From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 17:56:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4729C1065670 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:56:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DCC08FC29 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:56:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.101]) by mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D69AFCF21; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 08:56:43 -0900 (AKST) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:56:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200811031138.38016.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <490F3016.1020103@msen.com> In-Reply-To: <490F3016.1020103@msen.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811031856.42156.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Mark Moellering Subject: Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:56:44 -0000 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.