> If you use the kdeetc3-3.5.13-noarch-1.tgz package I > already sent to > the list, there is the /etc/profile.d/kde3.sh script which > sets the > KDEDIR (without the 'S') variable to /opt/kde3 (just adapt > it > to your actual Trinity installation prefix). > You can then prevent Plasma from loading by > $ unset KDEDIRS > before running /opt/kde3/bin/startkde: it is set by the > KDE4 Slackware > packages in /etc/profile.d/kde.sh. Trinity will then use > the KDEDIR > variable that is set, in my case, to /opt/kde3. > (in fact if you keep this KDEDIRS variable you will also > have other > issues, such as broken Konqueror home page and half-broken > translations because the KDE4 ones will be used) > But the KDE4 autostart files (and then, kmix and akonadi) > in /usr/share/autostart will still load, it's a known > problem. > As a final note, the /etc/profile.d/kde.sh script will not > break KDE4 > since KDEDIRS has precedence over KDEDIR. I understand what you are explaining. Background: I already had disabled the Slackware kde.sh (KDE4) script. I was starting X from run level 3 and before starting X with startx I confirmed KDEDIRS was not set. The problem is the way the Trinity startkde script is written. That environment variable is supposed to be user defined and not globally defined. The Trinity startkde script adds /usr to the KDEDIRS path, which causes the KDE 4 problems. I have been using KDEDIRS with 3.5.10 for several years to store local changes I prefer that always take precedence over any upstream changes from KDE or Slackware. Now that the Trinity startkde script is modifying that variable I don't know what other effects that will have. If having the Trinity startkde script set KDEDIRS is a hack to create a compatible environment with KDE 4, then I think this is the wrong approach. With that said, I will modify the Trinity startkde script one way or another. Unsetting KDEDIRS is wrong because if end users want to define that variable the Trinity startkde script will be negating any such effort. I stopped having problems with KDE 4 apps starting after I deleted the startkde code setting KDEDIRS. Darrell