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Cheeseboy
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Gentoo desktop question

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Hi, i just installed gentoo 2006.0. After i put my username and password in i type startx and get 2 localhost menus and one xterm. On one of the localhosts i type startkde. Once kde loads i get a screen that looks like this:http://running12345.tripod.com/computer/ In gentoo is it normal to have thoses green taskbars at the top in this case which says kde desktop and kicker as labeled in the picture. There is no X on the top right hand corner of the screen is that normal as well? Hope to here from you guys soon. THanks :D
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erm, the print screen is always a nice key, but yea :)

I'm pretty sure this is normal... but i'm not 100% certain because I can't see properly, it would be nice if you gave use a print screeny :)
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I havent learned how to do that yet :)
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Actually the print screen key doesn't do much by default in *nix.

To take a real screenshot you can use a Graphics Package like Gimp or from a command line you can use xpm (If I remember correctly... I'm a little out of it right now :?)

Anyways, to answer your question no, kicker should never be displayed with a title bar. Is this consistent?

Try:

killall kicker
kicker&


If that doesn't fix it there are some window-specific settings under KDE for removing borders etc for given apps. If you're needing to tinker without before you even did anything to break it I'd suggest just:

emerge -C kde
emerge --sync
emerge kde

Good luck :D
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nope none of thoses commands removed the green bars. :cry: I am using the 2006.0 gui installer you think i should use the old one? the command netconfig wont even work....
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Cheeseboy wrote:nope none of thoses commands removed the green bars. :cry: I am using the 2006.0 gui installer you think i should use the old one? the command netconfig wont even work....
I've never used 2006.0 yet. I've used 2005.0 and 2005.1 without any trouble. If you ran `emerge sync' before compiling KDE I've not heard of any issues with the latest build.

Did you try unmerging an emerging again? Also delete /usr/portage/distfiles/kde* for good measure ;)

Netconfig? What's this for? Try ifconfig.
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