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I have a working debian installation of 3.3. No problems, other than a missing Mouse Control module which others have complained about as well.

I was curious about using Konstruct, so I tried it. I now have a working 3.3 local installation, thanks to Konstruct. However, I notice that this installation has odd characters in all KDE menus. For instance, I notice that the first time I touch the KDE Menu button in the Panel, I see each underlined character has a green background. The next time I touch it, I see an added '&' character to the left of the each menu item. Each subsequent touch of the KDE Menu button adds more odd characters to the left of each menu item. I also notice odd things like this in other KDE application menus. Anyone know how to correct this?

I think I have read that this can be solved by selecting a different style. (I think the style that is selected on your system is a style for debugging keyboard shortcuts.)

I found it. I think this thread sounds like it's about your problem:

http://www.kde-forum.org/viewtopic.php?t=2951&highlight=green+character

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Original von ralvy


Hmmm...that doesn't seem to help. My solution so far is to place

Did you also use qtconfig or just the control center?
(Disclaimer: I cannot say I understand the details of the thread I pointed you to...)

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Ah, okay. I found a debian qtcontrol package and installed it, and then picked a different style. Didn't help.

Well, no idea then, sorry...

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I also noticed there were hardly any styles to choose from via qtconfig. E.g., Plastik wasn't there.

I think qtconfig only lists the built-in Qt styles.

I'm also experiencing this problem. It is bad enough that I've reverted to KDE3.2.3 as I find KDE3.3 unusable becuase of this. I thought that perhaps it had something to do with my $LANG environment setting. After experimenting with several different values for that there was no change in the situation. I consider this to be a stopper for KDE3.3 and can't consider using it until this issue is resolved.

If anybody has any ideas I'm willing to give them a shot. I'm retired and play with Linux all the time as I've been using it since 1992, both professionally and personally. I'm used to tracking down obscure issues, but this one has me stumped. This is the sort of thing that gives ammo to the "Linux isn't ready for the desktop" brigade. I'll keep working on it as I want to prove those folks wrong.

After reading more on this issue I've tried both the rm -r .qt and the change styles suggestions. Neither work completely. Interestingly, only KDevelop is afflicted with this bug...er, feature, on my system; a heavily modified Fedora Core 1. I haven't tried recompiling KDevelop after doing the .qt removal. That'll be the next step in trying to solve this puzzle.

And my wife wonders what I do all day!

Take care,
Ron