Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:36:32 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: interesting past 4 hours... Message-ID: <20051012213632.GA3888@thought.org>
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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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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