Gtk kde4 slackware book

Since kde 5 is built on qt5 kde 4 had qt4 as its base youll find many qt5 related packages. Im pretty sure it will showed up soon enough as kde 5 is getting more stable and polished. Aliens slackbuilds contain a build and a pkg directory. The network scripts themselves are welldocumented inside the scripts but there is not much other written enduser documentation about what you put into the configuration files. It would be good if you read it now if you have not done so already. Kde plasma 5 for slackware end of the year edition.

A small little library that was created by pulling out some comon code out of indicatorapplet. Kde plasma 5 slackware october release alien pastures. It was bound to happen, and while i was asleep pat updated slackware current with a fresh batch of packages containing kde 4. Index of slackware slackware current slackware kde. Aug 28, 2009 the first time ive ever been disappointed by slackware. Linux is one of the most important and most utilized opensource operating systems. Kde4 has been out for about a year and a half now, and it has come a long way since kde 4. This means that you can edit all the details of a user, or even create a new user or group simply by editing these files and doing a few other tasks like creating the users home directory. This book contains many real life examples derived from the authors experience as a linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. Im using kde on my arch system and wanted to change theme for gtk2 applications.

Also, in order for qt4 and gtk based applications to dock into the plasma 5 system tray, more dependencies were needed. This means that many people will have screen problems when they first startx. The identical help files for both apps are on my hard drive. For gtk3 try setting adwaita theme that comes with slackware. As you gain experience with slackware linux, we hope you find this book to be a handy reference. This is an article outlining the differences between what i believe are the two best linux distros around today. But when i start firefox, the look is totally screwed up. See this blog post by ponce for instructions on compiling and installing lxde on slackware. Today, there are lots of projects that are based on.

The plasma5 repository on still has a currenttesting. Jul 15, 2009 slackware packages made by alien here youll find the slackware packages i built and that other people requested to be made available or that i thought you might like. And i could write a book as an answer, so, its definitely a too broad type of q. How do i make my qt applications look like my kde applications.

This book is designed to get you started with the slackware linux operating system. Including the latest popular software while retaining a sense of tradition, providing simplicity and ease of use alongside flexibility and power, slackware brings the. Solved ugly gtk, which package to install to make gtk. Feb 19, 2011 when you install slackware one of the annoying issues with it is that xorg kde is not configured automatically. It is licensed under the terms of the gnu lesser general public license, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it.

Oct 15, 2019 as always, these packages are meant to be installed on a full installation of slackwarecurrent which has had its kde4 removed first. Not using gtk, or in fact, any other toolkit than qt4 and the native x11 one, of course. Jan 28, 2009 short demonstration of a couple of the kwin effects. Anonymous coward writes after long consideration, pat volkerding has removed gnome from slackware. This book should be considered as required followup reading material once you mastered the slackware essentials.

Kde and qt programs look bad when in a different window manager. Hampton posted on jan 4, 2012 dec 27, 2011 in linux with the release of gnome 3, many developers of gtk apps have begun to port their programs from gtk2 to gtk3. Browse other questions tagged gtk desktopenvironments qt or ask. How to make gtk application use the theme options configured in the gnome tweak tool and not the kde s gtk configuration when im under gnome. The first time ive ever been disappointed by slackware the. By default gtk qtengine is used for displaying controls but it can be easily changed. Please consider donating funds to help support the gsb. If you are using another desktop environment like xfce.

The medium news is that some applications written for kde use quite a lot of the kde desktop and pull in a lot of. Im contacts should be better integrated with kaddressbook. As always, please remove kde4 first check the readme for instructions if you still need those. The lightweight x11 desktop environment is a good alternative for lowend hardware where kde is too sluggish. Perhaps my eyes are deceiving me but i certainly perceive a difference for the worse in font rendering in gtk apps under kde.

Non kde applications will revert to generic gtk look and feel and will not have the same visual styling as kde. My wife and i both have kobo ereaders, and on my android phone i use fbreader to read my books on the road whenever i have some free time having calibre on a computer still requires a usb cable to transfer e books from the computer to your ereaderphone, but networked. There are more things involved there than just these kdesupport components. Hello, im trying to install kde4 from the ports and i have some trouble achieving one goal i set myself. This months kde plasma5 for slackware contains the kde frameworks 5.

So im trying to integrate gtk apps into my kde desktop. This is not compiz the desktop session recorder makes it look pretty laggy, but im actually getting around 80100 fps. I read so many articles about kde5, plasma, gtk and so on. For this purpose you may use gtk stuff, or your current kde stuff. Dropline gnome dropline gnome is a version of the gnome desktop that has been tweaked for slackware linux systems. Im trying to find a good gtk theme that i like for certain applications. I had also reconfigure the theme settings for gtk, because my windows were without any gtk theme after changing the cursortheme.

So far, i have always been able to enter into slackware only through darkstar. Slackware is very minimalistic with its package manager, especially compared to debian. Browse other questions tagged gtk or ask your own question. The qt library, which kde requires, is also in this. Non kde applications will revert to generic gtk look and feel and will not have the same visual styling as kde packages. Sep 21, 2009 just as an update to my upgrading kde 4. But sooner or later, something gets pulled in as a dependency that pulls something in that. I would like to know how to install kde, or any of the gui desktops for that matter, on slackware. On one machine when i open the gtk styles and font i see kde oxygen theme and kde oxygen theme flat. This app give you ability to change appearance of gtk applications in kde4. Mame for slackware mame and tools packages for slackware linux 32bit and 64bit editions.

Configuring your network in slackware this article is intended as a reference guide to network card configuration in slackware. It is software that is found beneath all the computer software, and that tends to receive requests from most of the computer programs before relaying them to the hardware of the computer. Fortunately this is actually pretty simple to fix in most. Kde 4 in slackware basically meant that there was no usable kde in slackware. Among the many program updates and distribution enhancements, youll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today. It seems that under gnome, kde gtk configuration is being used in favor of gnome tweak tool configuration. The examples are generally very simplistic and way too many of the function call parameters are never explained. You can either use the gtk based graphical networkmanagerapplet in your x window session. Kde sc, first released in january 2008 and the last release being 4. The slackware essentials book has a chapter about keeping up to date.

The official release of slackware linux by patrick volkerding is an advanced linux operating system, designed with the twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities. Slackware linux provides new and experienced users alike with a fullyfeatured system, equipped to serve in any capacity from desktop workstation to machineroom server. This isnt necessarily a bad thing, because it gives a lot more control to the user. About the gnome slackbuild binary distribution this is our binary gnome distribution for slackware and slackware64 linux. Jan 04, 2011 hello, im trying to install kde4 from the ports and i have some trouble achieving one goal i set myself. One of the programs i use a lot on all my computers is calibre, the e book library management system. When we release a new version of slackware which is typically once or twice a year we ship it. That could mean trouble because of the dreaded shared library. Some ideas to improve overall usability and integration of kontact with other kde apps. The next generation episodes, best of both worlds, both arch linux and slackware represent the best of all the os worlds. Keep in mind that those packages are not officially supported by slackware.

Also, in order for qt4 and gtk based applications to dock into the plasma 5 system tray. Sep 01, 2019 therefore it was important to get rid of the old 6. How to make gtk application use the theme options configured. Either run xfsettingsd in the background, or use a gtk theme switcher. Web, ftp, and email servers are ready to go out of the box, as are a wide selection of popular desktop environments. It passes a menu structure across dbus so that a program can create a menu simply without worrying about how it is displayed on the other side of the bus. Kde is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy. An x environment which shares a lot of lookandfeel features with the macos and windows.

Pat mentions in the current changelog that gnome takes a lot of time to package, so this move should allow more time to be spent on the rest of slackware. Kde software compilation 4 kde sc 4 was the only series of the socalled kde software compilation short. The entire source code used to build slackware linux 9. This is a communitymaintained page that lists active distributions shipping plasma 5. Lots of packages in the deps department which are completely new to slackware. This is a new lts release, but i will wait for the other distros to find bugs.

Finally got some fixes we were waiting for in this new kernel. Everything seems to work fine except that gtk apps arent now integrated with the kde oxygen theme. I have installed gtk qtengine on two of my slackware machines. Jan 04, 2012 how to make gtk3 apps look presentable in kde4 by tavis j. Compiled on the latest slackware current, its running smoothly here on my laptop. There is another nice and freely available book on slackware, called slackware linux basics. If you havent yet, you should read about the gsb project before installing gsb. The slackbuilds found here can be used seperatly, but are ment to work as a set on top of pam and systemd.

It encompasses all needed packages for a fully configurable, customisable and usable gnome desktop environment for slackware. Apr 11, 2020 kde is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy. Alien pastures my thoughts on slackware, life and everything. Get kde software on your linux distro has packaging information for those wishing to ship kde software. Now, i still dont have the gtk settings menu under system settings applications appearance, where i could set the gtk apps to use qtcurve and specify the icons. Dear guys, i am a newbie to slackware linux, though i have used suse and knoppix versions. Like most things in slackware linux, users and groups are stored in plaintext files. I have a problem with a gtk themes in kde environment. Theres no way to cover all the great options available in the customizable desktop environment here, but these seven tweaks can change your plasma experience for the better. Debian vs slackware which operating system is better. The great thing about kde s plasma desktop is that its universally familiar enough for anybody to use, but its also got all the knobs and switches needed to become a power user. Further when you do change your screen resolution in kde4 it is not remembered when you restart. Ive been using slackware since the first time they shipped a disc with a linux book version 1. Slackware 14 includes a kde widget for networkmanager.