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Removing the silly dragon from KDE's Logout window

The KDE logout window shows Konqi, a cartoon of a dragon that is cute about twice and then gets annoying. If you want to get rid of it, find a PNG file called shutdownkonq.png on your system and overwrite it with anything you like (preferrably an image with a transparent background). The exact location varies on different systems:

RedHat
/usr/X11R6/share/apps/ksmserver/pics/
Mandrake
/usr/share/apps/ksmserver/pics/
Suse?
/opt/kde3/share/apps/ksmserver/pics/

On other systems, locate(1) should help you hunt down the file.

Changing KDE's default web browser

By default, KDE will open links using Konqueror. There's nothing in the GUI configuration that will let you change this. Neither the FAQs on kde.org nor the MailingList archives contain any hints. A Google search turns up a lot of people asking but very few functional replies. The common suggestion of changing the association for the text/html MIME type only changes the how HTML documents on your HardDrive? are opened.

The general way is to have /.kde/share/config/kfmclientrc read as follows

[Settings?

ExternalBrowser?=/path/to/browser

On Debian, however, you should simply set the BROWSER EnvironmentVariable to the path to the WebBrowser you want.