I have been pulling my hair out for the last three hours trying to figure out what all the titles of my group boxes went centered (as opposed to left). Even more important is how I get them back!

Please help!

Try checking in System Settings > Appearance > Styles. Which style are you using? Try changing its configuration using "Configure". The Oxygen style is the KDE 4 default.

If it is a KDE style, then try removing ~/.kde4/share/config/<stylename>rc outside a KDE session.

Thanks for your reply. I am using the Oxygen style, and have set my Appearance settings to Defaults anywhere I could find them. Still, my Group boxes look like this:

http://www.punak.com/steve/snapshot1.jpg

I should add that the group boxes look like this no matter what style I select, even though everything else seems to change per the new style.

So, per your suggestion, I set went to runlevel 1 and deleted ~/.kde/share/config/oxygenrc. Back to runlevel 5, logged in and till the same.

I'm not sure, but I think this may have started after my 'yum update' of Monday. I know it's not the end of the world, but it's a pain, since I'm doing a bunch of Qt development, and it's important that I know what the GUIs I produce are going to look like (even to Windoze users).

Thanks again for your help.

If I don't get the question wrong, the "Options" and "Contrast" box titles aren't configurable. You can change the alignment of the titlebar font, but not this afaik.

Right. But they used to be in the upper left of the group, not in the center - or have I gone nuts?

Probably. Mine are centered as well, and have always been as far as I remember.

Haha... OK. Problem is writing software in Qt all day, I must have been looking at it on Windoze and went a little nuts-0. Sorry to pester y'all.

For me, Oxygen is the only style that puts group titles in the center (as it should be...)

OK. So I wasn't going insane after all. On my home system (also kde 4.3.1-1), my group boxes all have title in upper left except while in Oxygen theme.

So, my development system has indeed gotten "style-stuck". But, here's a kink - on my home system, disabled buttons now are not grayed out since the update - except on Oxygen!

Both systems exhibiting these wierd style confusions are Fedora 11 updated via yum update. Looks like some strangeness got into the latest release.

So the question I have is this - How can I get my kde installation back to pure defaults? Should I just runlevel 1 and
rm -rf ~/.kde
??

These are my day-to-day machines, so I'm disinclined to reinstall linux from scratch, but I don't mind re-setting-up my desktop/workspace settings.

Thanks again for your responses.

steve-o wrote:So the question I have is this - How can I get my kde installation back to pure defaults? Should I just runlevel 1 and
rm -rf ~/.kde
??

No need deleting all of .kde for that.

.kde/share/config/plasma* removes the plasma-configuration
.kde/share/config/kwin* removes kwin-configuration, including the configs for different windecos
.kde/share/config/oxygenrc oxygen-configuration, including both style and windeco

I'd just move the oxygenrc file out of the way first to see if that's the file causing it. After that, the kwin* files if the first step isn't enough. Lastly, the plasma* ones.

Edited to add: forgot to mention that the two first (plamsa and kwin) does not have anything to do with your original question. Only the oxygenrc should affect that, but since you've already tried that...the other two are for well, getting closer to default without having to start entirely from scratch.

Note that the Qt configuration is stored in ~/.local/share/Trolltech.conf