Problems getting KDE to start...

Wed Apr 25 16:44:46 CEST 2007

The directions are still there.

http://webdev.cegit.de/snapshots/kde-cygwin/kde/kde3.4/

Copy/pasted:

Snapshot release of KDE 3.4.1 

IMPORTANT

  This kde release may not run with newer qt libraries from
http://cygwin-ports.sf.net. If you like to run newer qt releases please
remove this packages completely and install kde from the independent
project http://cygwin-ports.sf.net. 

INSTALLATION

1. install required cygwin packages 

cygwin xorg-x11-base freetype2 fontconfig libxslt libxml2 libiconv
libtiff5 openssl libbz2_1 zlib libpcre0 jpeg libaspell15 libart_lgpl
libsasl2 ash rebase

2. download the packages and unpack them into the cygwin root 

wget -nd
http://webdev.cegit.de/snapshots/kde-cygwin/kde/kde3.4/qt-x11-free-3.3.4
-1.tar.bz2  

wget -nd
http://webdev.cegit.de/snapshots/kde-cygwin/kde/kde3.4/kdelibs-3.4.1-0.t
ar.bz2  

wget -nd
http://webdev.cegit.de/snapshots/kde-cygwin/kde/kde3.4/kdebase-3.4.1-0.t
ar.bz2  

wget -nd
http://webdev.cegit.de/snapshots/kde-cygwin/kde/kde3.4/kdepim-3.4.1-0.ta
r.bz2  

wget -nd
http://webdev.cegit.de/snapshots/kde-cygwin/kde/kde3.4/kdesdk-3.4.1-0.ta
r.bz2  

        tar -C / -xjf qt-x11-free-3.3.4-1.tar.bz2

        tar -C / -xjf kdelibs-3.4.1-0.tar.bz2

        tar -C / -xjf kdebase-3.4.1-0.tar.bz2

        tar -C / -xjf kdepim-3.4.1-0.tar.bz2

        tar -C / -xjf kdesdk-3.4.1-0.tar.bz2

3. rebase all dll's to avoid cygwin remap problem 

<before running rebaseall make sure, that no cygwin process is running>

        1. create file list

               find /opt/qt/3.3 /opt/kde3.4 -name '*.dll'
>/tmp/files.lst

        2. close *ALL* cygwin processes 

        3. open a windows command shell (cmd.exe) from Start/Run and
goto cygwin installation root 

               cd c:\cygwin 

               bin\ash bin/rebaseall  -b 0x61000000 -v -T tmp/files.lst

4. start kde 

  1. display only kicker (uses Xwin multiwindow mode)

               at first create a simple startscript 

               cat >~/startkde 

               /usr/sbin/cygserver &

               export CYGWIN=server

               export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0

               xwin -multiwindow &

               xwinclip &     

               xhost +

               export SHELL=/bin/bash

               kdeinit +kicker &

        [press ENTER, then CTRL-D] 

        chmod a+x ~/startkde

        no you can start kde with 

               ~/startkde &

  stop kde - run  

               kdeinit_shutdown       

        then close the bash window 

  2. using full kde desktop (uses Xwin rootless mode) 

          cat >~/startkde

                       #!/bin/bash

                       cygserver &

                       export CYGWIN=server

                       export SHELL=/bin/bash

                       xwin -fullscreen -noreset &

                       xwinclip &

                       xhost +

                       /opt/kde3.4/bin/startkde

                       kdeinit_shutdown 

                       taskkill /IM xwin

                       taskkill /IM xwinclip

                       taskkill /IM cygserver

        [press ENTER, then CTRL-D] 

        chmod a+x ~/startkde

        no you can start kde with 

               ~/startkde &

Notes 

1. If you encounter problem with kmail (load loading time when opening
new email window or seg faults), you can install the
cygwin-dll-2005-04-13 package, which runs stable for me. 

         cd ~

         wget -nd
http://webdev.cegit.de/snapshots/kde-cygwin/kde/kde3.4/cygwin-dll-2005-0
4-13.tar.bz2

         tar -xjf cygwin-dll-2005-04-13.tar.bz2

         cp bin/cygwin1.dll /

         <close all cygwin apps and start a cmd shell, then enter >

         cd c:\cygwin (or wherever your cygwin root is located)

         copy cygwin1.dll bin

         <now you can restart kde> 

2. You can add the Entries of your windows start menu with the
lnk2desktop tool. See the readme.txt in the package
lnk2dektop-x.y.z.tar.bz2 for more information. 

3. How to install a KDE language package: 

        1. download the related language package from
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.4.1/SuSE/noarch

        2. install cygwin rpm package 

        3. create a symbolic link from /opt/kde3.4 to /opt/kde3 if not
already existent: 

                       ln -s kde3.4 /opt/kde3 

        4. install the downloaded language package 

                       rpm -ivh kde3-i18n-xx-x.y.z-p.noarch.tar.bz2
--ignoreos

        5. setup new language with kpersonalizer

in case of problems see http://kde-cygwin.sf.net/kde3 and/or contact
kde-cygwin at kde.org

From: Douglas Allen [mailto:kb9agt at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:36 AM

HEY Thar;

There was a set of directions on the snapshots site but it's gone now.
But I did follow those directions and got KDE to work. The term is
"rebase". I guess one could look for this in the man files. It takes the
required DLLs and puts them in the right directories to let KDE exe's to
find them. That's all I know. 
I should have saved that page, drat!

On 3/27/07, Joseph Thomas-Kerr <jokester01au at gmail.com> wrote: 

Hi,

I have also been battling trying to get kde to start within cygwin.

I finally have made some progress. It seems that environment variables
set
within your cygwin shell (eg in .bashrc) don't propagate to the new
shell
that is running startkde. As a result you have to edit the Windows 
environment variables by right-clicking on "My Computer" and "Advanced".
After I added all of the environment variables mentioned in
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde3/faq.php#debug_kde3, things
started
to work.

To start X I just run "startx &".
Then, to start KDE I run "startkde"

I haven't as yet got to a working KDE desktop - several of the kdeinit 
instances hang.

But it's progress. I'm going to try to run individual applications, once
I
can find a distribution of cygipc, which so far is elusive.

Regards,
Joe.

> From: Schricker, Bradley
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 10:12 AM
> To: 'kde-cygwin at ...'
> Subject: Problems getting KDE to start... 
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am encountering problems getting KDE to start with Cygwin. I hope
that
> you
> might be able to help me. Currently, I have Cygwin launching using the
> startxwin.bat 
> file. Within this file, I use the simple scripts:
>
> run XWin
>
> run wmaker
>
> I have opened a bash shell prompt and followed the installation
> instructions,
> but they just do not work for me. Thus, I guess I have a series of 
> questions:
>
> 1.) Obviously, I startup XWin in single window mode. Is this
> incompatible with
> KDE?
>
> 2.) I have run the instructions in each of the script files that you
> list in
> your installation instructions (not at the same time, of course --
> different
> tries) one line at a time (taking into account that I am using single
> window
> mode) from the command prompt. The first script does not seem to 
> accomplish
> anything. The second one turns the wallpaper within my running Cygwin
> instance
> black, but has no other discernible effects. Is there something
obvious
> that I
> am doing wrong here? 
>
> 3.) Is there a way to start KDE directly from a windows batch file,
like
> I start
> Cygwin now?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
> Kindest Regards,
>
> Bradley C. Schricker 

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