Problems with updateing to KDE3 on SuSE7.3
Had been updating the KDE2 on my machine regualarly until I saw the KDE3 files moved from experimental to the real subdirs - so decided to wait a while before updating. yesterday I decided to take the plunge and disaster struck! First thing to go wrong was my kde, kde2, and kde3 (from the experimental stuff) links in /usr/X11R6/bin were gone. No problem - replace them - but my startkde script in /opt/kde2/bin is missing. So now I can't even start KDE2!!! So - any chance anyone has a working one for KDE2 lying around then can send on? Next problem - rebooted machine back to init level 5. What's happened to KDM?! Only XDM is running. A little bit of investigation later and /opt/kde2/bin/kdm is also deleted! To cap it off I needed to edit /etc/init.d/xdm to check for /opt/kde3/bin/kdm instead (which works beautifully I must add). Next problem is that on every cold reboot I'm asked whether I want to load my KDE2 settings or make new KDE3 ones! Anyone know how to fix this? To make it worse - selecting the KDE2 settings doesn't even work properly as my background is wrong, etc.. Next one is what happened to my desktop icons? Yes I can create them again, but it's a bit of a pain. And one of the more iritating problems - I liked when SuSE integrated YAST2 into the KDE Control Center and provided menus, etc.. Now they are no more. How can I get these back? And finally - it's very unstable. I use MPlayer quite a bit which means I need to killoff artsd, start Mplayer then restart artsd. But so for this results in the X session crashing as soon as I go back to KDE applications. Any ideas? Anyway, Apart from all that - KDE3 is faster and much better looking than it's predecessor. I'll be using it over and above KDE2 for my desktop, but until I can get the above problems sorted it's still going to be fluxbox on my laptop! RikD.
Had been updating the KDE2 on my machine regualarly until I saw the KDE3 files moved from experimental to the real subdirs - so decided to wait a while before updating.
yesterday I decided to take the plunge and disaster struck!
First thing to go wrong was my kde, kde2, and kde3 (from the experimental stuff) links in /usr/X11R6/bin were gone.
No problem - replace them - but my startkde script in /opt/kde2/bin is missing. So now I can't even start KDE2!!!
So - any chance anyone has a working one for KDE2 lying around then can send on?
Next problem - rebooted machine back to init level 5. What's happened to KDM?! Only XDM is running. A little bit of investigation later and /opt/kde2/bin/kdm is also deleted!
To cap it off I needed to edit /etc/init.d/xdm to check for /opt/kde3/bin/kdm instead (which works beautifully I must add).
Next problem is that on every cold reboot I'm asked whether I want to load my KDE2 settings or make new KDE3 ones! Anyone know how to fix this?
To make it worse - selecting the KDE2 settings doesn't even work properly as my background is wrong, etc..
Next one is what happened to my desktop icons? Yes I can create them again, but it's a bit of a pain.
And one of the more iritating problems - I liked when SuSE integrated YAST2 into the KDE Control Center and provided menus, etc.. Now they are no more. How can I get these back?
And finally - it's very unstable. I use MPlayer quite a bit which means I need to killoff artsd, start Mplayer then restart artsd. But so for this results in the X session crashing as soon as I go back to KDE applications. Any ideas?
Anyway, Apart from all that - KDE3 is faster and much better looking than it's
Ciao Richard,
I had the same problems and partially they were solved!
Have a look into http://lists2.suse.com/archive/suse-kde/2002-May/
and look for 'Upgrading kde2 to kde3 on 7.3' and b9b9b9
I agree with You that the speed is really improved but the stability... (too
many hangs just doing nothing or opening a folder from konq...) These
problems where not present with the older version.
Ciao, Luca
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RikD.
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On Wednesday 15 May 2002 17:11, Dunphy Richard-rdunph01 wrote:
Had been updating the KDE2 on my machine regualarly until I saw the KDE3 files moved from experimental to the real subdirs - so decided to wait a while before updating.
Anyway, Apart from all that - KDE3 is faster and much better looking than it's predecessor. I'll be using it over and above KDE2 for my desktop, but until I can get the above problems sorted it's still going to be fluxbox on my laptop!
First of all: http://mail.bmtsolutions.com/suse_faq/desktops.html#KDE If you have tried other tricks to solve your problems, undo them or install the rpms fresh.
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