Guys, It works! After building kdebase (and fighting with other modules), I just decided to start trinity and see if it would work. Changed ~/.xinitrc to 'startkde' and then typed 'startx' and: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/trinity-first-run.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/trinity-running_01.jpg (this is running in a clean virtualbox Arch install) There is still work to be done, because all modules have not yet been ported to CMake, but for a proof of concept for the PKGBUILDs on Arch -- a complete success. I'll bring the wiki up to date later today, but it already contains the PKGBUILDs that will build Trinity into a working desktop with a single [very 'Quick & Dirty'] build script called 'bldtrin.sh' (for development purposes only). For those interested. See the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trinity -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.