Re: KDE peculiarities and questions
# update-alternatives --list x-cursor-theme only shows one cursor theme
installed: /usr/share/icons/Industrial/cursor.theme. I think that this
theme is the default Gnome cursor theme, because when I tried to remove
it aptitude wanted to remove Gnome-desktop-environment as well.
Of course, what I wanted was NO cursor theme at all, only the default
system cursor themes. So I removed both the "industrial" cursor theme
and Gnome-desktop environment and thereby got what I wanted. Hooray!
Previously I had removed the desktop-base package, which did not make
any difference, at least to the login-manager and the cursor style.
Since desktop-base is used by both KDE and Gnome I reinstalled it. In
doing so aptitude also insisted in installing three other packages:
kdebase-dbg, kdelibs-dbg and qt-x11-free-dbg. I am not sure what all
these do, no harm, I hope. One thing that did appear was a blue icon on
the panel which looks like a squashed half jelly bean. It is something
called "SuperKarumba". Useful?
Another discovery. Days ago I wanted to change my login manager from
Gnome to KDE, but it did not work. This morning when I booted my
desktop this morning to my amazement and surprise the KDE login manager
appeared! I wonder what I had done in the meantime to deserve this prise.
Regards,
Ken Heard
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