On Feb 21, 12:56pm, Ted Harding wrote:

Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] KDE-beta-3 and susewm

Hi All,

I'm using S.u.S.E.-5.1. I did not install KDE-beta-1 off the CD because I was already using KDE-beta-3 (which fixes several problems and is anyway better).

So I installed KDE-beta-3 from kde.org's own RPMs once S.u.S.E.-5.1 was installed.

I suppose this means that the KDE installation is NOT integrated into the susewm configuration setup, as it would have been, I dare say, if I had installed KDE-beta-1 from the CD (the S.u.S.E.-5.1 information booklet says it is "in susewm integriert").

So I would like to ask: having done a "foreign" post-installation of KDE-beta-3, is it possible to retrospectively integrate the installation with susewm?

I believe that the Beta3 version of kde is available from the SuSE ftp server. I have it installed on my SuSE Linux installation, and it is integrated with the SuSE desktop. By that I mean that it is a desktop option selectable under other window managers. However, it is brain dead as far as the other packages that I have installed. I think that KDE is a work environment in itself -- it has its' own mail. news, browser etc. I still had to access that suse packages from a term from the kde desktop. Hope that this all sheds some light on this for you. Can't be more specific right now as I am on FreeBSD, but if you have some specifics, I can reboot to SuSE. Cheers, Frank

This would be nice, because the installed KDE desktop does not know about the S.u.S.E. packages which were installed off the CD (whereas, for instance, fvwm-2 would know, because susewm would have set up the configuration).

With thanks, Ted.

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