On a friends computer (not Kubuntu) I have seen that the desktop shows a grid when the user moves or resizes a widget. This seems to be a special desktop mode. Is this also availabe for Kubuntu? It is not offered in the desktop settings as it is on my friend's desktop. I guess I have to install some additional package - but which?
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Your post piqued my interest so I took a look at Desktop Settings. Under Layout there's a choice called Grid Desktop. I applied it and then added/moved a widget and it did what I think you're describing. Give it a try! -
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Alas I don't have that "Grid Desktop" option there. I guess I have to install some additional package - but which?Comment
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"Grid Snap" is a plugin in CompizConfig Settings Manager ?"A problem well stated is a problem half solved." --Charles F. Kettering
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."--Dr. SeussComment
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I don't know because I didn't install anything extra/special. So it must come from some KDE component that I *did* install.Originally posted by Pondus
Wait--which version of Kubuntu are you running? I'm using 11.04.Comment
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I definitely did not install that--in fact, I installed NOTHING to do with Compiz, so at least in my case that's not where it's coming from.Originally posted by arochesterComment
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Menu/system settings/desktop effects/window management
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No, that's Desktop Grid. The OP is referring to Grid Desktop; see my earlier post.Originally posted by woodsmokeComment
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Thanks, I just discovered that I'm dyslexic!
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Originally posted by woodsmoke
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Thanks for trying to figure this out. It's in the package plasma-containments-addons.
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LOL
The "grid" actually goes back to the old "IBM" days when they tried to "do windows".
I can't find an image of it but there was one in the old Compute Gazette!! which was DESTROYED by some fourth party money channel for Microsoft that actually had an image of a screen that IBM did....
Back "then" it was "EVIL BIG BLUE".....now it is EVIL MICROSOFT.....
But anyway.....the players may change but the result is the same.....
IBM had a "window" system on their OBLIGATORY ..."green screen" that was, as best as I can remember.... two high and four wide....
each "box" had a different set of applications in it....
like the first box on top was...OFFICE.... second box was...GAMES.....
IBM really did not have a clue....
if anyone has a hardcopy of the picture of an IBM machine with the grid on the screen please post it.
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but that has nothing to do with the grid of the kde desktop which is just for easier precise aligning of objectsComment
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