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KDE
Fix and tweak
We have loads to fix and to tweak! There is a problem accessing the SMB-shares (they are chmoded rwxr-xr-x), so I change the corresponding lines in /etc/fstab to have dmask=770,fmask=770 instead of umask=007 Now, Firefox. I emerge the mplayerplug-in; for this to work correctly, I add divx, wmp and realmedia to my use flags (note [...]
Beautify and finalise
Another day to play around on the new client… Today, I was up to a) beautify KDE and b) finalising some stuff, i. e. make sure I have all the programs I use for daily work. In terms of beautify, I emerged whatever I found in the x11-themes section that related to either icons, KDE [...]
Configuring KDE… and the rest
KDE took about 5 hours to compile… not bad! Next step is to emerge my favourite browser – Firefox! To do so, I first add this line to /etc/portage/package.use: www-client/mozilla-firefox moznoxft mozdevelop mozbranding Now, let’s emerge – and in the meantime, configure KDE a little. I won’t go too much into detail, becaue a lot [...]
To KDE or not to KDE
Now here comes the next big thing – installing KDE! But as it turns out, there’s lot to do before finally emerging it… First, we must make sure everything works as desired. From my old setup, I know that k3b should not be emerged with the hal flag kdm, kdelibs and arts should be emerged [...]
