On 9 Aug 2009, at 10:40, Alan McKinnon wrote:
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Did you just install knode, or more than that? knode gives you
knode, not the
other 50 packages that make up a basic KDE session :-)
I just emerge'd knode & added xauth when X11 over ssh gave an error.
I suspect you might not have the control centre and it's modules at
all, so
you don't have the background settings daemon thingy that controls
the look
and feel of all of kde.
I have the KDE Control Centre - that's what opens when I run
`kcontrol`. Sorry if I didn't make that clear, but that *does* open -
it's just blank down the left-hand side.
Apparently I installed kde-base/kcontrol (and Konqueror) manually to
try & fix this, but apparently it didn't install the modules.
$ eix -I -C kde* -c
[I] kde-base/certmanager (3.5.10-r1(3.5)@09/08/09): KDE certificate
manager gui.
[I] kde-base/kcminit (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): KCMInit - runs startups
initialization for Control Modules.
[I] kde-base/kcontrol (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): The KDE Control Center
[I] kde-base/kdebase-data (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): Icons, localization
data and various .desktop files from kdebase.
[I] kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves (3.5.10-r1(3.5)@25/06/09): kioslave:
the kde VFS framework - kioslave plugins present a filesystem-like
view of arbitrary data
[I] kde-base/kdelibs (3.5.10-r6(3.5)@09/08/09): KDE libraries needed
by all KDE programs.
[I] kde-base/kdesu (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): KDE: gui for su(1)
[I] kde-base/kdialog (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): KDialog can be used to
show nice dialog boxes from shell scripts
[I] kde-base/kfind (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): KDE file finder utility
[I] kde-base/khelpcenter (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): The KDE Help Center
[I] kde-base/khotkeys (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): KDE: hotkey daemon
[I] kde-base/kicker (3.5.10-r1(3.5)@25/06/09): Kicker is the KDE
application starter panel, also capable of some useful applets and
extensions.
[I] kde-base/kmenuedit (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): KDE menu editor
[I] kde-base/knode (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): A newsreader for KDE
[I] kde-base/konqueror (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): KDE: Web browser, file
manager, ...
[I] kde-base/kontact (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): KDE personal information
manager
[I] kde-base/ktnef (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): KDE Viewer for mail
attachments using TNEF format
[I] kde-base/libkcal (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): KDE kcal library for
KOrganizer etc
[I] kde-base/libkdenetwork (3.5.10-r1(3.5)@09/08/09): library common
to many KDE network apps
[I] kde-base/libkdepim (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): Common library for KDE
PIM apps
[I] kde-base/libkmime (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): KDE kmime library for
Message Handling
[I] kde-base/libkonq (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): The embeddable part of
konqueror
[I] kde-base/libkpgp (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): KDE pgp abstraction library
[I] kde-base/libkpimidentities (3.5.10(3.5)@25/06/09): KDE PIM
identities library
Found 24 matches.
$
Edit ~/.kderc to set defaults you like
I'd rather not - it's kinda clumsy. If the KDE Control Centre is
working properly it'll only take a couple of presses of a down arrow
to reduce the font size. That's much easier than spending time working
out what the "-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0" all mean in ~/.kderc.
Or you could install the kdebase-meta to get everything for a basic
session. A
bit of a waste just for knode...
And on the other hand, it's kinda clumsy having to install all that,
just to add a module to the KDE Control Centre.
Thanks for your help,
Stroller.
