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NCoDer

Beginner

Posts: 1

Monday, November 21st 2005, 1:52pm

KDE Newbie Questions

Hi,

I have some problems with KDE 3.4 on Debian Sarge. Maybe some are not directly concerning KDE but they all are related to KDE desktop.

1. I downloaded some icon sets from kde-look.org and tried to follow the instructions for installing them, but if I open the Control-Panel -> "Look and Feel" -> "Icons"-> "Install new" and browse through the directories with the Icons, there is no choice to open any special file for the "Theme" or whatever, only folders with Icons which can't be "installed". This happens with every icon set. What is missing there?

2. I downloaded kdock from the same source, and when compiling I get an error /lib/cpp C++ Preprocessor fails sanity check, although there are three versions of cpp (cpp cpp3.3, cpp4.0) installed. It complains about some "cpp1plus" it cannot execute ("no such file"). I installed kde-devel and all depending packages without result. Any ideas what to do?

3. I connected a USB storage disk and could mount it, but I heard, that there is a possibility that it automounts and an icon is created on the kde desktop. How can I configure that? Do I have to install something special?

thanks for help,

NCoDer

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javmss

Beginner

Posts: 15

Tuesday, November 22nd 2005, 7:39pm

RE: KDE Newbie Questions

1. I don´t know much about Debian, but what I think to work is to place your icon folder in the same place as the others (like "/usr/share/apps/icons" or wherever i lives in a Debian system). If it does not suffice to allow you to choose your new icons from kcontrol, use the brute force symlinking your folder to the "Default" one.

2. Deeper information would be glad. For while, why do you have so many cpp packages instaled? It may be some kind of conflict. Is there any "cpp1plus" in your computer? Have you searched it? Maybe wrong path.

3. Of course it is possible. Mandrake instalations have being doing it for a long time. Even Redhat has something like this (for Gnome I´m sure, KDE is not among their preferences, so I can´t assert).
If you want to setup it by yourself, you may try reading about autofs or supermount. I´m not sure about how KDE better handles this. Or even if it is another way KDE does this.

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coco-loco

Trainee

Posts: 97

Friday, December 2nd 2005, 6:31pm

I'm no Debian-Geek neither, but...

3) You have to install the hotplug package for that feature. This might be something like "apt-get install hotplug". Anyways, as of sarge this might be included, perhaps you have to do some configuration on it?
Try "man hotplug", this will: a) confirm that the package is installed and b) tell you what to tweak to make your hotplug recognize the usb thingie.

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javmss

Beginner

Posts: 15

Friday, December 2nd 2005, 6:49pm

I did notice that kde-3.5 has an explicit option to do that. I don´t know which external dependancies are, if it even depends on anything else.
But, it at least signals that KDE is dealing in a higher level with this. If it does not embed its own monitoring (it´s not the Unix philosophy), it must be smart enough to deal with, at least, one monitoring scheme.

I don´t know if being hotplug installed is enough to KDE make it work. I will guess so.

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