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KDE
Dual screen
I had the idea of getting my old 19″-screen back onto my table – in addition to my 22″-widescreen, of course! However, this meant to recompile 350 packages with xinerama-support – sometimes, Windows indeed IS easier than Gentoo…. In order to set up both screens on Linux, I followed the HOWTO Dual Monitors in the [...]
KDE-3.5.7: Preparations
KDE 3.5.7 is finally stable on Gentoo. Today, I started the upgrade cycle. According to various sources, the critical part is the new expat – first thing to do should be to upgrade expat and then to revdep-rebuild. After this is now done, I will shut down kde, move my kde-folders in the home directory [...]
Mac OSX clone
I was like changing my system’s appearance today – so I decided to once again install baghira. I was pointed to this excellent guide (and later also this one) – I did not follow it entirely, but enough to now have a nice OSX-like style on my KDE…. I will add screenshots later. EDIT: Here [...]
Fonts and Beryl
Now, I am into giving my system the last tweaks and bits to look absolutely gorgeous. Somehow I was not at all satisfied with my fonts setting. By accident I saw a screenshot of some very nice fonts in the forums; I therefore altered my /etc/fonts/local.conf as given in the corresponding entry. Wow! (Note that [...]
Repair stuff and custom ebuild
Today, my new KDE crashed again on my new system, I decided to do something about it. According to this post, I have several possibilities; I went for the last one. So, I changed the CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf to have -O2 instead of -Os (probably I should recompile my whole system now…) and recompiled xorg-server, [...]
