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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 5, KDE Desktop
#38 Start Applications in Weird and Wonderful Ways
HACK
Adding Application Options
In addition to the facilities available in kstart, you can also combine the
options and switches from the program you are running. Each Linux program
has accessible options similar to the ones you used in kstart, and you can view
them in the application manpage. Many programs also have a
–-help option
that will list the different options available:
foo@bar:~$ kstart --help
As an example of combining these options, you can load Konqueror full
screen in web-browsing mode to look at the O’Reilly web site:
foo@bar:~$ kstart --fullscreen konqueror --profile webbrowsing http://www.
oreilly.com/
In this example you use the –-profile option in Konqueror to set the mode
of the application to
webbrowsing. You also specify the URL of the O’Reilly
web site as the site to be loaded into Konqueror when the application starts.
It is important to note that the kstart options (
--fullscreen) are to the right
of the kstart command and the Konqueror options (
--profile webbrowsing
http://www.oreilly.com/
) are to the right of the konqueror command.
Starting Programs Conveniently
Although you have been typing your kstart commands into a terminal, you
can actually use a desktop icon to run the commands. To do this, add a
shortcut by right-clicking the desktop and selecting New Shortcut. In the
command box, add the full ...
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