kcminit
The desktop service launcher. Programs started by kcminit are generally used to
load users??™ hardware preferences.
Many of these background processes are like daemons, but are executed once per
active display per logged-in user. In other words, if four users are logged into KDE
desktops, and one of those users is logged in on two displays, then five copies of
these background programs will be executed.
The startkde script will use a different window manager if one is defined in the KDEWM
environment variable. This is useful if you??™re starting KDE using startx (Section
2.9)??”for example:
$ KDEWM=mwm startx
You can also set this variable near the top of the startkde script itself. This line would
specify mwm as the window manager in place of kwin:
KDEWM=mwm
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Note that both KDE and GNOME use a full-screen window on top of
the normal root window, and some window managers (such as mwm)
will re-parent that window and add a normal window border, a title
bar, and controls to it. Visually, this is very confusing!
The ksmserver process in turn starts the desktop session, using three sources of
information:
??? The files /usr/share/autostart/*.
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