%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ KDE Startup Dependencies Optional (runtime) After Kde-workspace has been installed, the first important milestone has been reached. Now you need to configure your system to start KDE. To start KDE from the command prompt, you first need to modify your .xinitrc file: cat > ~/.xinitrc << EOF # Begin .xinitrc exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde # End .xinitrc EOF If you are not using ConsoleKit, remove ck-launch-session. You can now start KDE using the startx command. KDE comes with a graphical login interface called KDM (the KDE Display Manager), which provides a customizable graphical login at boot. To use KDM, you need to edit your /etc/inittab file (as the root user). First, setup run-level 5 to start KDM (adjust the path to kdm according to your system): cat >> /etc/inittab << EOF kd:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm EOF Additionally, you need to change the default run-level from 3 to 5: sed -i 's#id:3:initdefault:#id:5:initdefault:#' /etc/inittab You can now restart your system and see the KDE login screen. You may want to install support for your locale language. The l10n packages can be found at http or ftp. See for build instructions. If you are in a KDE session when installing a new language and configure KDE to use it, the session needs to be restarted, in order to see the effects. Every subsequent package can be built while having KDE up and running, but remember to keep &kde-dir; and &qt4-dir; set.