Bubbling…

After you build KDE from svn, you won’t see it in the Login manager (because there are .desktop files created for it), so you have to run it manually! How to do it is easy as ummmm….pick a name

Only thing you do is that you should add your kde binary files to your PATH. To do this, open ~/.bashrc and add these lines to it (before the last line):

export PATH=/home/$USER/kde/bin:$PATH


and replace $USER with your username, say “John” (without quotes)

Now, logout, and when you are in Login screen, press Alt+Ctrl+1 (or 2, or 3, up to 6).
You’ll be greeted with a black and deadly screen (it’s not so deadly, believe me). Now in there, login as yourself. It asks you for your username and password. After you enter them, you will go to a normal prompt just as when you open up a terminal. Now type:


$ xinit -- :1


You just started an X server. One which you can start your kde into.
You have now a terminal in from of you. To start kde, just type:


$ ./kde/bin/startkde


and live happily ever after Welcome to the latest KDE build EVER!!
for logging out, just close the terminal, then you will go back to the prompt, then press Ctrl+Alt+7 to get back to the login manager.