NAME

       startkde - Starts up the KDE Desktop Environment

SYNOPSIS

       startkde

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly the startkde command.  This manual page was written for the Debian
       distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       The startkde script starts up the K Desktop Environment and is typically executed by your  login  manager
       (e.g. xdm, gdm, kdm, wdm or from your X startup scripts). startkde in turn launches ksmserver, which will
       load  your last session, or a default session that includes the standard KDE programs if no saved session
       is available.

       startkde, with ksmserver, is a standard X11R6 session manager that can  manage  any  X11R6  SM  compliant
       program.

       startkde  and  ksmserver use the contents of the ~/.kde directory for starting previously saved sessions.
       Source scripts found in ~/.kde/env/*.sh can  be  used  to  define  environment  variables  that  will  be
       available to all KDE programs.

       For  anything  else  (that  doesn't  set  env  vars,  or  that  needs  a  window manager), better use the
       ~/.kde/Autostart folder.

       At the end of a session, the scripts found in ~/.kde/shutdown will be executed.

OPTIONS

       startkde takes no command line options.

AUTHOR

       startkde is written by the KDE Project.

       This manual page was written by Philipp Grau.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report  bugs  of  this  modified  Debian  version  of  startkde  to   the   Bug   Tracking   System   at:
       http://bugs.debian.org

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2005 Philipp Grau.

                                                  Jan 17, 2005                                       startkde(1)