Really Lame Question

cclavey · 03-30-2003, 03:48 PM

And I mean really lame

How can access GNOME programs in KDE? When I installed GAIM, it only installed in my GNOME directory. How can I access it in KDE? I tried putting gaim in terminal. Now, it just sits there, running the command. I feel really lame asking this...

Thanks

phoeniXflame · 03-30-2003, 03:57 PM

theres a few ways you could do it, either run from CLI (terminal) but whack a '&' after to run in background ie ...

Code:

gaim &

or, create a shortcut on your desktop which executes the program (gaim), I cant quite remember how to do this in KDE since I havnt used it in a while, theres a load of other ways aswell, but these are probably the easiest, hope this helps a bit

PS. Sorry if any of that sounded patronising

cclavey · 03-30-2003, 04:06 PM

Not at all patronsisingish. Thanks!

cclavey · 03-30-2003, 06:28 PM

OK, I ran that, and the first time, it worked. Now, it doesn't want to!

Crashed_Again · 03-30-2003, 07:55 PM

hmmmm...its possible that it still is running in the background. Do:

ps -aux | grep gaim

to see if it is running. Try killing the gaim process and then starting it again with:

gaim&

as phoeniXflame said.

cclavey · 03-30-2003, 07:59 PM

Yup. It was running in the background, I could also see it with "top". Thanks