Re: How to start KDE from a console prompt?
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 07:40:25 am Kent West wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 11 December 2007 08:29:02 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>> On 12/11/07 20:20, Michael Pobega wrote:
> >>>> startx /usr/bin/startkde
> >>>
> >>> Remembering that, I tried "startx startkde", but that
> >>> bombed. Now I know why...
> >
> > Why?
>
> I _think_ Ron is saying that earlier before posting his
> original question he had vaguely remembered the need to feed a
> parameter to "startx", and had therefore earlier tried "startx
> startkde", but it failed. When Michael wrote "startx
> /usr/bin/startkde", Ron then realized why his earlier attempt
> had bombed: he had failed to provide the full path to
> "startkde".
>
> At least that's what I took him to be saying. Perhaps he'll
> jump back in here and clarify for us.
That's exactly correct.
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