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 11/04/2010 10:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 11/03/2010 07:54 AM, "Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang
> Enming) 张恩鸣 " wrote:
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> I guess it differs from distro to distro.  On mine (Gentoo), the
> instructions are:
>
> "If you use startx to start X instead of a login manager like gdm/kdm,
> you can set the XSESSION variable to anything in /etc/X11/Sessions/ or
> any executable. When you run startx, it will run this as the login
> session. You can set this in a file in /etc/env.d/ for the entire
> system, or set it per-user in ~/.bash_profile (or similar for other
> shells)."
>
>
>    

I am using Fedora Linux so I guess things are quite different from Gentoo.

Thank you very much for your reply.

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