• KDE4
• Install

Welcome to the FreeBSD KDE4 Installation Page

Before you start, make sure that you have read the Preparations section.

Preparation

• Make sure you have a fresh ports tree

• Make sure your ports are all up to date [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html]

• Make sure multimedia/libxine is built with xcb support
• To avoid loosing KDE3 configuration files, make sure to backup $HOME/.kde, $HOME/.config, $HOME/.cache, and $HOME/.local.
• KDE4 requires Qt 4.4.1. You have to update all your qt-4.3.4 packages before installing KDE4 (see Installation instructions).

Installation

• If you want to install KDE 4.1 try

• ports/x11/kde4/ && make install clean.

Problem and Bug Reports

• Before you send mail about problems, please make sure you don't send a duplicate report.

  Please search the archive of the kde-freebsd mailinglist. http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/

Known Problems:

• KDE4

Tips and Tricks

ATI/Nvidia Peformance

• We know about bad performance problems. So, before you flame,
  • please a look here:

  • http://techbase.kde.org/User:Lemma/GPU-Performance

  • http://techbase.kde.org/User:Lemma/KDE4-NVIDIA

Starting KDE4

• Using KDM.
  • You can use your kdm from KDE3 to start KDE4 session. Create kde4.desktop file with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Exec=/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde4
TryExec=/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde4
Name=KDE4
Comment=The K Desktop Environment.

• and put it under /usr/local/share/apps/kdm/sessions/ . Now you can choose KDE4 from the session list of kdm.
• Using xinit.
  • Add following lines to ~/.xinitrc file:

PATH=/usr/local/kde4/bin:$PATH
export PATH
startkde4

• Run xinit as usual.