KDE and XFree 4.2.1

alyent · Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2002 7:57 am Post subject:

Does anyone know how to exit from KDE to console (no reboot, Xwin shoul be closed. Do not say C-c or Killall KDE)?

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axafluff · Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2002 5:34 pm Post subject: Shutting down KDE

Try 'telinit 3'

SethGecko · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2002 Posts: 10 Location: Leipzig

Ctrl+Alt+Backspace normally kills the X-Server.

Zr40 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Sep 2002 Posts: 76

LoOpYgUy · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 30

If you used xdm when your computer boots up, then you can just stop xdm and X should close down completely, stopping any X applications that are running, including all window managers..

ryan83vt · Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 11:10 pm Post subject:

um... how do I install a previous version of xfree? do I have to mask 4.2.1?

craig · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 3:29 am Post subject: Re: Simple fix

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I was actually able to compile KDE 3.04 with XFree 4.2.1 r1, but it crashes immediately after logging in through KDM and choosing language. I get a few KDE dialogs telling me some processes have crashed (don't ask me exactly which, I'm tired). So, after that I went through the whole process again with 3.04, again exactly the same happens

From what I see people are saying 3.04 doesnt compile with 4.21? I was able to merge it at least...
I compiled the thing with these flags: -march=athlon -O2 -pipe -malign-double -mmmx -mno-sse -m3dnow -fomit-frame-pointer.
I'm using Qt 3.1, and Xft 2 (replaced the header with Xft.h.good), fontconfig 2, XFree 4.21-r1, freetype 2.1.2 -r2 among others.

Come to think of it though, I first compiled KDevelop 2.1.3 along with KDELibs and arts (some time ago). It didnt seem to work either, so I thought I'd try with the full KDE instead (which has worked for me in the past). Any ideas as to what might be the culprit? Really annoying this....

pilla · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 11:57 pm Post subject:

In my experience, arts and kdemultimedia don't like -fomit-frame-pointer, but I thought this option was masked in the last ebuilds. I would suggest you to check it.
BTW, KDE 3.1 is almost there...

craig · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 2:21 am Post subject:

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craig · Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 1:37 am Post subject:

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Do you think it would work injecting other non-essential stuff as well, such as kdeedu, kdegraphics? I don't really use all this extra stuff anyway. At least it would shorten the compile time some.

pilla · Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 7:02 pm Post subject:

I think it is OK, but if something does not work, you can emerge it later.

craig · Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 9:38 pm Post subject:

I think it would work injecting other non-essential stuff as well, such as kdeedu, kdegraphics. Because my main aim was just to get the main base running and then add everything else that I wanted after that.

Cheers Craig

spudicus · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 4:48 pm Post subject:

Would

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Has anyone been able to compile KDE with relatively aggressive compiler settings? I don't know for sure yet, but anything above -O seems to break things here :/

mrchuckles · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 8:48 pm Post subject:

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mrchuckles · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 9:02 pm Post subject:

I've been following this thread for a couple of days now, since I was doing a reinstall of Gentoo on my main box after playing w/ Redhat 8. Since KDE takes so long to compile, I wanted to make sure I got it right. I figured I'd outline the steps I took to get a succesful KDE 3 compile, using tips from this thread as well as a few others.

1) Installed my base system from a stage3 tarball using the basic livecd v1.4rc1 from ibibllio.org. Followed the Gentoo Installation Guide for most of the way.
2) Used the default use flags plus dvd, alsa, pda, gphoto2, imap, gtk2. These are mostly for my own specific needs and wants, and aren't necessary for a succesful build, although gtk2 gives you gorgeous fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1.
3) I DID NOT use the unstable/testing branch, yet. This is key.
4) 'emerge -u system'. This will update GCC and make the 'ld.so' dependancy errors go away.
5) 'emerge =xfree-4.2.0-r12'
6) 'emerge kdelibs'. Go to bed, this will take a while.
7) In the morning, 'emerge kde'. Go to work/school, this will take even longer.
8) Configure X, and you now have a working X/KDE configuration. We're not done, thought.
9) 'emerge -u xfree' will update us to 4.2.1.
10) Now feel free to change over to the unstable/testing branch to grab newer versions of desktop software. If you want a stable, working box, don't update your entire system to unstable. Just use it for installing your apps.

The above steps led to a working, beautiful KDE desktop with X 4.2.1. I subsequently emerged mozilla 1.2.1, and while I can't use Java in it yet, the fonts are great!

firekite · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 3:12 pm Post subject:

pilla · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 3:15 pm Post subject:

See the Desktop Configuration Guide.

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