runtime/doc/userguide/your-kde-account.docbook

   1 <sect1 id="account-intro">
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  16 <title>About Your &kde; Account</title>
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  18 <para>&kde; stores information about your personal settings in a few
  19 different places:
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  22 <listitem><para>The hidden directory <filename>.kde</filename> (note the
  23 period at the beginning), located in your home directory, contains a
  24 large number of files that store &kde; settings. Some subdirectories
  25 you may find useful are:<filename>.kde/share/config</filename>, which
  26 contains configuration files for individual applications;
  27 <filename>.kde/Autostart</filename>, which contains links to
  28 applications which should start each time you start &kde;; and
  29 <filename>.kde/share/apps/kabc</filename>, where your address book is
  30 stored.</para>
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  34 <listitem><para>The environment variables <envar>KDEDIR</envar> and
  35 <envar>KDEDIRS</envar> tell &kde; where its files are stored. You will
  36 usually only need to set <envar>KDEDIR</envar> to the directory in which
  37 &kde; is installed, but sometimes you might have other &kde;
  38 programs installed elsewhere: in this case, you can use the
  39 <envar>KDEDIRS</envar> environment variable. Set
  40 <envar>KDEDIRS</envar> to a list of all the directories containing
  41 &kde; programs, separated by commas. For example, if you have &kde;
  42 programs in both <filename>/usr/local/kde</filename> and
  43 <filename>/home/phil/kde</filename>, you can use <userinput>export
  44 KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde,/home/phil/kde</userinput> if you use
  45 <application>bash</application> or <userinput>setenv
  46 KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde,/home/phil/kde</userinput> if you use sh.
  47 </para>
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  54 <title>Related Information</title>
  55 <listitem><para><xref linkend="kde-for-administrators" /> contains
  56 more information about the directories that &kde; uses.</para>
  57 </listitem>
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