11 Mar
2023
11 Mar
'23
4:20 a.m.
On 2023-03-10 20:04:25 Michael via tde-users wrote:
I've done this in the past as well. I do remember that a few programs
would only not cause problems if the were run in a different Desktop (which
I thought was weird, but 'eh, it worked).
Best,
Michael --
Platform: GNU/Linux
Hardware: x86_64
Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4
Desktop Environment: Trinity
Qt: 3.5.0
TDE: R14.0.13
tde-config: 1.0
On Friday 10 March 2023 03:23:18 pm Chris Austin via
tde-users wrote:
Here's what my openSUSE system, which uses update-alternatives to
switch between multiple
applications, shows:
| ~
| ● update-alternatives --config default-displaymanager
| There are 5 choices for the alternative default-displaymanager
(providing /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/default-displaymanager).
|
| Selection Path Priority Status
| ------------------------------------------------------------
| * 0 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/tdm 30 auto mode
| 1 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/console 5 manual mode
| 2 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/gdm 25 manual mode
| 3 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/lightdm 15 manual mode
| 4 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/tdm 30 manual mode
| 5 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/xdm 10 manual mode
|
| Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:
| @22:14:55,root@pinto rc=0
Even if your system doesn't use update-alternatives, you should find a
displaymanagers
subdirectory somewhere in your system. Perhaps you'll have to look for
"kdm" in your
library directories?
Leslie
On Thursday 09 Mar 2023 21:21:58 Dave Close via
tde-users wrote:
> I made these comments in response to a different topic and suspect
> they were overlooked as a result. Hence, another attempt. On a Fedora
> 37 system with KDE (5) working, I installed TDE. All of it except
> the applications.
Hi Dave,
AFAIK all of TDE has been re-named so that it does not interfere with, or
is interfered by, KDE. Slávek would have the definitive answer.
I’m going to guess that not installing all of TDE caused the odd behavior.
I would try creating a live USB (Fedora 37 w/ KDE5) and then install all of
TDE to it for testing.
> Having KDE 5 installed before installing TDE
seems to have resulted
> in some confusion. The DE startup splash screen, for example, says it
> is starting Plasma by KDE. Once started, it does appear to actually
> be TDE.
That would be normal until you re-configure the startup splash screen from
using KDE to using TDE's [login manager?] (I don't know the actual name of
that). But some
parts of TDE don't work as expected. For example, the TDE
Control Center doesn't start if selected from the start menu. Nothing
at all happens. Starting kcontrol from a shell does start what appears
to be the program but nothing in it works. On exit, the shell reports,
"WARNING: No TDE menu group with X-TDE-BaseGroup=settings found |
Defaulting to Settings/".
Is this sort of installation expected to work? Would it have been
better to start with a fresh install?
I am using TDE installed after KDE-4 all the time, and I love it. I can
get the best of both worlds, using KDE-4 apps in TDE when I prefer them
to the Trinity versions, and using the Trinity versions when I prefer
them. However this is an old system, installed around March 2017, with
Trinity installed over a late Debian Jessie system that came with KDE-4.
I installed TDM, so that is what I log in with. I actually work in TDE
all the time, unless I have to use one of two programs that used not to
work in Trinity. I just started one of those programs, Geomview, in
Trinity just now, and to my surprise, it opened some windows. So perhaps
I might even be able to use that in Trinity now.