9 Dec
2012
9 Dec
'12
7:03 p.m.
> The $DESKTOP_SESSION shell variable is set in
'startkde' script.
I think the
> current value in 3.5.13.1 is "trinity".
thanks for info, that
was helpful
Seems I found a reason of all this: trinity runs autostart files
from
/usr/share as well as from it's own autorun
subdirectory.
The nice workaround will be to remove /usr/share/autostart from an
autorun path. I haven't found yet there those paths are come from
but it should work. Anyway it's not a solution...
IMHO the solution will be to stop using files contaning
OnlyShowIn=KDE (it will require small fixes in tdelibs and
tdebase) and change
all such entries in our desktop files to TDE.
I remember this bug hitting me a long time ago. The problem varied
for everybody, but was path and environment variable related. For
path issues we did a lot of work on fortifying the
startkde/starttde script. For example, when the Trinity version of
startkde/starttde is run, $TDEDIR/bin is in the search path before
/usr/bin.
For the environment variables the problem was KDE4 startup scripts
in /etc/profile.d being sourced during login as well as the Trinity
profile.d scripts.
Because the underlying system has to support whichever desktop the
user wants to run, one solution is to modify the system's startup
scripts to only source the correct profile.d scripts rather than
source every profile.d script tagged executable. My work-around was
to tag all Trinity and KDE4 profile.d scripts not executable. I
created a new profile.d script named zlocal.sh and in that script I
sourced the appropriate profile.d scripts based upon whether
starttde or startkde is being used. As 3.5.13.x and KDE4 uses the
same named startkde, this still works because the Trinity version
of startkde is installed to /opt/trinity/bin and not /usr/bin. To
complete the circle, I use the full path in my Trinity xinitrc
script such as /opt/trinity/bin//startkde rather than just startkde.
Another problem is KDE4 only uses KDEDIRS and not KDEDIR. One
solution then is not to use KDEDIRS in Trinity.
The R14 branch should not have this problem because of the many XDG
related changes (e.g., OnlyShowIn=TDE). Environment variables all
have been renamed in R14 too (KDEDIR->TDEDIR, etc.).
Also, a fringe wild shot, but try running the migratekde3 script
against your profile directory. The script is not part of 3.5.13.1
but probably will be part of 3.5.13.2. The script is in GIT tdebase:
http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdebase/tree/migratekde3
Darrell