README tdeinit_wrapper, kshell and kwrapper are a programs that start programs via tdeinit. E.g. You can make a symbolic link from $KDEDIR/bin/konsole to $KDEDIR/bin/tdeinit_wrapper. Typing 'konsole' on the command line will then start 'konsole.la' through tdeinit instead. tdeinit_wrapper is the simplest for, it only passes the program and arguments to tdeinit, nothing else kshell is usually the best choice, it passes the program, arguments, complete environment ( $PATH, etc. ) and current working directory to tdeinit kwrapper tries to make the program look like it was actually really started directly and not via tdeinit. In addition to what kshell does, it also tries to redirect the program output to the console from which kwrapper was started, it waits for the program started via tdeinit to finish and only after then it exits ( it doesn't return its return value though ), and it also passes most signals it gets to the process of the started program ( thus allowing you to break it using Ctrl+C or stopping it using Ctrl+Z ). The drawbacks of this are that you'll have one more process running, and also the signal passing and output redirection may not work 100% reliably TODO ==== * There is no portable way to read out the complete environment and pass it to tdeinit. - tdeinit should probably unset every variable that's not set in the environment it gets from kshell or kwrapper * stdout/stderr of the started application goes to the console where tdeinit was started. - done, I hope it's ok