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Monday, June 4th 2007, 11:49am

Help me: Install KDE 3.5.7 OK, but it's not running correctly

I am using Puppy Linux 2.16, and i want to use KDE instead of ROX (the default desktop and file manager).

First, I installed arts, kdelib, kdebase to test. I installed all other libs that KDE 3.5.7 needed to run.

Arts, kdelib, kdebase is installed in my system with no error (but i see many warnings)
After that, I login into KDE using startkde. It is OK.
But:
1. When I click on Trash, Home, .. icon in the desktop, KDE show me a dialog, and ask me to select a program to open that icon. Why? But the dialog does not list any program for me. I tried to open konqueror, and click on Setting, a page showed with content: Can not locate Setting foler. Why?

2. In K-menu, I dont see any program. The two items in K-menu is Setting > Control Center and Run command... When I click on Control Center, it is not run. So, i pressed ALT+F2 to open Run Command..., type kcontrol. KDE open K
Control Center for me, but with a blank screen. How can i fix it? When i open kcontrol in konsole, it said with me that the X-SDG-Menu=setting is not defined.

3. After that, i try using kbuildsycoca to build the K-Menu, it tell me that can not locate the application-menu in /etc/xdg and in /root/.config. But I find that application-menu file is in $KDEDIR/etc/... So, I copy all file in $KDEDIR/etc => /root/.config and run kbuildsycoca again. The K-menu show me more items than before, but, it is no hope to open Home icon in desktop

I am a new bie in KDE and Linux.
Please tell my why, and how to fix it?
Sorry for my bad English

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Monday, June 4th 2007, 1:27pm

Well, there is something wrong with the mime type settings and the xdg menu settings, wich results in an empty kmenu, kcontrol and kde not knowing how to open .desktop files.
Help mee om KDE 3.5.5 in het Nederlands te vertalen

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Wednesday, June 6th 2007, 4:34pm

I solved this problem.
in /root/.xinirc, i add some commands:

export XDG_*=/usr/local/kde/etc/xdg

which xdg_* u can see when type export in konsole

after that, you must restart kde, and type kbuildsycoca to restore menu

thanks for all