KDED5(8) kded5 User's Manual KDED5(8)
NAME
kded5 - KDE daemon - triggers Sycoca database updates when needed.
SYNOPSIS
kded5 [--check]
DESCRIPTION
kded5 consolidates several small services in one process. These are
mostly D-Bus services provided by KDED modules, but it also manages
sycoca (a binary cache of servicetypes, MIME types and services used by
KService) and KConfig update scripts as needed.
For sycoca, it monitors the directories containing .desktop files. When
a file is added/removed, it waits 5 seconds (in case of a series of
updates), and then launches kbuildsycoca5 to update the sycoca.
For KConfig, it checks newly-installed update files, i.e. the *.upd
files used to update configuration files of users when the configuration
file formats changes, and runs the KConfig update utility to perform the
updates.
Those tasks are also run when kded5 is started to ensure that the user
configuration is up to date.
You do not normally need to run kded5 directly; Plasma desktop sessions
run it automatically, and it is started on demand when an application
attempts to use a D-Bus interface provided by it or one of its modules.
OPTIONS
--check
Check the sycoca database, updating it if necessary, and exit.
CONFIGURATION
kded5 can be configured with the kded5rc ini-style configuration file.
On UNIX® systems, this can be found at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/kded5rc; if
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set, this defaults to ~/.config/kded5rc.
Configuration file entries are read on-demand, so changes can be made
while kded5 is running. However, all the current configuration options
only really affect the startup behaviour of kded5.
The [General] section has the following options:
CheckSycoca
Whether to update sycoca at startup (default: true).
CheckUpdates
Whether to perform outstanding KConfig updates at startup (default:
true).
CheckFileStamps
Whether to check file timestamps when performing the initial sycoca
update (default: true). See the documentation for kbuildsycoca5 for
more details.
DelayedCheck
Whether to delay the initial sycoca update until about a minute
after starting (default: false).
Each module also has a [Module-name] section in kded5rc, where name is
the name of the module's desktop file without the .desktop extension.
This contains an autoload option that specifies whether the module
should be automatically loaded when kded5 is started (default: false).
Note that this setting can also be changed via kded5's D-Bus interface.
SEE ALSO
kbuildsycoca5(8), kdeinit5(8)
BUGS
Please use KDE's bugtracker[1] to report bugs.
AUTHORS
David Faure <faure@kde.org>
Maintainer
Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
Original author
NOTES
1. KDE's bugtracker
https://bugs.kde.org
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