My non-&kde; applications like &Emacs; and kterm are running amok with strange colours! Start the &kde; Control Centre and in Appearance & ThemesColours uncheck the Apply colours 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 ComponentsComponent 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.