On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:21 pm, sean jacobs wrote: > i was wondering if perhaps someone could let me know where the config files > for the kde "start" menu are at...i just compiled and installed 3.1 last > night but can't figure out how exactly to add all the applications that > were in my old kde menu to my new one. it would be much easier if i could > just cut/paste some lines from one config file to another rather than using > the menu editor application to add everything i need. plus i've already > overwritten most of the old kde binaries so i'm not sure exactly what/where > everything is that used to be in the menu. i've tried going through ~/.kde > and even copied that directory from another user account who hadn't used > kde 3.1 yet to my own in hopes that it would provide the same menu > configuration but i was wrong. > You have broken your Mandrake menu system by installing kde from source. The rpm packages are provided for a reason because they contain the mandrake menu configuration information. If you want to compile KDE from source AND keep your Mandrake menus, you should rebuild the Mandrake src.rpms and install from rpm.
You may be able to copy the contents of /usr/share/applnk-mdk to /usr/share/applnk, but my experiencesays that msec or something will change it back, or perhaps link /usr/share/applnk to /usr/share/applnk-mdk. > also i can't seem to figure out how to make the new kdm boot kde 3.1.i was > not able to add fluxbox to kdmrc for 3.0 because it would get overwritten > after every reboot and when it would not boot kde 3.1 for some reason, i > started using the kdm for 3.1. now it will boot fluxbox but kde 3.1 just > makes the screen flicker a few times but goes back to the kdm login, > eventhough i can boot kde 3.1 with a startx from console. if anyone can > offer some insight on either of these matters it would definately be > appreciated, thanks > Did you install to /usr, or elsewhere? Why would you install from source instead of grabbing the rpms from the Club (if you're a member) or Texstar? Installing something as complex as KDE from source just breaks too much in the distro because of the way Mandrake integrates it. -- Greg
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