[gentoo-user] How do I enlarge graphics with mouse hover?

[gentoo-user] How do I enlarge graphics with mouse hover?

[Kenton Groombridge]

Since I upgraded my system with KDE 3.5, I have lost this feature and 
can't seem to find a way to enable it.

With prior versions of KDE, when I open folders with graphics, I could 
see the thumbs of the graphic, but they are quite small.  When I would 
hover the mouse over the grahics for a second a pop-up would display 
showing a larger image with some file information.  Now I can't find a 
way to bring this back.

I have googled this a couple days now and can't find a solution.  It may 
also be a bug.  For some reason, I can't set my login manager desktop to 
any background other than the default installed ones.   I even use the 
"Get New Wallpapers" button, download the background, it shows up in the 
preview window, logout, and my desktop just shows the background color.  
Any guess on this would be helpful as well.

Thanks,
Ken
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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I enlarge graphics with mouse hover?

[Richard Fish]

On 1/6/06, Kenton Groombridge <kgroombr@charter.net> wrote:
> Since I upgraded my system with KDE 3.5, I have lost this feature and
> can't seem to find a way to enable it.

Still works for me.  You should check that "Show previews in file
tips" under Behavior is turned on.  You should also make sure you are
using the File Management profile (Settings->Load View Profile).

You can also try to backup and delete your ~/.kde3.5 directory, and
start over.  Maybe you have some kind of issue there...

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I enlarge graphics with mouse hover?

[Kenton Groombridge]

Richard Fish wrote:

>Still works for me.  You should check that "Show previews in file
>tips" under Behavior is turned on.  You should also make sure you are
>using the File Management profile (Settings->Load View Profile).
>
>You can also try to backup and delete your ~/.kde3.5 directory, and
>start over.  Maybe you have some kind of issue there...
>
>-Richard
>  
>
My settings were correct.

I deleted my old .kde* directories when I upgraded to kde 3.5 since I 
was having other wierd issues, but I did it again, and it worked.  It 
shouldn't be this difficult.  I have never had this happen before during 
normal use, and a simple upgrade shouldn't cause all the settings to go 
wacky especially when they show correctly through the configuration 
settings.

I did some work to determine why my login manager wallpaper doesn't show 
up properly.

If I download a wallpaper via the login manager, it places it in 
/root/.kde/share/wallpapers/

For example, I picked a random wallpaper and installed it.  In the 
/usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/backgroundrc it shows as:

Wallpaper=$HOME/.kde/share/wallpapers/QuakeLinux--0

Log out, log in, and it doesn't show, but if I change the line to:

Wallpaper=/root/.kde/share/wallpapers/QuakeLinux--0

it works perfect.  Which explains why the never showed up properly.  All 
my login wallapers are located in /root

When logging in, the environment variable $HOME hasn't been determined.  
Sounds like a bug.  Can anybody else confirm this?

Thanks,
Ken
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