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Computers/Opsystems
This folder contains articles which are computer-related but only are relevant for a single operating system, eg Windows software, or Mac display issues. There are individual folders for each operating system.Making Ktoon work
On the (very good) Steve Hanov blog I saw a grumble/sneer about the ktoon program having a bad user interface:
[http://gandolf.homelinux.org/blog/index.php?id=34]
and decided to try it out. I installed using Synaptic. The first time I ran it, it wanted me to choose an install directory, but the "next" button did not work. Eventually I realized "finish" works.
It still wasn't usable. It looked like it couldn't find some of its parts, although there were no error messages. I tried allowing it to set the default install directory, and I think that worked a little better, but still not right.
I then found this page:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ktoon/+bug/188529
which suggested running this (assuming the default install locations I guess):
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/ktoon/plugins /usr/share/ktoon/
This worked fine and the app was then fairly impressive. You do need to open a new project with "File - Project" to get a normal editable window, but that's somewhat standard.
More irritating, but still only a holdup for a minute or two, was that you can edit a shape by clicking the button with balloon text "selection" and then selecting "contour".
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