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From: Viktor Lakics <lakicsv@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE AA issues
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:36:07
Message-Id: E15mqKe-0006e7-00.2001-09-28-06-37-05@mail6.svr.pol.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE AA issues by Tom von Schwerdtner
1 I think a lot of people had this problem (I had it twice, with 2 different
2 KDE) and Sebastian gave this solution, which I guess everybody uses already
3 who wants to have AA in KDE. Supposedly this modification should slow down
4 app startup, although I did not experience that...
5
6 Regards Viktor
7
8 On Friday 28 September 2001 4:44 am, you wrote:
9 > A google search led to a old gentoo post about kde 2.1.1 which says that
10 > the /usr/bin/startkde line that says:
11 >
12 > LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit +knotify
13 >
14 > should be changed to:
15 >
16 > kdeinit +kcminit +knotify
17 >
18 > ...this worked like a charm.
19 >
20 > I installed from sources rc6-r11, so I dont know why the startkde was not
21 > modified properly...and I dont know why more people didnt have this
22 > problem....but if you do, that seems to be the fix.
23 >
24 > HTH someone
25 > -Tom
26 >
27 > > I've harassed everyone I can find about this but have not found the
28 > > solution...so, the problem is:
29 > >
30 > > 1) latest kde and qt
31 > >
32 > > 2) AA works great when apps are launched from a term
33 > >
34 > > 3) AA dosent work at all when in KDE and launching apps any other way
35 > > (menu, kicker, desktop icon)
36 > >
37 > > 4) this is very annoying
38 > >
39 > > 5) "echo $QT_XFT" comes back with '1' in konsole, and apps launched
40 > > from konsole come up with AA.....but still not from kicker
41 > >
42 > > 6) setting QT_XFT=true all over the place (.csrhc, .bashrc(tried it
43 > > from bash), /usr/bin/startkde, xinitrc) changes nothing.
44 > >
45 > > 7) folks in #kde have no idea what the problem is, but this is not 100%
46 > > Gentoo specific because I had this problem on my Debian Sid box before
47 > > it became my Gentoo box (I am fairly certain)
48 > >
49 > > any ideas?
50 > >
51 > > -Tom
52 > >
53 > >
54 > >
55 > >
56 > >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE AA issues Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>