KDE3

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 16 April 2002 08:27 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
> 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 have /usr/X11R6/bin/kde3 -> /opt/kde3/bin/startkde
/opt/kde3/bin/startkde contains the same settings as you, except
export KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde3
I've added kde3 as a choice in kde2's kdm (which is the login manager I'm 
currently using).

> 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.
>

Fonts seem to be rendered better in KDE3, but I haven't really made up my mind 
yet. Still fiddling with things. Doesn't seem noticably faster or slower than 
KDE2x. Running on an AMD Athlon 950 with 384MB RAM

Tim
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