[kde] Re: How Do I Launch KDE Desktop Environment from the Terminal/Command Line of a Regular User?

On 11/03/2010 07:54 AM, "Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang
Enming) 张恩鸣 " wrote:
On 11/02/2010 08:01 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 11/01/2010 02:32 PM, "Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang
Enming) 张恩鸣 " wrote:

Hi,

May I know how do I launch KDE desktop environment from the
terminal/command line of a regular user?
Is it "exec startkde"? If not, please advise.

I am currently using the GNOME desktop environment and I launch it by
executing "startx" on the command line. I want GNOME to be my default
desktop environment but launch KDE desktop environment whenever necessary.

How do I go about launching KDE from the command line manually?

With startx. Of course, you will have to tell your system to start KDE
instead of Gnome, since it seems Gnome is the default there.

Which file do I have to edit?

Thank you very much.

I guess it differs from distro to distro. On mine (Gentoo), the
instructions are:

"If you use startx to start X instead of a login manager like gdm/kdm,
you can set the XSESSION variable to anything in /etc/X11/Sessions/ or
any executable. When you run startx, it will run this as the login
session. You can set this in a file in /etc/env.d/ for the entire
system, or set it per-user in ~/.bash_profile (or similar for other
shells)."

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