On 11/04/2010 10:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/03/2010 07:54 AM, "Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang > Enming) åæé " 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) åæé " 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)." > > > I am using Fedora Linux so I guess things are quite different from Gentoo. Thank you very much for your reply. -- 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.