Kde 3.5

[ZDevil]

Sorry for the hassle!  Here is the new KDE Lite symlinks package and a new KDE installation procedure that involves fewer steps.    

What's new:
-- Checked the links and now they are all linked properly.
-- Added a separate startkde in /usr/lib/kde/kde3.5 which is not linked to /usr/lib/kde/kde3.5/startkde.  This separate binary has the mounting and umounting script, plus the reference to xmodmap, so Fn key also works in KDE without manual tweaking.  My reason of doing this is you can always remove this separate startkde and copy a new one from /usr/lib/kde/kde3.5 and tweak it to suit your need.

KDE lite 3.5.0 Installation procedure
#1 Install the symlinks package to the main memory
#2 Copy kde_lite_3.5.0.squashfs to /usr/lib/kde
#3 ln -s /usr/lib/kde/bin/startkde ~/.xinitrc  (Use rm -f ~./xinitrc if necessary)
#4 startx

I have removed the older rapidshare download link to avoid confusion.
The KDE Lite squashfs together with the symlinks package will appear in http://mail.pdaxrom.org/contrib/ shortly (many thanks, pgas!    )

[ZDevil]

New startup time records!  

KDE: 1 minute 5 seconds
Konqueror (normal): 25 seconds
Konqueror (preloaded): 15 seconds only!

BTW, has anyone got any solution to the apm and suspend/resume problem?

[ZDevil]

One issue:
-- startkde cannot be run directly but has to be symlinked to ~/.xinitrc.  But executing startx the image will be mounted twice to /usr/lib/kde/kde3.5 (i.e. two loop devices).  A quick solution is (which I've been doing actually): edit /usr/lib/kde/bin/startkde, comment out the mount line.  Then mount manually and run startx as usual.

[pgas]

Zdevil's stuff:

http://mail.pdaxrom.org/contrib/zdevil/kde..._3.5.0.squashfs
http://mail.pdaxrom.org/contrib/zdevil/kde....0_armv5tel.ipk

[ZDevil]

BTW, has anyone got any solution to the apm and suspend/resume problem?
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I revert to the Light & Power settings for suspend.  For the time being I just let the device time-out suspends (say, 1 minute) without using the On/Off button.  Works fine.  Loading mb-applet-battery doesn't help anything in my case.

Thanks to pgas for putting up my stuff!  

[wowo123]

Hello wowo123,
can you explain how you got rox and kde-apps working?
On my c 1000 all apps are crashing due start or short after coming up!

thanks, Denis
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Hi Denis,
I installed rox, rox-clib, rox-lib and rox-session from the actual feed. Then I changed the .xinitrc-File in /home/root into the one, which was published in this forum some time ago. After coming up with rox I installed all kde-packages from the feed on sd. They ran out of the box without kde desktop.
But I did it on a C860. I don't know anything about the different behaviour of C1000.

[ZDevil]

Okay, finally work out three simple workarounds to the annoying "suspend by On/Off button" issues.

General rule: Do not use the On/Off button for suspend (until someone finds out what actually is going on and how to fix it)  

Solution 1: Use the original Light & Power settings for suspend.  

Solution 2: Add the 'Suspend' application icon (the original one from matchbox, will first appear on the list of Lost & Found in K Menu) to the panel.  Press it and the device will suspend as expected.  Resume works fine.  A little glitch is you'll see suspend still working for around 20 seconds upon resume.  But it doesn't hurt and you can do other things without waiting for it to finish.

Solution 3: Map a shortcut key to 'Suspend'.  For example, I use Ctrl-Alt-Escape (= the Cancel button) to suspend the device.  Works exactly the same as 2 above.

Hope this helps!    

Perhaps someone has come up with nicer and better ideas.  Please do tell us!

[TheWalt]

One issue:
-- startkde cannot be run directly but has to be symlinked to ~/.xinitrc.  But executing startx the image will be mounted twice to /usr/lib/kde/kde3.5 (i.e. two loop devices).  A quick solution is (which I've been doing actually): edit /usr/lib/kde/bin/startkde, comment out the mount line.  Then mount manually and run startx as usual.
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I don't see this happening and I followed your updated 'short' directions after a clean flash.  FYI

[ZDevil]

Ok, my recent screenshot:

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Still I have yet to figure out two things: improper portrait rotation and the way to map keys to turn up/down backlight.
The first issue doesn't concern me much as I'm using landscape almost all the time.
Then does anyone know what the command/keybinding for turning up/down backlight is?  With this for me the basic KDE setup will be more or less complete.   Thanks a lot!  

[pgas]

commands for backlight:

setfl +
setfl -

[ZDevil]

commands for backlight:
setfl +
setfl -
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Cool!  Thanks, pgas!  It's a lifesaver (to KDE)!  So the next thing is to create icons/shortcut keys for them...  

[doppiaemme]

Any hope to see kde_lite working on SL-6000?

[ZDevil]

Here is my quick way of adding backlight adjustment to KDE (in Menu Editor).  The pictures just speak for themselves:    

Oops.  A little glitch?  But that doen't really hurt!    

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[ZDevil]

Any hope to see kde_lite working on SL-6000?
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Probably there are at least two issues to resolve:
1. Capability to mount squashfs in 6000 (dunno if pgas' [a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16946]Squashfs Modules And Utils For 1000/3100[/url] will do here)
2. Screen rotation problem: as Putherguy reports in #83, xrandr has strange output: 320 x 240 for orientation 1 (portrait).  Have taken a briet look at xrandr, rotate and the related scripts but cannot figure out how to change that.  Hope some experts here can enlighten us.  
[Edited: In Screen Resize & Rotate (KRandRTray), there are also only options for 640 x 480 and 320 x 240. ]

[ZDevil]

Problem solved!

If you don't wanna see the busy sandglasses both in Suspend (Post #97) and Backlight Up/Down (Post #103), just uncheck the "Enable Launch Feedback" box on the right.  Out of sight, out of mind.