KDE is a wonderful window manager. And when you're on a mac, you wonder, isn't this Unix? Can't this run KDE? And it can (beware, it takes up quite a bit of space).
This assumes you have fink on your mac. once you have fink successfully installed, just open a terminal and type in
apt-get install bundle-kde or
apt-get install bundle-kde-ssl. Go eat breakfast/lunch/dinner or go for a walk while you computer toils away. When you come back, KDE should be installed. Now, if you want it to startup every time you start up X, open up a terminal and
cd to your home directory, and type
emacs .xinitrc or whatever your favorite text editor is. The .xinitrc file defines what starts up when you open up X. To make the .xinitrc file type this:
echo "source /sw/bin/init.sh" > ~/.xinitrc
echo "/sw/bin/startkde >/tmp/kde.log 2>&1" >> ~/.xinitrc
When you first startup X, and KDE opens, you will want to disable icons and the desktop, unless you are running in rootless mode. You can do this by starting the KDE control center from the K menu, expanding the "Desktop" list, click "Behavior", and uncheck the "Enable icons on desktop" checkbox.
Turning off desktop icons fixes that problem. Something about Apple’s window server and so on.
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cp
Well, I installed it, but it doesn’t seem to want to run. Any help would be appreciated. Feel free to email me directly as well.
XXXXXXX-Computer:~ XXXXXXXX$ startkde
xset: unable to open display “”
xsetroot: unable to open display ‘’
startkde: Starting up…
ksplash: cannot connect to X server
kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
startkde: updating theme cache
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
There was an error setting up inter-process
communications for KDE. The message returned
by the system was:
Could not read network connection list.
/Users/XXXXXXXX/.DCOPserver_XXXXXXXXX-Computer.local_NODISPLAY
Please check that the “dcopserver” program is running!
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
ksmserver: cannot connect to X server
startkde: Shutting down…
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can’t contact kdeinit!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts…
startkde: Done.
Thats very wierd, but if you were running startkde in a normal terminal it won’t work, because it needs an X server. first you need to type startx and then startkde in the X terminal that pops up. But to get the most functionality, you shouldn’t manually start KDE, you should write the .xinitrc script as above and then type startx in a terminal to see kde start up. If you have any more problems or wuestions feel free to ask.
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Nikhil Mulani
“Earth? Earth no longer exists…” – Foundation and Earth
I started KDE manually within X and it just freezes once the initialization finishes. Any ideas. I didn’t see any weird messages, but couldn’t copy anything from the X window, otherwise I would paste the output.
startkde
xset: unable to open display “â€
xsetroot: unable to open display â€
startkde: Starting up…
ksplash: cannot connect to X server
kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
That’s the problem. Whatever your X11 implementation it’s not setting the $DISPLAY variable properly. Manually set it to “localhost:0” and see what happens.
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cp
Is Kate (the editor) available on Mac ?? Please let me know ASAP!
After I type (copied and paste) this command:
apt-get install bundle-kde or apt-get install bundle-kde-ssl
terminal comes back with this message:
-bash: apt-get: command not found
help
> -bash: apt-get: command not found
That’s the error you’ll get if you type the command in Terminal.app (the application in your Utilities folder). Try typing this in xterm (in X11) instead.