NAME
startkde - Starts up the KDE Desktop Environment
SYNOPSIS
startkde
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the startkde command. This manual
page was written for the Debian distribution because the original
program does not have a manual page.
The startkde script starts up the K Desktop Environment and is
typically executed by your login manager (e.g. xdm, gdm, kdm, wdm or
from your X startup scripts). startkde in turn launches ksmserver,
which will load your last session, or a default session that includes
the standard KDE programs if no saved session is available.
startkde, with ksmserver, is a standard X11R6 session manager that can
manage any X11R6 SM compliant program.
startkde and ksmserver use the contents of the ~/.kde directory for
starting previously saved sessions. Source scripts found in
~/.kde/env/*.sh can be used to define environment variables that will
be available to all KDE programs.
For anything else (that doesn't set env vars, or that needs a window
manager), better use the ~/.kde/Autostart folder.
At the end of a session, the scripts found in ~/.kde/shutdown will be
executed.
OPTIONS
startkde takes no command line options.
AUTHOR
startkde is written by the KDE Project.
This manual page was written by Philipp Grau.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs of this modified Debian version of startkde to the Bug
Tracking System at: http://bugs.debian.org
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005 Philipp Grau.
Jan 17, 2005 startkde(1)