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theShell is a desktop environment written using the Qt toolkit.

## Installation

The stable version can be obtained by installing theshellAUR.

theShell also has an unstable and untested version called "blueprint", which is theshell-blueprintAUR.

## Starting

Use `ts-startsession` in an X session to start theShell. Or use a display manager and use theShell as the session.

## Troubleshooting

### Pressing the "Adjust Screen Resolution" nothing happens...

Make sure kscreen and the kde-cli-tools are installed.[1]

For more questions, see theShell issues.

## Tips and tricks

### Stable version installed with "blueprint" version

theShell and theShell Blueprint can be installed together. Just rename the binary and initialization script (a good name is `theshell-b` and `init-theshell-b`), put them in your binaries folder, rename the .desktop file, change it to start the new initialization script and put it in your xsessions folder.

### Use a different window manager

In theShell settings, under the Danger category, enter the command to start the window manager in Window Manager Command.

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