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Nathan P

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Registered: 2008-01-30

Posts: 93

Help! Firefox Fugly in KDEmod 3

Installed kdemod 3 last night and everything looks beautiful, except for firefox.  I have the gtk-qt-engine or whatever it is installed but it's still ugly, the scrollbars, progress bar, everything in firefox is ugly, certain fonts on websites look huge and the menus and quick link things above the browser window are huge too.  Also, when hovering the mouse over buttons, instead of nicely highlighting the icon a huge rectangle around the icon is highlighted and it's quite ugly...  How do I fix this?  I know firefox can look okay in KDE as I've run a few distros before this that had no problems.

Thanks,
Nathan

Nathan P

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Registered: 2008-01-30

Posts: 93

Re: Help! Firefox Fugly in KDEmod 3

See how everything is huge?  Also notice the scroll bar and how the window just looks unfinished.  Tried theme'ing it but it was a bit sketchy-some themes would fix one thing, some others but none of them looked quite right.

Thanks,
Nathan

Blind

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From: Desert mountain

Registered: 2005-02-06

Posts: 386

Re: Help! Firefox Fugly in KDEmod 3

Did you save the settings for gtk-qt-engine in the control center?
For me it works ok...
You might also have to restart, or something...
Cheers,
Blind

Bestiapeluda

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-10-16

Posts: 181

Re: Help! Firefox Fugly in KDEmod 3

install some gtk2 themes and engines like

# pacman -Sy gtk-qt-engine

and then you need a theme changer like:

# pacman -S gtk-theme-switch2

Of course, EVERYTHING is in the Archwiki:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/How … _look_nice

Zer0

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From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 299

Re: Help! Firefox Fugly in KDEmod 3

Uniform look for QT and GTK apps (Wiki) you might find your answers there.

Nathan P

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Registered: 2008-01-30

Posts: 93

Re: Help! Firefox Fugly in KDEmod 3

Yes but how do I do all this with KDEmod as opposed to regular KDE?  Aren't the packages different?  I know that the packages for gtk-qt-engine are different.

Zer0

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From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 299

Re: Help! Firefox Fugly in KDEmod 3

Same for KDEmod, it doesn't matter.  I use KDEmod here without problems.

BTW you can use gtk-qt-engine or kdemod-gtk-qt-engine, both work.  In fact I'm not really sure what the difference is between the 2 (maybe funkyou can elaborate).

Be sure to read the Troubleshooting (Themes not working in GTK apps) section of that wiki if your using gtk-qt-engine!!  Sometimes the gtkrc path is set to look at the wrong file.

Last edited by Zer0 (2008-02-08 00:51:39)

Nathan P

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Registered: 2008-01-30

Posts: 93

Re: Help! Firefox Fugly in KDEmod 3

installed the regular version of gtk-qt-engine and it worked!  Now to fix the fonts...

Nathan P

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Registered: 2008-01-30

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Re: Help! Firefox Fugly in KDEmod 3

alright, tried to install some LCD specific fonts for my screen and got all the way to the freetype2-lcd package and got this when trying to install:

[nathan@NPARCH freetype2-lcd]$ makepkg -ci freetype2-lcd.pkg.tar.gz
==> Making package: freetype2-lcd 2.3.5-3  (Thu Feb  7 22:21:51 PST 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Found freetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2 in build dir
  -> Found bytecode.patch in build dir
  -> Found freetype-2.3.0-enable-spr.patch in build dir
  -> Found freetype-2.2.1-enable-valid.patch in build dir
  -> Found freetype-2.2.1-memcpy-fix.patch in build dir
  -> Found freetype-2.2.1-subpixel-disable-quantization.diff in build dir
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    freetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2 ... Passed
    bytecode.patch ... Passed
    freetype-2.3.0-enable-spr.patch ... Passed
    freetype-2.2.1-enable-valid.patch ... Passed
    freetype-2.2.1-memcpy-fix.patch ... Passed
    freetype-2.2.1-subpixel-disable-quantization.diff ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
  -> bsdtar -x -f freetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2
==> Removing existing pkg/ directory...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting build()...
PKGBUILD: line 29: patch: command not found
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
    Aborting...

What am I doing wrong?

Last edited by Nathan P (2008-02-08 06:24:13)

drewbug01

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From: chicago

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 85

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Re: Help! Firefox Fugly in KDEmod 3

the makepkg script is looking to run the command "patch" on your system. from that output, looks like its not installed.

pacman -S patch

then run makepkg again. :-D

Nathan P

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Registered: 2008-01-30

Posts: 93

Re: Help! Firefox Fugly in KDEmod 3

thanks!