KDE System Administration/Environment Variables - Revision history

Vishesh: /* KDE_COLOR_DEBUG_ALWAYS */ added it

2013-03-22T16:28:58Z

‎KDE_COLOR_DEBUG_ALWAYS: added it

AnneW at 15:56, 13 July 2012

2012-07-13T15:56:04Z

Mart at 14:33, 10 November 2011

2011-11-10T14:33:40Z

Dfaure: document KDE_DEBUG_FILELINE, fix typo in timestamp var.

2010-09-02T14:58:34Z

document KDE_DEBUG_FILELINE, fix typo in timestamp var.

Parkotron: Added some KDebug envars

2010-07-28T13:00:14Z

Added some KDebug envars

Alisha at 15:12, 20 March 2010

2010-03-20T15:12:24Z

Dhaumann: /* Troubleshooting and Debugging */

2009-04-16T16:39:09Z

‎Troubleshooting and Debugging

Dhaumann: document KDE_CRASH

2009-04-16T12:07:35Z

document KDE_CRASH

Sbishop: minor edits

2007-10-12T21:02:56Z

minor edits

Tampakrap: Typo

2007-09-17T14:35:39Z

Typo

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 === KDE_COLOR_DEBUG ===
 Starting with KDE 4, setting this variable will get you colorful debug output.
 === KDE_FORK_SLAVES ===

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-{{Template:I18n/Language Navigation Bar|KDE System Administration/Environment Variables}}
 == Introduction ==
 There are numerous environment variables that are useful when managing and controlling a KDE environment. Supported environment variables are listed below.

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 === KDE_FORK_SLAVES ===
 Set this variable to spawn KIO-slaves directly from the application process itself. (By default, KIO-slaves are spawned using klauncher/kdeinit.) This option is useful if the KIO-slave should run in the same environment as the application; this can be the case with Clearcase.
 == freedesktop.org Compliance ==

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 Normally the current method name will be shown on every line of KDebug output. Setting this variable hides it.
-=== KDE_DEBUG_KDE_DEBUG_TIMESTAMP ===
+=== KDE_DEBUG_FILELINE ===
 Setting this variable to "1" adds a HH:MM:SS timestamp to every line of KDebug output. Setting the variable to "2" adds millisecond accuracy to the timestamp.

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 === KDE_DEBUG ===
 Setting this variable disables KDE's crash handler DrKonqi and instead lets the application create a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_dump core dump]. This allows post mortem debugging. An alternative to KDE_DEBUG is launching the application with the command line option <tt>--nocrashhandler</tt>. Setting <tt>ulimit -c 0</tt> will also prevent core dumps.
 === KDE_COLOR_DEBUG ===

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		+	{{Template:I18n/Language Navigation Bar\|KDE System Administration/Environment Variables}}
	== Introduction ==		== Introduction ==
	There are numerous environment variables that are useful when managing and controlling a KDE environment. Supported environment variables are listed below.		There are numerous environment variables that are useful when managing and controlling a KDE environment. Supported environment variables are listed below.

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 === KDE_FULL_SESSION  ===
-Set to true by KDE startup, it is used by e.g. Konqueror to know if it should consider remaining in memory for future re-use when being closed. If not set, konqueror will exit after being closed (e.g. kdesu does that, it's also useful for debugging).
+Set to true by KDE startup, it is used by some programs, such as Konqueror, to know if they should consider remaining in memory for future re-use when being closed. If not set, those programs will exit after being closed (e.g. kdesu does that, it's also useful for debugging).
-If you plan on using this variable to detect a running KDE session, it is safest to check if the value is not empty (i.e. test -n "$KDE_FULL_SESSION") instead of seeing if it equals true.  This allows for changing the value of the variable to include KDE version info or other uses.
+If you plan on using this variable to detect a running KDE session, check if the value is not empty instead of seeing if it equals true.  The value might be changed in the future to include KDE version information.
 === KDE_SESSION_VERSION ===
-Introduced in KDE4, this environment variable is set to the major version number of the KDE desktop being run on startup. This allows one to know which <tt>kde?-config</tt> to run: <tt>kde${KDE_SESSION_VERSION}-config</tt>. For KDE3 this will resolve to <tt>kde-config</tt> and for KDE4 this will result in <tt>kde4-config</tt>. One can then use this knowledge to query more details as to the minor version, prefixes, etc.
+Introduced in KDE4, this environment variable is set to the major version number of the KDE desktop being run on startup. This allows one to know which <tt>kde?-config</tt> to run: <tt>kde${KDE_SESSION_VERSION}-config</tt>. For KDE3 this will resolve to <tt>kde-config</tt> and for KDE4 this will result in <tt>kde4-config</tt>. One can then use this knowledge to query more details, such as the minor version, prefixes, etc.
 == Display and Window Management ==
 === KDEWM ===
-If the KDEWM environment variable has been set, then it will be used as KDE's window manager within the startkde script instead of kwin.
+If the KDEWM environment variable has been set, then its value will be used instead of <tt>kwin</tt> as KDE's window manager within the startkde script.
 === KDE_DISPLAY ===
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 === KDE_MULTIHEAD ===
-Set this variable to "true" to indicate that KDE is running on a multi-head system.
+Set this variable to true to indicate that KDE is running on a multi-head system.
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 Overrides KDEDIR and allows you to specify multiple directories where KDE searches for its data. Useful if you want or have to install some programs to a different prefix than the rest of your KDE.
-Please note, that at least the startkde script expects the KDE install directory to be listed as first.
+Please note that at least the startkde script expects the KDE install directory to be listed first.
 === KDEHOME ===
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 === KDE_HOME_READONLY ===
-Set this variable to indicate that your home directory is mounted as read-only.
+Set this variable to indicate that your home directory is mounted read-only.
 === KDEROOTHOME ===
-If not set, KDE uses ~root/.kde as directory for root's personal data. Was introduced to prevent KDE from accidently overwriting user data with root permission when user run a KDE program after switching with "su" to root.
+If not set, KDE uses ~root/.kde for root's personal data. This was introduced to prevent KDE from accidentally overwriting user data with root permissions when a user runs a KDE program after switching to root with "su".
 === KDESYCOCA ===
-Allows to specify the path and the name of the generated KDE system configuration cache file.
+Allows you to specify the path and the name of the generated KDE configuration cache file.
 === KDETMP ===
-Allows to specify another path than /tmp where KDE stores its temporary files.
+Allows you to specify a path other than /tmp for KDE to store its temporary files.
-−
 === KDEVARTMP ===
-Allows to specify another path than /var/tmp where KDE stores its variable files.
+Allows you to specify a path other than /var/tmp for KDE to store its variable files.
 == Localization ==
 === KDE_LANG ===
-Overrides the KDE language configuration, e.g. "KDE_LANG=fr kprogram &" starts a program with french translation if the necessary files are installed.
+Allows you to override the KDE language configuration.  For example, "KDE_LANG=fr kprogram &" starts a program in French if the necessary files are installed.
 === KDE_UTF8_FILENAMES ===
-If this environment variable is set, KDE assumes all filenames are in UTF-8 encoding regardless of the current C locale.
+If this environment variable is set, KDE assumes all filenames are in UTF-8 encoding, regardless of the current C locale.
 == Networking ==
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 === KDE_NOUNLOAD ===
-If this variable is set then KLibLoader is told to never unload dynamically opened libraries.
+If this variable is set, then KLibLoader is told to never unload dynamically opened libraries.
 === KDE_DOUNLOAD ===
-If this variable is set then KLibLoader is told to always try to unload dynamically opened libraries. Warning, this will most probably lead to crashes!
+If this variable is set, then KLibLoader is told to always try to unload dynamically opened libraries. Warning, this will most probably lead to crashes!
 == Troubleshooting and Debugging ==
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 === KDE_COLOR_DEBUG ===
-Starting from KDE 4, set this variable to get colourful debug output which will look nicely in Konsole.
+Starting with KDE 4, setting this variable will get you colorful debug output.
-−
 === KDE_FORK_SLAVES ===
-Set this variable to spawn KIO-slaves directly from the application process itself, by default KIO-slaves are spawned using klauncher/kdeinit. This option is useful if the KIO-slave should run in the same environment as the application, this can be the case with Clearcase.
+Set this variable to spawn KIO-slaves directly from the application process itself. (By default, KIO-slaves are spawned using klauncher/kdeinit.) This option is useful if the KIO-slave should run in the same environment as the application; this can be the case with Clearcase.
 == freedesktop.org Compliance ==
-The following environment variables are defined in the [http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/basedir-spec freedesktop.org base directory specification] and are supported by all XDG compliant environments and applications.
+The following environment variables are defined in the [http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/basedir-spec freedesktop.org base directory specification] and are supported by all XDG-compliant environments and applications, such as KDE.
 === XDG_DATA_HOME ===

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 === XDG_DATA_DIRS ===
-Defines the preference-ordered set of base directories to search for data files in addition to the <tt>$XDG_DATA_HOME</tt> base directory. The directories in <tt>$XDG_DATA_DIRS</tt> should be separated with a colon ':'. If $XDG_DATA_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to {{path|/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/}} is used.
+Defines the preference-ordered set of base directories to search for data files in addition to the <tt>$XDG_DATA_HOME</tt> base directory. The directories in <tt>$XDG_DATA_DIRS</tt> should be separated with a colon ':'. If <tt>$XDG_DATA_DIRS</tt> is either not set or empty, a value equal to {{path|/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/}} is used.
 === XDG_CONFIG_DIRS ===
-Defines the preference-ordered set of base directories to search for configuration files in addition to the <tt>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME</tt> base directory. The directories in <tt>$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS</tt> should be separated with a colon ':'. If $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to {{path|/etc/xdg}} is used.
+Defines the preference-ordered set of base directories to search for configuration files in addition to the <tt>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME</tt> base directory. The directories in <tt>$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS</tt> should be separated with a colon ':'. If <tt>$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS</tt> is either not set or empty, a value equal to {{path|/etc/xdg}} is used.