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 08:01 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 11/01/2010 02:32 PM, "Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang
> Enming) 张恩鸣 " 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.

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