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Lightweight Equinox Desktop Environment needs polish

Fri, 23 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT
Desktop environments like KDE and GNOME offer a popular interface to computing. Unfortunately they are also often heavy on resource usage. By contrast, the Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE) is the fastest desktop environment I know of -- but its lack of standards support and a few missing features may be troubling to some users.

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kde4-config

KDE4-CONFIG(1)							 KDE User's Manual						    KDE4-CONFIG(1)

NAME

       kde4-config - Prints KDE installation paths

SYNOPSIS

       kde4-config [--expandvars] [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--libsuffix] [--localprefix] [--version] [--types] [--path type] [--userpath type]
		   [--install type]

DESCRIPTION

       kde4-config is a command line program used to retrieve information about KDE installation or user paths.

       Use this program to determine where the various aspects of the KDE installation reside on your system.

OPTIONS

       --expandvars
	   expand ${prefix} and ${exec_prefix} in output

       --prefix
	   Compiled in prefix for KDE libraries

       --exec-prefix
	   Compiled in exec_prefix for KDE libraries

       --libsuffix
	   Compiled in library path suffix

       --localprefix
	   Prefix in $HOME used to write files

       --version
	   Compiled in version string for KDE libraries

       --types
	   Print a list of all available KDE resource types

       --path type
	   Search path for the specified type

       --userpath type
	   User paths for the types: desktop|autostart|trash|document

       --install type
	   Prefix to install resource files to

EXAMPLES

       Print the top-level KDE installation directory:

       % kde4-config --prefix

       Print a list of all resource types:

       % kde4-config --types

       Print the installed wallpaper path:

       % kde4-config --path wallpaper

SEE ALSO

       kdeoptions(7)

BUGS

       None known.

AUTHOR

       Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
	   Author.

K Desktop Environment						    2007-09-28							    KDE4-CONFIG(1)

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