Kde 3.1 questions

[Roger Oberholtzer]

My sound is working (Gentoo KDE 3.1), so I cannot help with that.
As to .Xdefaults, I do not think KDE uses those. However, regular X apps
(meaning not QT) do use this file independent of whatever KDE is up to.

There is an option in KDE somewhere that says if KDE should apply look
and feel to non-kde apps. I can't see where it is in the 3.1 menus. Maybe
if you have that enabled then the values in .Xdefaults are being
overridden. Does konsole have a scroll bar? If not, then KDE is probably
configuring non-KDE apps. Look for the option in the control center and
disable it. Of course, in typical KDE fashion, it is probably somewhere
else with a non-obvious new name...

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 07:54:58-0700 Collins Richey <erichey2 at attbi.com>
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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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).
> 
> 3. Kde will not restart phoenix, but it does other stuff (sylpheed,
> terms, OpenOffice, etc.).  How do I fix this?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue about these annoying little problems?

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