[F9] Two display problems with Acer TravelMate 4200 (size, KDE/Compiz)

[Don Levey]

Don Levey wrote:
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> 2) I've been using KDE - and I guess it was KDE that started up when I 
> first logged in this morning.  It's tough to tell, of course, because 
> the window manager option on the login screen is no longer there (can I 
> get that back somehow?).  I tried a number of things within KDE to see 
> if I could resize the display properly - Desktop Resize and Rotate 
> looked like it might help, in that it actually *had* an option for the 
> proper resolution (though it didn't do anything).  But then I selected 
> something like "Compiz Viewer" 

To follow up, it was compiz-manager.  And now, after rebooting several 
times, I've got three or four compiz processes in my list using 100% of 
both cores on my dual-core machine...

  -Don