Problems getting KDE to start...

[Joseph Thomas-Kerr]

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.


> Hello,
>
> I still await any sort of response to this question. Please advise.
>
> Bradley C. Schricker
>
> Software Engineer
> AT&T Government Solutions, Inc.
> 11301 Corporate Blvd. Suite 110
> Orlando, FL 32817
> (407) 658-6908
>
> (407) 658-6922 (fax)
>
> 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
>
> Software Engineer
> AT&T Government Solutions, Inc.
> 11301 Corporate Blvd. Suite 110
> Orlando, FL 32817
> (407) 658-6908
>
> (407) 658-6922 (fax)
>
>
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