Re: Look and feel in Redhat 9

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_verizon.net)
Date: 09/06/03


Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 00:14:38 GMT

Freeride wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:23:01 +0530, Marmagya wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>> Redhat 9 has changed the looks if KDE (and also of GNOME), adding
>>a touch of RH. I am on RH9 and would like to go back to the original
>>look an feel of KDE. I downloaded the KDE version 3.1.3. I installed
>>Kdebase and Kdelibs. Then I restarted KDE with kdestart. Still I get the
>>same RH9 KDE, with the same icons etc.
>> How can I go back (or forward) to the original KDE? Am I missing
>>something?
>>
>>Regards
>>Marmagya
>
>
>
> Everything to change the appearance is right there in the Control Center.

Q: How do you get back the scrollable virtual space in the window
managers as opposed to the distinct workspaces.

A: You can't, the new window managers don't support that. You basically
have to replace them with something like "vtwm" and add them to your
local configuration by hand.



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