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KDE paths

RobbiK

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Thursday, April 3rd 2003, 2:28pm

KDE paths

I have Red Hat 7.3 and recently I updated to KDE 3.1 using the ASP Linux RPM package which was said to work fine with Red Hat.

Now I'm having trouble when installing new themes, window decorations etc. from kde-look.org. I can compile without errors but nothing new is displayed in the Control Center. Then I started snurfing around and found some things I'm unsure about.

New themes seems to be placed in /usr/local/kde/lib/kde3 but I also have /usr/lib/kde3 which contains all the kde stuff. How can I change this....should I configure new themes with something like ./configure --prefix==/usr/lib/kde3

Why is it like this?? I must confess I'm don't know much about where KDE places things :shock:
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Thursday, April 3rd 2003, 7:53pm

You can either configure new KDE stuff mit --prefix=/usr or use the KDEDIRS variable.

KDEDIRS can contain a list of directories which will be searched if KDE needs config files, libs, icons, etc.

For example add this line to your startkde script
export KDEDIRS=/usr:/usr/local/kde

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