graedus
October 6th, 2009, 18:30
This quick guide's purpose is making appear all the KDE4 application menu items in XFCE 4's menu, with no wrapper scripts (which is the way I wanted). I still haven't figured how to do pass these arguments directly and globally in a xfce-specific config file. I assume you're using a modern session manager (such as kdm).
Append this to ~/.xprofile (per user basis) or /etc/xprofile (global setting)
# Setting up XDG_DATA_DIRS
export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/local/kde4/share/"
# Setting up PATH
export PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/kde4/bin"
Or more properly, echo your current PATH and XDG_DATA_DIRS in XFCE,
echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS
echo $PATH
And append to those ":/usr/local/kde4/share/" (for PATH) and ":/usr/local/kde4/bin" (for XDG_DATA_DIRS) to create the export lines. (You can echo those vars in KDE4 and make the export lines as well).
Ironic, there's a port to do this the opposite way for KDE4: misc/kde4-xdg-env (http://www.freshports.org/misc/kde4-xdg-env/)
References:
http://spuriousinterrupt.org/projects/xfce4
http://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE4/Install
/usr/local/kde4/share/config/kdm/Xsession (http://www.freshports.org/x11/kdebase4/)
/usr/local/kde4/env/xdg-env.sh (http://www.freshports.org/misc/kde4-xdg-env/)
Wrapping script with .desktop file (linux): http://www.3dplumbing.net/tutorials/garnome/kde_xfce.html
Append this to ~/.xprofile (per user basis) or /etc/xprofile (global setting)
# Setting up XDG_DATA_DIRS
export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/local/kde4/share/"
# Setting up PATH
export PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/kde4/bin"
Or more properly, echo your current PATH and XDG_DATA_DIRS in XFCE,
echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS
echo $PATH
And append to those ":/usr/local/kde4/share/" (for PATH) and ":/usr/local/kde4/bin" (for XDG_DATA_DIRS) to create the export lines. (You can echo those vars in KDE4 and make the export lines as well).
Ironic, there's a port to do this the opposite way for KDE4: misc/kde4-xdg-env (http://www.freshports.org/misc/kde4-xdg-env/)
References:
http://spuriousinterrupt.org/projects/xfce4
http://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE4/Install
/usr/local/kde4/share/config/kdm/Xsession (http://www.freshports.org/x11/kdebase4/)
/usr/local/kde4/env/xdg-env.sh (http://www.freshports.org/misc/kde4-xdg-env/)
Wrapping script with .desktop file (linux): http://www.3dplumbing.net/tutorials/garnome/kde_xfce.html