On Tuesday 10 October 2017, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
My issue is different but what I have found that might be relevant: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.h tml
When TDE starts up normal as the default DE, lots of "declare -x XDG_=*" Trinity "stuff" gets set. Check your export command and compare the difference for a TDE session and a FVWM session.
Greg, that solved the issue :-)
The solution looks like this: In .xinitrc (or whatever you use to start your DE), I put these lines:
export TDE_FULL_SESSION=false export TDEHOME=$HOME/.trinity export TDEROOTHOME=/root/.trinity export TDE_SESSION_UID=$UID export TDE_MULTIHEAD=false export TDEDIR=/opt/trinity export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/opt/trinity/etc/xdg export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/trinity/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share tdeinit_shutdown tdeinit # start whatever WM you need fvwm
Now "kcontrol" comes up with all modules, clicking on *.pdf in "kmail" brings up kpdf, "konqueror" works as expected :-)
Wow, finally it solved it also for me (using Mate as my DE). I had to fiddle around with the contents of the file a bit not to change the normal look of my desktop. Here is what I put into my .xprofile (for the record).
export TDE_FULL_SESSION=false export TDEHOME=$HOME/.trinity export TDEROOTHOME=/root/.trinity export TDE_SESSION_UID=$UID export TDE_MULTIHEAD=false export TDEDIR=/opt/trinity export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-mate:/etc/xdg:/opt/trinity/etc/xdg export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/mate:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:\ /usr/share/mdm/:/opt/trinity/share tdeinit_shutdown tdeinit
I'm very thankful that you pointed that out Nikolaus and to all the others who helped.
Gerhard