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Zerathidune

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Registered: 2007-02-25

Posts: 102

Graphical Errors in KDE since e17 install

Hi,

I recently installed e17 from the community repository, and now KDE is having some graphical problems. Buttons are missing or missing text, the bouncing busy icon for launching applications is just a light blue square, the arrow on the panel's hide button is a square as well, and icons are missing from a number of places.

I've tried uninstalling e17, But it had no effect. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

reverie

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2006-03-02

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Re: Graphical Errors in KDE since e17 install

Weird, e17 is pretty self-contained, the only lib used outside is afaik imlib2, but I don't think kde uses that... Never hurts to try though, pacman -Sd imlib2 (you might have imlib2-cvs or imlib2-devel installed instead).

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

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Re: Graphical Errors in KDE since e17 install

no kde does not use imlib2 by itself, only third party apps like k3b and digikam.

have you tried another icon theme ? or even removing ~/.kde (after making a backup of course )
so we can rule out problems in your home dir (or in the install itself)

[edit] do you mind posting a link to your colorscheme? It looks nice for a dark theme

Last edited by pressh (2007-10-18 22:29:37)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Graphical Errors in KDE since e17 install

There's no question that changing things in E17 can change things in KDE. I was playing around with using E17 as KDE's window manager, and just for fun I changed the icon properties for Firefox in E17's launcher to point to Konqueror, and it made the updates in KDE also. Apparently E17 is directly modifying the desktop file and not storing settings in some sort of configuration file.

By the way, at the time I made the changes, I was not logged into KDE at all, only E17. When I wrote the last paragraph, I was in E17 putting the settings back. Now I'm in KDE, and the settings took here also.

Last edited by skottish (2007-10-19 00:07:36)

Zerathidune

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Registered: 2007-02-25

Posts: 102

Re: Graphical Errors in KDE since e17 install

deleting my .kde did it. I feel like I should have thought of that myself.

I've had to recreate the color scheme, it's mostly the same but the title bar text is white now.

http://babbage.clarku.edu/~idenhardt/charcol.kcsrc

unfortunately the button/window text seems to stay black for gtk apps even with gtk-qt-engine (if anyone has any thoughts on that I'd like to hear them.) which makes it a bit hard to read. (it used to work fine actually)