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@...> 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 ;-) -- Peace, Greg