On Wednesday 26 January 2011 07:40:31 am Greg Madden wrote:
On Wednesday 26 January 2011 02:00:48 am Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On 1/25/11, Robert Xu robxu9@gmail.com wrote:
TQt - the brains behind Trinity, using Qt3 and (soon) Qt4 to render our Desktop Environment. If any app wanted to, they could start using TQt and then not worry about Qt3 -> Qt4 -> Qt5 changes.
Interresting. How do one start TQt?
You have to run a separate script to launch Trinity apps? I have never had to.
Well, at the moment I run Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat with Trinity installed _but_ a Gnome/AWN Desktop (actually I recently moved to Ubuntu because Mepis was going KDE 4, and I at first did not trust "K"ubuntu, then for the moment stayed there) I do have a test install of Debian lenny + Trinity, but Debian tends to be a little old in stable.
So, if I try to start a KDE3 (sorry, Trinity :) app I get "the program is not installed". Following some info I start my apps with scripts like:
#!/bin/bash PATH=/opt/kde3/bin:/opt/kde3/games:/opt/kde3/bin:$PATH KDEDIRS=/usr/:/opt/kde3/ KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde3 XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/kde3/share/:/usr/share/ MANPATH=/opt/kde3/share/man kalzium
I imagine I should be able to setup these paths somewhere, but did not have time to look where until now.
i used the 'export' command to set up the environment to run Trinity. The Trinity website used to have instructions on how to do this. The web site has grown, can't find it now.
If you run the Trinity DE you don't need to do this, if you run another WM or DE you do.
Oops, found my changes, edit your .bashrc, add the export lines there.
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/trinity/bin export KDEDIRS=/opt/trinity/ export KDEHOME=/home/pabi/.trinity export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/trinity/share/:/usr/share/ export MANPATH=/opt/trinity/share/man:/usr/share/man
I believe this is only neccessary if you run another WM or DE. I was using Windowmaker as my WM and using kdepim. The upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze changed this.
Caveat, Trinity runs best using the Trinity desktop. I gave up a long time use of Windowmaker because of little niggly issues trying to have Trinity apps work in Windowmaker as well as kde3 did before.
I am a newbie to to KDE desktop, but have gotten used to it, it is overwhelming with the number of options. I could spend all my time fiddling with the DE, no need to actually do any work ;-)