Plasma 5 is awesome...and some help required with build instructions

Tue Mar 31 19:28:00 UTC 2015

I finally found the problem - the instructions on the wiki were updated
since my setup and I was lacking some lib64 directories in the
runPlasma5.sh script..

Thanks for the documentation and your help! :)

2015-03-31 20:44 GMT+02:00 Bernhard Friedreich <friesoft at gmail.com>:

> To me the XDG_DATA_DIRS path looks right..
>
>  [friedreb at pollux kde]$ awk -v 'RS=\0' -F= '$1=="XDG_DATA_DIRS" {print
> $2}' /proc/3183/environ
> /products/kde/install/share:/usr/share
> [friedreb at pollux kde]$ ls -la /products/kde/install/share/ | wc -l
>
> 73
>  [friedreb at pollux kde]$ ls -la /products/kde/install/share/ | head -n 5
> insgesamt 0
> drwxrwxr-x. 1 friedreb friedreb  1282 30. Mär 20:51 .
> drwxrwxr-x. 1 friedreb friedreb    66 30. Mär 17:20 ..
> drwxrwxr-x. 1 friedreb friedreb  1208 30. Mär 20:51 applications
> drwxrwxr-x. 1 friedreb friedreb    24 29. Mär 22:43 apps
>
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Bernhard
>
> 2015-03-30 22:22 GMT+02:00 David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk>:
>
>>
>>
>>> Any ideas? (attached the output/bt I got from gdb)
>>>
>>>
>> it's an assert in "could not find any theme"
>>
>> At a guess you XDG_DATA_DIRS are wrong.
>>
>> cat /proc/PIDOFPLASMASHELL/env will tell you the most
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thanks :)
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> Bernhard Friedreich
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2015-03-28 19:23 GMT+01:00 Siddhartha <sh.siddhartha at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi David,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot for your comments!
>>>>
>>>> On 28 March 2015 at 20:23, David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > I don't think we should tell people to download's  David Faure's
>>>> > kdesrc-buildrc file. It has "/d" hardcoded a lot.
>>>> >
>>>> > If we make our own we don't need people to change it and can have the
>>>> same
>>>> > directories you use for the rest of this.
>>>>
>>>> Good point. I took this section from Frameworks/Building, didn't think
>>>> too much :P
>>>> Maybe we should update that page too?
>>>>
>>>> > That's installing to /opt/kde5 but we need to create those
>>>> directories first
>>>> > (as root and change permissions)
>>>>
>>>> Instructions already present :)
>>>>
>>>> > If this is about plasma change:
>>>> >
>>>> > include extragear/utils/kdesrc-build/kf5-qt5-build-include
>>>> >
>>>> > to
>>>> > include extragear/utils/kdesrc-build/kf5-frameworks-build-include
>>>> > include extragear/utils/kdesrc-build/kf5-workspace-build-include
>>>> >
>>>> > this way you won't build apps and pim
>>>>
>>>> Cool. Changed the whole section.
>>>>
>>>> > export XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/user/.kde5/cache
>>>> >
>>>> > only works if you happen to be called user.
>>>> > I'm pretty sure you can do export XDG_CACHE_HOME=$HOME/.whatever
>>>>
>>>> Ah right, fixed.
>>>>
>>>> > Personally I wouldn't change the paths, you lose your firefox
>>>> settings, and
>>>> > with the .xinitrc hack later you're only going to be loading this
>>>> session
>>>> > from now on anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Hmm. I preferred having clean Plasma 5 config paths. These lines are
>>>> now commented out by default.
>>>>
>>>> > The setup is a bit broken, if you do the login manager way.
>>>> > yet if you log into your distro session and then start anything dbus
>>>> > activated it will load from /opt/kde/install which is at best a bit
>>>> weird.
>>>>
>>>> Ah right. But logging in to a Plasma 4 seemed to work fine. Ideally
>>>> one should remove the dbus config before starting the distro session,
>>>> yes.
>>>>
>>>> > you need to say login manager way and the .xinit way are mutually
>>>> exclusive
>>>> > (well you can do both, but it'd be weird)
>>>>
>>>> Done.
>>>>
>>>> > add a line saying to log out and back in.
>>>>
>>>> Done
>>>>
>>>> Cheers!
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