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Update for the KDE information in this chapter:

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- Remove the line on KOffice, it's not recommendable for the general
  public at this time.
- Remove outdated information on kdm.
- Remove the subsection on anti-aliasing.  It's outdated and aa has been
  enabled by default for some time now.

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Christian Brueffer 2006-03-31 20:51:51 +00:00
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</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para><application>KDE</application> has an office application
suite based on <application>KDE</application>'s
<quote>KParts</quote> technology consisting
of a spread-sheet, a presentation application, an organizer, a
news client and more. <application>KDE</application> also
comes with a web browser called
<para><application>KDE</application> comes with a web browser called
<application>Konqueror</application>, which represents
a solid competitor to other existing web browsers on &unix;
systems. More information on <application>KDE</application>
@ -1606,121 +1601,13 @@ DisplayManager.requestPort: 0</screen>
<application>GNOME</application>, or something else) to run
after logging on.</para>
<para>To begin with, run the <application>KDE</application>
control panel, <command>kcontrol</command>, as
<username>root</username>. It is generally considered
unsafe to run the entire X environment as
<username>root</username>. Instead, run the window manager
as a normal user, open a terminal window (such as
<filename>xterm</filename> or <application>KDE</application>'s
<filename>konsole</filename>), become <username>root</username>
with <userinput>su</userinput> (the user must be in the
<groupname>wheel</groupname>
group in <filename>/etc/group</filename> for this), and then
type <userinput>kcontrol</userinput>.</para>
<para>To enable <application>kdm</application>, the
<literal>ttyv8</literal> entry in <filename>/etc/ttys</filename>
has to be adapted. The line should look as follows:</para>
<para>Click on the icon on the left marked
<guibutton>System</guibutton>, then on <guibutton>Login
manager</guibutton>. On the right there are
various configurable options, which the
<application>KDE</application> manual will explain in greater
detail. Click on <guibutton>sessions</guibutton> on the right.
Click <guibutton>New type</guibutton> to add various window
managers and desktop environments. These are just labels,
so they can say <application>KDE</application> and
<application>GNOME</application> rather than
<application>startkde</application> or
<application>gnome-session</application>.
Include a label <literal>failsafe</literal>.</para>
<para>Play with the other menus as well, they are mainly
cosmetic and self-explanatory. When you are done, click on
<guibutton>Apply</guibutton> at the bottom, and quit the
control center.</para>
<para>To make sure <application>kdm</application> understands
what the labels (<application>KDE</application>,
<application>GNOME</application> etc) mean, edit the files used
by <link linkend="x-xdm">XDM</link>.
<note><para>In <application>KDE 2.2</application> this has
changed: <application>kdm</application> now uses its own
configuration files. Please see the <application>KDE
2.2</application> documentation for details.</para>
</note>
In a terminal window, as <username>root</username>,
edit the file
<filename>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession</filename>. There is
a section in the middle like this:</para>
<screen>case $# in
1)
case $1 in
failsafe)
exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0
;;
esac
esac</screen>
<para>A few lines need to be added to this section.
Assuming the labels from used were <quote>KDE</quote> and
<quote>GNOME</quote>,
use the following:</para>
<screen>case $# in
1)
case $1 in
kde)
exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
;;
GNOME)
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session
;;
failsafe)
exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0
;;
esac
esac</screen>
<para>For the <application>KDE</application>
login-time desktop background to be honored,
the following line needs to be added to
<filename>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0</filename>:</para>
<screen>/usr/local/bin/krootimage</screen>
<para>Now, make sure <application>kdm</application> is listed in
<filename>/etc/ttys</filename> to be started at the next bootup.
To do this, simply follow the instructions from the previous
section on <link linkend="x-xdm">XDM</link> and replace
references to the <command>/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm</command>
program with <command>/usr/local/bin/kdm</command>.</para>
<programlisting>ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure</programlisting>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="x11-wm-kde-antialias">
<title>Anti-aliased Fonts</title>
<indexterm><primary>KDE</primary>
<secondary>anti-aliased fonts</secondary></indexterm>
<para>X11
supports anti-aliasing via
its <quote>RENDER</quote> extension, and starting with version 2.3,
Qt (the toolkit used by <application>KDE</application>) supports
this extension. Configuring this is described in <xref
linkend="antialias"> on antialiasing X11 fonts. So, with
up-to-date software, anti-aliasing is possible on a
<application>KDE</application> desktop. Just go to the KDE
menu, go to
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Preferences</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>Look and Feel</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Fonts</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, and click on the check box
<guibutton>Use Anti-Aliasing for Fonts and Icons</guibutton>.
For a Qt application which is not part of
<application>KDE</application>, the environment variable
<varname>QT_XFT</varname> needs to be set to <literal>true</literal>
before starting the program.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="x11-wm-xfce">