[NTLUG:Discuss] KDE4 question

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 01:27:38PM -0500, Fred James wrote:
> My wife and I both run KDE4, but my machine doesn't have enough of
> something to run quite the way hers does.
> [...]
> When her cursor moves over an icon in the task tray (at the bottom
> of the screen) ... say the office icon for example, and she has more
> than one document open at the time ... the current document she was
> looking at is no longer full size, but all of her open documents now
> appear on the screen as smaller versions of themselves.

Twothings to try (this is for KDE 4.8.5 -- YMMV):
  - Right click on the taskbar, click "Task Manager Settings", 
    change "Grouping" to "Do Not Group".

  - Turn off Desktop Effects.  My KDE has a shortcut key to do
    this (Alt+Shift+F12), or you can disable it at startup 
    from System Settings => Desktop Effects => General.

Do either of those get rid of the problem?

Pm