KDE startup (was: KDE Improvement??)

[Paul Bryan]

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On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 22:26, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:

> Surely somebody else knows what the "standard" way is to do things at KDE
> startup time.  I mean, there *must* be a way, right?
>

This is an X way of doing the keyboard re-mapping, but I think it's probably 
the best bet. Read on to see why...

- From the XF86 how to (:

<snip>
 ... preferred settings can be stored in a file. Typically this is 
~/.Xmodmap, or similar. If your X start up files don't parse this, then edit 
as appropriate so that they do (probably from ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession)...

... Another possible use, is to redefine those annoying "Windows"  keys to 
something useful...
<snip>

Sound familiar?

This way you're still doing "custom" stuff, but you start it up from the 
default start up files for X rather than writing your own script. Presumably 
you'd want to do something similair if you ran Gnome or something else. This 
way, the key mapping is tied to your X session regardless of desktop, window 
manager etc. You may even get lucky and find that your distro's startup 
scripts (/etc/X11/xinit on my system) are set up to parse ~/.Xmodmap already.

I haven't had a chance to try this out yet. I'd have to log out of my session 
and I started writing this first. 

As to KDE, I think the startup folder is the "standard" way. At least that's 
what the user guide kde.org seems to imply.

Cheers
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Paul Bryan
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