From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 12 21:36:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D165716A420 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:36:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB14A43D53 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:36:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j9CLaXwa004102 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:36:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j9CLaXvb004101 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:36:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:36:32 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20051012213632.GA3888@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Subject: interesting past 4 hours... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:36:39 -0000 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