Running k3b without KDE

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:16:49AM -0500, Jamon Camisso wrote:
>William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>>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.
>
>Is k3b loading any of your settings on startup or is it just missing paths 
>to programs? Why not try forcing k3b to load your config file (mine is in 
>.kde/share/config/k3brc) with the --config option? I can't imagine why it 
>wouldn't look there when running in a different WM, but it *might* be worth 
>a try?

It was totally worth a try - thank you!  It was not loading the config
file properly, and now it is, and is working nicely.  Thanks again for
the help.
-- 

yours,

William

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