Forgive me for asking the obvious, but where are the KDE3 binary rpm's for SuSE 7.2? Phil On Saturday 23 February 2002 1:10 pm, Richard Bos wrote:

Op zaterdag 23 februari 2002 12:16, schreef je:

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On Saturday 23 February 2002 11.26, you wrote:

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Op zaterdag 23 februari 2002 05:34, schreef je:

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 Problem:  I didn't have any icons on my panel with the exception of the task icon and the desktop icon.

Yep, I had that too. The cvs version creates them though, so I don't know what suse's packager has done. I'm in the process of creating my own rpms, though...

This might due that some environment variables KDEDIR, QTDIR and PATH are not set correctly. Check them in konsole/xterm from within your kde3 session. In my case when running kde3, they are still pointing to qt2 and kde2 versions... Though the variables are set and exported (except for KDEDIR) in /usr/X11R6/bin/kde3. It seems they are not exported or in my case /usr/X11R6/bin/kde3 is not called....

I don't have the rpms installed now, that may be true. I do know that KDEHOME was set correctly - I double checked that. And the path more or less has to be set correctly, otherwise everything would call kde2 versions of programs.

But I can't say for certain. When I run from cvs I have those variables hardcoded in .profile, so you may be right. In the rpms I've built I've set the variables explicitly, anyway.

One question, though. If the kde3 script isn't called, how is your kde3 started?

Dunno, because the kde3 script is called. Otherwise I would perform an init 3, set the KDEDIR, QTDIR, WINDOWMANAGER and PATH variables and would execute startx. If I do it this way QTDIR and PATH contain the references to qt3 and kde3.

I don''t understand however, why I get QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt2 as the startkde3 script really sets it to qt3?? See attached trace:

+ export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3/ + QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3/ + export KDEDIRS=/etc/X11/kde3:/opt/kde3 + KDEDIRS=/etc/X11/kde3:/opt/kde3 + export KDEMAINDIR=/opt/kde3/ + KDEMAINDIR=/opt/kde3/ + '[' '' ']' + export KDEHOME=/home/richard/.kde3-testing + KDEHOME=/home/richard/.kde3-testing + '[' '' ']' + export KDEROOTHOME=/home/richard/.kde3-testing + KDEROOTHOME=/home/richard/.kde3-testing + export PATH=/opt/kde3//bin:/home/richard/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11