Switching to KDE from Gnome questions
 

Gnome is just getting too unresponsive for my needs. I want to use KDE for a few months to see if it is any better. Anyways, I have some questions.

1. I cannot find a mailchecking applet. I had this in Gnome. There is probably one in Extras. Does anyone know what the package name is? (if it exists)

2. How do I add a 'Suspend' or 'Standby' option on the main KDE-menu? My desktop can do S3-STR Suspend to ram perfectly and I have come to require it. Gnome has a 'Suspend' option in the menu (which means suspend to ram) and a 'Suspend' option in the logout options (which means suspend to disk). I know that sounds stupid, but how do I get this in KDE?

3. How do I get my Xresources loaded properly when I launch 'xterm'?

(update)
4. Also, is there an applet that tells me my current CPU speed? I had this in Gnome, I find it helpful on occasion.

Hi,

1. What kind of email account do you have? If it's a standard one, you could use Thunderbird to alert you whenever you receive new mail. If it's a Gmail account, you can just use a small app like Kgmailchecker :)

2. KPowersave should do the trick.

3. What do you mean by "loaded properly"?

4. Try GKrellM.

HTH,

-jk

1. I already use thunderbird. I have 5 imap inboxes and countless folders (soon to be more unfortunately). Running thunderbird is way too memory intensive and slow for merely checking when I have new mail. I need some small lightweight application to check. I've been using applets for this for years.

2. Kpowersave looks good.

3. When I launch xterm in Gnome everything in ~/.Xresources is loaded. Which sets my fonts, my fg/bg colors, scrolling, and keys. When I load in KDE, xterm has none of these settings and is the default (annoying) configuration.

4. Gkrellm, doesn't sit nicely in the taskbar (which is where I like to have everything). Also the applet in Gnome also allows me to manually force a specific clock frequency when I pick. I don't know if gkrellm can do this.

Thanks.

1. Hmm... Try some of these then (check them out and see if you like one of them) - I don't know of a KDE-specific one which integrates with the panel, but I'll keep looking :)
- http://kbiff.granroth.org/
- http://asmail.sourceforge.net/features.html
- http://bbtools.sourceforge.net/download.php?file=2
- Full list: http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/I.../Notification/

2. Good :)

3. Hmm.. And when xterm is run in KDE, it does not use the Xresources file? How odd... I know this isn't the best solution, but, if you're the only user on your system, try changing the main Xresources file (it should be /etc/X11/Xresources) to mimic the details of the one in your home directory. It may be that xterm is using that Xresources file instead of your own, customised one (for whatever reason - sounds odd to me though). How about using Konsole instead? It offers the same configurations (and more), and it's supposedly faster than xterm too ;)

4. How about this: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=33257

1. Nevermind. Not sure what happened, but the mail notification from Gnome just started working. I will still look for a native qt/KDE alternative however.

2. Kpowersave ... doesn't work. Need to investigate further.

3. I've tried using konsole in the past, but honestly, the single feature of xterm that I found indispensable was ctrl-mouse-click features. With 1 click I could reset the term and I could change the font. I've *always* found fumbling through KDE's ample menu's cumbersome.

4. Links are broken, will check later.

Thanks for your time. I'll try this again in a few weeks.