Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Control Centre - what package provides fonts module?
On Sunday 09 August 2009 05:40:07 Stroller wrote:
Hi there,
I use a Mac running OS X as my main desktop, but I really like knode
on the rare occasions I use Usenet. So I have installed knode on a
headless server and can ssh -X into it and knode works fine.
Unfortunately, the fonts are pretty large - I would prefer to
configure these on a KDE-wide basis, as the Location, Edit, View, c
is equally large in Konqueror, which opens if I click a link in a
usenet posting in knode.
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 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.
Edit ~/.kderc to set defaults you like
Or you could install the kdebase-meta to get everything for a basic session. A
bit of a waste just for knode...
Version of knode:
$ eix knode
[I] kde-base/knode
Available versions:
(3.5) 3.5.9 3.5.10
(4.2) ~4.2.4
(4.3) [M]~4.3.0!t
{aqua arts debug elibc_FreeBSD handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix
kontact xinerama}
Installed versions: 3.5.10(3.5)(13:07:37 25/06/09)(-debug -
elibc_FreeBSD)
Homepage:http://www.kde.org/
Description: A newsreader for KDE
It appears that `kcmshell` is provided by kde-base/kdelibs, but I
don't know what the !t in the below means:
The eix man page is written in Martian. You don't understand it, I don;t
understand it and the developer has no clue what he is doing - if he did, this
question would not arise. He is making the fatal flaw of exposing the
implementation in the interface or documentation But having said that, !t
means that knode is subject to
RESTRICT=test
This fact is hidden deep in the man page, in section OUTPUT, subsection
Slots, 4th example. Line 647 of 709 on my box (terminal 100 chars wide)
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Control Centre - what package provides fonts module?
On 9 Aug 2009, at 10:40, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... 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.
[gentoo-user] KDE Control Centre - what package provides fonts module?
Hi there,
I use a Mac running OS X as my main desktop, but I really like knode
on the rare occasions I use Usenet. So I have installed knode on a
headless server and can ssh -X into it and knode works fine.
Unfortunately, the fonts are pretty large - I would prefer to
configure these on a KDE-wide basis, as the Location, Edit, View, c
is equally large in Konqueror, which opens if I click a link in a
usenet posting in knode.
I have tried running `kcontrol`, but it opens without any icons or
tree on the left hand side - I see a blue welcome page, but there is
nothing I can actually configure.
If I try `kcmshell`:
$ kcmshell fonts
kbuildsycoca running...
kcmshell (kdelibs): WARNING: Could not find module 'fonts'.
$ kcmshell -list
The following modules are available:
$
Version of knode:
$ eix knode
[I] kde-base/knode
Available versions:
(3.5) 3.5.9 3.5.10
(4.2) ~4.2.4
(4.3) [M]~4.3.0!t
{aqua arts debug elibc_FreeBSD handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix
kontact xinerama}
Installed versions: 3.5.10(3.5)(13:07:37 25/06/09)(-debug -
elibc_FreeBSD)
Homepage:http://www.kde.org/
Description: A newsreader for KDE
It appears that `kcmshell` is provided by kde-base/kdelibs, but I
don't know what the !t in the below means:
$ equery b `which kcmshell`
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kcmshell in *... ]
kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r6 (/usr/kde/3.5/bin/kcmshell)
$ eix kdelibs
[I] kde-base/kdelibs
Available versions:
(3.5) ~3.5.9!t ~3.5.9-r1!t ~3.5.9-r2!t ~3.5.9-r3!t 3.5.9-r4!t ~3.5.10-
r1!t ~3.5.10-r2!t ~3.5.10-r3!t ~3.5.10-r4!t ~3.5.10-r5!t 3.5.10-r6!t
(4.2) ~4.2.4-r4!t
(4.3) [M]~4.3.0!t
{3dnow acl alsa altivec aqua arts avahi bindist branding bzip2 cups
debug doc elibc_FreeBSD fam handbook jpeg2k kdeenablefinal
kdehiddenvisibility kdeprefix kerberos kernel_linux legacyssl lua mmx
nls openexr opengl semantic-desktop spell sse sse2 ssl test tiff
utempter xinerama zeroconf}
Installed versions: 3.5.10-r6(3.5)!t(03:36:47 09/08/09)(acl
cups doc kernel_linux spell -alsa -arts -avahi -bindist -branding -
debug -elibc_FreeBSD -fam -jpeg2k -kdehiddenvisibility -kerberos -
legacyssl -lua -openexr -tiff -utempter)
Homepage:http://www.kde.org/
Description: KDE libraries needed by all KDE programs.
$
Nevertheless, it appears some other package is need to provide the
modules for KDE Control Centre. Anyone know what that is, please?
I'm running x86, not ~x86.
Stroller.
