For: Mepis Linux
by: je.saist
Probably one of the most common comments and or questions in the MepisLovers forums is over the inclusion of Kaquarium, and/or how to remove the application. This guide is a semi-followup to the KDE-Tricks guide for Mepis 3.x / 2004.x, however that guide was based on making Mepis friendlier to 800*600 screens. This guide is built around showing how to clean up the default Mepis Desktop with a default resolution of 1024*768. I also need to stress that this is cleaning up the desktop for myself and how I like my Desktop to look. 1: The default KDE desktop, kind of. I've already removed the clock. (got tired of emails about timestamps being different) Left Click on Close to get rid of the KTip Window. I personally let KTip run, there is some good information in there.  2: We are going to move our mouse down to the taskbar, between the Pager and Kaquarium.  3: Then we are going to Right Click in the taskbar We should have a Context Menu pop up.  4: Left click on Remove From Panel  5: Left Click on Applet  6: Left Click on KAquarium  7: There. It's gone. Happy? I'm not done though, so I'm going to Right Click in the Taskbar Space again  8: Going back to Remove From Panel  9: Going back to Applet and then Weather Report Seriously, if I need to know what the weather is outside, I'll open a window or walk out a door.  10: Alright, Weather Report is gone. I still have more to do though.  11: Now, one of the parts of the desktop that bothers me is the applications in the lower right hand corner. I like them stacked up on top of each other than spread out. Gives me a little more desktop space. Don't understant? Lets go back to the Taskbar space and Right Click Again  12: Left Click on Configure Panel  13: A familiar screen from the first KDE tricks guide. Do you see where it says Size? Right below it we should have Normal printed. Left Click on Normal  14: Normal will now drop down into a menu.  15: Left Click on Custom  16: We can now see that the slider and numbers in the Size box are now changeable.  17: I am going to set the Custom size to be 48 Pixels  18: Then Left Click on Apply in the lower right hand corner.  19: Take a look at the Lower Right Hand Corner of the Desktop. Notice that all the icons are now stacked on top of each other?  20: Alright, I'm done here. Left Click on Ok  21: I like my desktop, although that Earthlink sign is annoying considering that I don't use dialup. Right Click on the Earthlink icon  22: Left Click on Delete  23: Mepis will ask if we are sure we want to delete an icon off the desktop.  24: Left Click on Delete to confirm deletion.  25: There we go, a cleaned up desktop.  Take me back to the guides page. |