KDE on Windows- Flash Drive

[Ralf Habacker]

Eduard Sucharev schrieb:
> There's no way to make KDE running from flash drive just like that - it requires some system environment variables which point to KDE root directory, that means that:
> 1) it'll be tied to the drive letter which will almost for sure be different on every host computer (and even on the same one)
> 2) it'll make a mess of your environment variables settings if done just like that.
>
> If you're really curious about it, i guess you could write a .bat file which would add needed environment variables and then, you could run your KDE apps from flash drive. 
there are no environment variables required - just plug in the flash 
disk, locate to the bin dir on the flash disk an run an application.
> Also you'll need to make another .bat file that'll kill all kde-related processes 
in svn runk and binary releases > 4.1.0

kdeinit4 --shutdown

does exactly this job. From the help
   --shutdown                 safe shutdown of all running kde processes 
first over dbus, then using hard kill

Ralf