time. 
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> I'm waiting for KDE 4.5, then will probably have to go back to 3.5 
> anyway. I don't have anything close to contemporary video hardware 
> around here, and I doubt that 4.5's flashy fancy eye candy will be very 
> workable on any of the machines here ...
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>   

I have been thinking about buying the fastest card I can afford for this 
old rig.  It will have to be plain AGP tho.  I don't have the newer PCI 
express stuff here.  I figure they will be cheap enough.  I have a 
FX-5200 with 128Mbs of ram right now.

Dale

:-)  :-) 
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