Start KDE with different config directory

Armelius Cameron armeliusc at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 13:41:43 UTC 2011


On Thursday, March 24, 2011 06:11:51 pm Lester M. Petrie Jr. wrote:
> On Thursday, March 24, 2011 05:46:13 pm Reindl Harald wrote:
> > Am 24.03.2011 22:21, schrieb Armelius Cameron:
> > > Hello,
> > > Is it possible for KDE to use different config directory other than
> > > ~/.kde ?
> 
> I have the following in my .bash_profile
> 
> if [ -e /etc/fedora-release ]; then
>   release=$(awk '{print $3}' /etc/fedora-release)
>   FC=.kde_fc${release}
> elif [ -e /etc/redhat-release ]; then
>   release=$(awk '{print $7}' /etc/redhat-release)
>   FC=.kde_rhel${release}
> else
>   FC=.kde
> fi
> export KDEDIR=$HOME/${FC}
> export KDEHOME=$HOME/${FC}

Great. I think this is what I want. Thanks. 

AC


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