Anne Wilson posted on Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:22:12 +0000 as excerpted:
> On 15/03/12 18:07, Francois Maurice wrote:
>> I'd like to know how to prevent KDE to load at Windows start ? There is
>> a terminal-like window (a black window) that tells me that
>> "kdeinit4.exe" is starting. But I don't know where to turn off that
>> automatic loeading in Windows.
> From your wording I assume that you are dual-booting, so when you do
> that you will see the option to boot into Windows.
>
> If this isn't what you need, tell us a bit more and we'll see if we can
> get you where you want to be :-)
Anne, I think you're having the same problem I had with a different
thread, recently.
The question is about kde on mswindows, NOT about kde on x-windows (on
linux or the like) and dual booting. Thus the "kdeinit4.exe", with the
".exe" bit being a dead giveaway that he's talking about kde on top of
mswindows, NOT about booting to kde on linux or whatever, vs. booting
mswindows.
Francois, kde originated as a linux based graphical desktop environment
and that's still the default assumption today (well, linux or one of the
non-apple bsds). On linux it involves much more than it does on
mswindows. But some kde developers were interested in porting enough of
kde to mswindows so they could run some native kde apps when they were on
mswindows, and with kde4, there are a number of kde apps and a rather
more limited common kde environment available on mswindows as well.
Unfortunately, to my knowledge there's no kde on mswindows regular list
users here yet as kde's still quite new and rather less well known on
mswindows, so the chances of anyone having a proper answer for you here
aren't particularly high.
Anne again, is there a kde-mswindows list like the kde-linux list? Or
could you contact the kde-on-mswindows developers and see where they
suggest we send people for better answers than they're likely to get
here? Because this is the second kde-on-mswindows question I've seen in
a week, and I'd really love to be able to be able to at least point folks
to the right list if there is one, or alternatively, if the kde-on-
mswindows devs would like us to suggest contacting them directly, or...??
Thanks.
And Francois again. Perhaps with a bit of patience we can get you
connected with someone that knows a bit more about kde-on-mswindows than
pretty much any of the regulars here.
Of course, if you'd like to stick around and answer any kde-on-mswindows
questions that come up that you can, you're certainly welcome to. We're
all simply volunteers as well, and no special knowledge is required, just
a willingness to help and a bit of basic familiarity with the platform in
question. A lot of it is learn as you and others investigate problems
together.
(FWIW, I personally jumped off of MS when they went eXPrivacy, so my
knowledge of the platform's 9x era, over a decade outdated, now, and I'm
not particularly interested in reopening the ms or proprietary software
of any sort chapter in my life, either. I'm all free as in freedom
software like linux and kde, now, and plan to stay that way for the rest
of my life.)
--
Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
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