On Monday 18 March 2002 8:38 am, Keith Antoine wrote: > Pam, > > I have got many of the kde src files compiled and also turned out RPMS for > them too, using checkinstall. > [snip] > > Now all I have to do is pickup courage to try it out. Anything that I have > to do before that ??
If you are running Caldera 3.1.x (or even 2.4) and already have KDE 2.x and want to be able to choose KDE 3 instead, and have put qt3 into /usr/lib/qt3 and kde3 into /opt/kde3 then I would suggest: 1) Look for the kde 2 file kdmrc. It may be in /opt/kde2/share/config/ or perhaps in /opt/kde2/share/config/kdm/, or you may find it in both places. Change the SessionTypes line in the file(s) so that it includes kde3: SessionTypes=kde2,kde3,failsafe, 2) Create the following shell script and save it as usr/bin/kde3 and make it executable. ------------------------snip here------------------------ #!/bin/sh # # KDE 3 STARTUP SCRIPT # Save as /usr/bin/kde3 and make executable QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 KDEDIR=/opt/kde3 KDEDIRS=/opt/kde3 KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde3 PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export QTDIR KDEDIR PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH KDEHOME /opt/kde3/bin/startkde ------------------------snip here------------------------ 3) Create a symlink to it from /usr/X11R6/bin: ln -s /usr/bin/kde3 /usr/X11R6/bin/kde3 This will keep your existing KDE 2 login manager and login dialog but with kde3 added to the options. Try it. DON'T PANIC... It can take quite a time to start up properly the first time. Enjoy Pam -- Linux Step by Step (UK mirror): http://www.pam.roberts.btinternet.co.uk/sxs/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
