kdash

Show dashboard

$ kdash

$ kdash [[-d|--debug]]

$ kdash [[-t|--tick-rate]] [100]

$ kdash [[-t|--tick-rate]] [200] [[-p|--poll-rate]] [400]

Due to its extreme obscurity and lack of official documentation, a precise synopsis for kdash cannot be provided. It is speculated that if it accepted arguments, they would likely be related to the specific KDE action or application to be launched, possibly in the form:
kdash [action_name] [arguments...]

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    As kdash is not a standard or documented command, there are no known or verifiable command-line options or parameters. Any functionality it might have possessed would have been internal or highly specific to its intended (and undocumented) use case.

The kdash command is an exceedingly rare and largely undocumented utility, purportedly associated with older KDE desktop environments. Its exact purpose and command-line interface are not widely known, and it is not a standard component of most modern Linux distributions.

Based on very limited historical references, kdash was conceptualized as a 'KDE Desktop Actions Shell,' suggesting it might have been used to execute predefined KDE desktop actions or launch applications directly from the command line. However, comprehensive documentation detailing its syntax, options, or typical usage patterns is virtually nonexistent.

Users seeking similar functionality in contemporary KDE Plasma environments typically rely on tools like KRunner (Alt+Space) or qdbus for programmatic interaction with KDE services. Consequently, kdash is considered an obscure or potentially deprecated command with very limited practical relevance today.

The kdash command is not a standard Linux utility and is not available on most modern distributions.
Information about its functionality, syntax, and options is extremely limited or non-existent in official documentation or man pages.
It is likely a deprecated or highly specific tool from older KDE environments, and its functionality has been superseded by more robust and documented methods like KRunner or qdbus for interacting with KDE.

Users looking for functionality akin to what kdash was speculated to provide in older KDE environments should consider using KRunner (typically invoked with Alt+Space), which provides a powerful, searchable interface for launching applications, running commands, and performing various desktop actions. For scripting and programmatic interaction with KDE services, the qdbus command-line tool offers extensive capabilities.

Detailed historical information regarding kdash is scarce. It appears to have emerged within older KDE desktop environments, potentially as a developer or power-user tool for rapid invocation of desktop actions. Its limited public documentation suggests it never achieved widespread adoption or was formally integrated as a user-facing command-line utility. Its decline in usage and documentation likely coincides with the evolution of KDE's architecture and the introduction of more user-friendly and robust desktop interaction mechanisms.

krunner(1), qdbus(1)