Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:56:41 +0100 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Moellering <mark@msen.com> Subject: Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200811031856.42156.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <490F3016.1020103@msen.com> References: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBOEGOCMAA.fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> <200811031138.38016.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <490F3016.1020103@msen.com>
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On Monday 03 November 2008 18:08:38 Mark Moellering wrote: > The other problems I had dealt with thrid-party programs. There is no > (at least as of a few months ago) K3B for KDE-4 and no FreeBSD port of > Ktorrent for KDE-4. I tried the linux port but had lots of problems. > I ultimately changed back to the 3.5.9(?) version from packages. I am > using an intel quad core running amd64 FreeBSD 7.0 Release We had a similar experience and for this reason patched the kernel, using instructions found here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jail/2008-March/000217.html Then have set up a jail with an updated kde-4 installed there. Every once in a while, we copy over the home dirs and run the jailed version, so that configs on the host system are untouched, but we still get a full experience test. > Also, to start you need to give an explicit path, something like > /usr/local/kde-4/bin/startkde in the .xinitrc file. (at least I could > never get anything else to work) This is easily worked around by adding /usr/local/kde4/bin and /usr/local/kde4/sbin to your PATH in .profile, /etc/profile or /etc/login.conf. Lastly another annoyance is having to click the app menu for it to move to the next category, but I'm sure that's configurable somewhere (I hope). -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.
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