Skype under Fedora-10/KDE

[Jim]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Jim wrote:
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>>> Is anyone successfully running Skype under Fedora-10 with KDE?
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>> It;s all in the settings, if Fedora would only  make all settings
>> "halfway" Default, it sure would stop a lot of heart aches .
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>> I got Skype installed and working on a eeePC 701.
>> I yum installed  "gnome-volume-manager"  and run gnome-volume-control
>> and open all channels/preferences
>> and selected each.
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>> On my Laptop eeePC I uninstall Pulseaudio and sound begin to work, then
>> I reinstalled Puseaudio and sound works, I had to find the MIC setting
>> and adjust.
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> I take it you are running Fedora with Gnome.
> I don't think this will help much with my problem,
> which seems specific to KDE.
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> I've run Skype on two EeePC's (EeePC-1000 and EeePC 4G) with no problems.
> But sadly I have moved over to Fedora-10/KDE on my 4 laptops,
> and that means I have to run one in Windows XP to use Skype.
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> Incidentally, sound is working fine with pulseaudio on this F-10/KDE laptop.
> It's just Skype that isn't working.
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> Various people have suggested unspecified changes in the Skype configuration.
> But the only Skype config file I see is /etc/dbus-1/system.d/skype.conf
> (which seems to me a very odd place for a config file)
> and I've no idea what changes one could make here
> if that is appropriate, which I doubt.
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> But surely there must be people running F-10 with KDE and Skype?
> Please let me know if you are ...
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I run KDE, but I installed gnome-volume-manager because that App has the 
best access to the audio settings.
I have Skype working on KDE, but everytime I reboot I have to go into 
gnome-volume-control and re enable the MIC.