source: kde5/plasma/starting.xml@ 94b4def9

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<sect1 id="plasma-starting" xreflabel="Starting KDE Plasma 5">
  <?dbhtml filename="starting.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy: krejzi $</othername>
    <date>$Date: 2014-07-24 17:40:59 +0200 (Thu, 24 Jul 2014) $</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Starting KDE Plasma 5</title>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect3">KDE Plasma 5 Startup Dependencies</bridgehead>

  <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
  <para role="required">
    <xref linkend="dbus"/>,
    <xref linkend="systemd"/> and
    <xref linkend="xinit"/>
  </para>

  <sect2>
    <title>Starting KDE Plasma 5 from the command line</title>

    <note>
      <para>
        You can skip these instructions if you are going to
        use a display manager such as <xref linkend="sddm"/>.
      </para>
    </note>

    <para>
      To start <application>KDE Plasma 5</application> from the command
      line, you first need to modify your <filename>.xinitrc</filename>
      file:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>cat &gt; ~/.xinitrc &lt;&lt; EOF
<literal># Begin .xinitrc

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde

# End .xinitrc</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

    <tip>
      <para>
        If you are having problems starting <application>KDE Plasma 5</application>,
        try replacing <command>startkde</command> with
        <command>startkde-wrapper</command> in the command above.
      </para>
    </tip>

    <para>
      You can now start <application>KDE Plasma 5</application> using the
      <command>startx</command> command.
    </para>

  </sect2>

</sect1>