kde2/3 install

[Tony Alfrey]

On Sunday 27 October 2002 10:40 am,Pam R wrote:
> On Sunday 27 October 2002 3:00 pm, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 October 2002 05:31 am,Pam R wrote:
<snip>
>
> If it helps, I have been building KDE 3 from cvs on a Caldera EW3.1
> box for since the end of last year and until about 6 weeks ago was
> able to have just one user swapping between kde2 & 3 at login. But
> the changes they have added in going towards 3.1 seem to have broken
> that approach and I've now got 2 users, one for kde2 and one for
> kde3.-almost-1. With just one user, and keeping the user's config
> files separate in ~/.kde2 and ~/.kde3 that just leaves ~/.kderc and
> possibly the Desktop directory as being common between the 2 versions
> of kde.
>
> You will need to update or add quite a few things to be able to
> compile 3.0.4 properly.
> http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0.4.html seems to cover
> most of them, and keeping an eye on the output of ./configure should
> tell you if anything is missing.
>
> BTW, the infamous 'GUI Login Hack' SxS
> (http://linux-sxs.org/kde2loginhack.html) applies to EW3.1 and LTP as
> well as ED2.4 and makes it easy to add kde3 to the GUI login dialog
> options.
>
> > Did you write a niggly problems SxS yet?
>
> 'fraid not, I'm still working on the wiggly and tiggly ones ;-)
>
> Enjoy


I will study all of this.  I've been looking at the GUI hack and am 
glad it still applies.  It sounds like I need to treat kde3 (and qt3) 
like the hack for kde2.  In other words, make an executable called kde3 
that is an as-you-described modified start script that sets environment 
variables and the other start-up stuff?
Jeeze, I just know I'm gonna blow this up.

-- 
Tony Alfrey
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