On Sunday 05 January 2003 11:33, Gravemaker Ruiter wrote:
Can anyone explain me how to get kde3 started, dor when i tried it myself i first reached a kde-mix of 2 and 3, and later on nothing anymore. Now everything is new installed, downloaded etc. and i dont want to mess it up again. Rob.
If I recall correctly from way back in my 7.3 days, Control Center > System > Login Manager. Click the "Session" tab there, go into Administrator Mode (button at bottom right). Then under "Session Types", add a new type kde3. Then on next login, mark kde3 for login. Getting KDE3 to work on 7.3 was a bit of a hassle, but I remember eventually getting it to work. That was one thing I did. The other was, since KDE2 was already installed, I continued using the KDM (login screen) from KDE2 which is probably what you've got. And I did *not* install one of the RPMs that was in the KDE3 directory on the FTP called kde2-compat . That wrote over some of the kde2 stuff that was already installed, and isn't necessary if KDE2 is installed. In fact, it screws up the already installed KDE2 stuff and the only way I found to fix that was reinstall. Also make sure you've got the latest XFree86 installed, from: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.2.0-SuSE/suse73 When getting KDE3 installed on 7.3, I ended up doing a full reinstall because 7.3 wasn't really able to handle KDE3 well. (Highly recommend upgrading to 8.1 if possible.) But this was what I did, I think: 1- Download all the necessary KDE3 (Not the kde2-compat) and X upgrades. Burn onto a CD-RW (or CD-R if you want to keep them) 2- Reinstall 7.3 with a minimal kde2 install. 3- Install the X upgrade. 4- Install the KDE3 RPMs (again, not the kde2-compat). 5- Add the session type "kde3" as shown above. 6- Login with kde3. That was how I got it to work. It's possible that it can be done without installing kde2, and using the kde2-compat instead, but there were a lot of problems with kde2-compat at the time I was upgrading. Perhaps those are fixed now. Joe