Running k3b without KDE

[paul sutton]

If it helps I have Kanotix (which is basically debian sid),  I have 
installed kde plus some lightweight window managers, fluxbox is 
currently default . If you have kde installed, then all the components 
are there to run kde apps. even if at the time the window manager is 
something else.  This is quite handy as my laptop has 128mb of memory, 
so I use fluxbox and run kstars through that, with no problem, desktop 
has 1gb memory but kde is broke somewhere so I am running fluxbox 
instread.  I guess the problem is that doing apt-get install kstars, or 
a kde app could pull down all of kde, kanotix is due for an upgrade 
shortly when they finally release 2005-4,  which I guess could end up 
being 2006-1, but that is a different issue.

I would assume installing gnome would have the  effect of being able to 
run gnome apps in a different window manager,  of course you need a lot 
of diskspace for this, which kind of defeats the point of having a light 
weight window manager if you are short on diskspace.  It would be 
interesting to find out how much of kde I need to run kde apps, without 
acutally having the main user visible component of kde.

Paul

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.
>  
>

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