This evening I installed KDE to get a feel for what it has to offer since I’ve last used it. I haven’t used KDE since my Red Hat 9.0 days almost four years ago. I’ll say quite a lot has changed! I don’t know that I’ll replace my gnome desktop with KDE but its been a pleasant experience so far.
The Tutorial for the day is how to setup and run Kompose which offers you a very similar experience to OSX “Expose”. The KDE version already offers the upgrade OSX has in store for Leopard, but that’s another story. The main reason I’m including this tutorial is that I spent the last twenty minutes trying to find a similar tutorial and it was not an easy task.
Installing Kompose
sudo aptitude install kompose
Running Kompose
ALT-F2 : kompose
Configuring Kompose Shortcuts
Show Kompose (default): win + tab
Show Kompose (ungrouped): ctrl + shift + jShow Kompose (grouped by desktop): ctrl + shift + i
Show Kompose (current desktop): ctrl + shift + k
Kompose makes it very easy to view all of the programs you have running on each of your virtual desktops. It does seem to make things very easy to keep organized. It would be nice if something like this were available in gnome.
What? No screenshot?
http://kompose.berlios.de/kompose_0.4.jpg
thanks tene for the screenshot.
Gabriel – mainly I didn’t post a screenshot because I can’t figure out how to take a screenshot in KDE yet. lol.
‘prntscrn’ button isn’t doing the job.
Sadly it seems that development has ended on kompose. But xgl’s features should supercede it. It’s basically the whole reason I’m looking forward to xgl…