Problems getting KDE to start...

[Douglas Allen]

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.
>
>
> > 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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