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6 kded5 - KDE daemon - triggers Sycoca database updates when needed.
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9 kded5 [--check]
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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, MIME types and services used by
15 KService) and KConfig update scripts as needed.
16 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.
20 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.
25 Those tasks are also run when kded5 is started to ensure that the user
27 configuration is up to date.
28 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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34 --check
35 Check the sycoca database, updating it if necessary, and exit.
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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.
41 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.
45 The [General] section has the following options:
47 CheckSycoca
49 Whether to update sycoca at startup (default: true).
50 CheckUpdates
52 Whether to perform outstanding KConfig updates at startup (default:
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54 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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59 DelayedCheck
61 Whether to delay the initial sycoca update until about a minute
62 after starting (default: false).
63 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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74 Please use KDE's bugtracker[1] to report bugs.
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77 David Faure <faure@kde.org>
78 Maintainer
79 Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
81 Original author
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84 1. KDE's bugtracker
85 https://bugs.kde.org
86KDE Frameworks Frameworks 5.0 2014-03-22 KDED5(8)