How Do I Launch KDE Desktop Environment from the Terminal/Command Line of a Regular User?

["Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣 "]

On 11/02/2010 03:04 AM, Duncan wrote:
> Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣  posted on Mon, 01
> Nov 2010 20:32:48 +0800 as excerpted:
>
>    
>> 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?
>>      
> IIRC, startkde is supposed to be run from the xsession and likely won't
> work if run directly.
>
> What I do here (Gentoo) is use a script to set/export the XSESSION=
> variable (plus a few others I set for various reasons locally), then run
> startx.  The value of XSESSION points to the appropriate session file in
> /etc/X11/Sessions.
>
>    

Thank you for your information.

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