Re: KDE3 troubles...


Subject: Re: KDE3 troubles...
From: William Bouterse (bill@bouterse.com)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 18:51:57 AKDT


On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:23:19 -0800
Joshua J.Kugler <isd@as.uaf.edu> wrote:

> Well, I installed KDE3, using the packages from the KDE FTP site. No
> worries. After fixing a couple bugs, I was doing fine. Well, I was reading
> on the Mandrake website today, and it said I should run update-menus. So,
> even though all my menus were fine, I did. Well, now my menus are empty. As
> in, no entries. None. And I can't run kcontrol (KDE configuration) from the
> kicker icon. 1) There is a general icon there, indicating it wasn't found,
> and 2) when I click it, it gives me the message:
>
> Service '/usr/opt/kde3/share/applnk-mdk/KControl.desktop' is malformatted.

One method mentioned...
>delete applnk-mdk

Another few tips from mandrake lists...

...To get a Mandrake menu in KDE3, I
...copied ~/.kde/share/applnk_mdk to ~/.kde3/share/applnk-mdk and have no
...problems (though I didn't expect MenuDrake to work with that setup since
...it is a different directory from your usual). One problem with the two
...distinct versions might be that there are separate applnk-mdk directories
...for the system menus (KDE3 for Mandrake as downloaded from their site uses
.../opt/kde3/share/applnk-mdk rather than /usr/share/applnk-mdk).

Another interesting method to help with some of the probs....This one
was concerning su'ing but could be applied to other users..

># .bashrc

># Source global definitions
>if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
> . /etc/bashrc
>fi

>PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
>ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
>USERNAME="root"
>if [ -n $KDEDIR ]; then
> PATH="$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH"
>fi
>export USERNAME ENV PATH
-----------------------------------------------------------------

>The only changes I made are the three lines

>if [-n $KDEDIR ]; then
> PATH="$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH"
>fi

>What this says is "If $KDEDIR exists and isn't empty" - and if you were
>running KDE3 on a dual system then it is /opt/kde3 - "then add $KDEDIR/bin
>to the PATH."

>If KDE2 is running, there is no variable $KDEDIR, so the path is
>unchanged. If KDE3 is running, /opt/kde3/bin is the first entry in the
>path and so calls to konqueror, kmial, kedit or whatever will call the
>KDE3 versions rather than the KDE2 versions.

>(I know, maybe I should have put it elsewhere in the path so that /sbin
>and /usr/sbin are still before it,

The MMV of course and iventiually this major/minor irritations should
start disappearing !!!
I expect Civileme will have more elegant solutions soon......

KDE is a "testing" WM for me anyway as I usually use other less
resource hungry WM's

-- 
William Bouterse
Talkeetna, Ak.

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