1KDED5(8)                      kded5 User's Manual                     KDED5(8)
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NAME

6       kded5 - KDE daemon - triggers Sycoca database updates when needed.
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SYNOPSIS

9       kded5 [--check]
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DESCRIPTION

12       kded5 consolidates several small services in one process. These are
13       mostly D-Bus services provided by KDED modules, but it also manages
14       sycoca (a binary cache of servicetypes, mimetypes and services used by
15       KService) and KConfig update scripts as needed.
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17       For sycoca, it monitors the directories containing .desktop files. When
18       a file is added/removed, it waits 5 seconds (in case of a series of
19       updates), and then launches kbuildsycoca5 to update the sycoca.
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21       For KConfig, it checks newly-installed update files, i.e. the *.upd
22       files used to update configuration files of users when the
23       configuration file formats changes, and runs the KConfig update utility
24       to perform the updates.
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26       Those tasks are also run when kded5 is started to ensure that the user
27       configuration is up to date.
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29       You do not normally need to run kded5 directly; Plasma desktop sessions
30       run it automatically, and it is started on demand when an application
31       attempts to use a D-Bus interface provided by it or one of its modules.
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OPTIONS

34       --check
35           Check the sycoca database, updating it if necessary, and exit.
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CONFIGURATION

38       kded5 can be configured with the kded5rc ini-style configuration file.
39       On Unix systems, this can be found at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/kded5rc; if
40       $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set, this defaults to ~/.config/kded5rc.
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42       Configuration file entries are read on-demand, so changes can be made
43       while kded5 is running. However, all the current configuration options
44       only really affect the startup behaviour of kded5.
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46       The [General] section has the following options:
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48       CheckSycoca
49           Whether to update sycoca at startup (default: true).
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51       CheckUpdates
52           Whether to perform outstanding KConfig updates at startup (default:
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55       CheckFileStamps
56           Whether to check file timestamps when performing the initial sycoca
57           update (default: true). See the documentation for kbuildsycoca5 for
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60       DelayedCheck
61           Whether to delay the initial sycoca update until about a minute
62           after starting (default: false).
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64       Each module also has a [Module-name] section in kded5rc, where name is
65       the name of the module's desktop file without the .desktop extension.
66       This contains an autoload option that specifies whether the module
67       should be automatically loaded when kded5 is started (default: false).
68       Note that this setting can also be changed via kded5's D-Bus interface.
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SEE ALSO

71       kbuildsycoca5(8), kdeinit5(8)
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BUGS

74       Please use KDE's bugtracker[1] to report bugs.
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AUTHORS

77       David Faure <faure@kde.org>
78           Maintainer
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80       Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
81           Original author
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NOTES

84        1. KDE's bugtracker
85           http://bugs.kde.org
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