Start KDE with different config directory

[Armelius Cameron]

On Friday, March 25, 2011 09:41:04 am Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the reference Rex. This might be handy at some point.

AC