Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 03:15, johndickson wrote: > > P.S. After typing the foregoing, I tried to use KMail (in Gnome) to > > check my mail. An error came up telling me that it can't talk to > > klauncher. > > I don't know about the rest of your problem, but I think I may be able to > help on this one. Load the KDE Control Centre and disable anti-aliased fonts. > Now try loading KMail. If that works, try opening a terminal and typing: > > $ export QT_XFT=1 > $ kmail& > > This should load kmail with anti-aliased fonts. This method works for any QT > or KDE app. Add the line 'export QT_XFT=1' to your ~/.bashrc file and you > won't have to type it ever again. > > -- > Sridhar Dhanapalan. > "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: > LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." > -- Jeremy S. Anderson Thanks for the tip. When I get KDE going, I'll be sure to use it. The problem is, I can't get KDE to run as a user (I can run it from root). This suggests that I'm missing a file or that something has been corrupted(?) john
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