On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 10:08 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 01 December 2006 04:47, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I put the list back in the to: line, maybe someone else can decode where > I'm going all aglay here. > > >On Friday 01 December 2006 06:20, you wrote: > >> root@coyote ~]# mv ~/.config/menus ~/config/menus.BAK > >> mv: cannot move `/root/.config/menus' to `/root/config/menus.BAK': No > >> such file or directory > > > >Missing dot? 'to ~/.config/menus.BAK' > > > Humm, looked it up in the history and you are right. But it didn't make > any difference, and the menu's own editor is a no-op when you right click > on it. It doesn't even turn the mouse pointer into a busy pointer. > > In /root/.config, re-running kbuildsycocoa --noincremental does not > generate a new menus subdir, a tree or ls listing returns: > > [root@coyote .config]# tree > . > |-- gtk-2.0 > | `-- gtkfilechooser > `-- menus.BAK > > 2 directories, 1 file > [root@coyote .config]# ls > gtk-2.0 menus.BAK > [root@coyote .config]# > > And menus.BAK is an empty directory. I suspect I'm barking up the wrong > tree here, and the 3.5.5 version of kde has moved its K-menu file. > > Now, trying to get creative here, I just did this at 9:48 localtime: > > root@coyote ~]# kbuildsycoca --noincremental > kbuildsycoca running... > [root@coyote ~]# ls -laR|grep 'Dec 1'|grep kde > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 1 01:55 kdesktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 384 Dec 1 01:55 kdewallet.kwl > -rw------- 1 root root 4937 Dec 1 09:48 kdeglobals > -rw------- 1 root root 244 Dec 1 01:55 kdesktoprc > drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Dec 1 09:36 kde > -rw------- 1 root root 163619 Dec 1 09:36 .kde.index > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1317 Dec 1 09:36 .kde.index.ids > [root@coyote ~]# > > So kdeglobals is the only file carrying that timestamp. > Now to find it: > [root@coyote Desktop]# ls -l `locate kdeglobals` > -rw------- 1 502 502 3589 May 30 > 2002 /home/elmer/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals > -rw------- 1 gene gene 3630 Nov 19 > 22:53 /home/gene/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals > -rw------- 1 502 502 3589 May 30 > 09:51 /root/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals <--this one? Nope. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1253 Sep 30 17:08 /usr/share/config/kdeglobals > [root@coyote Desktop]# > > But, why has the timestamp been incremented, and why does it look as if it > has nothing to do with K-menus when looked at with less? > > And I just used up that cup of coffee's IQ enhancement effect. AKA I'm > stumped again. I feel like I should revert about 68 years and > holler "Mommy, I want my kmenus back again! Now!" > > So if anyone else has any insight to share, share away! ---- 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 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. Craig
