On Friday 01 December 2006 15:48, Craig White wrote: >On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 15:39 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 01 December 2006 10:41, Craig White wrote: >> [...] >> >> >---- >> >Rex is your guy - he is after all, the kde-redhat guy. >> > >> >He told you to... >> > >> >> # rpm -V redhat-menus qt kdelibs kdebase >> >> for starters. >> >> >> >> what does >> >> # echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS >> >> say? >> > >> >Which sort of revels this. >> > >> >As user... >> >$ echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS >> >/etc/kde/xdg:/etc/xdg >> > >> >while as root... >> ># echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS >> > >> ># exit >> >> Humm, so I set that, exported it, and ran kbuildsycoca, and magicly >> its all back I think. Looks good to me anyway, all the stuff I was >> missing seems to be back, the games are now properly sorted etc etc. >> >> So the msg I sent to Rex didn't have the magic twangers clues in it (I >> don't think it did anyway, other than that env var being empty. >> >> It sounds like I should put that sequence into /etc/profile somehow. > >---- >actually, I rather suspect that since all users but root have that env >set, that if your intent is to run kde as root, add it to root's env >only like maybe /root/.bash_profile or /root/.bashrc > Done to the former, thanks. >Craig -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list