Hello, I'm trying to get KDE 3.5.9 working on my BLFS system. For simplicity, I installed it under /usr. Right now, it has some issues with MIME types.
When I launch my startx script (containing the line "exec startkde") I get the KDE startup screen and the KDE window manager, but not much else. (Artsd does launch, and then complains because I screwed up ALSA somewhere. I'm not very worried about that right now.) If I include xterm in my startx script, I can manually launch kicker and kdesktop from there. (I'm not sure if startkde is misconfigured, or if I'm just supposed to manually start those components.) The first time I select the Kicker menu, I get the error: Malformed URL: System:/ The menu appears after I dismiss the dialog box. When I launch kdesktop, I get the error: Malformed URL: file:///root/Desktop After I dismiss the dialog box, I get a desktop with no icons. Konqueror also has apparently never heard of that obscure protocol called "http". ;-) I did build desktop-file-utils-0.13, but was fuzzy on where to place the configuration commands that are supposed to go in "the user or system-wide profile". It's not obvious to me that putting them in .bashrc would work, so I dumped them into my .xinitrc. What's a saner location? When nothing else worked, I tried building shared-mime-info-0.21, but its presence doesn't seem to help. So, am I making some simple and stupid mistake? :-) -- William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice President, Cal Poly Linux Users' Group http://www.cplug.org -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
