Provided by: kded5_5.44.0-0ubuntu1_amd64 
NAME
kded5 - KDE daemon - triggers Sycoca database updates when needed.
SYNOPSIS
kded5 [--check]
DESCRIPTION
kded5 consolidates several small services in one process. These are mostly D-Bus services provided by
KDED modules, but it also manages sycoca (a binary cache of servicetypes, mimetypes and services used by
KService) and KConfig update scripts as needed.
For sycoca, it monitors the directories containing .desktop files. When a file is added/removed, it waits
5 seconds (in case of a series of updates), and then launches kbuildsycoca5 to update the sycoca.
For KConfig, it checks newly-installed update files, i.e. the *.upd files used to update configuration
files of users when the configuration file formats changes, and runs the KConfig update utility to
perform the updates.
Those tasks are also run when kded5 is started to ensure that the user configuration is up to date.
You do not normally need to run kded5 directly; Plasma desktop sessions run it automatically, and it is
started on demand when an application attempts to use a D-Bus interface provided by it or one of its
modules.
OPTIONS
--check
Check the sycoca database, updating it if necessary, and exit.
CONFIGURATION
kded5 can be configured with the kded5rc ini-style configuration file. On Unix systems, this can be found
at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/kded5rc; if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set, this defaults to ~/.config/kded5rc.
Configuration file entries are read on-demand, so changes can be made while kded5 is running. However,
all the current configuration options only really affect the startup behaviour of kded5.
The [General] section has the following options:
CheckSycoca
Whether to update sycoca at startup (default: true).
CheckUpdates
Whether to perform outstanding KConfig updates at startup (default: true).
CheckFileStamps
Whether to check file timestamps when performing the initial sycoca update (default: true). See the
documentation for kbuildsycoca5 for more details.
DelayedCheck
Whether to delay the initial sycoca update until about a minute after starting (default: false).
Each module also has a [Module-name] section in kded5rc, where name is the name of the module's desktop
file without the .desktop extension. This contains an autoload option that specifies whether the module
should be automatically loaded when kded5 is started (default: false). Note that this setting can also be
changed via kded5's D-Bus interface.
SEE ALSO
kbuildsycoca5(8), kdeinit5(8)
BUGS
Please use KDE's bugtracker[1] to report bugs.
AUTHORS
David Faure <faure@kde.org> Maintainer Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org> Original author
NOTES
1. KDE's bugtracker
http://bugs.kde.org