interesting past 4 hours...
Gary Kline
kline at tao.thought.org
Wed Oct 12 14:36:39 PDT 2005
This is to anybody with Gnome or KDE insights,
First, both environments do work on my 400Mhz ThinkPad
(with almost 300M/SDRAM). KDE has a nicer feel for my tastes
but the response in beyond crummy even with nearly all
eye-candy. Gnome has slightly better response, but still
slow.
Two questions: is there a way I can add "KSayIt" to run under
Gnome? Like, what file do I hand edit? I'm rebuilding our
own mozilla right now so the screen is very slow with KDE. I
don't even know if KSayIt is there.
Second question: as its default, firefox uses mplayer for
both real and windows audio streams. Why and can I chance at
least the Real Audio to use /usr/local/bin/realplay? Both
players sound terrible. At least they play, but in windows
audio mode, the stream hiccups about every 1.5 seconds; when
it plays in real mode, the audio is garbled; it sounds like
two or three people talking over one another. ((If anybody
know what's going n, please clue me in!! ...but I think
this is just one of those cosmic mysteries....))
Oh: I brought up linux-mozilla under Gnome, pointed
audio/x-pn-realaudio at realplay; it works except that the
audio "quivers". With ctwm, I can nice apps down; with
user-friendly window mangers, things are hidden away.
Anyway. If anybody knows how to add other KDE apps to the
default, and how I can fix firefox to point to realplay,
I would appreciate it.
gary
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