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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 | <para>After <application>Kde-workspace</application> has been installed, the
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| 19 | first important milestone has been reached. Now you need to configure your
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| 20 | system to start KDE.</para>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 23 | <title>Starting KDE from the command prompt</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>To start <application>KDE</application> from the command prompt, you
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| 26 | first need to modify your <filename>.xinitrc</filename> file:</para>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <screen><userinput>cat > ~/.xinitrc <<EOF
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| 29 | # Begin .xinitrc
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| 30 |
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| 31 | exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde
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| 32 |
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| 33 | # End .xinitrc
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| 34 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <note><para>If you are not using <application>ConsoleKit</application>, remove
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| 37 | <userinput>ck-launch-session</userinput>.</para></note>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <para>You can now start KDE using the <command>startx</command> command.</para>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | </sect2>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 44 | <title>Starting KDE at boot</title>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <para>KDE comes with a graphical login interface called KDM (the KDE Display
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| 47 | Manager). KDM provides a customizable graphical login at boot. To use KDM,
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| 48 | you need to edit your <filename>/etc/inittab</filename> file (as the
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| 49 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user).
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| 50 | First, setup run-level 5 to start KDM by adding the following line (adjust
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| 51 | the path to kdm according to your system):</para>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <screen><userinput>kd:5:respawn:/opt/kde4/bin/kdm</userinput></screen>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <para>Additionally, you need to change the default run-level from 3 to 5. This
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| 56 | is done by changing the line:</para>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <screen><userinput>id:3:initdefault:</userinput></screen>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <para>To:</para>
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| 61 |
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| 62 | <screen><userinput>id:5:initdefault:</userinput></screen>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | <para>You can now restart your system and see the beautiful KDE login
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| 65 | screen.</para>
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| 66 |
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| 67 | </sect2>
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| 68 |
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| 69 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 70 | <title>Installing further KDE packages</title>
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| 71 | <para>Every subsequent package can be built while having <application>KDE</application> up and
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| 72 | running, but remember to keep <envar>&kde-dir;</envar> and <envar>$QT4DIR</envar> set.</para>
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| 73 | </sect2>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | </sect1> |
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