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 11/03/2010 04:48 PM, Duncan wrote:
> Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) 张恩鸣  posted on Wed, 03
> Nov 2010 14:02:24 +0800 as excerpted:
>
>    
>> On 11/02/2010 09:00 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote:
>>      
>>> On Monday, 2010-11-01, Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
>>> 张恩鸣 wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> [H]ow 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?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> I think this should work
>>>
>>> startx -- /usr/bin/startkde
>>>        
>    
>> Do you mean that I can run /usr/bin/startkde on the command line
>> directly?
>>      
> No, that means running startx, but with the commandline parameters
>
> -- /usr/bin/startkde
>
> However, by my reading of the startx (1) manpage (which could be quite
> helpful to read), it would be without the -- , since startkde lists
> clients, not servers, to start.
>
> So if he's correct:
>
> startx -- /usr/bin/startkde
>
> If I'm correct:
>
> startx /usr/bin/startkde
>
> But as I said (and as you ACKed, so you at least saw it, but apparently
> haven't had a chance to try it yet), here, I just set the XSESSION
> variable appropriately, but other distributions may not be setup quite the
> same and that might not work.
>
>    

Dear Duncan,

I will give these two commands a try on my Fedora 11 64-bit system.

Thank you very much.

-- 
Yours sincerely,

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