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Riddick
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 Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 12:40 am Post subject: some KDE 3.4 Pre-emptive questions |
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I will be upgrading to KDE 3.4,
From which point I won't need 3.3 anymore.
Untill 3.4 is unmasked I would like to know how to install 3.4
with the separated sources method, in such a way that I can
decide (from KDM?) if I want to log into 3.3 or 3.4.
Once 3.4 is perfect, I want to get rid of 3.3
What do I have to do?
Second Question,
I would like to setup my runlevels so that 3 --> Terminal
5 --> Graphical KDE. How should do this?
Thanks,
Riddick |
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lotw
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Location: Palmdale
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| Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 1:40 am Post subject: Re: some KDE 3.4 Pre-emptive questions |
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| Riddick wrote: | I will be upgrading to KDE 3.4,
From which point I won't need 3.3 anymore.
Untill 3.4 is unmasked I would like to know how to install 3.4
with the separated sources method, in such a way that I can
decide (from KDM?) if I want to log into 3.3 or 3.4.
Once 3.4 is perfect, I want to get rid of 3.3
What do I have to do?
Second Question,
I would like to setup my runlevels so that 3 --> Terminal
5 --> Graphical KDE. How should do this?
Thanks,
Riddick |
Be carefull about that upgrade. It causes mass problems for me and some other users. The MIME OCTAL errors made installing any new app unusable. |
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Riddick
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Location: Rome or Bristol
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| Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Come on I need some answers please! |
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ekutay
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Location: Berlin
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| Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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I can give you a hint on your second question.
You can copy the default runlevel and give it a new name, eg. graphical or something like that.
| Code: | | cp /etc/runlevels/default /etc/runlevels/gaphical |
You can now add and delete parts of the newly created runlevel by using rc-update.
| Code: | | rc-update del xdm default |
or | Code: | | rc-update add xdm graphical |
You can now switch on / off services needed in only one runlevel by changing you runlevel.
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BitJam
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I gave some install hints in this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-334777.html along with a link to the mini-howto thread that I used for the install.
I too was concerned about being able to boot into my older (3.1.2) KDE. I was able to pick which KDE I started by editing the /etc/rc.conf file. For the newest KDE, I would set:
and for the older version I set: | Code: | DISPLAYMANAGER=xdm
XSESSION=kde-3.1.2 |
You will need to set XSESSION to your old KDE version, not mine. I then used the normal "/etc/init.d/xdm {start|stop}" to stop one version and then start the other.
The new KDE has a "Switch User" option from the desktop menu that allows you to start a whole new KDE session in vt8. I tried to convince it to start the older KDE in vt8 so that I could use Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8 to switch between the two, but I was unable to get it working. |
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