KDE4 applications need X11 ?

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Are you using QT4 for Mac or QT4 for X11?


On Dec 15, 2008, at 11:40, Chris Jones wrote:

> Hi,
>
> OK, I've been experimenting with building the KDE4 ports over the  
> last few days. I'm new to macports so bear with me, but I'm having  
> some issues.
>
> I finally managed to get kdebase4 built, which gives some basic  
> applications like kwrite, konqueror. However, each time I start  
> these they trigger X11 to start ! I thought these where suppose to  
> be using QT4-mac, which is OSX native, but it seems some X11  
> dependency is sneaking in. The apps do seem to be aqua though. After  
> starting they seem to hang (after triggering X11 to start) but if I  
> kill X11 off they sometimes come up (kinda off, all icons are  
> messing and most things don't work).
>
> Its clear I haven't done something correct here, either or the KDE4  
> ports are simply well broken at the moment (I know they are  
> experimental). I thought I had perhaps accidentally built them with  
> X11 enabled somehow, so I went back through and rebuilt explicitly  
> disabling X11, following the suggestions here
>
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Mac_OS_X/Macbook_Manifesto
>
> but no luck.
>
> Has anyone out there built the KDE4 ports successfully ?
>
> One thing I had to do was use gcc 4.2 for kdelibs4 - I wasn't sure  
> whether I should then use gcc 4.2 for all other KDE4 ports, or go  
> back to gcc 4.0 for them. I tried using gcc 4.2...
>
> cheers Chris
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