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Good question dekstop. I want going to ask it myself. Really, I did. Anyways, I can never get Karamba themes to work, but I geuss it's the general problem with compiling programs.

Karamba and Superkaramba are not 2 competing Karambas. Superkaramba is an extension, a modification, of Karamba and is capable of more interactivity in themes by using Python.

This means that you only need Superkaramba, which does not replace kicker in any way. It's just a program that you "run normally" and takes a theme as an argument.

As far as I now there has been discussion about making Karamba become official part of KDE but I don't know if a decision has been made yet.

So give Superkaramba a try by following the link acuss provided. And Kenneth, what distro are you using, are you compiling from source or using rpm??

I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and i got the SuperKaramba RPM from KDE-Look.org to work. But I can't get some themes to works as they're supposed to. They show, but they don't work. and some don't compile, etc.

You propably just need to update to the latest version of SuperKaramba. Many of the themes that appear on kde-look.org need the latest version.

If you start superkarmba in console with a theme as a parametere you can see what's going on. If you get a lot of "not found" bla bla its because the theme is trying to call a function in SuperKaramba that isn't avilible in your version.

Ok, thanks. And how do you get SuerKaramba to automatically start on login to KDE. Do i need to edit any cofig files?

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Ok, thanks. And how do you get SuerKaramba to automatically start on login to KDE. Do i need to edit any cofig files?

I haven't done this myself, but try this:
make a bash script and put it in your ~/.kde/Autostart directory.
(cd to the directory containing your karamba themes...)
[code:1]
#!/bin/bash
cd /home/Kenneth/karambathemes/
superkaramba yourtheme.theme
[/code:1]

Ok, thanks. I will try that.