6 Dec
2011
6 Dec
'11
10:41 p.m.
I didn't do it with KDE3/Trinity but with
KDE4/Trinity I
can run a
regular KDE4 session, and a Trinity session as another user
either in
another X server or in Xnest; but I can't run both KDE3 and
KDE4 as the
same user on different X servers. There is no $PATH
conflict since
Trinity automatically adds $PREFIX/bin in top of the
$PATH.
But with KDE3/Trinity ld.so may get confused if Tim didn't
make the
necessary internal version number upgrades (and it seems
libkdecore is
still at 4.2.0 so it's a bad sign… with KDE 4.5
libkdecore is at
version 5.5.0).
Well, I can hear the peanut gallery in the background: the only way to know for sure is
jump into the water and let everybody else know. I'm just trying to gather sufficient
information to avoid anything nasty.
If either desktop freezes or crashes trying to run both concurrently, that is no big deal
and probably nothing more than deleting cache files before restarting. Worst case is a
library conflict that causes data corruption, but during those test I won't run
critical apps like KMail.
As I said, although still inconvenient, fully exiting either desktop is better than
rebooting. Not much, but still better.
Darrell