Always runs as root! Uses
$
KDEDIR
/share/config/kdmrc and
/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
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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
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= If present ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc
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Reset - /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset - after session finished
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The KDE Startup Script:
startkde
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.
