KDE Startup Sequence
Always runs as root! Uses
$ and
KDEDIR/share/config/kdmrc/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. The latter contains entries
like:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt07
Relevant startup files are also:
[X-*-Core] section in kdmrc
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Setup - /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup
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| User enters username & password |
Startup - /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup - prepare as root
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Session - /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession - starts session as user
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| = For a KDE session: kde or startkde |
= If present ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc
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Reset - /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset - after session finished
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The KDE startup sequence starts with the
startkde script. In most cases this script gets called
from the display manager (kdm) once the user has been authenticated. Their
are two very important lines in the startkde
script:
LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit +knotify and kwrapper ksmserver $KDEWM
The first line starts the kdeinit master process.
The kdeinit master process is used to start all other
KDE processes. It show up in the output of ps
aux as kdeinit:
Running.... The arguments after kdeinit
are the names of additional processes to be started. The +
indicates that kdeinit needs to wait till the process has
finished. kdeinit also starts
dcopserver, klauncher and
kded.
The second of the two lines asks kdeinit to start the ksmserver session manager process. The session manager determines the lifetime of the session. When this process exits, the user is logged out.
