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Prateek
Asked: 2012-02-01 02:13:07 +0800 CST

How to fix the look of KDE apps in LXDE?

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I am using LXDE in Ubuntu 11.10. KDE apps like Kate and Kile have an ugly Windows-95ish look when run in LXDE, but look fine in Gnome. How do I choose the theme/widget style for KDE apps in LXDE?

In case it matters, I installed LXDE by using the package lxde, and not lubuntu-desktop since the latter would bring in various things like abiword which I didn't want.

kde themes appearance lxde

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Install QT4 COnfiguration.

    sudo apt-get install qt4-qtconfig

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    Then Select GTk+ in GUI Style

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  2. I'm not directly familiar with Kate and Kile - I'm assuming that they are QT based applications.

    For QT-based apps you should use qt4-qtconfig and select the GTK style to make QT apps look similar to GTK based apps that Lubuntu/LXDE mainly use.

    To install this package (if it isn't already installed):

    sudo apt-get install qt4-qtconfig
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