KDE3

[Jerry McBride]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:33:56 -0400 Brian Witowski <brianw at torchlake.com>
wrote:

> Phew!  I got KDE3 installed, however it won't launch.  Says $DISPLAY is
> not set. Also says 'Could not read connection list.  Please check that
> the"dcopserver" program is running.  I'm not really sure where to go
> from here. Any ideas?
> 

Just IDEAS, not the correct way...

You have to make kde3 known to your setup scripts...  In some kde3
experiments I used this in /opt/kde3/bin/startkde

#!/bin/sh
#
#  DEFAULT KDE STARTUP SCRIPT ( KDE-3.0 )
#

export KDEDIR=/opt/kde3
export KDEDIRS=/opt/kde3
export KDEHOME=/root/.kde3
export PATH=/opt/kde3/bin:$PATH

The real kicker for me was the last line. Until I placed /opt/kde3 before
/opt/kde2... kde3 would never start correctly.

What is everyone else doing to get kde3 running alongside their kde 1.1.2,
kde 2.2.1 and kde 2.2.2 I don't know.

I'd find it interesting, but for me, kde 3 is not the cats' meow that
everyone has been saying. Personally, I'd use kde 2.2.2 compiled with
objprelink and over lay it ontop of kde 2.2.1. Much easier to accomplish
and a much better performer than kde 3.0. 

Cheers.


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