[csw-users] Problem with the CSW install of KDE-GCC on Solaris 10

[Markus Mayer]

On Wednesday, 02 Nov 2005 09:27 -0800, Andy Chandler wrote:

> KDE starts but no icons and the animated startup progress screen
> looks like a bunch of colored blocks - basically there are no
> graphical resources - originally I had graphics but just no title
> bars for minimizing / maximizing windows but now I've lost even the
> basic desktop icons and the kicker icons.

You may have run into the same problem I saw this week-end after
upgrading to the latest KDE from unstable: the windows didn't have
frames around them (as if no window-manager was running), the panel
looked weird, etc.

In this case your KDE problems won't have anything to do with what you
did, that would just be coincidence.

See
  http://www.blastwave.org/mantis/view_bug_page.php?f_id=1246
for more.

If you click on [Main] from there you'll see this note:

------------------------------------------------------------
  In relation to Solaris 8/9, a move was made to start including kwin
  and kxkb in KDE under Solaris. You'll find the main kdebase packages
  as:

  http://www.blastwave.org/testing
  kdebase_gcc-3.4.3,REV=2005.10.27-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
  kdebase_gcc-3.4.3,REV=2005.10.27-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz

  Or, the older stable package:
  kdebase_gcc-3.4.2,REV=2005.09.20-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
  kdebase_gcc-3.4.2,REV=2005.09.20-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
------------------------------------------------------------

I just checked, it has not been propagated to the mirrors yet, so
you'll have to grab that package from testing and install it manually.

  gzip -d kdebase_gcc-3.4.3,REV=2005.10.27-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
  pkgrm CSWkdebasegcc
  pkgadd -d kdebase_gcc-3.4.3,REV=2005.10.27-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg

Hope that helps.

-Markus