On 11/03/2010 04:48 PM, Duncan wrote: > Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) åæé posted on Wed, 03 > Nov 2010 14:02:24 +0800 as excerpted: > > >> On 11/02/2010 09:00 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: >> >>> On Monday, 2010-11-01, Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) >>> åæé wrote: >>> >>> >>>> [H]ow 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? >>>> >>>> >>> I think this should work >>> >>> startx -- /usr/bin/startkde >>> > >> Do you mean that I can run /usr/bin/startkde on the command line >> directly? >> > No, that means running startx, but with the commandline parameters > > -- /usr/bin/startkde > > However, by my reading of the startx (1) manpage (which could be quite > helpful to read), it would be without the -- , since startkde lists > clients, not servers, to start. > > So if he's correct: > > startx -- /usr/bin/startkde > > If I'm correct: > > startx /usr/bin/startkde > > But as I said (and as you ACKed, so you at least saw it, but apparently > haven't had a chance to try it yet), here, I just set the XSESSION > variable appropriately, but other distributions may not be setup quite the > same and that might not work. > > Dear Duncan, I will give these two commands a try on my Fedora 11 64-bit system. Thank you very much. -- Yours sincerely, Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) åæé Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical Engineering) Singapore Identity Card No.: S78*6*2*H Location: Bedok Reservoir Road, Singapore ZIP: 470103 Mobile Phone (Starhub Pre-paid): +65-8369-2618 Windows Live Messenger: teoenming-at-hotmail.com My Youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo Alma Maters: [1] Singapore Polytechnic (Graduated 1998) [2] National University of Singapore (Graduated 2006) My Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders (Updated 28 August 2010):- http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/mpich-discuss/2010-August/007811.html http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2010-August/295952.html http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_f6a341d9623fda17880159b137c07335.xml Photograph of Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) åæé #1: http://i.imgur.com/M1FNX.jpg Photograph of Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) åæé #2: http://i51.tinypic.com/11u9irm.jpg Photograph of Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) åæé #3: http://www.imagevimage.com/images/Singapore_Citizen_Mr._Teo_En_Ming_%28Zhang_Enming%29.jpg Photograph of Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) åæé #4: http://www.merrypic.com/files/o397beqo7qw8wky5rjno.jpg Photograph of Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) åæé #5: http://piczasso.com/i/yicuz.jpg Photograph of Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) åæé #6: http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/1b553b21ae.jpg ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.