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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Running KDE 4 programs in a KDE 3 session
From:       Frans Englich <frans.englich () telia ! com>
Date:       2005-09-09 13:28:42
Message-ID: 200509091328.42608.frans.englich () telia ! com
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On Thursday 08 September 2005 10:01, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 September 2005 13:56, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Frans Englich wrote:
> > >I'm having trouble running KDE 4 programs in a KDE 3 session, which I
> > > think should be possible.
> >
> > It isn't. Sorry, don't try what you're trying.
> >
> > In the future, we may come up with a way of making it possible, but it
> > currently isn't. If you start a KDE4 program in a KDE3 session, you will
> > very likely break it and have to log out and back in.
>
> Hmm? I do it all the time.

Yeah, I suspected it. It was so obvious the different KSycoca versions were 
fighting the same db file.

> The important thing is to adjust environment variables so that the kde4
> stuff doesn't mess up the kde3 stuff.
>
> See setup-env, which used to be in the kde4 branch:
>
> # Ensure PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH point to qt4, then do the following:
> export KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde4
> export KDETMP=/tmp/$USER-kde4
> mkdir -p $KDETMP

> export KDEVARTMP=/var/tmp/$USER-kde4

I missed that one, and that's why it didn't work.


Thanks,

		Frans
 
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