Brainbeer <brain@beer.com> accidentally dropped "small glitches I cant
seem to fix" on Tue, 08 Feb 2005 12:03:23 -0600:

> Im not sure if anyone can help me, I am new to gentoo, previously been a
> Mandrake guy but wanted to do something different. Ive gotten my system
> built and its nice. There are a few things I would like to change but
> not sure how.

I'm still a Mandrake user on my main computer, except that I run Mdk
Cooker because I like living life on the edge

> 1. I run KDE with a child panel at the bottom for various applications.
> However the icons are huge. I have messed with the icon size in kcontrol
> but it has no effect on the ones on the child panel.

Have you tried right-clicking on the child panel and looking at its
properties? Seems to me that was how you modified the icon size of child
panels in KDE.

> 2. when I go into a shell it has $bash but if I run env-update
> source /etc/profile it goes to my login@localhost. Does it need to say
> bash, Ive always had it say my login with Drake

That has to do with your ~/.bashrc file. You need to add this line to your
..bashrc:
.. /etc/profile
and every time you open a shell, all those settings will be restored.
Alternately you could open a "login shell" but I kind of like having my
profile read every time I use bash, regardless of shell.

> 3. ymessenger has no sound. Alsa is installed and working. Also, I
> installed the unstable 1.06.1 version and now when i do an emerge world
> it wants to downgrade it to 1.04. How do I get sound and how do I get it
> not to downgrade. I would prefer to use ymessenger over kopete or gaim
> due to it being what I am used to.

Do you have sound on anything else?

As for emerging world, let me guess. You used ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
emerge ymessenger to get it. As I'm sure someone else will quickly point
out, the preferred way is to use your package.unmask file in /etc/portage
IIRC.

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