Hi!

I am loving KDE, but here are a couple of things that I had a little trouble with and I am giving a couple of tips about how I resolved them. I am not sure that this is the right way to do it, but it works for me.

1) Dual monitor

I use a laptop, and I carry it from the office to home. At the office I have a second monitor which is a weird resolution (1600xsomething) and at home I have a 1080p monitor. For some reason my KDE would not remember my settings. Even when I go to the display control panel it would have (auto) on the correct mode for those monitors, but it would not run on that mode, but instead in some other mode like the resolution of my laptop display, which is obviously inferior. After trying to get it to remember the settings by setting them to default, etc, it seems like that just wouldn't work. Finally I resolved it by adding the following command to run at startup:

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xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1 --primary

2) Date/Time

My BIOS clock is set to UTC. For some reason, whenever I select my proper timezone, the displayed clock is always wrong in KDE (displays the current UTC time as my timezone). I finally resolved it by setting the Adjust Date/Time to use a timeserver, and set the timezone on that screen to UTC. Then, I selected the "Digital Clock Settings" and set the timezone to be my local timezone and had the clock default to "America/my local timezone". Again, I am not sure that's how you are supposed to do things, but it seems to have resolved the issue for me.

Actually, I guess this was a bug in KDE or something. I did the above, but file change times remained UTC, which is quite annoying. To I guess the proper way to resolve this problem is by:
- Adjust Date/Time, choose internet time server + select the correct time-zone.
- Go to terminal and type:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Follow the graphical interface and choose the proper time-zone. After this, my clock correctly shows the proper time and the file change times are correct. UTC now never appears anywhere as far as the user is concered, which is how I expect it to work.