Bug 361558

Summary:	No clear way to run Systemd KCM from terminal if systemsettings5 not installed
Product:	[Unmaintained] Systemd KCM	Reporter:	Alexander Potashev <aspotashev>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Ragnar Thomsen <rthomsen6>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, rdieter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Alexander Potashev 2016-04-09 12:40:36 UTC

There is no obvious way to run Systemd KCM from terminal when systemsettings5 is not installed.

Here is the use case:
 1. You don't use a desktop environment, so you can't search for .desktop files;
 2. You install Systemd KCM and want to run it.

Reproducible: Always


Actual Results:  
It's unclear how to run Systemd KCM. The package does not install any executables, only kcm_[...].so.

Comment 1 KDErobo3me 2018-12-19 01:52:07 UTC

without a desktop environment, you cannot use any KCM at all, since they are X-Windows GUI components.

in such a case use a TUI like systemctl ideally in fish with nice TAB-completion.

Comment 2 Alexander Potashev 2018-12-19 05:14:04 UTC

(In reply to KDErobo3me from comment #1)
> without a desktop environment, you cannot use any KCM at all, since they are
> X-Windows GUI components.

Wrong. In my case I probably had X11 running and all different GUI software including Konsole/Yakuake, but no Plasma. You can't search for KCMs without Plasma.

Comment 3 Alexander Potashev 2018-12-20 09:43:09 UTC

Other KCMs can be started from terminal, for example:

kcmshell5 colors

Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2019-01-04 03:44:14 UTC

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Comment 5 Alexander Potashev 2019-01-05 20:45:27 UTC

ping?

Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2019-01-05 23:55:54 UTC

To answer the original query:
kcmshell systemd
should do the trick.

Comment 7 Rex Dieter 2019-01-05 23:56:12 UTC

sorry, typo, make that:
kcmshell5 systemd

Comment 8 Alexander Potashev 2019-01-06 18:16:31 UTC

(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #7)
> sorry, typo, make that:
> kcmshell5 systemd

Wow, it works! Thanks!