Hi,

I have Kde4-desktop installed with Ubuntu. Both versions are 8.04 Kde4 is really appealing and i like it a lot. The problem is that when i close my laptop screen the screen gets distorted and requires me to push cntr+alt+backspace gnome does the same thing but i told gnome to do nothing when i close my laptop lid, and that fixed the problem How can i do the same thing in kde 4

kde4 might look good, but it is nowhere near useable

it still has many unresolved bugs and glitches, and can be very unstable, such as what you just said.


if you want to keep the look, then you can downgrade to kde3, but install the kde4 theme, providing functionality with good look


good luck,

rabbit2345

I agree with rabbit. I've had lots of problems with kde 4.0 and 4.1.

I switched to gnome. It hasn't been perfect either but I don't know how to get kde 3.x running on my kubuntu 8.0.4 installation.

Per Rabbit "then you can downgrade to kde3," but how? I changed Intrepid to Fiesty in sources.list, refreshed packages list, then still found only KDE 4 offered.
How can I get KDE3 installed with KDE 4 still installed?

Since I don't use any apt-based Linux distro, I would not be very sure how to do this specifically. But generally, you have to uninstall all the KDE 4 packages and install KDE 3.5. Then all you have to do from there is install a KDE4 lookalike theme for KDE3.5 . http://kde-look.org is a good place to Find themes for all sorts of KDE related apps. The downgrading means you would have to remove all the core KDE 4 libraries, which means that if you really want to still use Dolphin or whatever, you can leave them. But things like KWin and something like kde-core have to be replaced.

good luck,
rabbit2345 ^_^