Hi, I Installed Trinity using the instructions at http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/OpenSUSEBinaryInst... but it does not work out of the box this way. I'm hoping someone with write privileges can add these steps to the wiki
In /etc/profile: Change the lines pointing to /opt/kde3 to /opt/trinity so the binaries will be in the PATH
In /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager: Change DISPLAYMANAGER to say DISPLAYMANAGER=/opt/trinity/bin/kdm
using just kdm doesn't work, even with PATH set correctly.
Also, openSUSE 11.4 repository is broken, there were some dependency issues with the trinity-desktop package. I'll look into that again later.
Thank you!
Hi, I Installed Trinity using the instructions at http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/OpenSUSEBinaryInst... but it does not work out of the box this way. I'm hoping someone with write privileges can add these steps to the wiki
In /etc/profile: Change the lines pointing to /opt/kde3 to /opt/trinity so the binaries will be in the PATH
In /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager: Change DISPLAYMANAGER to say DISPLAYMANAGER=/opt/trinity/bin/kdm
using just kdm doesn't work, even with PATH set correctly.
Also, openSUSE 11.4 repository is broken, there were some dependency issues with the trinity-desktop package. I'll look into that again later.
Thank you!
Thanks for the update! I have changed the Wiki to add your instructions.
Tim
Le 06/09/2013 23:54, Timothy Pearson a écrit :
Hi, I Installed Trinity using the instructions at http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/OpenSUSEBinaryInst... but it does not work out of the box this way. I'm hoping someone with write privileges can add these steps to the wiki
In /etc/profile: Change the lines pointing to /opt/kde3 to /opt/trinity so the binaries will be in the PATH
In /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager: Change DISPLAYMANAGER to say DISPLAYMANAGER=/opt/trinity/bin/kdm
using just kdm doesn't work, even with PATH set correctly.
Also, openSUSE 11.4 repository is broken, there were some dependency issues with the trinity-desktop package. I'll look into that again later.
Thank you!
Thanks for the update! I have changed the Wiki to add your instructions.
Tim
Tim, please, let me check again before updating the wiki.
Francois
Le 06/09/2013 21:38, Cameron Rapp a écrit :
Hi, I Installed Trinity using the instructions at http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Documentation/OpenSUSEBinaryInst... but it does not work out of the box this way. I'm hoping someone with write privileges can add these steps to the wiki
In /etc/profile: Change the lines pointing to /opt/kde3 to /opt/trinity so the binaries will be in the PATH
In /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager: Change DISPLAYMANAGER to say DISPLAYMANAGER=/opt/trinity/bin/kdm
using just kdm doesn't work, even with PATH set correctly.
Also, openSUSE 11.4 repository is broken, there were some dependency issues with the trinity-desktop package. I'll look into that again later.
Thank you!
Hello,
About /etc/profile : it should not be needed , the "startkde" script from trinity already adds its own path (/opt/trinity/bin). Also, if /opt/kde3/bin exists, it means that you have some opensuse-kde3 packages installed, which is not supported yet by Trinity. You should remove any KDE3-related package prior to running TDE.
About DISPLAYMANAGER: you should simply use: DISPLAYMANAGER=tdm and it should work. We need to add this information to the Wiki.
About 11.4 missing packages, I will try again to fresh-install the distribution then TDE 3.5.13.2 to check which package is missing, if there is any.
Francois
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 12:54 AM, François Andriot francois.andriot@free.frwrote:
Hello,
About /etc/profile : it should not be needed , the "startkde" script from trinity already adds its own path (/opt/trinity/bin). Also, if /opt/kde3/bin exists, it means that you have some opensuse-kde3 packages installed, which is not supported yet by Trinity. You should remove any KDE3-related package prior to running TDE.
About DISPLAYMANAGER: you should simply use: DISPLAYMANAGER=tdm and it should work. We need to add this information to the Wiki.
About 11.4 missing packages, I will try again to fresh-install the distribution then TDE 3.5.13.2 to check which package is missing, if there is any.
Francois
Hi,
Thanks! I tried the DISPLAYMANAGER=tdm and it worked on my 12.3 machine. The issue with the path appears to be when X is not running, there is no auto complete for kde binaries so I had a hard time starting kdm. I also expected to be able to set DEFAULT_WM=tdm to make it start when using the startx script but yast errors on it. I'm going to reinstall this machine because it may just be cause i broke it changing the sysconfig, and ill see how it goes afterwards.
On my 11.4 machine, I did a clean install and set DISPLAYMANAGER=tdm, I got the message "Starting service tdm" when I switched to runlevel 5, but xdm appeared instead, changing to runlevel 3 makes it say "Shutting down service xdm", I can't get it to start even if i point DISPLAYMANAGER directly to kdm, weird.
Could we please bring the knetworkmanager8 package back for 11.4 since it still uses the old networkmanager? I was looking for the SRPM, The page at http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity/rpm/ says they are only available for RHEL6 which would be fine, but the directory is empty. I would rather use a newer version of suse but there are a few things holding me back.
Amazing job on keeping the old KDE up to date so far!
Cameron
Le 08/09/2013 00:54, Cameron Rapp a écrit :
Hi,
Thanks! I tried the DISPLAYMANAGER=tdm and it worked on my 12.3 machine. The issue with the path appears to be when X is not running, there is no auto complete for kde binaries so I had a hard time starting kdm. I also expected to be able to set DEFAULT_WM=tdm to make it start when using the startx script but yast errors on it. I'm going to reinstall this machine because it may just be cause i broke it changing the sysconfig, and ill see how it goes afterwards.
On my 11.4 machine, I did a clean install and set DISPLAYMANAGER=tdm, I got the message "Starting service tdm" when I switched to runlevel 5, but xdm appeared instead, changing to runlevel 3 makes it say "Shutting down service xdm", I can't get it to start even if i point DISPLAYMANAGER directly to kdm, weird.
Could we please bring the knetworkmanager8 package back for 11.4 since it still uses the old networkmanager? I was looking for the SRPM, The page at http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity/rpm/ says they are only available for RHEL6 which would be fine, but the directory is empty. I would rather use a newer version of suse but there are a few things holding me back.
Amazing job on keeping the old KDE up to date so far!
Cameron
Hello, I've just found out that, on openSUSE 11.x, the "/etc/init.d/xdm" scripts has hardcoded all distribution-known DM (e.g. KDM, GDM ...) and does not allow custom-defined DM, so there is no proper way to run TDM ! I've also seen that updates in "packman" repository packages cause unresolved libraries in TDE and prevents some packages installation (amarok).
So I've just rebuilt the entire 11.4 packages, including a workaround to run TDM, and the knetworkmanager8 package. You must wait a few day for the synchronization on the mirrors, then update your computer.
Francois
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