# &kde; with non-&kde; applications

My non-&kde; applications like &Emacs; and kterm are running amok with strange colors!

Start the &kde; Control Center and in Appearance & Themes Colors uncheck the Apply colors to non-KDE applications checkbox and click Apply.

How can I set my default web browser to be something other than &konqueror;?

If you are using &kde; 3.3 or later, open up the &kcontrolcenter; and navigate to the KDE Components Component Chooser panel. Select Web Browser from the list on the left, then select Open http and https URLs in the following browser: and type in the name of the browser (⪚ mozilla, firefox, opera, &etc;) in the textbox.

How can I configure the style and fonts of GTK applications within &kde; ?

The simplest way to achieve this is to download and compile the gtk-qt theme engine from http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/gtk-qt. This theme engine makes your GTK applications look like your &kde; widget style by calling functions from &Qt; instead of drawing the styles itself. Once the theme engine has been installed, there will be a &kcontrolcenter; module under Appearance & Themes GTK Styles and Fonts.

I have been hearing about this gecko kpart or &Qt; Mozilla, how do I get these?

Good luck! The &Qt; Mozilla code is in Mozilla cvs, and not very stable as of yet. In order to use it, you'll have to check out Mozilla from cvs according to these instructions: http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html. Then, configure either the Mozilla suite or the Firefox browser with the option `--enable-default-toolkit=qt` in addition to any other options you would like to enable. More instructions on building Mozilla can be found here.