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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.
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
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.
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
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.
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