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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Ubuntu upgrade Post 302187139 by era on Saturday 19th of April 2008 02:06:31 PM
Old 04-19-2008
You just need to have enough partitions, one for each install (plus, as mentioned above, probably a good idea to have your data outside of those, so you can access it from either installation). At install time, leave one partition empty and then let the other installer install to that. They should be perfectly able to coexist peacefully, in my experience.

Can't say much about KDE, I've been using Gnome and never saw any reason to try K. I basically just use the GUI to launch my music player and browser anyway, and everything else happens in Emacs or the terminal.

They seem to have a wider spectrum of software written specifically for KDE but most of it will run in Gnome just fine as well. From a programmer's point of view I understand Qt (the KDE toolkit) is pretty much best in class, but I haven't done any GUI programming myself, so can't really comment on that. My prejudist opinion is that KDE seems more oriented towards eye candy, but my KDE friend says Gnome is impossible to use without a mouse, whereas he routinely uses KDE from the keyboard only. Anyway, both of them have a fair share of programs which quite horrible usability -- I guess a lot of developers assume it will Just Work as long as they have an all-dancing, all-singing animated color-flashing GUI. (Ahem. Gets off soapbox. Pardon me.)
 

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KVKBD(1)						    A virtual keyboard for KDE							  KVKBD(1)

NAME
kvkbd - A virtual keyboard for KDE SYNOPSIS
kvkbd [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] DESCRIPTION
A virtual keyboard for KDE OPTIONS
Options: --loginhelper Stand alone version for use with KDM or XDM. See Kvkbd Handbook for information on how to use this option. Generic options: --help Show help about options --help-qt Show Qt specific options --help-kde Show KDE specific options --help-all Show all options --author Show author information -v, --version Show version information --license Show license information -- End of options KDE options: --caption <caption> Use 'caption' as name in the titlebar --icon <icon> Use 'icon' as the application icon --config <filename> Use alternative configuration file --nocrashhandler Disable crash handler, to get core dumps --waitforwm Waits for a WM_NET compatible windowmanager --style <style> sets the application GUI style --geometry <geometry> sets the client geometry of the main widget - see man X for the argument format --nofork Do not run in the background. Qt options: --display <displayname> Use the X-server display 'displayname' --session <sessionId> Restore the application for the given 'sessionId' --cmap Causes the application to install a private color map on an 8-bit display --ncols <count> Limits the number of colors allocated in the color cube on an 8-bit display, if the application is using the QApplication::ManyColor color specification --nograb tells Qt to never grab the mouse or the keyboard --dograb running under a debugger can cause an implicit -nograb, use -dograb to override --sync switches to synchronous mode for debugging --fn, --font <fontname> defines the application font --bg, --background <color> sets the default background color and an application palette (light and dark shades are calculated) --fg, --foreground <color> sets the default foreground color --btn, --button <color> sets the default button color --name <name> sets the application name --title <title> sets the application title (caption) --visual TrueColor forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8-bit display --inputstyle <inputstyle> sets XIM (X Input Method) input style. Possible values are onthespot, overthespot, offthespot and root --im <XIM server> set XIM server --noxim disable XIM --reverse mirrors the whole layout of widgets --stylesheet <file.qss> applies the Qt stylesheet to the application widgets SEE ALSO
Full user documentation is available through the KDE Help Center. You can also enter the URL help:/kvkbd/ directly into konqueror or you can run `khelpcenter help:/kvkbd/' from the command-line. AUTHORS
Todor Gyumyushev <yodor@developer.bg> Guillaume Martres <smarter@ubuntu.com> K Desktop Environment Oct 2008 KVKBD(1)
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