Running KDE on Mac OSX

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Friday, March 23. 2007

Running KDE on Mac OSX

Since the steps for getting the KDE desktop running on the Mac OSX platform are somewhat scattered all over (this wiki page was pretty helpful), I thought I would document the steps that I executed in order to get KDE running on Mac OSX:
  • Install Xcode software (on Mac disks).             (needed for the gcc compiler)
  • Remove Mac's X11 if installed.
  • Install Fink Project package.                         (needed for the apt-get & dpkg commands)
  • Install XFree86 with fink.
  • Install KDE with fink.
  • Set up your ${HOME}/.xinitrc file - here is my sample one:

    #!/bin/sh
    #
    source /sw/bin/init.sh
    quartz-wm --only-proxy &
    xrdb -m ~/.Xdefaults
    /sw/bin/startkde > /tmp/kde.log 2>&1

    • I ended up installing the kdebase3 package(s) along with some needed extras (instead of the kde-bundle, because some of the software mirrors ended up being down).
    About the only serious snag that I ran into was a problem waking the Mac OSX out of sleep mode if the X11 screensaver was active.
    Posted by Colleen Velo in Computers, Mac Comments: (0) Trackbacks: (0)

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