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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Old hand to FreeBSD, brand new to KDE ??'s Post 302393443 by droolin on Monday 8th of February 2010 08:50:49 PM

02-08-2010

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Old hand to FreeBSD, brand new to KDE ??'s

I have now used FreeBSD from eh, 5.0??? But during that whole time I have never used xwindows or kde. My box's have always been servers of one type or another.

I just set up a new BSD machine(8.0), and because I wanted to install boinc I knew that I would have to also install xwindows. Just the requirements of boinc at the moment. Well, if I have to go to this much trouble I might as well have some fun and play with desktops. xorg and kde 3.5 were installed from packages(god, that is so much faster then port compiles).

Cut to the chase, a few questions.
1). Can I install further apps from the port tree using a kde windows application? Or do I still need to do these installs from the command line?
2). If I install various xwindows applications(boinc), will they automatically be reconized by kde? id: I installed firefox3, kde seen it. I was able to place it on my desktop. I'm also probably going to start looking for samba and mysql graphic managers also.
3). Thee are 4 desk tops? hu? umm, hu?

Now, I have some more questions... But they become more specific to the area the questions are in. Not for drool is just dumb as dirt for not understanding kde. linux libraries and wirelss. But I will place those questions in more specific question areas.

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kbuildsycoca4

KBUILDSYCOCA4(8)						 KDE User's Manual						  KBUILDSYCOCA4(8)

NAME

       kbuildsycoca4 - Rebuilds the system configuration cache.

SYNOPSIS

       kbuildsycoca4 [--nosignal | --noincremental | --checkstamps | --nocheckfiles | --global | --menutest | --track menu-id | --help | --help-qt
		     | --help-kde | --help-all | --author | -v, --version | --license]

DESCRIPTION

	kbuildsycoca4, as part of the KDE command line tools ensures the proper operation of KDE by reading in all the .desktop, .xml, and .proto-
       col files to construct a binary database.

	KDE itself accesses this database during operation to provide configuration information a program needs to run.

       This tool is part of ksycoca4, which stands for KDE System Configuration Cache

OPTIONS

       --nosignal
	      Do not signal applications to update

       --noincremental
	      Disable incremental update, re-read everything

       --checkstamps
	      Check file timestamps

       --nocheckfiles
	      Disable checking files (dangerous)

       --global
	      Create global database

       --menutest
	      Perform menu generation test run only

       --track menu-id
	      Track menu id for debug purposes

       --help Show help about options

       --help-qt
	      Show Qt specific options

       --help-kde
	      Show KDE specific options

       --help-all
	      Show all options

       --author
	      Show author information

       -v , --version
	      Show version information

       --license
	      Show license information

USAGE

       A standard way to run this program is by simply specifying the following command at the prompt kbuildsycoca4

FILES

       /var/tmp/kde-$USER/ksycoca4
	      The default directory where the cache files are stored.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       $KDEDIRS
	      Specifies which directories are part of the KDE installations

SEE ALSO

       kdeinit4

BUGS

       There are probably tons of bugs. Use bugs.kde.org: http://bugs.kde.org to report them.

AUTHOR

       Darian Lanx <content@openprojects.net>.

								    2010-01-04							  KBUILDSYCOCA4(8)