wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:56:06 -0500, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>>
>> > It's blank.  I did find a directory .kde4 in my home directory, and I
>> > wonder if it's supposed to be set to that.
>>
>> I'm not sure, but a quick google search found a result that showed
>> KDEHOME pointed to a .kde2 directory in someone's home directory - I'd
>> try
>> pointing it at that .kde4 directory and see if that works.  Seems a
>> reasonable thing to try.
> 
> That didn't work.  I edited the install file to set KDEHOME directly, and
> it ran without errors.
> 
> Now, I'll need someone to tell me what I should be seeing differently.

Hi,

I have been using Povray under KDE/Linux since many years and never had any 
problems with it. Since you're using opensuse you should preferably let 
zypper do the install for you. That way you'll get all files where they need 
to be. It will also give you a .conf file under /etc/povray which is root-
only. As root you can edit that file to set/reset read/write options.

KDEHOME, as far as I know, is a relicq of "olden days". Povray can use a 
folder with conf file under the user home folder 
/home/<user>/.povray/3.6/povray.conf, but honestly, I have never seen the 
use for it.

You also mentioned a transparent render window when povray is running. That 
is a direct effect of the Povray display code being ancient compared to the 
KDE display code. A simple workaround is to start a render with the -D 
option, no display, and then open the image being rendered with gwenview. 
Gwenview is a standard in KDE and can handle images that are incomplete.

HTH
-- 
Ger

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