Kde 3.1 questions

[Tim Wunder]

On Saturday 08 February 2003 9:54 am, someone claiming to be Collins Richey 
wrote:
> Despite my preference for unbloat, I bring up kde for a while after each
> new release, just to see what I'm missing (known in advance: probably
> not much).
>
> Since I'm on gentoo, installing the basic kde is a big ho-hum operation
> - "emerge kde" and find something else to do for 12+ hours.  Now that
> I'm up and running (partially), I have a few quetions.
>
> 1. I can't seem to find the right options for kmail to allow me to send
> mail (receive works fine).  On attempts to send, kmail does not fill in
> the from address.  Everything is filled in, and I've set my user as
> the default, but I can't find a setting to correct this.
>

Settings-Configure Kmail-Identities, seems fairly straightforward to me.
What do you mean by "Everything is filled in"?

> 2. Sound is flaky.  I'm using alsa, since my card (SB 16) didn't work
> under the built in kernel stuff (es1371) but does with alsa (es1371).
>
> a. When I start kde, I get no sound unless the alsa amixer command has
> been used first to unmute the card.  No amount of mixing will produce a
> squawk without doing that (even as root).  I have a question open with
> gentoo, because the amixer command doesn't seem to work as a part of the
> "local" boot option.   So I have to do this manually each time.
>

Dunno, sound has always just worked with my crappy RH 8 system. Don't think it 
uses Alsa, though. I'm using an SBLive! and I've never had to fuss with it. 
It just works.

> b. When I start kde, I get the artsmessage box"Can't set real time
> scheduling priority..."(even as root).  My user is in group audio,
> and/dev/dsp, etc. are root.audio. Sound works fine(both system and kcd),
> but I have to use the kmixer first (does not remember its settings).
>

Does "File-Save Current Volumes as Default" help?

> 3. Kde will not restart phoenix, but it does other stuff (sylpheed,
> terms, OpenOffice, etc.).  How do I fix this?
>

Ask the Phoenix/Mozilla developers. I don't think either will do that. But I 
usually close all my apps before exitting...

> 4. How do I get X-resources aware applications like aterm to start with
> the desired options?  Kde appears to ignore .Xdefaults.  As a result,
> aterm starts with no scrollbar enabled.
>

Dunno

> Does anyone have a clue about these annoying little problems?

Perhaps 1/2 a clue, certainly not an entire clue. There are few things I have 
a whole clue about :-(

HTH, 
Tim

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