Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Control Centre - what package provides fonts module?

[Stroller]

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.
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> 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.