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<title>About Your &kde; Account</title>

<para>&kde; stores information about your personal settings in a few
different places:

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<listitem><para>The hidden directory <filename>.kde</filename> (note the
period at the beginning), located in your home directory, contains a
large number of files that store &kde; settings. Some subdirectories
you may find useful are:<filename>.kde/share/config</filename>, which
contains configuration files for individual applications;
<filename>.kde/Autostart</filename>, which contains links to
applications which should start each time you start &kde;; and
<filename>.kde/share/apps/kabc</filename>, where your address book is
stored.</para>
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<listitem><para>The environment variables <envar>KDEDIR</envar> and
<envar>KDEDIRS</envar> tell &kde; where its files are stored. You will
usually only need to set <envar>KDEDIR</envar> to the directory in which
&kde; is installed, but sometimes you might have other &kde;
programs installed elsewhere: in this case, you can use the
<envar>KDEDIRS</envar> environment variable. Set
<envar>KDEDIRS</envar> to a list of all the directories containing
&kde; programs, separated by commas. For example, if you have &kde;
programs in both <filename>/usr/local/kde</filename> and
<filename>/home/phil/kde</filename>, you can use <userinput>export
KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde,/home/phil/kde</userinput> if you use
<application>bash</application> or <userinput>setenv
KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde,/home/phil/kde</userinput> if you use sh.
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<title>Related Information</title>
<listitem><para><xref linkend="kde-for-administrators" /> contains
more information about the directories that &kde; uses.</para>
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