11.2 KDE4->KDE3

Paul Thompson

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Nov 23, 2009, 10:43:09 AM11/23/09

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What's the best way to change to KDE3? I used YaST to install kde3 files
but no joy.

Thanks
Paul

David Bolt

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Nov 23, 2009, 11:20:22 AM11/23/09

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On Monday 23 Nov 2009 15:43, while playing with a tin of spray paint,
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> What's the best way to change to KDE3? I used YaST to install kde3 files
> but no joy.

If you don't have auto-login enabled, click on "Session type" at the
login screen, select KDE3 and then login. If you do have auto-login
enabled, log out so you get a login screen, then follow the previous
steps.

Regards,
David Bolt

Paul Thompson

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Nov 23, 2009, 11:55:52 AM11/23/09

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On 11/23/2009 10:20 AM, David Bolt wrote:
> On Monday 23 Nov 2009 15:43, while playing with a tin of spray paint,
> Paul Thompson painted this mural:
>
>> What's the best way to change to KDE3? I used YaST to install kde3 files
>> but no joy.
>
> If you don't have auto-login enabled, click on "Session type" at the
> login screen, select KDE3 and then login. If you do have auto-login
> enabled, log out so you get a login screen, then follow the previous
> steps.
>
>
> Regards,
> David Bolt
>

Under Session type KDE3 is not in the list.

Thanks

Szymon von Ulezalka

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Nov 23, 2009, 5:33:24 PM11/23/09

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as far i know- there is no chance (without compilling stuff by
yourself etc) to install old, good kde3 on opensuse11.2. it is simply
not supported anymore :/
althought- you can always use debian lenny or, if you prefer rpm-based
distros, centos- both have kde3.5.x in standard repos, both are quite
long supported.

szymon

Ulick Magee

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Nov 23, 2009, 7:39:26 PM11/23/09

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Szymon von Ulezalka wrote:

> as far i know- there is no chance (without compilling stuff by
> yourself etc) to install old, good kde3 on opensuse11.2. it is simply
> not supported anymore :/

As mentioned on anther thread today, it's not officially supported under
11.2, but the repositories are there so no need to compile anything.

http://en.opensuse.org/KDE3

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Paul Thompson

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Nov 24, 2009, 8:44:45 AM11/24/09

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On 11/23/2009 06:39 PM, Ulick Magee wrote:
> Szymon von Ulezalka wrote:
>
>> as far i know- there is no chance (without compilling stuff by
>> yourself etc) to install old, good kde3 on opensuse11.2. it is simply
>> not supported anymore :/
>
> As mentioned on anther thread today, it's not officially supported under
> 11.2, but the repositories are there so no need to compile anything.
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/KDE3
>
>
>
>

I believe I have the files but getting "Session type" to offer it as an
option is the problem.

Vahis

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Nov 24, 2009, 11:02:41 AM11/24/09

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http://en.opensuse.org/KDE3

From there:
<quote>

Install the kde3 desktop on a Opensuse 11.2 system - you should firstly
add the repo address as shown below to yast. You will need to install
kdebase3-session package - plus any of the package families that you
would like (e.g. kdegames, kdegraphics etc). It is possibe to use kde3
packages when running a kde4 desktop and kde4 packages when running a
kde3 desktop. So for example the music player programme amarok version
1.4 (designed for kde3 systems) will play fine when running the kde4
desktop and amarok version 2 (designed for kde4) will play fine when
running the kde3 desktop
< /quote>

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Ulick Magee

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Nov 25, 2009, 4:40:42 PM11/25/09

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Paul Thompson wrote:
>>
> I believe I have the files but getting "Session type" to offer it as an
> option is the problem.

In Yast - Software Management, select filter by patterns, are the KDE3
patterns installed?

testr

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Nov 29, 2009, 9:25:14 PM11/29/09

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I had problems keeping kde4 offa 11.1 and remembered what I had
to do to prevent it.

1 [may be optional, I use ONLY this method]
Prevent graphical login by setting runlevel to init 3:

grub menu (change as req'd) it's the "splash=0 3" that does it

--------------------------------------------------------------
title Suse 112 I N I T E S T reiser sda10
root (hd0,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda10 vga=0x31a splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd
---------------------------------------------------------------

2
Make sure all the kde3 stuff is installed

3
Uninstall kdebase4-workspace-*version.arch*.rpm

Yast will complain, let it also knock off associated dependers.
X will be unable to exit so bail out with cntr/alt/bckspc and
then do a hard reboot (I didn't try just a hard reboot from X).

4
Reboot, log in, & do "startx"

Kde3 launches as per on my system.

H T H :-))

I'm going to put it back to 4 as I have a 3 system for normal use.

Now, I'll have a Q on wifi usb, I'll post it separately.

Fernando Peral

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Dec 6, 2009, 8:05:20 AM12/6/09

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El 23/11/09 16:43, Paul Thompson escribi�:

i've done it, You must add the KDE3 repo. Then in yast "install SW"
select the tab "repositories" then in KDE3 select the packages you need
(in doubt select a lot of them), then kde3 appears in kdm (even kdm of
kde3 appears at boot).
The problema seems that it doesnt work very fine: kcontrol boots but it
doen's show any modules and i dont know how to fix it.
But at least kde3 runs faster than kde4.