Startkde

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What does startkde do?

• Set magical environment variables:
  • if in failsafe: KDE_FAILSAFE=1 and KWIN_COMPOSE=N
  • unset DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE
• catch SIGHUP: trap 'echo GOT SIGHUP' HUP
• set up $PATH
• check if KDE is already running: kcheckrunning
• Use kstartupconfig to read early launch config
• Set mouse cursor theme:
  • kapplymousetheme "$kcminputrc_mouse_cursortheme" "$kcminputrc_mouse_cursorsize"
  • export XCURSOR_THEME
  • export XCURSOR_SIZE
• Set up displays (basically calling $krandrrc_display_startupcommands from kstartupconfig)
• Force font DPI: Xft.dpi: $kcmfonts_general_forcefontdpi | xrdb -quiet -merge -nocpp
• Launch KSPlash (ksplashx, ksplashqml or ksplashsimple)
• Source scripts found in <localprefix>/env/*.sh and <prefixes>/env/*.sh
• Set and export QT_PLUGIN_PATH
• Activate the kde font directories
  • system/user, normal and override font directories
  • adding to X: xset +fp $paths
  • mkfontdir on the user directories before adding
  • ask X to rebuild its font list: xset fp rehash
  • set GS_LIB to get ghostscript to look in users font directories
• Link "tmp" "socket" and "cache" resources to directory in /tmp
• export XDG_DATA_DIRS
• Launch dbus session: eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
• set KDE_FULL_SESSION
  • xprop -root -f KDE_FULL_SESSION 8t -set KDE_FULL_SESSION true
• set KDE_SESSION_VERSION
  • xprop -root -f KDE_SESSION_VERSION 32c -set KDE_SESSION_VERSION 4
• export KDE_SESSION_UID
• Launch kdeinit
  • LD_BIND_NOW=true @KDE4_LIBEXEC_INSTALL_DIR@/start_kdeinit_wrapper +kcminit_startup
• Launch ksmserver (with optional window manager)

We are now running a KDE session.

Shutdown procedure:

• run kdeinit4_shutdown
• Run scripts found in $KDEDIRS/shutdown
• unset variables