Having mentioned kde, and initially offerd to fix a missing dep, I'll now give a more detailed reply for why I'm now not going to touch it - at the moment, it does not work for me!
kdm - works, although I think listing all possible users, such as bin, is plain weird, but perhaps that can be configured away. desktop, from kdm : this gives me (or root) a term, but probably xterm (if so, it will in fact be rxvt-unicode because I symlink the one to the other). Tiny. From there, I tried running konsole&, konqueror&, okular& : konsole - in this context, I could do everything, except change the window size to something a bit larger, and except type. konqueror - sort of works, but it was overlaying all the messages in ht background and does not have any obvious way of closing it. Again, window is fixed size. okular - works for a PDF, can be configured, but is too small to sensibly look at the document and the window size cannot be changed. And no menus. After that, I fixed up /etc/inittab to use run level 3 again. Using fluxbox, I can now type in konsole, so I tried the 'configure console' option but got an essentially grey window with buttons to accept or not. Still cannot change the size of the kde windows, except by maximizing them. The rest is unchanged. AFAICS, I have avoided PAM (so, that is a deviation from the book, I think), but I have added all the other required or recommended deps. This is in qemu, with no old .kde or .qt directories. Also no audio or video stuff, so I have phonon but no backends (my qemu sessions are not connected to my audio hardware). I'm sure it works fine for other people, and I will maybe try to dig down a bit deeper if I can find the time. But for now this is even less usable for me than gnome was. This is not posted to -support, I'm not particularly looking for assistance - I've given it all the deps which are apparently required, in the expectation it might be somewhat useful, now I'm moving on to other things. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
