Start KDE with different config directory

[Rex Dieter]

On 03/25/2011 08:38 AM, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> On Thursday, March 24, 2011 05:44:05 pm Jim Dean wrote:
>> If accessing your data files is the aim wouldn't it be simpler to have a
>> local home on each computer for configs etc. and have a data directory on
>> the server for your files?
>
> Well yes, but I also wanted to possibly try different version of KDE on the
> same machine (like the alpha release of F15 with KDE 4.6) and I don't
> necessarily want to create different home directories just to start / try with
> a fresh config.

to confirm what was mentioned elsewhere in the thread, you'll want to 
experiment with KDEHOME and possibly KDEDIRS environment variables.

See also,
http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/Environment_Variables
for gory detail.

-- Rex