On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 00:12, Ben Hines wrote: > KDE apps work fine in Oroborosx. I suspect you just aren't waiting long > enough. KDE apps can take a *VERY* long time to start, some on the > order of 2 minutes on my Dual 800 mhz G4. If you are running a rev C > imac, I would give them a good 5-10 minutes to start up, during which > time it may appear that nothing is happening. Really. > > The current KDE in fink does not support sound. This has been > implemented for the next release. (we wrote a CoreAudio driver) > > -Ben
OK ... I'll give it another go ... I presume you mean they take a long time to start with other non-K WMs, i.e., whilst they're cranking up the KDE stuff under the bonnet/hood? (I merely ask because they start relatively quickly under KDE; but only after KDE itself has taken ages to start up.) On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 00:31, Alexander Hansen wrote: > There was an earlier thread about an identical problem running KDE in > rootless mode. I don't remember if they installed it via apt-get or > from source. > > Were you able run ICEwm and fvwm in rootless mode? There was a question > in the prior thread from Torrey Lyons at XonX about whether other window > managers worked OK. Yes, these were fine ... KDE is the only desktop/WM I've not been able to run rootless successfully. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
