2 documents side by side

[pkaplan1]

On Sunday 14 February 2010 05:32 Errol Sapir wrote:
> I see in windows 7 that  two documents can be "clicked" into position
> side by side so that one can work on both documents at the same time.
> One drags the one document to the right side of the screen and it
> "clicks" into place. One then drags the second document to the left side
> (it "clicks" into place) and both documents are then readable
> simultaneously.  I read that this is also possible in Kubuntu. Is this
> so? If so could somebody write a "blow by blow" description an how to
> enable this.
> TIA
> Errol

This is only possible in kde4.4 which was released this week.  The kubuntu 
homepage (www.kubuntu.org) has instructions for upgrading 9.10.  If you're 
running an earlier version of kubuntu then you'll have to compile from source 
(kde.org).  

One caution, if you have a heavily customized kde environment from an earlier 
version, you might want to backup the ~/.kde directory (and possibly even 
delete the original) before upgrading and then let the new version build it's 
own ~/.kde directory.  You'll then have to reconfig kde, but I've run into 
problems in the past using old config directories with newer software versions, 
esp something as large and complex as kde.
Paul