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 $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS > ># exit > Humm, so I set that, exported it, and ran kbuildsycoca, and magicly its all back I think. Looks good to me anyway, all the stuff I was missing seems to be back, the games are now properly sorted etc etc. So the msg I sent to Rex didn't have the magic twangers clues in it (I don't think it did anyway, other than that env var being empty. It sounds like I should put that sequence into /etc/profile somehow. >Thus the way kde is implemented, root user doesn't have an >$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS variable and I am guessing that running kbuildsycoca as >root is a problem and shouldn't be done but then again, that's just >collateral since you probably shouldn't be running kde/gui as root >anyway. No doubt that's the reasoning, thanks for the cluebat application, Craig. >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.
