[gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs

[gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs

[Philip Webb]

Can anyone tell me the command to pre-start KDE libs with another desktop ?

Xfce offers the option of pre-starting them,
but I can't see where it occurs in its start-up scripts.
I'm currently trying out Fluxbox (generally excellent!)
& would like to have it pre-start the libs for the KDE apps I use.

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Re: [gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 20 April 2009 16:25:07 Philip Webb wrote:
> Can anyone tell me the command to pre-start KDE libs with another desktop ?
>
> Xfce offers the option of pre-starting them,
> but I can't see where it occurs in its start-up scripts.
> I'm currently trying out Fluxbox (generally excellent!)
> & would like to have it pre-start the libs for the KDE apps I use.

I believe it's kcminit but it doesn't show up in ps afterwards. Check this 
out:

$ kcminit --list
keyboard
energy
kcmaccess
khotkeys
keys
style
khtml_plugins
emoticons
keyboard_layout
bell
mouse

I once had to track down the command to initialise the fonts kde apps use when 
run under e17, and it turned out to be kcminit. You can also grep that word in 
the various kde session scripts, nearby text may provide further clues

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Re: [gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs

[Philip Webb]

090420 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 20 April 2009 16:25:07 Philip Webb wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me the command to pre-start KDE libs with another desktop ?
> I believe it's kcminit but it doesn't show up in ps afterwards.

Thanks for the hint, which got me to look at what's running via 'htop'.
This reveals that 'konsole' -- the 1st app I started after Fluxbox --
caused the following processes to start & remain running :

  3863 kdeinit running ...
  3866 dcopserver [kdeinit] --nosid --suicide
  3868 klauncher [kdeinit] --new-startup
  3870 kded [kdeinit] --new-startup

So it looks as if the needed command is 'kdeinit'.

Does anyone else have any advice ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs

[Philip Webb]

090420 Philip Webb wrote:
> Can anyone tell me the command to pre-start KDE libs with another desktop ?
> Htop reveals that 'konsole' -- the 1st app I started after Fluxbox --
> caused the following processes to start & remain running :
> 
>   3863 kdeinit running ...
>   3866 dcopserver [kdeinit] --nosid --suicide
>   3868 klauncher [kdeinit] --new-startup
>   3870 kded [kdeinit] --new-startup
> 
> So it looks as if the needed command is 'kdeinit'.

I added 'kdeinit &' to  ~/.xinitrc  & it made a small difference :
Konsole starts  3 s  sooner (wry smile).  Also, that's only after a boot:
otherwise, the KDE libs stay in memory when the WM terminates
& are instantly reloaded when Konsole asks for them.

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Re: [gentoo-user] pre-starting KDE libs

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 21 April 2009 01:12:07 Philip Webb wrote:
> 090420 Philip Webb wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me the command to pre-start KDE libs with another desktop
> > ? Htop reveals that 'konsole' -- the 1st app I started after Fluxbox --
> > caused the following processes to start & remain running :
> >
> >   3863 kdeinit running ...
> >   3866 dcopserver [kdeinit] --nosid --suicide
> >   3868 klauncher [kdeinit] --new-startup
> >   3870 kded [kdeinit] --new-startup
> >
> > So it looks as if the needed command is 'kdeinit'.
>
> I added 'kdeinit &' to  ~/.xinitrc  & it made a small difference :
> Konsole starts  3 s  sooner (wry smile).  Also, that's only after a boot:
> otherwise, the KDE libs stay in memory when the WM terminates
> & are instantly reloaded when Konsole asks for them.

Those 3 seconds could be vital. If you need to ssh into the control machine 
for a nuclear power station and shut down the reactor, those 3 seconds could 
be the difference between salvation and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt(tm)....


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