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Konqueror and KDE 2.2.1 for Solaris and Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arun A Tharuvai)
Sat Nov 24 15:09:52 2001
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:09:44 -0500
From: Arun A Tharuvai <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
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I've installed konqueror, and the kdebase and kdelibs packages of kde
2.2.1 in the kde locker, for sun4x_58 and i386_linux24. Konqueror is a
highly functional web browser with full support for SSL (including
personal certificates), per domain selective java, javascript, and
cookie handling, disabling of javascript popups, Netscape plugins, and
on Linux, support for OpenType (TrueType) fonts for display. It also
has the ability to set the user agent string to masquerade itself as
another web browser.
Konqueror is also a highly functional graphical file manager, with
support for traditional UNIX file management, built in thumbnailing,
and file previewing/viewing support, on the fly viewing and processing
of files within archived and compressed files, including tar, gz, and
bz2 files.
For more information, you can go to http://www.konqueror.org
Notes: It is still a little buggy, and will often stop responding
when you run out of quota. Also, SSL isn't currently working under
Solaris, but hopefully I'll have a build which fixes this, in a few
days. Also, you might want to run it from a new xterm or gnome terminal
as it has extremely verbose debug info. You can change this by running
kdebugdialog, and unselecting anything related to konqueror, khtml,
kio_* .
To run konqueror, type at the athena prompt:
add kde ; konqueror
To use Opentype font support, (this works only on Linux), run kcontrol
from the kde locker, and enable it under Look-and Feel->Fonts. Note
that this precludes the use of other types of the fonts at the same
time. KDE comes with a few true type fonts. If you want to use your
own fonts, create a file ~/.xftconfig in your homedirectory that looks
something like this:
dir "/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/a/aatharuv/ttf"
Copy the true type fonts to that directory, and run ttmkfdir
directory.On other platforms, konqueror will revert to using non
truetype fonts.
For the adventurous, you could run the entire KDE desktop by running
startkde from the kde locker, but this isn't really supported.
Any comments, bug reports, and questions should be addressed to
bug-kde@mit.edu
Arun
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