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May 19, 2004, 01:30 AM
 
Well, I have had my first mac for almost a month now, and today I got KDE to run native under OS X. I used the binaries from opendarwin, and changed the theme to aqua, so they even look like native apps. Not everything runs perfect, and they run a bit slow, but hey I almost have a better free office program than OO.org
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May 21, 2004, 11:35 PM
 
cool, good stuff. If your using XDarwin, use X11. X11 has quartz acceleration i found out.
     
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May 24, 2004, 09:54 AM
 
I tried to install kde via fink and am having some trouble. I replaced my .xintrc file per the instructions:

---[ Configuration ]--------------------------------------------------

To use KDE as your windowing system in XDarwin, create a file called
".xinitrc" in your home directory, with the following commands (it is
safe to cut and paste these):

echo "source /sw/bin/init.sh" > ~/.xinitrc
echo "/sw/bin/startkde >/tmp/kde.log 2>&1" >> ~/.xinitrc

Note that this will overwrite an existing .xinitrc file!


Now when I launch X11, it just quits immediately (Apple's x11).

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May 25, 2004, 06:50 PM
 
Maybe someone can help me with my KDE problem: I can't get it to antialias fonts, and it's fugly as hell. I have KDE 3.2.2 (SSL-enabled) installed via fink, and on the default configuration, the antialiasing option in the Control Center never sticks. Does anyone know how to fix this?
     
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May 29, 2004, 10:09 AM
 
Originally posted by wataru:
Maybe someone can help me with my KDE problem: I can't get it to antialias fonts, and it's fugly as hell. I have KDE 3.2.2 (SSL-enabled) installed via fink, and on the default configuration, the antialiasing option in the Control Center never sticks. Does anyone know how to fix this?
If you go into the terminal and do a ls -all you'll see a folder named .qt which is owned by root. Just execute:

sudo chown -R <yourusername>:<yourusername> .qt/

restart KDE and the settings will stick.
     
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May 29, 2004, 11:58 AM
 
Originally posted by FL!PNEUS:
If you go into the terminal and do a ls -all you'll see a folder named .qt which is owned by root. Just execute:

sudo chown -R <yourusername>:<yourusername> .qt/

restart KDE and the settings will stick.
Thanks for the tip. That fixed a couple other problems I had been having too.
     
   
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