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Bobnoxous
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 Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:40 pm Post subject: kde settings menu is blank [SOLVED] |
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I recently decided to install KDE the "gentoo" way, using split ebuilds instead of the meta packages. I installed kde-start, kcontrol, etc, and have a working kde installation, except that when I select Settings from the kde menu, I don't have any options to play with. I have a dialog box, but there's nothing in the left-hand side to select. I'd like to configure my mouse, power settings, etc.
Does anyone have any idea what kde applications I'm missing?
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Dan
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did you simply ?
That should give you what you want. |
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Bobnoxous
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Emerging kde will give me everything in KDE, I believe. Besides, I would have to unmerge my current kde apps to reinstall using the kde build, or the meta builds. If I need to go that route, okay, but the whole idea of the split ebuilds is to just get those apps you want.
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| I could be wrong but I was under the understanding that was the minimal kde stuff and was all of kde .. |
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Bobnoxous
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I tried to emerge kde, but it conflicts with all the currently installed kde ebuilds, so kde is not just a minimal kde install. Maybe you're thinking of kdebase-startkde, which I did install.
Any other thoughts on what might be missing to cause my settings window to be empty? Tnx.
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Bobnoxous
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Push. Should I uninstall all my kde ebuilds and install the meta packages. Any ideas, anyone?
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try
| Code: | | for x in `ls /usr/portage/kde-base`; do if [ "$x" != "CVS" ]; then echo -n "=kde-base/$x-3.4* "; fi; done |xargs emerge -Cp |
replacing 3.4* with which ever you have installed (using 3.5*)?
then
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Bobnoxous
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Thanks dcoats. I fixed things by recompiling the kde libraries. I needed to add the xinerama use flag, and so recompiled with
> emerge -uav --newuse --deep world
Afterwards, I have a settings menu. I guess recompiling was the key.
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