Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2017 schrieb Greg Madden:
>
> On Monday 09 October 2017 04:50:18 pm E. Liddell wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 21:43:47 +0200
> >
> > Gerhard Zintel <gerhard.zintel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Monday 09 October 2017, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > > > When I start kmail without "starttde" - from xterm under fvwm for
> > > > example - then klicking on a *.pdf in kmail results in a dialog popping
> > > > up ("What application ..."). "kcontrol" starts with an empty
> > > > splitscreen window, no modules visible.
> > >
> > > Same for me starting TDE applications. Not only Kmail asks for the kind
> > > of program to be used to open any application. Even Konqueror asks for it
> > > when adviced to open something in an external window. It opens PDF, PNG
> > > and others fine in its internal viewer though.
> >
> > It sounds to me like KMail etc. are failing to find a list of associations
> > between mimetypes and applications, but I'm not sure where that information
> > is stored (I do seem to remember than KDE3 did not follow the standard for
> > storing that information that's now used by most desktops--did we ever
> > update
> >
> > E. Liddell
> >
>
> My issue is different but what I have found that might be relevant:
> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
>
> When TDE starts up normal as the default DE, lots of "declare -x XDG_=*"
> Trinity "stuff" gets set. Check your export command and compare the
> difference for a TDE session and a FVWM session.
Greg, that solved the issue :-)
The solution looks like this: In .xinitrc (or whatever you use to start your DE), I put these lines:
export TDE_FULL_SESSION=false
export TDEHOME=$HOME/.trinity
export TDEROOTHOME=/root/.trinity
export TDE_SESSION_UID=$UID
export TDE_MULTIHEAD=false
export TDEDIR=/opt/trinity
export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/opt/trinity/etc/xdg
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/trinity/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share
tdeinit_shutdown
tdeinit
# start whatever WM you need
fvwm
Now "kcontrol" comes up with all modules, clicking on *.pdf in "kmail" brings up kpdf, "konqueror" works as expected :-)
Nik
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