Short story: I want to run KOffice apps in XDarwin rootless with a non-K window manager, but they don't seem to run properly. They run just fine in KDE itself, so I know they're working. Just need to know how / if I can tweak other WMs to run them. Longer version: Got the new Fink 0.5a installed on my Jaguar/10.2 Rev C iMac in college. XDarwin (latest version, IIRC) was already installed. Also had OroborOS-X onhand already. Proceeded to download xmms as a test. Loaded up just fine with OroborOS-X running rootless, and also with XDarwin/TWM running in fullscreen mode. Now the biggie: (apt-)got the full KDE bundle, got it all installed ... and to my relief it worked the very first time, once i'd figured out how and where to edit .xinitrc. Loads and runs a little sluggish; and must run fullscreen (won't run rootless) -- but it does the trick by and large. I'm delighted. However, what I *can't* seem to do is run the KDE/QT-based apps (KWord, for example, or KMail) on any window manager other than KDE. If I start them in terminal (or from a fullscreen non-K WM), it's evident that they're trying to crank up; but in the end, nothing really ever happens, and no windows ever appear. Don't know if the programmes are freezing as such; but in the end, I end up having to shut down XDarwin from Aqua to make them stop.) Can anyone help? My Linux box at home (Mandrake 9.0) handles this matter just fine ... and has always done so, straight out of the box (no tweaking required). Although I normally run KDE on the home box, if I want to run KMail under Enlightenment or IceWM, it gives me no problems whatsoever. I guess I just naively assumed that this would work in Darwin, too. No such luck. In a perfect world, what i'd like to do is run IceWM or OroborOS-X rootless in tandem with Aqua, so that i could have a WM with a light footprint (i.e., better suited to an old Mac w/ slow-ish processor & only 160mb RAM), wouldn't have to switch back and forth, but will still have access to the KOffice apps, which I use at home. (This would also enable me to ditch MSWord once and for all.) In a less than perfect world, I suppose I've got the basic functionality required as things now stand. But if someone could give me tweaking tips so I can get a little closer to the perfect world, I'd be very much obliged. Also -- is anyone else having probs with sound on KDE? Mine doesn't seem to like my soundcard (bog standard Rev C iMac soundcard, whatever that is).
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