Hello I just installed Kde 4.2 on Ubuntu Ibex with help from this forum. The only thing bothering me is the way firefox and other windows looks(they look bad). Look at the Firefox address bar, etc in the image. .

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I've tried using Emerald with compiz still no good.

Lastly, how do I make Launchy to start at boot???

rcazador wrote:The only thing bothering me is the way firefox and other windows looks(they look bad).

I don't use Ubuntu, but I think it's

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sudo apt-get install gtk-qt-engine-kde4

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sudo apt-get install gtk-qt-engine

This will install the gtk-qt-engine. You can customize the options in System Settings -> Appearance -> GTK Styles and Fonts.

To make Firefox look better, you might want to try one of those themes: Oxygen / KFirefox.

Lastly, how do I make Launchy to start at boot???

First of all, you might want to try KRunner (Alt+F2), the default "launcher" in KDE4. If you still want Launchy (I didn't know it worked on Linux!), you can open System Settings -> Advanced tab -> Autostart and choose "Add Program...".

Hans wrote:First of all, you might want to try KRunner (Alt+F2), the default "launcher" in KDE4. If you still want Launchy (I didn't know it worked on Linux!), you can open System Settings -> Advanced tab -> Autostart and choose "Add Program...".

There's no need for the last part. Once launched once using alt-f2, it is started automatically using the session management system. It did for me anyway

Kryten2X4B wrote:There's no need for the last part. Once launched once using alt-f2, it is started automatically using the session management system. It did for me anyway

True. But since the OP asked, I assumed that it didn't work for Launchy. Thanks for pointing it out though.

wow thank you very much i got it working. just one more question how do I swtich from GDM to KDM as default manager

Hans wrote:

rcazador wrote:The only thing bothering me is the way firefox and other windows looks(they look bad).

This will install the gtk-qt-engine. You can customize the options in System Settings -> Appearance -> GTK Styles and Fonts.

To make Firefox look better, you might want to try one of those themes: Oxygen / KFirefox.

Lastly, how do I make Launchy to start at boot???

First of all, you might want to try KRunner (Alt+F2), the default "launcher" in KDE4. If you still want Launchy (I didn't know it worked on Linux!), you can open System Settings -> Advanced tab -> Autostart and choose "Add Program...".

Thanks for the help but I cant find the GTK styles the Appearance setting look like this.. Any idea???

i did install the packages you suggested

Thank you all i solved my problems with KDE 4.2