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Run KDE on OS X via Xfree86
Authored by: CajunLuke on Sep 27, '05 09:56:05AM

I saw this on Friday (I don't remember where I got the link), and did it over the weekend. When he says it takes a long time to compile, he means it. On my 1.33 GHz iBook G4, using GCC 4.0, it took over twelve hours to compile both KDE and XDarwin. I then had to recompile KDE, as there had been an error and it wouldn't run (another six or seven hours).

It runs great in a window. If you click on the box in the upper-left-hand corner, it collapses the screen into a small green box. I keep the box in the utmost upper-left of my screen, so all I have to do is click it and my KDE desktop pops up. (It has a low enough background latency, even on my iBook, no be a non-problem, processor- and RAM-wise.) I haven't gotten OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 to run in XDarwin like I did in X11, but it works inside the KDE window.

Two things: my /usr/X11R6/etc/xinit/xinitrc file had other stuff in the "# start some nice programs" section, so I had to append the last line of the preexisting stuff with " &", then the KDE stuff below to get KDE to run (apparently every line nees the previouis line to end with " &" (space, ampersand). The other "thing" is a mini-hint: on my 1024x768 iBook, a display size that works well is 950x713. The actual aspect ratio is 950x712.5, so I rounded up. I found that 800x600 is too small (you can't access the OK, Apply, or Cancel buttons in Konqueror's preferences screen after accessign some panes in 800x600), and I don't want it filling up my whole screen. I now have XDarwin in my Login Items, so KDE boots after I login.

For the record, I'm running a 1.33GHz iBook G4, 512 MB RAM, OS X 10.4.2.



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