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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Multiple KDE setups
From:       Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih () cetus ! zrz ! TU-Berlin ! DE>
Date:       1999-04-29 11:06:44
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On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 07:45:55PM -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote:

Hi,
 
> What if this was user settable?  If this was the case, then I could set the
> local kde dir just before starting up KDE on each workstation and I would be
> ensured that my special settings would hold only for that workstation.
> 
> Something like so could work:
> 
>    QString localdir(getenv("KDELOCALDIR"));
>    if (localdir.isEmpty())
>       return ( QDir::homeDirPath() + "/.kde" );
>    else
>       return ( localdir );
> 
> So I could have $HOME/.kde-hi and $HOME/.kde-lo and two setup scripts
> 
>    #!/bin/sh
>    KDELOCALDIR=$HOME/.kde-hi startkde

where is the problem of making .kde-hi and .kde-lo and create a symlink
from .kde to the appropriate directory in a login script? Nothing would
have to be changed.

Cheers,
Carsten Pfeiffer
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