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Chapter 5, KDE Desktop
#44 Run KDE on the Bleeding Edge
HACK
You might need to be root to run this command when you are installing it to
a normal system binaries directory, such as /usr/bin. If you used the
--prefix
command in the configure script, your files are installed to that directory
instead. Remember that you will need to run each command for each mod-
ule you want to compile.
Running KDE
With your new development version compiled, it is advised that you back
up your existing KDE configuration before you run the new version; it is not
uncommon for new development code to eat previous configuration files.
KDE stores its configuration in the .kde directory within your home direc-
tory. A simple way to back up this directory is to rename it to another name.
When you start your new development KDE version, the .kde directory will
be re-created with the new configuration files.
To run KDE, set your
PATH environment variable to include the path where
KDE is installed (as discussed earlier), and then edit your .xinitrc file and
add
exec startkde to it. This will load KDE when you run startx.