Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 12:43 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>
> > Sure - here is a note from Tim Pearson:
> >
> > Trinity is already compiled for Debian Lenny, so why not give it a
> > shot? ;-) Here is the package list with buildlogs/status/etc.:
> > https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~trinity/+archive/trinity
> >
> > If you want to use the repository, just add these lines to your
> > sources.list file:
> > deb
> > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu lenny main
> > deb-src
> > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/ubuntu lenny main
> > deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu
> > lenny main
> > deb-src
> > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/ubuntu lenny
> > main
> >
> > I believe the repositories are currently down while he awaits the last
> > of the replacements for the fired power conditioning system.
> >
> > It does honor any KDEDIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS settings for users operating
> > in Kiosk mode like we are.
> >
> > Another note from Tim:
> > If you install KDE3 and Trinity side-by-side, remember to select Trinity
> > from the Sessions menu in KDM before logging in, otherwise you will get
> > a stock KDE3 session.
> >
> > For those not using KDM (e.g., we do not in our X2Go environment-
> > another great project - http://www.x2go.org), simply point
> > at /opt/trinity/bin/startkde instead of /usr/bin/startkde The start
> > script will handle the rest.
> >
> > To enable side by side installations, Trinity stores everything
> > in /opt/trinity. It also stores user configuration in ~/.trinity
> > instead of ~/.kde so, if you want to maintain your configuration, you
> > will need to copy the .kde contents into .trinity.
> >
> > In my case, I had to do an apt-get -f in order to properly pull in the
> > builddeps - I believe the various kdelibs packages. That could be
> > because of our someone unusual vserver/x2go environment.
> >
> > Hope this helps and, again, Tim seems to be putting in countless hours
> > and lots of personal funds to do this and can use all the good help he
> > can get (I assume) - John
>
>
> Except for http://www.x2go.org I'm getting 404 on all the trinity links. :-(
<snip>
Yes, that's because he has the systems down until he can rebuild the
fried power conditioning system. Hopefully, they will be back up soon -
John
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