On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:03:07 -0500 "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <[email protected]>
said:
>
> It would appear that on Feb 27, Alan McKinnon did say:
>
> > On Friday 27 February 2009 21:49:18 Chris Wright wrote:
> > >
> > > There's a similar service with gnome (gnome-settings-daemon). While
> > > theme information is persisted and used automatically, GTK
> > > applications (and, I imagine, QT applications) don't automatically
> > > determine the DPI for your monitor, or if they do, don't scale
> > > appropriately. kcminit and gnome-settings-daemon will do so.
> > >
> > > I believe that's the issue, anyway.
> >
> > Well that certainly sounds reasonable enough. Running kcminit in an
> > established e17 session pretty much does to fonts what adjusting the dpi in
> > kcontrol does.
>
> Hi, I'm a multi-boot guy ( used to be a dedicated kde guy until I
> figured out that the future of kde {>=4.x} is NOT my cup of tea.)
> Now I'm in the process of learning how to get/use/and configure e17 on 3
> different linux distros on both an old athalon x86 desktop and an amd_64
> laptop. This idea of fixing application font issues on startup with
> this kcminit is good news to me! But you specifically mentioned using
> an established e17 session... This makes me doubt that I can feed it
> to e17 via the .xinitrc file... I suspect that would be for the same
> reason(s) why I can't run enlightenment_remote commands in an xterm
> started via the .xinitrc. Two questions:
>
> 1) How would I get it to run automatically on E17 startup?
>
> (I mean I don't see it listed in the list of applications
> in settings>settings pannel>apps>startup applications.)
create a .desktop file for it .. and life will be easy :) you can than
select/add it :)
> 2) Does anybody know if kcminit still works in kde4.x???
>
> (Since I'm liable to keep kde around for the applications I'm
> used to, even when I can't stomach it's "improved" interface.)
> When/if I ever finish with a learning experience installing e1t
> to my Sabayon via portage I'll probably fire up e17 on my
> kubuntu intrepid and empirically test kcminit in it's (my
> only) kde4 environment. If it works I'll follow up on this
> message. But if it's a new command like they replaced
> kcontrol with systemsettings, I wouldn't have a clue what to
> try. So any clues/suggestions would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks!
>
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