# Starting &bibletime;

&bibletime; is a &kde; program and is integrated with the &kde; desktop. You can launch &bibletime; from the &kde; start menu in the applications group.

Icon used to start &bibletime;

&bibletime; can also be launched from a terminal command prompt. To launch &bibletime; open a terminal (any Xterminal inside a &kde;3 session) and type `bibletime`.

## Other Window Managers (not &kde;)

&bibletime; can be launched from inside other window managers (like gnome) providing &kde; is installed. You will need to install your own icon to launch the program. See the window manager help files to see how.

&bibletime; can be used with other window managers such as Gnome, BlackBox, Sawfish, providing &kde;3 is already installed on your computer. If you installed &kde;3 using the &Linux-Mandrake; 8.x RPM's from a terminal using the mandrake RPM's KDE3 is installed in /opt, so the start up command in a terminal is:

    export KDEDIR=/opt/kde3
    bibletime

&bibletime; will now open inside of a window of the current window manager. If you do not have &kde;3 installed in your copy of &Linux;, you should have tried the Gnomesword application., or one of the &kde;2 versions of &bibletime;.

With &Linux-Mandrake; 9.0 and other other distributions where &kde; 3.x is installed in the normal location, simply type:

    bibletime

in any terminal to launch &bibletime;.

## Startup Customization

From a terminal you can use &bibletime; to open a random verse in the default bible:

`bibletime --open-default-bible "<random>"`

To open at a given passage use:

`bibletime --open-default-bible "John 3:16"`

You can also use keys in your current bookname language.

## Startup Sequence

As &bibletime; launches you may see some message screens:

- No Modules Installed - This is shown if you have forgotten to install sword modules, or if the sword modules can not be found.

- First Time Startup - This is shown the first time &bibletime; is launched.

- Daily Tips - These show on every startup, unless you turn them off. Daily tips

## Parts of the &bibletime; Window

Now the main &bibletime; window will open. It's operation is covered in the next chapter. The &bibletime; Application Window