Running k3b without KDE

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

There are a couple of KDE apps that I'd like to run, but I don't want to
actually use KDE - I use OpenBox on the desktop and wmii on the laptop.
I'm playing with amarok and k3b (and maybe kino later), and after a bit
of poking amarok works fine, but k3b is being an idiot.  When I start
the program it complains about not being able to find growisofs, and
that I should install dvd+rw-tools.  That'd be fine, if it wasn't there,
but it is.  The search paths of k3b include /usr/bin, and since that's
where growisofs is, you'd think that would be enough.

Better still, if I fire up Xnest and launch KDE in a nested window, and
then launch k3b, it finds growisofs just fine.  So I'm at a loss.  I
don't really want to run it in Xnest every time because 1) hello,
clunky!, and 2) I haven't found a nice way to open up an Xnest window,
launch KDE in it and then launch k3b.  Also, the KDE tries to render
nice, pretty anti-aliased fonts at 1024x768 and Xnest scales things just
enough to give me jaggies.

Anyone have any suggestions?  Thanks.
-- 

yours,

William

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