KDE and Qt programs look bad when in a different window manager
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KDE and Qt programs look bad when in a different window manager
If you’re using KDE or #Qt programs but not in a full #KDE session (specifically, you didn’t run “startkde”), then as of KDE 4.6.1 you will need to tell Qt how to find KDE’s styles (Oxygen, QtCurve etc.)
You just need to set the environment variable QT_PLUGIN_PATH. E.g. put
export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/.kde4/lib/kde4/plugins/:/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/
into your /etc/profile (or ~/.profile if you don’t have root access). qtconfig should then be able to find your kde styles and everything should look nice again!