Just post-installation setup SOLVED

[dougmack]

While setting up the desktop the way I'd like it, I screwed up, and since I don't know how to fix it, I am presently in the
process (on another computer) of reinstalling the thing from scratch. What I did was to try and move KSnapshot to the
panel, or systray.  I know it can be done, since I did it on this computer.  Anyway, it didn't work, and in the process I
managed to move the digital clock and all the stuff on the right-hand end into the left-hand end of the panel.  Then while
futzing around, trying to move it back, i managed to delete the graphic desktop and turned the screen black.  
There's nothing you can do to solve this for me at the moment except to tell me how to put KSanpshot in the panel.

HOWEVER:  There really needs to be some instruction somewhere as to how to deal with the guts of the system.  The
panel seems to be particularly obscure. I know that on some other mailing list someone was asking for a menu of KDE--
I'm not surprised.  Altho I've been with PCLOS for almost 2 years now, I still have a lot of trouble finding things in the
configuration menus, and there is no help at all for dealing with the panel.  If I am wrong, then I beg somebody's pardon,
and I stand ready to be enlightened.  Surely I'm not the only one trying to jump thru these hoops. . . .

Thanx--doug

[Bald Brick]

tell me how to put KSanpshot in the panel.

If the widgets are locked, unlock them. (Right-click empty space on desktop and choose "Unlock Widgets").
Open the K-menu and look for "Screen Capture Program" under "Graphics".
Right-click the entry and pick "Add to Panel". Or you can drag it to an empty spot on the panel.
Click the panel cashew and drag the icon to wherever you want it on the panel.

(Personally I prefer to start KSnapshot by tapping <PrtScrn>....)

[menotu]

(Personally I prefer to start KSnapshot by tapping <PrtScrn>....)

+1

Edit - when I was unfamiliar with the KDE4 panel one thing I learned early on was to move my cursor well away from the panel before "dropping back down" to select whatever I wanted to do.

Another thing I learned was to only work in the panel when all apps are minimized (or closed) and I can see the desktop/wallpaper.

And of course, Locking Widgets afterwards.

[Just17]

While setting up the desktop the way I'd like it, I screwed up, and since I don't know how to fix it, I am presently in the process (on another computer) of reinstalling the thing from scratch.

You are not at all clear on what you are reinstalling.

If you want a new clean default KDE Desktop, then all is required is to rename (and eventually delete) the folder

/home/<user-name>/.kde4

On next use a default set up will be created.

Your question about Ksnapshot has bee answered ......  but I also use the key 'Print Scrn' to launch it.

[dougmack]

I wish I had known about the input from Just10--"If you want a new clean default KDE Desktop, then all is required is to rename (and eventually delete) the folder /home/<user-name>/.kde4"
I wouldn't have wound up reinstalling the whole OS from the CD.  I will copy that to a file on
all my PCLOS machines in case it ever happens again, I'll know how!

I got the print-screen framus where I wanted it by dumb luck the next time around--I don't know why it didn't come there first.

However, my comments  on instructions for dealing with the panel, and finding things in the
KDE GUI tree system still hold.  I wish I knew what all the stuff was, I would cheerfully write
it myself and share it--maybe make it actually a part of  KDE, where help files seem only to
exist in name, but not content!

Thanx for the input, gang.  I'll mark this SOLVED.

--doug

PS--there's something wrong with the "x" as it prints here--it's smaller and fainter than the
rest of the print.  Don't know if it shows up that way when you read the file.