Running k3b without KDE

[Meng Cheah]

William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> 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.

I'm curious as to what distro are you running?
If I remember correctly, I had k3b running using xfce on Debian.

Meng
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