[PyKDE] drag'n drop in pykless.

[Jonathan Gardner]

On Monday 26 August 2002 06:07 pm, Richard Jones wrote:
> My build environment is non-intrusive to RedHat. That is, I build in my
> system's /export directory:
>
>   /export/qt-stable      (QTDIR and source)
>   /export/kde-stable     (KDEDIR)
>   /export/kde-3.0.2      (source)
>
> according to the instructions on:
>
>   http://developer.kde.org/build/build2ver.html
>
> with "/usr/local" replaced by "/export" in my case, but everything else is
> the same. Note that I also edited /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients to have this at
> the top:
>
> # check to see if the user has a preferred desktop
> PREFERRED=
> if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
>     if [ -n "`grep -i GNOME /etc/sysconfig/desktop`" ]; then
>     PREFERRED=gnome-session
>     elif [ -n "`grep -i KDE /etc/sysconfig/desktop`" ]; then
>     QTDIR=/export/qt-stable
>     KDEDIR=/export/kde-stable
>     PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$KDEDIR/bin:${PATH}
>     LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
>     export QTDIR KDEDIR PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>     PREFERRED=/export/kde-stable/bin/startkde
>     fi
> fi
>
> so my "startx" command worked properly (since modifying ~/.xinitrc didn't
> seem to do anything on my machine). Bundling this all up as RPMs is beyond
> me in both time and knowledge at present, sorry.

I'll play with this. I had a problem of maintaing my old KDE stuff at the same 
time I was building an unstable version. I think the Xclients trick might do 
it, though.

-- 
Jonathan Gardner
jgardn at alumni.washington.edu