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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="kde-core-config" xreflabel="Starting KDE">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="config.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <sect1info>
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| 12 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 13 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 14 | </sect1info>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <title>Starting KDE</title>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">KDE Startup Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 21 | <para role="optional">
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| 22 | <xref linkend="dbus"/> (runtime)
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| 23 | </para>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>After <application>Kde-workspace</application> has been installed, the
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| 26 | first important milestone has been reached. Now you need to configure your
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| 27 | system to start KDE.</para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 30 | <title>Starting KDE from the command prompt</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>To start <application>KDE</application> from the command prompt, you
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| 33 | first need to modify your <filename>.xinitrc</filename> file:</para>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <screen><userinput>cat > ~/.xinitrc << EOF
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| 36 | <literal># Begin .xinitrc
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| 37 |
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| 38 | exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde
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| 39 |
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| 40 | # End .xinitrc</literal>
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| 41 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <para>You can now start KDE using the <command>startx</command> command.</para>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | </sect2>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 48 | <title>Starting KDE at boot</title>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <para>KDE comes with a graphical login interface called KDM (the KDE Display
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| 51 | Manager), which provides a customizable graphical login at boot. To use KDM,
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| 52 | you need to install the systemd unit from the <xref linkend="bootscripts"/>
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| 53 | package by running the following command as the
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| 54 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install-kdm</userinput></screen>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <note>
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| 59 | <para>
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| 60 | The systemd unit assumes that <command>kdm</command> is installed
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| 61 | in <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename>. If your &kde-dir;
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| 62 | is different than <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>,
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| 63 | create a symlink to get the systemd unit to work properly by
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| 64 | running the following command as the
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| 65 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 66 |
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| 67 | <screen role="root"><userinput>ln -sfv &kde-dir;/bin/kdm /usr/bin/kdm</userinput></screen>
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| 68 | </para>
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| 69 | </note>
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| 70 |
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| 71 | <para>You can now restart your system and see the KDE login
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| 72 | screen.</para>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | </sect2>
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 77 | <title>Installing further KDE packages</title>
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| 78 | <para>Every subsequent package can be built while having <application>KDE</application> up and
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| 79 | running, but remember to keep <envar>&kde-dir;</envar> set.</para>
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| 80 | </sect2>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | </sect1>
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