Hello, 1. did you install qt3 packages ? 2. check /etc/profile if it sets KDEDIR, QTDIR and WINDOWMANAGER or in failsafe mode: me@host (bash): echo $KDEDIR /opt/kde3 me@host (bash): echo $QTDIR /usr/lib/qt3 me@host (bash): echo $WINDOWMANAGER kde3 they should be set to the values given above. Sometimes you have a symbolic link /usr/lib/qt -> /usr/lib/qtX.XX Maybe you adjust the symbolic link /usr/lib/qt to point to /usr/lib/qt3.0.4 (or similar) You can set them in /etc/profile by adding the lines KDEDIR=/opt/kde3 export KDEDIR QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 export QTDIR WINDOWMANAGER=kde3 export WINDOWMANAGER 3. kde3 should be in wmlist (/usr/X11R6/bin/wmlist or which wmlist) you can just add the string "kde3" in the script in the list of windowmanagers 4. check /etc/ld.so.conf are the directories "/usr/lib/qt3", "/usr/lib/qt3/lib" and "/opt/kde3/lib" in the file? I suggest to add them at the top of the file. 5. run ldconfig run ldconfig (as root) to update the linker cache root@host (bash): ldconfig 6. Start X with kde as root Maybe you should run kde as user root first, so kde can setup everything it needs. Hope this helps, Guido comito@infinito.it wrote:

Hi people

hav anyone experienced to install KDE 3 on Linux SuSE PPC 7.3? I downloaded KDE from suse site, but after installation with yast the login is always with KDE 2. Infact KDE not update the old version but it addict itself on /opt/kde3. Plus, if I start kde 3 from failsafe it run in a very slow mode, such KDE 2. Anyone has some advice?

Thanks in advance.

Salvatore