How is one supposed to use the KDE4 desktop ?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 11:40 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > There is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This is in line with
> > current practice of
> > trying to avoid it wherever possible. That's it's
> > not necessary is
> > demonstrated by the fact the 1440x900 mode works perfectly
> > once I tell
> > KDE to use it. The problem is that KDE forgets.
> 
> I did not know that KDE 4 had Alzheimer :(
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer's_disease
> 
> The session does not get saved, that is one problem that you have.

No it isn't. You're confusing me with someone else. My session saves
perfectly.

>  But as for the xorg.conf, you decide that you do not like it, then you assume the consequences, the Modes lines fixes the situation, but you do not like the medicine :(  In rawhide, sometimes removing xorg.conf is necessary, but here you should not resort to that.  

It may well fix it, but that doesn't mean there isn't a bug in KDE. Let
me clarify the exact details:

* On first installing KDE4 it fired up in 4x3 mode.
* I went to Settings->Display and configured it for 16x9 mode. This took
effect immediately and worked fine.
* On logging out and in again, it reverts to 4x3 mode (and my saved
session windows are stretched).
* On invoking Settings->Display the "Resize and Rotate Your Display"
dialogue appears appears, showing 1440x900 (i.e. 16x9) and *without me
touching anything* the screen immediately resizes to 16x9. I then have
to resize my session windows to fit.

i.e. KDE *knows* the screen is 1440x900, it just doesn't set it up
correctly until poked.

poc