On Tuesday 16 April 2002 08:27 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:33:56 -0400 Brian Witowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Phew! I got KDE3 installed, however it won't launch. Says $DISPLAY is > > not set. Also says 'Could not read connection list. Please check that > > the"dcopserver" program is running. I'm not really sure where to go > > from here. Any ideas? > > Just IDEAS, not the correct way... > > You have to make kde3 known to your setup scripts... In some kde3 > experiments I used this in /opt/kde3/bin/startkde > > #!/bin/sh > # > # DEFAULT KDE STARTUP SCRIPT ( KDE-3.0 ) > # > > export KDEDIR=/opt/kde3 > export KDEDIRS=/opt/kde3 > export KDEHOME=/root/.kde3 > export PATH=/opt/kde3/bin:$PATH > > The real kicker for me was the last line. Until I placed /opt/kde3 before > /opt/kde2... kde3 would never start correctly. > > What is everyone else doing to get kde3 running alongside their kde 1.1.2, > kde 2.2.1 and kde 2.2.2 I don't know. >
I have /usr/X11R6/bin/kde3 -> /opt/kde3/bin/startkde /opt/kde3/bin/startkde contains the same settings as you, except export KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde3 I've added kde3 as a choice in kde2's kdm (which is the login manager I'm currently using). > I'd find it interesting, but for me, kde 3 is not the cats' meow that > everyone has been saying. Personally, I'd use kde 2.2.2 compiled with > objprelink and over lay it ontop of kde 2.2.1. Much easier to accomplish > and a much better performer than kde 3.0. > Fonts seem to be rendered better in KDE3, but I haven't really made up my mind yet. Still fiddling with things. Doesn't seem noticably faster or slower than KDE2x. Running on an AMD Athlon 950 with 384MB RAM Tim -- Caldera eWorkstation 3.1, kernel 2.4.9, KDE 3.0 from source, Xfree86 4.1.0 8:00pm up 13 days, 20:35, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 It's what you learn AFTER you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
